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Originally Posted by deweyinthehall
Regarding the issues between Topps and the players - is this why no team cards appear in the set as well? Is there a good synopsis of that particular issue someplace?
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Topps seemed to lose interest in team cards the previous year, omitting 7 of 20 team photos. Add to that the fact that there were four new expansion teams in 1969 that likely would not have readily available photos (plus Topps had left out expansion team cards in the past) and some problems with getting permission to use the Astros name and you have a situation where Topps may have thought they were going to be incomplete anyway so why be arbitrary like '68 and instead took the team cards out of the set altogether.
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