The consensus picks are all very good.
But my favorite is 73. The 73 set has two kinds of photos: extremely boring spring training posed photos, and amazing cool and frankly bizarre action shots. Vida Blue obscured by the hitter, the horizontal Frank Robinson card, Johnny Bench with his back to the camera, Willie Stargell's weird horizontal card, the Chris Chambliss card that might as well be a Jim Kaat card. Admittedly the posed photos are bad, but the refreshingly different action photos more than make up for it. Photos like that Vida Blue one haven't shown up on a baseball card before or since. I really respect Topps choice to take a chance on these strange action shots, and I enjoy the novelty of them.
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