How About Some Love for 1974's?

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by Northviewcats

1. Not to difficult to get NM cards, especially when compared to the 1973s
2. Winfield rookie
3. Washington variations
4. First traded set?
5. Hank Aaron specials
6. Lots of great action shots of Hall of Famers: Ryan already mentioned, but I love the Reggie Jackson, Cepeda & the Killebrew card
7. Attractive framing with the adjacent banners top and bottom
8. Red border autographed team cards (a parallel subset before its time)
9. Jesus Alou error
10. I say Apadaco; you say Apadaca

Fun set to collect.

Best regards,

Joe

All of these factors are what led me making '74 the first set I decided to put together(master). Definitely one of the most interesting sets that Topps ever made, in terms of variations and subsets..

As far as the traded set thing. Yes, it was the first stand-alone traded set. I find it interesting because of the way they numbered them as sort of a counterpart to the standard card.. Off the top of my head '59 might've been the first year that they fooled around with traded/optioned variations. I think '54 Bowman had a coupla traded variations as well..