Topps put out three sports set in 1960 with three quite different designs. In baseball, they put out what would be their last horizontal set. There was a large color photo with a smaller black-and-white photo in more of an action pose. The player's name is in alternating colors which I personally find hard to read. The football set is a great, understated design which really highlights the photograph.
Hockey went with a very different route, with only the player visible on a background of colored boxes.
Looks like Topps was pretty quiet on the non-sport front. The only one I see is a "funny valentines" set. The reverse of each card was a nasty comment. This one was a bad breath joke. Each illustration was different so there wasn't really a unified set design.
I hadn't seen the hockey design before. Looks like a lot of them that year were horizontal.
ReplyDeleteThe 1960 Topps baseball is one of my favorites from the decade (right behind 1965). Like Night Owl, I hadn't seen the hockey design before, but it's nice. The football design looks like it should be a poster insert or something.
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