I also sat down to write this post and realized I somehow forgot to scan the back of the base card. The design looks like it’s supposed to be something, but I’m not getting it just yet.Ĭard stock is pretty thin, BTW… but on the whole it’s no worse than something like NBA Hoops. Plus, I just wanted something to open and, of course, write about here.įirst card – Allysha Chapman of the Houston DashĪ little much going on with the card’s design at the bottom, and that makes it hard to read her first name, but I like the photo. Much as I recently bought minor league baseball apparel instead of Major League stuff, I also felt like a hanger for a sports league which is something of an underdog was worthy of my $10. On the other hand, over the past year or so I’ve tried to be better about diverting my spending from global monoliths towards businesses and organizations that can use my support. Now I am vaguely aware of some goings-on in women’s soccer, but I’m far from a fan. I wasn’t familiar with the brand, but I later found out that they’ve produced a few sets of some note, including the Negro League Baseball Museum, Big3 Basketball and the Major Lacrosse League. What I found there were hangers of 2021 National Women’s Soccer League cards by a company called Parkside. I knew there wouldn’t be any baseball, but I’m not averse to buying hockey or soccer if the product looks interesting. I know there aren’t a lot of soccer collectors who read my blog, but I love these and figured that someone else would appreciate seeing familiar designs in a not-so-familar contextĪ couple of weeks ago I was in a big box retailer and largely out of habit I took a peak in the card aisle. Ian Moores made 359 appearances and was a teammate of Ralph Coates with both Tottenham and Leyton Orient. I really liked this design back in 1978, so I’m happy to pick up a few Footballers here and there. Wrapping up with 1979/80 Topps Footballers, which uses the 1978 Topps Football design. Ralph Coates made 480 appearances for three different clubs, including Tottenham Hotspur. Moving on to 1978/79, we also move on to an American Football design… The fronts of these cards are based on 1977 Topps Football This card is from the same 1977/78 Footballers set, but got me excited because it’s a subset which doesn’t exist in 1976 Topps baseball but still clearly goes with the set.īelieve it or not, it wasn’t until I took delivery of these cards from COMC that I realized I’d managed to get the base card and the all-star card of the same player… now there’s a part of me that wants to start a Mike Channon collection.Ĭhannon played for the English national team in the 1970s and his Southampton team won the F.A. Here’s the back… I like the card number set against a goal, something iconic yet a little different. As you can tell, this set’s fronts are based on 1976 Topps Baseball and this particular card is well-loved. I’ve wanted a card from the 1977/78 Footballers set for quite a while, but it took me some time to find one that wasn’t way beyond what I wanted to pay. While the fronts of all of the cards in this post will be familiar, the backs are generally different, which makes sense given the different nature of these sports.Īs for the footballer himself, Johnny Miller scored 23 goals over 14 seasons (according to Wikipedia) I’ve shared some of these cards before, but here’s the latest example I have:
What follows in this post are five such cards from my latest COMC shipment.ġ975 Topps baseball is one of my favorite all-time sets, so I’ve always got an eye out for cheap and/or attractive 1975/76 Topps Footballer cards which feature the same design. Even though I don’t know most of the featured Footballers, I really enjoy these cards and I often look for cheap copies of 1970s Footballers cards whenever I’m on a COMC spree.
Back in 1975, Topps took over printing English and Scottish “Footballer” (aka Soccer) cards from a company called A&BC, and in the process these cards went from using designs licensed from Topps to being actual Topps cards often using designs familiar to Americans and Canadians.
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