Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Vintage equipment: 1975 Topps

The famous colored bordered of 1975 leave a little less room for the photograph. It also seems to me that most of the photos seem to be a little farther away from the player, and the photos themselves are a little less sharp than in previous years. I found it harder to find many good photos showing interesting equipment, but I did find a little bit.

Ed Brinkman's bat has the "nickname" Brink. Most of the time players just had their full name. I was disappointed that George Medich's glove had "MEDICH" in big letters rather than "DOC".

Only one wrong bat that I could make out. #26 Dave Kingman has the bat of #30, John Boccabella.
A while back the Best Bubble blog speculated on what was the oldest card with a glove that was not black or tan. I noticed two blue gloves in this set. Steve Stone . . .
. . . and Ed Figueroa.
Manny Trillo was known for being the first player with a two-tone glove, a custom job he did with a marker. Checking the TCDB gallery, looks like the first instance of that glove appearing on a card was 1981 Topps.


4 comments:

  1. Okay, just for fun. It is obvious that you did a little homework here. But to be very thorough go find out which of those guys in the outfield on the Brinkman card are actually wearing their own britches. LOL. I like seeing the blue gloves even though I could never use one myself. did you find out about the Meta Zoo cards?

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  2. Cool post. Always fun to see when equipment starts to look a bit more modern. Surprised to see Brinkman and Kingman wearing a batting glove in each photo.

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  3. Good eyes. Never would have noticed Brink on that bat.

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  4. A Cub using a blue glove makes a lot more sense than an Angel.

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