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					<description><![CDATA[You ever get the feeling that our past exists just to mock what we think is so great about the here-and-now? Consider the case of the 1981 Donruss Mick Kelleher baseball card and the 2018 Chicago Cubs &#8230; Dynasty Delayed The 2018 Chicago Cubs were a somewhat star-crossed club who suffered through injuries, sub-par performances, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You ever get the feeling that our past exists just to mock what we think is so great about the here-and-now?</p>
<p>Consider the case of the 1981 Donruss <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellemi02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Mick Kelleher</a> baseball card and the 2018 <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> &#8230;</p>
<h2>Dynasty Delayed</h2>
<p>The 2018 <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> were a somewhat star-crossed club who suffered through injuries, sub-par performances, and off-field issues from big names like <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/darviyu01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Yu Darvish</a> , <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bryankr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Kris Bryant</a>, and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/russead02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Addison Russell</a>, yet also get clutch production from guys like <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/baezja01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Javier Baez</a>, <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schwaky01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Kyle Schwarber</a>, and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamelco01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Cole Hamels</a>.</p>
<p>The result?</p>
<p>After struggling to find their mojo in the first half of the season, the Cubs seized first place in the National League Central on Friday, July 13, and never let go.</p>
<p>Well, almost &#8230;</p>
<p>After building their lead to a season-high five games on September 2, Chicago played at a mediocre 14-12 clip the rest of the way. Probably good enough most seasons to hold serve, but the Milwaukee Brewers were busy going 18-6.</p>
<p>The teams were tied after 162 games, in other words.</p>
<p>That set up a one-game playoff for the Central title, to be played at Wrigley Field on October 1 &#8212; the Brewers won, 3-1.</p>
<p>And <em>that</em> set up the Cubs to play the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/tag/colorado-rockies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Colorado Rockies</a> in the NL Wild Card game, again at Wrigley Field. On October 2, the Rox beat the Cubs 2-1 in 13 innings.</p>
<p>If you include the Cubs last loss of the 162-game schedule, a 2-1 clinker at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, September 29, Chicago dropped three of four home games at home to seal their fate.</p>
<p>And in each of those losses, they managed just one run. Yuck.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=1981+donruss+mick+kelleher&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338396246&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-8141 size-full" src="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher.jpg" alt="1981 donruss mick kelleher" width="500" height="700" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher.jpg 500w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher-214x300.jpg 214w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
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<p>You might feel sorry for these Cubs if they were the Cubbies of old, the ones who scrapped together a decent team once every 15 years or so only to implode when things got real. It&#8217;s tough, though, to find real sympathy for what is now a huge payroll team that was &#8212; and still may be &#8212; expected by many to run off a string of championships when they copped the World Series title in 2016.</p>
<p>But just because the lovable losers are now the bombastic bombs, that doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t look back at the gory glory of Chicago&#8217;s painful past.</p>
<p>And what better way to do that than with some hideous cardboard.</p>
<h2>Crappy Cubbies</h2>
<p>If we step back through Cubs&#8217; records over the years, we see that the <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/index.shtml" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">losingest Chicago teams</a> took the field in 1962, 1966, and 2012. Those first two teams were immortalized on 1963 and 1967 Topps cards, respectively, and those are two stellar sets.</p>
<p>That 2012 team was a &#8220;Suck for Luck&#8221; special that was designed to tank in order to build the supposed juggernaut we see today.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m going a bit deeper in the stack, to the 1980 <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a>, who finished at 64-98 and in last place in the old NL East.</p>
<p>Not only that, but the Cubs <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1980.shtml" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">finished last</a> in the National League in OPS+ (83) and fielding (.974), while somehow hitting the league average for ERA+ (101).</p>
<p>Given all that, if you were looking for a poster boy to represent those light-hitting 1980 Cubs, you couldn&#8217;t do much better (worse?) than second baseman Mick Kelleher.</p>
<p>Now, Kelleher wasn&#8217;t the Cubbies full-time second-sacker in 1980. That honor belonged to <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tysonmi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Mike Tyson</a>, who started 104 games and batted a robust .238 in 363 plate appearances, good for an OPS+ of 65.</p>
<p>Kelleher made 15 starts at second and five at shortstop, amassing 107 plate appearances in 105 total game appearances.</p>
<p>He slashed .146/.217/.177 with no home runs, one double, one triple, four runs batted in, 12 runs scored, one stolen base, and three times caught stealing. It was an amazing display that netted him a 9 OPS+ and a whopping -1.1 WAR.</p>
<p>That 1980 season was Kelleher&#8217;s ninth Major League campaign, and while he had never done much with the bat before, he <em>had</em> established himself as a veteran.</p>
<p>That status, and the need to fill in their Cubs&#8217; cardboard rosters, enticed Topps and Donruss to include Kelleher in their 1981 sets. Fleer somehow abstained, and you have to give them props for that.</p>
<p>The 1981 Topps Mick Kelleher card is pretty decent, stats on the back notwithstanding. It features Mick in a posed throwing shot, showing the Cubs pinstripes and Cubbie logo to good effect in front of a gorgeous blue sky.</p>
