Beckett 20 Questions on … vintage baseball cards
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Here is our latest batch of 20 Questions … all about vintage baseball cards.
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Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
The last year anything was vintage was 1969. After that, it’s modern.
I second that comment by Mark.
Those ‘multiple Series’ sets are tough, Now if you were a breed of some kind of ‘Aquatic Fishie’. You might’ve been lucky nuff to eat some of the ‘ Seafood Chum’ tossed overboard by Topps in the 60’s……in the Atlantic water regions
Least that’s what I herd Happened…….just ask One-Armed ‘Lefty McOneArm’
Wasn’t the whole reason 1952 Topps was so rare because Topps didn’t sell too many so they destroyed a bunch of them? I must be the minority here because I still don’t like them just like kids didn’t like them back then. 53 Topps is way better in my opinion. Just because mantles card is rare in 52 shouldn’t make it the best set ever. Give me a 53 set any day over the 52 set.
Mantle’s card wasn’t rare in the 1952 set – it was a DP, in fact. 1952 Topps is iconic and symbolizes a terrific era in baseball history.
As far as Vintage, I think 1980 should be the cutoff, as it was the last year before Fleer/Donruss came on board.
1980 is generally considered the last year of vintage.
I love the 1970 set. How can you go wrong with a set that features 68 different cards depicting Hall of Famers? I like the clean design, the player’s poses. It was the first set I put together buying boxes at five cents per pack, spending all my paper route money. My parents chastised me for “wasting” my money on cards and made me buy a bicycle with some of my earnings. 45 years later I still have my cards. Wonder where that bike is today?