Tuesday, November 12, 2024

1970 Topps Booklets: The Denis Menke Story

 In the comments of the last post, Night Owl mentioned that Roy Carlson just did a deep dive on this set for Sports Collectors Daily. Carlson has been posting a lot of very interesting articles lately about the images in vintage Topps sets. Turns out the drawing of Menke here is based on the image later seen on his 1971 Topps coin.

Great cartoon there on page two.
The panel at the top of page 3 seems confusing to me. I wonder if it was originally meant to be part of the "Mr. Versatility"  bit on page 4? It doesn't match the part about batting .336.
Bad use of an apostrophe in the last panel.

 

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