<p>You want to be there, on that day, even if the Cubs stink.</p>
<h2>Inauspicious Debut</h2>
<p>The 1981 Donruss Kelleher?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an embodiment of his &#8212; and the Cubs&#8217; &#8212; 1980 season.</p>
<p>A smiling Kelleher kneels in the on-deck circle at one of the cookie-cutter 1970s sports bowls &#8212; Fulton County, Veteran&#8217;s Stadium, Riverfront Stadium? &#8212; in his powder blue road pajamas.</p>
<p>And he&#8217;s leaning on a bat that looks too big for any man to swing, let alone one with a .215 lifetime <a href="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/batting-average-calculator-wpg/" data-wpel-link="internal">batting average</a>.</p>
<p>That would all be enough to make the card front mostly preposterous, but add in the typical blurry, grainy lens work thatamrred most 1981 Donruss pasteboard, and you have a classically terrible baseball card.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=1981+donruss+mick+kelleher&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338396246&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-8140 size-full" src="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher-back.jpg" alt="1981 donruss mick kelleher (back)" width="500" height="694" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher-back.jpg 500w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1981-donruss-mick-kelleher-back-216x300.jpg 216w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
<p>At least the back is relatively uncluttered by 1981 Donruss standards, thanks to Mick&#8217;s limited career highlights &#8230;</p>
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<p>1979 &#8211; Hit .571 against San Francisco pitching.</p>
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<p>The irony of all this is that 1980 Mick Kelleher couldn&#8217;t have sniffed the 2018 <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> starting lineup if he&#8217;d had <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lombaer01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Ernie Lombardi</a>&#8216;s nose, yet they essentially fielded a one-to-nine of Kellehers to round out their season.</p>
<p>And it only cost them a couple hundred million dollars to do it.</p>
<p>No wonder Kelleher is smiling at us from that awful, and suddenly wonderful, 1981 Donruss card of his.</p>
<p><em>(Check out the rest of our 2018 playoffs posts <a href="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/category/2018-playoffs/" data-wpel-link="internal">here</a>.)</em></p>
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		<title>How Alvin Davis and Mark Langston Helped the Seattle Mariners Make Their First Baseball Card Splash</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Check out our other player card posts here.) It has become trendy in recent years for major sports teams to &#8220;tank&#8221; in order to set themselves up for on-field success a few seasons down the line. It&#8217;s a controversial practice that fans seem to either hate or accept as part of the price of winning [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>It has become trendy in recent years for major sports teams to &#8220;tank&#8221; in order to set themselves up for on-field success a few seasons down the line. It&#8217;s a controversial practice that fans seem to either hate or accept as part of the price of winning &#8212; eventually.</p>
<p>For collectors who remember the early swamp-dredge days of Seattle Mariners baseball cards, though, watching any team bottom out is a painful reminder that, sometimes, tanking is not really a <em>choice</em>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1984+Fleer+Update+Mark+Langston.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1984+Fleer+Update+Mark+Langston&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338341554&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6193" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Fleer-Update-Mark-Langston.jpg" alt="1984 Fleer Update Mark Langston" width="450" height="636" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Fleer-Update-Mark-Langston.jpg 450w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Fleer-Update-Mark-Langston-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
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<p>It&#8217;s an unavoidable way of life.</p>
<p>From the time they hit the American League standings as an expansion franchise in 1977 through 1983, the Mariners lost 100 games three times, dropped 95 two other seasons, and never finished better than 10 games <em>under</em> .500.</p>
<p>During that stretch there weren&#8217;t many individual highlights to ease the growing pains, either &#8212; no batter reached 30 home runs, and no pitcher hit the 15-win plateau in a season. (To be fair, DH <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hortowi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Willie Horton</a> did smack 29 bombs with 106 RBI in 1979.)</p>
<p>But as the 1984 season dawned, the Mariners were finally starting to pull together a cohesive group of youngster whom they hoped would help turn the team into a winner.</p>
<p>At first base, 23-year-old <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/davisal01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Alvin Davis</a> was ready to make his Major League debut after a sixth-round selection in 1983 and two years in the minors.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1984+Topps+Traded+Alvin+Davis.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1984+Topps+Traded+Alvin+Davis&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338341554&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6192" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Topps-Traded-Alvin-Davis.jpg" alt="1984 Topps Traded Alvin Davis" width="450" height="639" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Topps-Traded-Alvin-Davis.jpg 450w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1984-Topps-Traded-Alvin-Davis-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
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<p>And on the mound, former second-round pick <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/langsma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Mark Langston</a> was ready for The Show after three years on the farm, topping out with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts in 1983.</p>
<p>Langston struck first, whiffing five over seven innings to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in the Kingdome on April 7, 1984.</p>
<p>Four days later, Davis saw his first Big League action, smacking a home run in two at-bats.</p>
<p>Auspicious debuts for two guys with a lot of pressure on their shoulders, but they hardly let up the rest of the season.</p>
