Babe Ruth is known to many baseball fans as being one of the greatest baseball players ever to have lived. eBay: Find 1956 TOPPS baseball card ERNIE BANKS #15 **STUNNING** in the Sports Mem, Cards Fan Shop , Cards , Baseball category on eBay. It had 407 cards, larger than any single-year issue to that point. These differ from hand collated sets, which have been put together from packs by collectors. There are some companies that include half points in their scale to further define a cards condition but, the concept is the same. A complete collection contains 156 cards." The cards included pictures of famous baseball stars like: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. Baseball and photography in the United States were both seeing an explosion of popularity in the mid nineteenth century.