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Old 09-18-2017, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SMPEP View Post
These are the best cards?

Wow.

This set is even uglier than I remembered!

What a truly putrid offering by Topps. Right up there with 1981 and 1979.
I tend to agree with this. The card design is crappy. HUGE script team names. Borders within borders within borders? Really? And what's up with Willie Montanez's name? They had enough room for ROLLIE FINGERS but not WILLIE MONTANEZ?

And while the selection of photos themselves is decent (some have been shown here), the actual printing execution of the photos is downright awful. It's not even a technology thing. Look at the printing quality of the '60s cards and compare it with these. It's almost like Topps was doing laser printing in the '60s and decided to revert back to dot-matrix for the late '70s. Or it could be the photographers were only provided Kodak Instamatics to take the picture. Who knows.
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