Best set of the 1970s

[ZenPop]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Wow, I can't for the life of me figure out why people like the 1970 set. Such a boring, poorly designed offering. Ick!!

SO MUCH THIS. The fonts used on the '70 set are a design tragedy of epic proportion.

The 1972 is by far my favorite. The '71 is excellent, too.
The rest: meh. I know a lot of people like the '75, but it's too garish for my taste. The '72 is completely of it's time, but in a very tasteful way.

A couple of cool ones from the set:

[skelly]

I think the 1970 set has the best backs. I really like the 76 set, but the dark green backs make the stats and cartoons hard to read. I always liked the 77 and 78 sets as well.

[glenv]

1973 seems to have better photography and a lot more game action shots than any other year. If you type: "197x baseball cards" into a google image search, it seems like most years feature tons of head or upper body shots. I'd much rather have good pictures than some fancy border...