Interesting article about Topps team cards

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by jimtigers65

Very interesting article. Another example of Topps being lazy and using the same stock photos. Thanks for posting the link.

Replace lazy with cheap and I think you've nailed it!

[JoeWillyMammoth]

Wow, great read!!

[Huck]

Thank you for sharing the article. The article was an interesting read. I never paid much attention to team cards.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Huck

Thank you for sharing the article. The article was an interesting read. I never paid much attention to team cards.

Tell me about it.

Here I’ve always assumed that the team cards actually showed the people on the team that year, or at least as of a point in time for that year. Turns out a lot of the ones I own are years off, and in some cases from completely different decades!!

[ALBB]

Yes, Lazy, and cheap !

[ALBB]

Just saw this...not only Topps lazy in this set... but decided to " make up team logos " !

Lets call that Houston team.. -" the cowboy hats "

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by ALBB

Just saw this...not only Topps lazy in this set... but decided to " make up team logos " !

Lets call that Houston team.. -" the cowboy hats "

Topps was debating not licensing the team logos from MLBPC when they put this set out, so they made up their own. They put a lot of thought into it actually.