Favourite card backs?
 

Which Baseball and other Sportscard sets have your favourite reverses?

When it comes to Baseball cards I like the Topps 1958 backs the most:

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I like them because they're very whimsical and thus target precisely and only kids!

I also really like the rub-off quizzes Topps featured on the backs of Football cards in 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961. I can't decide between the 1959 and the 1960 issues:

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My favourite Hockey card reverses are those of the Topps 1960-61 set:

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A Magic Quiz with artwork by the legendary Jack Davis? Too cool!

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My all-time favorite card backs are 1971 Topps. Really complement the great looking black fronts, which makes the color photography really pop.

I dislike card backs that don't show all the players stats. 1957, 1959, 1965 and 1980 would be my favorite vintage Topps backs.

I don't have an example but I always like the 1971 OPC backs.
Bob

Definitely like the full stats backs, especially with minor league records. In baseball, I’d go with 1963, 1972, 1977 and 1978.
In football, 1971, 1972 and 1977 and the first year (‘81?) where Topps printed multiple stat categories for rushing/passing/receiving/returns.

Mine by a country mile is any one that the player on the front is a different person. Wrong backs are either my favorite or second favorite type of card depending on the day.:)

61 Topps and 71 OPC

My alternate favourite card backs:

Topps 1959 Baseball

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I like those Xmas colours!

Topps 1963 Football

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I'm a big fan of the Mystery Quiz gimmick!

Topps 1958-59 Hockey

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I always liked the 1971 OPC baseball backs.

I agree...while I think of the batboys sitting in for Al Leiter and Gary Pettis,

I really like this one: in which a Heisman Trophy winner is the odd man in:

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1956 topps backs

I like the 1960 backs, understated with good information and well printed.

1970 baseball. Nice and bright, easy to read.