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The 10 Most Memorable Baseball Cards of the 1970s
The 1970s were a strange decade for baseball cards. Preceding the overproduction boom of the 1980s, Topps realized they were on to something more than what they had in the 1960s and started to produce factory sets and raised the price of cards. Many of the singles of the decade were collected after the 1970s when card collecting got really big. Topps took a lot of chances in the decade including the bold two color bordered 1975 cards and the odd looking 1972 set. Nevertheless, there were some great cards produced in the 70s. Here are the 10 most memorable cards of the 1970s in order from 10-1:
1978 Topps Paul Molitor/Alan Trammell
1974 Topps Hank Aaron
1972 Topps Carlton Fisk
1975 Topps Jim Rice
1979 Topps Ozzie Smith
1977 Topps Andre Dawson
1975 Topps Robin Yount
1974 Topps Dave Winfield
1973 Topps Mike Schmidt/Ron Cey
1975 Topps George Brett
There you have it, only one non-rookie and a few sets were not represented including the very difficult black bordered 1971 set. Five cards feature more than one player leading to a lot of unrecognizable faces on this list. There were three cards from the 1975 set and there could have been a couple more (Carter/Hernandez). I think anyone would have a difficult time arguing the Brett card out of the top spot.
