Topps Dice Game

onlychild

Does anyone have a pic they can post of one?

Kevin

mikeschmidt

ZodiacMindwarp

I stole this one from another thread:

onlychild

Perfect...Thanks. Now I know what I am looking for, which just happens to be the Drysdale.

Kevin

mikeschmidt

<< <i>Perfect...Thanks. Now I know what I am looking for, which just happens to be the Drysdale.

Kevin >>



Kevin: Make sure to save the scan - it might be at least ten years or more before you have an opportunity to purchase a Drysdale Dice Game. Also - I would suggest buying any others you run across to keep as potential trade bait. My experience with owners of these sorts of cards is this: money doesn't help them get the cards they want - other rare cards do. So find them a card they need - and you might stand a fighting chance.

P.S. That is the only Drysdale ever graded from this set. One of four PSA 7's from the set, with none higher ever. The Leon Wagner PSA 7 sold for $4,150, to give you a proxy.

Robby

Topp's Dice Game experts , this is probably a stupid question , but just to make sure , I'm going to ask anyway ? Why is it called the Topp's Dice Game ? I'm guessing that you played a baseball game with a pair of dice ( one -two- or three?) based on what ! Is there something on the backs ? If so , how about a scan of the back of one of these cards , if anyone has one ? Just curious how the game was played ! ................Robbie

TheCARDKid

Is that Mantle the same one from Mr Mints auction a few years ago?

mikeschmidt

<< <i>Topp's Dice Game experts , this is probably a stupid question , but just to make sure , I'm going to ask anyway ? Why is it called the Topp's Dice Game ? I'm guessing that you played a baseball game with a pair of dice ( one -two- or three?) based on what ! Is there something on the backs ? If so , how about a scan of the back of one of these cards , if anyone has one ? Just curious how the game was played ! ................Robbie >>



Robbie - I don't have a scan of a Dice Game back with me here at work - but you are correct. Basically the back had different outcomes for each roll of the dice. I don't know all the rules - but a scan of a card back would answer that question pretty well, as I imagine it was a pretty self-evident game...

~ms

Robby

MS...............Really appreciate the info ! As always , you are a great source of information about card collecting ! The Dice Game cards brought back memories of my childhood of a game my Dad taught me ! You would take a pocketknife and open up the long blade fully extended and the shorter blade half way ! You would flip the knife up in the air to land on the ground ! If the long blade landed straight up , it was a Home Run , if the two blades were both in the ground , a Triple, the short blade a double and you made a out if none of those occured ! Not sure , but I think we called it a game of Mumbo Peg ! I'm sure there were other variations of this game ! Amazing how collecting baseball cards can bring back the memories of your childhood and simpler times of the Past ! Again , thanks , you are a great asset to this Board , like so many others !............Robbie

helionaut

I think you're talking about a variation of Mumblypeg (or Mumbletypeg, or Mumblety Peg, or any of the dozens of other phonetic spellings it's had over the centuries). You drive a wodden peg into the ground, or a bottlecap, or whatever you have, then balance a knife on your forearm and let it drop, or throw it or whatever, closest to the peg wins. It's not surprising that someone adapted the rules of baseball to a random outcome like a knife dropping, but I never heard of it. Your dad must be cool to let you play with knives. We had to sneak them around.

bobsbbcards

Hi,
Here's a back.
Bob

Robby

Bob,................Thanks for the scan of the card back ! .......Robbie