The wide variety of variations and the obscurity of many of them is the reason why Charles created his blog, to counter much of the incorrect information he has seen. Charles does not believe the many variations — which include several statistical errors — were intentional on Topps part, which has been a common accusation regarding the litany of errors found in a number of sets during the overproduction era.
Instead, he attributes it to the volume of cards that Topps was producing that year, possible multiple print runs and creating them at more than one printing facility. That was the headline topping an article written by John Leptich for the Chicago Tribune in October , during the first viewings of the new Topps set.
The variety of Topps photography in the set stands out to this day. For the first time since the Topps set, the company included individual player cards that were oriented horizontally. Capitalizing on improvement in photography, Topps unveiled powerful images, such as the action-packed Carlton Fisk with big Cecil Fielder barreling toward home , Walt Weiss and Rickey Henderson cards, all with horizontal displays. Topps also used the horizontal layout — a technique it still uses in flagship today — to produce striking portrait cards such as Roger Clemens propped up against the Fenway Park scoreboard.
Check out those clouds! The multiple borders in the design allow multiple 3-D effects chosen seemingly at the whim of the Topps artists. Topps issued many spinoffs of its set, from the glossy Tiffany sets, to the Micro set, to the box-bottoms, rookie debut cards and the tough Desert Shield versions.
Yeah, Topps Baseball contained those old familiars — the record breaker cards, league leader cards and … ugh … checklists, each issued on gray cardboard for one last time.
I began buying in and in I got lazy and just bought complete sets, that I did mail order not at the corner store. I have basketball sets from ?
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