1970 Topps

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Top Sets: #64

Cards

1	World Champions (New York Mets) TC	New York Mets
2	Diego Segui	Seattle Pilots
3	Darrel Chaney	Cincinnati Reds
4	Tom Egan	California Angels
5	Wes Parker	Los Angeles Dodgers
6	Grant Jackson	Philadelphia Phillies
7	Indians 1970 Rookie Stars (Gary Boyd / Russ Nagelson) RS, RC	Cleveland Indians
8	Jose Martinez RC	Pittsburgh Pirates
9	1st Series Checklist: 1-132 CL
10	Carl Yastrzemski	Boston Red Sox

Inserts and Related Sets


Booklets		Posters		Scratch-Offs

Trivia

2nd and final set to include Seattle Pilots cards even though team had already moved to Milwaukee to become the Brewers.

Wax packs were $0.10 for 10 cards. This was the first year that $0.05 wax packs were made unavailable since Topps made them available in 1952. Penny packs stopped after 1965.

Cello packs were $0.25 for 33 cards.

Rack packs were $0.39 for 54 cards.

Carlos May was named to the 1969 Topps All-Star Rookie Team but his #18 card is missing the trophy designation.

The set was released in seven series. Series 6 is #547-633. Series 7 is #634-720.

User Comments

Nov 13, 2021 - 5:44PM
PasseGaming

I used to be obsessed with this set as a child. Mind you I was born in 80, so by time i was old enough to start collecting seeing one of these bad boys was a real treat. They still are.

Nov 3, 2021 - 1:52PM
sspeegle

First packs bought. First card was #1 Mets Team Card (World Champions). Since I lived in update New York naturally the Mets became my favorite team - I mean, who wouldn't want to root for the world champs!

Oct 18, 2020 - 5:00PM
kjohnsonhp

This was my first introduction to baseball cards. My parents must have purchased them as I just remember having a handful of cards and then a few more in 1971. In 1972 I got interested, opened packs and did some trading...mostly to eliminate duplicates. I then started looking for those few 1970 cards I had thrown in a draw with other toys and pulled them into my collection.

A few cards (playing cards, Batman cards, baseball cards, can't remember which) were clothes pinned on bike wheels to make a cool sound :0

Anything older than 1970 has always been "back issue" in my mind.

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May 25, 2021 - 6:59PM

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1970 #1 Mets Team Yokai Variants; Newly discovered	6	Feb 22, 2021 8:46 PM by Pinkpony1967
Yellow/Golden on back	2	Feb 22, 2021 5:14 PM by Legends of the Game
High Numbers - SP?	5	Jan 28, 2021 9:54 AM by C2Cigars
Difference between 1970/1971 Topps Scratchoffs	5	Oct 12, 2017 3:35 PM by RoundtheDiamond87
How do you store your 1970 Topps Poster inserts?	7	Sep 24, 2016 10:41 AM by C2Cigars

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