1970 Topps Variations?

[nolemmings]

http://www.sportscollectorsdigest.co...ermannproofiii

"1970 – Four player photos were swapped out after late trades.
The proofs of No. 359 Phil Roof and No. 437 Danny Cater show them in Oakland A’s batting poses, No. 24 Dick Selma shows him with the Cubs, and No. 644 Gerry Nyman depicts him with the White Sox, the latter two each in follow-through pitching poses. The issued cards show capless head shots, and list each player with his new club (Roof with the Pilots, Cater with the Yankees, Selma with the Phillies and Nyman with the White Sox).

There are also three intriguing variations for the team cards of the Red Sox (No. 563), Cubs (No. 593) and Pirates (No. 608). The issued cards identify each team by city and club name; the proofs give only the club name.

Since Topps also produced a set of test “cloth” stickers featuring about half of the 2nd Series (with three photos differing from the issued cards), it’s long been assumed that these might some day show up on a proof sheet somewhere. But, 35 years later, No. 139 Rich Nye (Cubs pitching pose instead of capless portrait), No. 178 Denny Lemaster (pitching pose instead of portrait) and No. 257 Dennis Higgins (Senators pitching pose instead of capless portrait) still haven’t surfaced.

Some 1970 items that exist in enormous quantities are thin, square-edged blank-backed proofs of the large Super Baseball set. These have been so common so long that I bought some of these sheets at an antiques shop in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., circa 1972 (the 1971 Super proofs are a little less frequently seen, but still widely available). There are no varieties known among the Super proofs.
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[ALR-bishop]

Thanks for the info Todd. Not variations but unissued proofs. There is a much sought after group of them from 1977 as well, including the R Jackson as an Oriole. Also appreciate the link to the KO article. I think I have the others in that series. I found them all on line as well with search for "Olberman SCD Proofs"

[savedfrommyspokes]

For anyone who still has it, in the June 86 issue of Baseball Cards magazine KO has an article discussing many of these Topps proofs....except for these 4 players from the 70 set.

[ALR-bishop]

He did a 5 part article for SCD. Todd's post reminded me that I probably had copies somewhere. Found all 5 parts stored with my 1960 set, since that was the first group of proofs discussed

[inceptus]

If anyone has $4K to spare, you can raise the Roof here: http://www.preciouspaper.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ID=528