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| 1951 Topps Connie Mack All-Stars, Connie Mack |
Connie Mack All-Stars featured retired greats and a die-cut around player silhouettes, so you can fold the backs over and stand them up.
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| 1951 Topps Major League All-Stars, Yogi Berra |
Major League All-Stars used active players on the same die-cut design and prove almost impossible to find today, possibly due to legal wrangling with Bowman over contract exclusivity.
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| 1951 Topps Team Cards, Chicago White Sox |
Team Cards are full-squad photos. Topps printed only 9 of 16 active teams, possibly for lack of pictures at design time.
It's quite expensive to build any of these three sets, given their rarity. Find a wealth of detail on their checklists and printing peccadilloes in The Candy Men post at Topps Archives.
The Topps 60th baseball anniversary came to mind when I came across a 1980s set summary at the This Card Is Cool blog, another great source of card scans and writing from any era. Author Ryan G turns out more than 1 post per day, so you'll never run short of reading material. Combine our decade profile posts and you've got all six covered!
2 comments:
Thanks for the plug! Funny how that works out.
I remember when I was much younger, I looked at a book or Beckett and saw the two All-Stars sets, and dreamed of having some. I still don't have any, and I probably never will. I'm surprised Topps hasn't reprinted any of these or done a throwback insert set yet. They would all work as box toppers for a product like Lineage, after all.
Good point, that'd be an interesting set to see again. They already redid the 1964 Stand-Ups for Topps Lineage this year, might as well do the All-Stars!
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