Willie Mays
1958 Topps Willie Mays
- Set
- Topps
- Year
- 1958
- Number
- 5
- Grade
- PSA 10
- Cert number
- 83794503
- Manufacturer
- Topps
- Sport
- baseball
- Owner
- CatchBack Vaults
- Pack pool
- Available in packs
Goes with this
No honest pairing for Willie Mays: nothing we hold shares a set run, an evolution line, a grade ladder or a player with it inside $260-$3,253. Better to buy it on its own than to bolt on an unrelated slab.
Buy it outright. Willie Mays is $1,301 on the marketplace. Its best pack route is the Hall of Fame Pack at $1,000, where it sits in the $1,000-$2,000 band — that band hits 15.00% of the time and we count 11 cards in it, so this one slab is at most a 1.364% pull. That works out to 73 packs, or about $73,333, to land this specific card — and that is the optimistic end, because the real pool is larger than the 11 cards we can see. Packs are the wrong tool for a named card.
| Tier | Ticket | Band | Band odds | Expected spend for this card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legendary Pack | $500 | the $750-$1,500 band | 8.00% | $131,250+ |
| Hall of Fame Pack | $1,000 | the $1,000-$2,000 band | 15.00% | $73,333+ |
Per-card chance = band probability / cards counted in that band's pool. Our pool data is a sample, so the per-card chance is an upper bound and the expected spend is a lower bound.
