Best of 1979 Topps

JollyElm · #1 10-30-2013, 06:00 PM

I loved the All Star cards. When you opened a pack and saw that extra strip of color there, you knew you had someone good!! These are three of my favorites:

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Can anyone say psychopath???

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On August 2 of that year we lost Thurman Munson. This card will always have a big place in my heart.

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Samsdaddy · #2 10-30-2013, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyElm

I loved the All Star cards. When you opened a pack and saw that extra strip of color there, you knew you had someone good!! These are three of my favorites:

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Can anyone say psychopath???

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On August 2 of that year we lost Thurman Munson. This card will always have a big place in my heart.

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I too always have loved the all star cards from the 50s, 60s and 70s. They were always my favorite cards to collect from each set it seemed.

I was also fortunate enough to see his last game as his Yankees pummeled by White Sox 9 - 1. I could remember a couple days later looking at the Sun Times and Chicago Tribune and reading the story on his tragic death.

brob28 · #3 10-30-2013, 09:03 PM

Nice choices here's a few more of my favorites. Sorry about Sigourney, the older I get the better she looks!

pepis · #4 10-30-2013, 10:41 PM

Here is a very rare 1979 topps super cello,
the only one i've ever seen with Ozzie showing.

Beatles Guy · #5 10-30-2013, 11:11 PM

The first year I ever opened a pack of cards, oh the memories. Love this set.

PM770 · #6 10-31-2013, 12:38 PM

I love the 1979 design. Liked it as a kid, love it as an adult.

1) George Brett - This might be my favorite card from my youth. Easily top 5. He's ready for action, I love it. And of course, the most important part, the All-Star designation.

2) Bump Wills (Ranger variation) - The first error/variation card I became aware of. I remember my friends and I getting the Bump Wills card with the Blue Jays team and still in a Rangers uni and also looking at the box scores and seeing he was still with the Rangers. Then later in the summer at the toy store as I was going through the racks and what is this?!?!? Bump Wills with the Rangers?!?!? They changed it?!?!? I thought that was so cool that they corrected it

3) Freddie Patek - He got cheated out of the All-Star designation. That year my friends and I went crazy looking at all the AL SS trying to find who the All-Star was. Burleson? No Dent? No Yount? Smalley? Still no. I'm not sure that we ever realized they just didn't have one. How disappointing. Poor Freddie Patek.

4) Jim Palmer - Another quasi-action shot. Ready for action and an All-Star

5) Jim Rice - I really liked Rice when I was a kid. That 3-year stretch from 1977-1979 he was the biggest slugger in the game. Of course, another All-Star card.

pepis · #7 10-31-2013, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by PM770

I love the 1979 design. Liked it as a kid, love it as an adult.

1) George Brett - This might be my favorite card from my youth. Easily top 5. He's ready for action, I love it. And of course, the most important part, the All-Star designation.

2) Bump Wills (Ranger variation) - The first error/variation card I became aware of. I remember my friends and I getting the Bump Wills card with the Blue Jays team and still in a Rangers uni and also looking at the box scores and seeing he was still with the Rangers. Then later in the summer at the toy store as I was going through the racks and what is this?!?!? Bump Wills with the Rangers?!?!? They changed it?!?!? I thought that was so cool that they corrected it

3) Freddie Patek - He got cheated out of the All-Star designation. That year my friends and I went crazy looking at all the AL SS trying to find who the All-Star was. Burleson? No Dent? No Yount? Smalley? Still no. I'm not sure that we ever realized they just didn't have one. How disappointing. Poor Freddie Patek.

4) Jim Palmer - Another quasi-action shot. Ready for action and an All-Star

5) Jim Rice - I really liked Rice when I was a kid. That 3-year stretch from 1977-1979 he was the biggest slugger in the game. Of course, another All-Star card.

Paul,
Judging by your post, i feel like me you are an american league fan!
is that true?

Harliduck · #8 02-17-2014, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Beatles Guy

The first year I ever opened a pack of cards, oh the memories. Love this set.

Me too...in my first pack ever I pulled a 79 Reggie Jackson...still one of my favorite cards. My younger brother pulled a Rick Honeycutt, who was a Mariner...that was pretty exciting. We were hooked...

brewing · #9 05-04-2020, 11:41 AM

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