Excellent ideas from everyone.
I had my '67's until 2000 (when they were stolen); they had been stored in shoe boxes in a regular closet with my other cards until about 1988 (and hadn't been handled since about 1973). I got them out again in 1995, when I started to collect again.
From the time I took them out of the packs back in the day to the last time I saw them just before moving to Atlanta in 2000, they always looked the same: perfectly white and green with only the odd imperfections that they had been printed with by Topps.
That's why all this is such a mystery to me. None of my originals seemed to be bothered by these color problems and none of the other card issues from that era have any of the same looks.
I think it may be that I've just had bad luck in buying and trading for cards that have "soured" or "spoiled"!!!
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