Topps Trivia for a Saturday Morning

[deweyinthehall]

My trip through Topps sets made me curious about something.

From 1952 through 2005 (more than half of which was 1980 or before which is why I placed this in this forum) nearly every Topps base set contained AT LEAST 1 Hall of Fame rookie card OR 1 Hall of Fame final card (i.e. in 1977, they featured both Andre Dawson and Brooks Robinson).

Question - name the only 2 sets from 1952 through 2005 which contained neither a Hall of Fame rookie or Hall of Fame final card (try to do it from memory!).

I used 2005 as the cut-off because after that, no rookies are eligible yet.

[bnorth]

Complete guess 1966 and 1984.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Complete guess 1966 and 1984.

I have no idea what the answer is, but isn't 1966 the last year Sandy Koufax had a Topps card?

[bk400]

I'm going to go modern on this one, though I admit that I'm probably missing one of the obvious, modern HOF inductees that I just cannot bring to the forefront of my mind right now: 2002 and 2004.

[quitcrab]

I was thinking 1970 Topps.

[Peter_Spaeth]

1953
I think 1970 is also right but not sure about last card.