Each week I look back through my baseball card collection for a deep dive on beloved Bombers and past seasons.
- Set: 1976 Topps
- Card #: 65
- Type: Base
The Set
Topps’ 1976 set is an often overlooked one in a decade full of iconic Topps offerings, for several reasons. The clean, crisp ’70 set, bold, black-bordered ’71, art deco-framed ’72, and psychedelic ’75 are all instantly recognizable to collectors, moreso than the ’76 set’s more subdued design. The lack of rookies in the set also pushes it down the ’70s depth chart with only Dennis Eckersley, Ron Guidry (Gator!