Vote - best Topps set

[GrayGhost]

For me, the 1953 is my favorite. I love the large "paintings" and overall design.

for 60s only, the 67 set. Simple, uncluttered design. The Mantle card has always been one of my favorite regular issues of his.

Favorite is 56 then 55, 54, 59, and finally 58. I stick with tobaccos for all time favorites the T205's but I love the 50's

[drc]

My votes:

1950s: 1955
1960s: 1960

[dennis]

1958 i love the big logos and the colors
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[batkidiii]

I love the colors on the 72's. I also have a affinity for the 77's since it was the first year I collected bb cards.

[Jay Wolt]

1950s: 1956
1960s: 1965
1970s: 1972

[T205]

1950's: 1955 and 1957
1960's: 1960 and 1967
1970's: 1970 and 1972

[David W]

From the 50's - 1959

From the 60's - 1963 or 1967

From the 70's - 1972 (Love the in action cards)

[con40]

1950s: 1955
1960s: 1967
1970s: 1976

Narrowing to one set each from the '50s and '70s wasn't easy. I didn't go by player selection or rookie cards, but by design, photo quality, and color and these came out on top.

[Rich Klein]

1957

1967

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Rich

[Leon]

I always liked the 1972's.....kind of acidic.....

[judsonhamlin]

For the front design, either '57, '67, '56 or '64
For the back (I know, who cares) either '72, '57, '66 or '77 (my first year as a real collector)

[Steve D]

Best All-Time = 1953 (I think the two best-looking Topps BB cards of all-time are the Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays from '53)

Best of the '60s = 1962


Steve

[thekingofclout]

I dig the '62's. I have four or five slabed packs. One of my packs is a 1962 Topps Wax Pack with Mantle/Mays Managers Dream card on the back.

Wanna Rip......1962TOPPSpackMantleMays.jpg

[paulcarek]

50's: 1956, 1954
60's: 1963, 1965
70's: 1976, 1975

[JasonL]

1950s: 1957 (1958 and 59 are just dreadful)
1960s: 1961, 1963, 1964 (1968 is ugly)
1970s: 1978 is da bomb. love the script lettering, some of the images are outstanding.

[Jacklitsch]

Respectfully disagree.

Favorite: 1959 (The last year I actively collected. I think it was about then when I noticed that girls had different parts)

Next: 1953 (The first year I actively collected)

[JasonL]

I fully respect and honor that opinion. The historical perspective and context for each person can be very personal and that's what is so great about this hobby.
For me, not having such a connection, the 59's are viewed entirely through an objective, more distant lense.
The flipside is that I have that kind of conneciton for 1984 Fleer. Honestly no barnburner of a set, but I am more fond of it because that was my second intro to cards, but the first real substantial time I started collecting more aggressively.

[Flange]

My hat is off to 1967 for the bright color palette that reminds me of Kodachrome which itself has proven so easy to love. 1966, by comparison, looks drab and muddy with poor flesh tones. The players in 67 look to have blood in their veins. Also appreciate any photos taken at spring training right after wind sprints. Nothing like a sweat soaked, gasping closeup. Fred Gladding comes to mind.

The photo quality in 67 is higher than most of the 60s, although 65 is good, and the overall quality control of the printing process is good. In my experience 67 had few mis-cuts and centering problems and the images are free of dust, dirt, smears, printer lines and other crap that plagues other years like 1961. (did they ever clean the printing presses and plates that year?) 69 had lots of miscuts.

68 is tough to like, although the color quality is close to 67 the burlap border is big and fugly. I'd like to know how they chose that. If that was the best idea they had I wonder what they rejected.

The layout for the 63s works for me. Big Photo, small photo, bright colors that go to the edges at the bottom, easy to read card backs. I really like them/

Speaking of card backs, 61's are the worst. What joker thought that tiny black on green statistics was a good idea. I need a magnifying glass to read them.

[brickyardkennedy]

Have to go with 1957. Maybe it's because that's the first year I started buying baseball cards and so nostalgia factors into my opinion, but '57 is it!

[MCoxon]

Great question

1950s: 1957
1960s: 1965
1970s: 1971

[1963Topps Set]

1956, 1963, 1971

1964 gets no love.

1968 does not get the respect it deserves.

1960 is also incredible.

1972 is also wonderful.

[Zach Wheat]

I would have to vote for the 1956 Topps set. I like the look of the cards with a portrait overlaid on an action shot. It includes one of my favorite Mantle cards as well. And only 340 cards too! Easy to collect a set....

Z Wheat

[mikeycook]

Just based on eye appeal, I'd pick the 57s, though I like the 55s as well. My favorite post-war set is the 1953 Bowman Color, so I tend to like cards with great photos and minimal distaction. The 57 is the closest to this.

[WhenItWasAHobby]

Since you qualified it by Topps Sets I'd have to go with 1956 Topps for the '50s (although the '53 Bowman Color Set blows away any other set from that era).

For the 1960's - I'd go with 1967 Topps.

[sflayank]

1967 topps stand-ups by far

[ALR-bishop]

....or by few

[Teamsets4u]

1967 has always been my favorite.

[chris6net]

I always liked the 1972 Topps Set with the bright colors and the In Action Cards. I can remember looking at the back of the Expos Team card where they list the Career Batting and Pitching Leaders and thought it looked cool seeing Rusty Staub,s name on every batting category(I know they were only 3 years in).

[Mrc32]

1954 Topps is the best. Banks, Kaline and Aaron rookies + two Teds. Easy winner. :P

[bobafett72]

1950's gotta be the 56 set
1960's my fave is 1961, clean, crisp with some great subsets
1970's I'll go with 1974, its the first 1970's set I assembled when i started collecting in the late 80's

[begsu1013]

65
71
88

[Jwkeen]

1957 & 1967