1963 Topps Football with "Purple Skies"

[G1911]

Thank you for correcting, guys. I have both copies of Norton but it looks like my textual notes are from the original site. That dude did an amazing job going over the how and why when he was putting it together. Looks like my bookmarked link to it has been taken over by a Japanese language site and it's gone now. Shame.

Baker is like Bishop I guess; I cannot discern the difference in a scan without having in hand to examine the print dots. My eyes are !@#$'ed and I have glaucoma so that doesn't mean much, but I have only one of each and am at a loss as to how to proceed for my master set; I am building the master set but it's hard to know which ones to buy off eBay or similar to fill in my set when I just can't tell the difference, though I don't doubt at all the difference is real. Paying for 2 Bob Lilly's isn't the hardest part of this set apparently!

I need regular copies of
14 Jim Brown, 22 Don Fleming and 82 Bob Lilly

and Purple's of
13 Frank Ryan, 44 Deacon Jones, 56 Rosey Grier, 62 Mike Ditka, 78 Andy Cvercko, 82 Bob Lilly, 86 Bart Starr, 107 Jim Marshall, 126 Preston Carpenter, 131 Clendon Thomas

The good news is the stars are pretty cheap in 1963 for lower grade raw, and only Lilly really costs anything more than a lunch. It's not even his rookie!

[G1911]

My regular copy of Norton, and my solitary Bishop.

Tom's Flickr album is awesome and the Norton is made easier by the red grass blob on it, but to my eyes both Norton's are purple skies - there just wasn't a fully corrected copy. I've never seen a Norton that looks to me like a fully corrected blue sky card.

Bishop I am not certain which on I have here and identifying off eBay or at shows which is which I've never succeeded at. Do I need a card for a master set if I can't tell the difference? The answer is yes, I need it anyways .

This has become my favorite football set of the 60's.