All this talk of 2017 Topps Heritage made me nostalgic for the original 1968 set. I'm not very organized but I do have most all but the big stars in one binder sorted numerically. They are all cards I got in packs almost 50 years ago (yikes!). I was thinking that it would have been like my dad having hundreds of Goudeys in the mid-1980's. Wouldn't that have been awesome? One thing I like is the big, almost antique looking catchers mitts they were using back then. Here's a baker's dozen:
Not sure if I'm right but I think Phil Roof has a Tom Haller autograph edition mitt. Am I seeing correctly? Haller's card is below.
BOCK-A-BELL-A!
Here are all the card backs:
I guess I wasn't satisfied with just 33 game cards so I made some of my own. Shows you what I thought of Joe Torre when I was a 9 year old living in Chicago
I love these kind of posts. It the hat on Rene Lachemann colored with a marker? Or was it an actual air brush from Topps?
ReplyDeleteNice post.
David,
DeleteGreat post! As I recall, the '69 or '70 George MITTerwald card also shows a huge mitt.
Base Card Hero,
A lot of the '68 Athletics (and Astros?) cards have the black-hat look.
I used to think the Topps art department just took an X-acto knife, cut the hat area out of the negative, and the black (or would it have been white?) plate behind the film showed through.
MITTerwald :)
DeleteThanks guys. More 68's to come.
DeleteJim,
DeleteThanks for the information. It definitely looks odd. It caught my eye immediately.
I love these "I'm warming up a pitcher in a random place" shots... and it's a bit odd to see John Boccabella as anything but an Expo.
ReplyDeleteI saw the title of your post and was expecting to see those comically oversized gloves that a player sometimes gets their hands on. (Like the '86 Mickey Hatcher card I just learned about the other day.) I didn't realize catcher's mitts used to be so big.
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