Rare Topps Baseball Cards

The Mantle card is more famous and more expensive, but Mays' rookie card from 1952 is also worth several thousand dollars.

Along with the 1909 Honus Wagner card, Mickey Mantle's rookie card is probably the most famous baseball card of alltime. It's value has fluctuated but has been priced as high as $50,000.

Rookie card for the Hall of Fame Pirates outfielder and hero to millions.

Aaron was already a well-established big leaguer, but apparently wasn't well known enough to prevent his card from being printed in reverse, showing the game's alltime home run king as a lefty, rather than a right-handed hitter.

Only one of these two pitchers went on to earn three Cy Young awards, the nickname The Franchise and a ticket to the Hall of Fame. Can you guess which one?

Rodriguez had a lengthy career in the 1970s and 1980s and (we think) made it onto many baseball cards, but that's not him on this 1969 Topps card. It's Angels' batboy Leonard Garcia.

Ted Williams' last season in Boston was the first for Carl Yastrzemski, who became a Hall of Famer, like Ted, and a fixture in the Boston pantheon, like Ted.

McGwire made his Topps debut not in the uniform of the Oakland A's, but with Team USA, for whom he played at the 1984 Summer Olympics.