General Forum

I hate opening a fresh pack, start shuffling through and have dam horizontal cards interupt my flow. LOL. I think Topps should do away with the horizontal cards. Especially for rookies. I guess i have a bit of OCD, but i like my cards striaght and vertical. LOL. Besides maybe Stadium Club, the horizonal photos that Topps produce are rarely good.

Thoughts?

I see where you're coming from. All my cards are in binders and the horizontal cards mixed in with the vertical are hard to look at. But somehow I like them. More variety. Often more interesting pictures. I really want more 1960 Topps cards. Yeah, I like 'em. 

I never cared for horizontal cards much myself, either. It very rarely "works"...however, for autographs and relics it does leave more space for a picture.

Maybe it is different as a football collector, but there are a lot of horizontal cards that I like because they are nice action shots.

They have binder pages for horizontal cards.

I can understand the annoyance factor, and those sheets for horizontals aren't so practical if you're trying to keep your collections in numerical or team order.  You will invariably need both horizontal pockets and vertical pockets intermixed.

But with that being said, count me among the horizontal fans.  They are absolutely great for action shots:  first basemen stretching for a throw; running backs finding a hole in the O-Line; quarterbacks standing tall in a notable pocket; a batter with a catcher and ump behind him, all watching a ball sail.  These are great images you're not going to do justice with a traditional portrait orientation.

Kent

For the horizontal fans, the 1988 Topps Big baseball are great.   I didnt like them at first as they were BIG.   But in retrospect, I like the two photos on the front, an action and a portrait.   Also, call me simple minded but I like the 3 cartoons  on the back.

I don't mind the horizontal cards on the fronts of cards in a set that is predominantly vertical. I hate when the back is all over the place putting hte card number in a different spot on every card.  This makes it hard to go through a stack of cards to find the numbers you are missing.  This became too frequent in the 90's and seems to still be too often the case.  I swear the makers of cards have no idea of what collecting is about.

I like pre-war horizontal cards. Modern horizontal cards. Not so much.

I don't mind horizontal cards as long as they are oriented correctly. I store most of my cards in pages inside binders and I want those cards to have the top of the image on the left side when placed in a page. I hate when a card has a horizontal picture but typing that is vertical (front or back) and forces me to put the card in "upside-down"! That was a big problem with Press Pass cards the last few years. I don't like horizontal cards to face towards the rings of the binder.