<p>By September, Davis had collected 27 home runs and a gaudy 116 RBI to go along with a .284 <a href="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/batting-average-calculator-wpg/" data-wpel-link="internal">batting average</a>. All that rolled up to a 6.0 WAR, ninth best in the American League.</p>
<p>For his part, Langston ran his record all the way to 17-10, supported by a 3.40 ERA. He also led the AL in strikeouts, with 204 &#8212; and in walks with 118. Still, that performance was good enough for 4.4 WAR, third on the Mariners behind Davis and veteran hurler <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beattji01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Jim Beattie</a> (5.2 WAR).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1985+Fleer+Mark+Langston.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1985+Fleer+Mark+Langston&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338341554&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6190" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Fleer-Mark-Langston.jpg" alt="1985 Fleer Mark Langston" width="450" height="640" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Fleer-Mark-Langston.jpg 450w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Fleer-Mark-Langston-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
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<p>Mariners fans finally had something &#8212; <em>two</em> somethings &#8212; real to cheer and the feeling that they were watching some of the best young talent in the game. Baseball writers confirmed that notion in November of 1984 when they named Davis the AL Rookie of the Year, with Langston finishing a solid but distant second.</p>
<p>That same month, the duo made their MLB baseball card debuts, landing in both the 1984 Fleer Update and 1984 Topps Traded sets. The next spring, they made the cardboard rounds again, with rookie cards in the 1985 Donruss, Fleer, and Topps issues.</p>
<p>If it hadn&#8217;t been for the hoopla surrounding <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goodedw01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Dwight Gooden</a> and the 1985 emergence of <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daviser01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Eric Davis</a> and <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/saberbr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Bret Saberhagen</a> &#8212; along with the intrigue of the 1985 Topps Olympic cards &#8212; Davis and Langston may have made a run at hobby superstardom.</p>
<p>As it was, they did pretty well, with collectors seizing on Davis cards in particular. Hobbyists always have loved the longball, after all.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1985+Topps+Alvin+Davis.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1985+Topps+Alvin+Davis&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338341554&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6191" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Topps-Alvin-Davis.jpg" alt="1985 Topps Alvin Davis" width="450" height="634" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Topps-Alvin-Davis.jpg 450w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1985-Topps-Alvin-Davis-213x300.jpg 213w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a></p>
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<p>Alas, even with all the excitement over these young guns, the Mariners continued to struggle and didn&#8217;t break .500 until 1991. By that time, Davis was in his last year with the M&#8217;s and one year from retirement. Langston had long since departed the Pacific Northwest, first for the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/montreal-expos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Montreal Expos</a>, and then the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/tag/california-angels/" data-wpel-link="internal">California Angels</a>.</p>
<p>And there was also another Kid involved in that move over the hump in 1991. You know, a youngster named &#8230; <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griffke01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Ken Griffey</a>, Jr.</p>
<p>Thanks to Davis and Langston, Mariners fans knew what to do with Griffey when he arrived, and when he broke out.</p>
<p>After all, they had seen a phenom once or twice before.</p>
<p><i>(Check out our other player card posts </i><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/category/players/" data-wpel-link="internal"><i>here</i></a><i>.)</i></p>
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		<title>Chicago Cubs Team Cards: 25 Years of Cute Logos, Floating Heads, and Cheesy Mustaches</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Check out our other team pages here.) In 1956, just after they had dispatched rival Bowman to the commons bin of history, Topps began experimenting with their baseball card sets. And why not? When you&#8217;re the king, the only game in town, you have little to lose by flexing your artistic muscles. One of the innovations [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Check out our other team pages </span></i><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/category/teams/" data-wpel-link="internal"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span></i></p>
<p>In 1956, just after they had dispatched rival Bowman to the commons bin of history, Topps began experimenting with their baseball card sets.</p>
<p>And why not?</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re the king, the only game in town, you have little to lose by flexing your artistic muscles.</p>
<p>One of the innovations they unveiled in that first spring of the monopoly years was the team card, wherein all players for a particular club were gathered together for a group photo that adorned one of Topps&#8217; cards for the year.</p>
<p>The team card would become a hobby staple over the next 25 years, and maybe no franchise enjoyed a strong association with the concept in collectors&#8217; minds than the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a>.</p>
<p>Although the Cubs didn&#8217;t win many games over the next quarter century, they were always game to help Topps spice up &#8212; and weird out &#8212; their team card subsets.</p>
<p>Here is how the Cubs turned, together, during that long stretch of cardboard history.</p>
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<h2>1956 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1956+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1956+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5658" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1956 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="719" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 719w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x209.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x424.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px" /></a></p>
