It was ABSOLUTELY the wrong summer for this to happen … but those day game action shots on the 1978 Topps Yankees cards were amazing. Meanwhile, most of the Sawx cards in that same set were posed or portraits … taken on some series of dreary, overcast days. I grudgingly admired them in the moment, with more than a twinge of jealousy. I can say now, with the passage of the years, and the end of a certain so-called curse, that I actually kinda like them.
Those *are* some pretty great Yankees cards, but I can only imagine how much of a jab they must have felt like to Red Sox collectors. A few of the Boston cards from that set, though not very exciting, have become fairly iconic -- Rice (MVP!), Yaz, maybe Pudge.
It was ABSOLUTELY the wrong summer for this to happen … but those day game action shots on the 1978 Topps Yankees cards were amazing. Meanwhile, most of the Sawx cards in that same set were posed or portraits … taken on some series of dreary, overcast days. I grudgingly admired them in the moment, with more than a twinge of jealousy. I can say now, with the passage of the years, and the end of a certain so-called curse, that I actually kinda like them.
Those *are* some pretty great Yankees cards, but I can only imagine how much of a jab they must have felt like to Red Sox collectors. A few of the Boston cards from that set, though not very exciting, have become fairly iconic -- Rice (MVP!), Yaz, maybe Pudge.