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Feb 91 min read

Ranking Topps Baseball Card Designs (1960-1969)

by Paul Semendinger

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As we wait for the season to begin, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the old Topps baseball card sets and rank the designs.


Here are the 1950s. Here are the deigns year-by-year:


1960



1961


1962


1963


1964


1965

1966


1967


1968


1969


Now comes the difficult part, ranking the designs. Some thoughts...


1960 - I'm less a fan of the sideays cards and the action shot is over a colored background, not great


1961 - One of my favorites ever. Classic and simple


1962 - A fun idea, the wood and the curling up photo doesn't thrill me


1963 - The idea is great. IN 1983, it worked. Maybe the technology in 1963 needed to develop more.


1964 - A great design


1965 - A great design


1966 - A good try, but I've never loved the diagonal team name


1967 - So similar to 1964 and a great design


1968 - A swing and miss, but I do love this set because it's the year I was born


1969 - Good, not great. I don't love the circle.

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MY RANKINGS:


  1. 1961

  2. 1965

  3. 1967

  4. 1964

  5. 1969

  6. 1968

  7. 1960

  8. 1966

  9. 1962

  10. 1963


How do you rank these designs?

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