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<p>The visual links between this card and the rest of the 1956 Topps set are subtle &#8212; the horizontal layout, the black bar that&#8217;s reminiscent of the player name and team name bars on base player cards, the thick all-caps block font. Otherwise, you&#8217;d be hardpressed to tie the two together based on solely card fronts.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s fun to see the Cubs logo on the team card here, though, especially since it was missing from player cards that year. And the player and coach roster list at the bottom is a useful, though space-eating tool that was repeated only one other time on Topps team cards.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1956+Topps+Ernie+Banks.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1956+Topps+Ernie+Banks&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-5692 size-full" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Ernie-Banks.jpg" alt="1956 Topps Ernie Banks" width="438" height="306" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Ernie-Banks.jpg 438w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1956-Topps-Ernie-Banks-300x210.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px" /></a></p>
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<h2>1957 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1957+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1957+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5659" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1957 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="698" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 698w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x215.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x437.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px" /></a></p>
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<p>The 1957 Topps set features a clean design with gorgeous full-color photos that has made it one of the classic issues of all time. Topps continued their focus on the &#8220;picture&#8221; with their team cards by encasing each club within a picture <em>frame</em> and bolting on a &#8220;nameplate&#8221; to let us know who we&#8217;re looking at.</p>
<p>They even included a thick white border to eat up the real estate they freed up by dropping the roster listing.</p>
<p>Bonus!</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1957+Topps+Solly+Drake.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1957+Topps+Solly+Drake&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-5699" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Solly-Drake.jpg" alt="1957 Topps Solly Drake" width="350" height="493" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Solly-Drake.jpg 274w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1957-Topps-Solly-Drake-213x300.jpg 213w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a></p>
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<h2>1958 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards </span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1958+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1958+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5660" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1958 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="700" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 700w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x214.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x436.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
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<p>This is another design that bears little resemblance to the base player cards of the year. While Glenn Hobbie and his teammates appear in profile against a solid colored background on their individual cards, they all gathered in Wrigley Field to get &#8212; drawn? painted? There&#8217;s definitely some sort of artwork going on with the team sot</p>
<p>The baseball in the lower lefthand corner is very 1950s, and the key/roster makes a brief return to the card front. Enjoy it while you can!</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1958+TOPPS+Glen+Hobbie.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1958+TOPPS+Glen+Hobbie&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5693" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Glenn-Hobbie.jpg" alt="1958 Topps Glenn Hobbie" width="350" height="491" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Glenn-Hobbie.jpg 350w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1958-Topps-Glenn-Hobbie-214x300.jpg 214w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a></p>
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<h2>1959 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1959+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1959+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5661" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1959-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1959 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="689" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1959-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 689w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1959-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x218.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1959-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x443.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px" /></a></p>
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<p>Now, <em>this</em> card looks and feels exactly like what it is &#8212; part of the 1959 Topps issue. The pale green background, script team name, roundish cartoon Cub, and rendered players all scream 1950s kitsch.</p>
<p>And the big yellow moon in the background adds some much-needed romance to a team who went 72-82 in 1958 and would finish 74-80 in 1959.</p>
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<h2>1960 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="toolid=20004&amp;campid=5338334768&amp;mpre=https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1960+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1960+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="internal"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5662" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1960 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="726" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 726w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x207.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x420.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px" /></a></p>
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<p>If you saw this card sitting on a shelf somewhere, what year would you think it was made? 1956? 1960? 1964? And who made it &#8212; Topps? Fleer? Leaf? Bowman?</p>
