January 2022 Pickups...

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

I don't mind the 67 Mick...it's a Mick and I have a couple nice ones. The picture just doesn't fit the rest of the cards in the set. Picture the Mick posed like Colavito...I bet it would be worth even more and would have captured the look of the 67s better. I always think they missed the mark.

While it might be preferable to have Mantle in more of an action shot, tight portraits are pretty common in '67 too, including for other stars. Mays, Clemente, Santo, Mathews, and Maris come to mind. I don’t think Topps really considered things like that back then. They were not phoning it in yet for the most part obviously in 1967, but it’s not like they had competition to worry about.