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Specs
Year: 1962
Title: Kahn’s Wieners
Size: 3 1/4″ x 4 3/16″
Number in Set: 38
Overview
The 1962 Kahn’s football cards look similar to the previous three releases with a black-and-white player portrait, facsimile autograph, and slogan on the fronts. However, the set size bounced up by two to 38, with players from eight different teams. A few players from the Bears, Lions, Vikings, Rams, Eagles, and Colts join sixteen Browns and fourteen Steelers.
The most significant design difference in 1962 is that the statistics on the back are double-spaced, and Kahn’s printed the player’s name in a bold font. The album offer wasn’t included in 1962 as it was in 1960 and 1961.
PSA has graded 507 1962 Kahn’s wieners cards across the entire set (SGC has graded 129); this time, the average grade from PSA is a 7.
Robert Edward Auctions sold this complete set for $3900 in the fall of 2018.
Example
Key Cards
For the first time in Kahn’s football card history, Jim Brown isn’t the set’s key card, that distinction, in 1962, belongs to Fran Tarkenton.
Checklist
Maxie Baughan
Charlie Britt
Jim Brown
Preston Carpenter
Pete Case
Howard Cassady
Vince Costello
Buddy Dial
Gene Hickerson
Jim Houston
Dan James
Rich Kreitling
Joe Krupa
Bobby Layne
Ray Lemek
Gene Lipscomb
Dave Lloyd
Lou Michaels
Larry Morris
John Morrow
Jim Ninowski
Buzz Nutter
Jimmy Orr
Bernie Parrish
Milt Plum
Myron Pottios
John Reger
Ray Renfro
Frank Ryan
Johnny Sample
Mike Sandusky
Dick Schafrath
Jim Shofner
Jim Ray Smith
Ernie Stautner
Fran Tarkenton
Paul Wiggin
John Wooten