<p>Any of those would be good guesses, because there are almost no visual clues to let you know this gaudy swatch of cardboard hails from the 1960 Topps set, aside from maybe its landscape layout.</p>
<p>But then, aren&#8217;t <em>most</em> team card stretched out horizontally?</p>
<p>Regardless, the 1960 Topps Cubs team card does a good job of capturing the feel of the era, from the diamond-shaped &#8220;CUBS&#8221; designation at the bottom to the red and yellow shapes that would have looked right at home on the floor of any chic 1950s kitchen floor, to the painted(ish) players.</p>
<p>All around, it&#8217;s an ugly but beautiful monstrosity of a card.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1960+Topps+George+Altman.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1960+Topps+George+Altman&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5700" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-George-Altman.jpg" alt="1960 Topps George Altman" width="495" height="350" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-George-Altman.jpg 495w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1960-Topps-George-Altman-300x212.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px" /></a></p>
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<h2>1961 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="toolid=20004&amp;campid=5338334768&amp;mpre=https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1961+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1961+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="internal"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5663" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1961-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1961 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="695" height="498" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1961-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 695w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1961-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x215.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1961-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x437.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px" /></a></p>
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<p>Aside from the stark yellow background, this card looks like it belongs to the 1961 Topps set &#8212; which it does.</p>
<p>Borrowing the two-box format of the player cards, Topps just turned their base design sideways, added a team logo, and slapped on a cutout of the team photo.</p>
<p>Lots of color and that adorable Cubbie make this card stand out, though the team itself could stand about a 50% zoom so you wouldn&#8217;t need a magnifying glass to see the (blurry) faces.</p>
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<h2>1962 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1962+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1962+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5664" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1962-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1962 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="684" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1962-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 684w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1962-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x219.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1962-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x446.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px" /></a></p>
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<p>In 1962, Topps continued their newfound tradition of matching the design of their team cards to that of their player cards, which in this case meant those iconic/hated/misunderstood wooden borders.</p>
<p>Also returning were tiny player images set amid a desert of solid color &#8212; red for 1962 &#8212; and the typical landscape layout.</p>
<p>In fact, <em>also</em> also returning was the same exact  Cubs team image as Topps used in 1961. Cut down on someone&#8217;s expenses, I suppose.</p>
<p>Gone, sadly was the Cubs logo, replaced by a black oval with &#8220;<a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">CHICAGO CUBS</a>&#8221; in white block letters.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1963+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1963+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5665" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1963-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.png" alt="1963 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="701" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1963-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.png 701w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1963-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x214.png 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1963-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x435.png 610w" sizes="(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px" /></a></p>
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<p>For 1963, Topps pretty much just turned their player design on its side, added a team logo where the headshot would have been, lathered on a solid background, and called it a team card. The effect is striking and artistic, especially since they blew up the team photo to fill more of the card than had been the case in previous years.</p>
<p>And, in the case of the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a>, the headshot remained, thanks to a return of the team mascot.</p>
<p>Yay!</p>
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<h2>1964 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1964+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1964+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5666" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1964-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1964 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="705" height="503" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1964-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 705w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1964-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x214.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1964-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x435.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px" /></a></p>
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<p>Topps continued their trend of using the same basic design for their team cards as graced player cards in 1964. That led to big, bold cards like this one of the <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a>, where the team takes up more real estate than ever before. The red background may be a bit jarring, but it&#8217;s distinctive and complements the Cubbies&#8217; cap &#8220;C&#8221; well.</p>
<p>You know, the same exact &#8220;C&#8221;s on the same exact players in the same exact poses as in 1963.</p>
<p>Yes, Topps was a great recycler back in those days.</p>
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<h2>1965 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1965+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1965+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5667" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1965-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1965 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="703" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1965-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 703w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1965-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x213.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1965-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x434.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px" /></a></p>
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<p>Once again in 1965, Topps copied their base-card design when putting together their team cards, and the translation worked beautifully. How anyone can look at a 1965 Topps card &#8212; particularly one like this with the Cubbie head &#8212; with its pennants and bold colors and not get all rah-rah about heading out to a ballgame post-haste is beyond me.</p>
<p>Well, there is the little issue of this being the <em>third year in a row</em> that Topps used an identical Cubs team picture. I meant, beyond that.</p>
<p>The only other downside to this card for Cubs fans is a boon for collectors in general &#8212; listing each team&#8217;s finish in 1964 was an innovation that was, at the least, a flavorful convenience.</p>
<p>And, in some cases, no doubt an embarrassment.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1966 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Card</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1966+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARD.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1966+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARD&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5668" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1966-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1966 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="702" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1966-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 702w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1966-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x214.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1966-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x434.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px" /></a></p>
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<p>This card is pure 1966 Topps, again copying directly from the base player design. The team&#8217;s finish from the year before makes a return appearance and is no more encouraging for Cubs fans than it was on the 1965 card.</p>
<p>Sadly, the Cub himself is missing, and the orange and green color scheme is an odd choice for Chicago. Maybe it&#8217;s a reflection of the fans&#8217; complexion after watching the team on the field all season long?</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1967 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1967+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1967+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5669" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1967-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1967 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="690" height="497" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1967-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 690w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1967-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x216.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1967-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x439.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" /></a></p>
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<p>Simplicity was the name of the game for the 1967 Topps set, and that theme carried over to the team cards. That mad the four-letter C-U-B-S just about the starkest major card ever issued, especially with the shrunken size of the team photo itself.</p>
<p>Mercifully, Topps left team finishes off their 1967 cards, as the Cubs had fared even worse in 1966 &#8212; losing 103 games and finishing 10th out of 10 NL teams &#8212; than they had the previous two years.</p>
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<h2>1968 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p>The Cubs took a quantum leap forward in 1967, winning 87 games and finishing in third place in the National League. Alas, it was not enough to impress Topps, as the Old Gum Company omitted Chicago from its team-card lineup.</p>
<p>The Cubs were not alone in that, however. Even though Topps did issue team cards in 1968, a total of seven teams were skipped &#8212; <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/tag/boston-red-sox/" data-wpel-link="internal">Boston Red Sox</a>, <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a>, <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/tag/cleveland-indians/" data-wpel-link="internal">Cleveland Indians</a>, <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/tag/houston-astros/" data-wpel-link="internal">Houston Astros</a>, New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, and Washington Senators.</p>
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<h2>1969 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1969+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1969+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5670" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1969-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Poster.jpg" alt="1969 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Poster" width="377" height="630" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1969-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Poster.jpg 377w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1969-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Poster-180x300.jpg 180w" sizes="(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px" /></a></p>
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<p>For the first time since 1955, Topps left team cards off their base set roster in 1969. However, they presented a nifty alternative in the form of Topps Team Posters, which were sold individually in their own packs for 10 cents each.</p>
<p>Even though they were folded and creased, the 12&#8243;-by-20&#8243; posters made (and make) great display pieces. Featuring 10 of the biggest names from each club, the posters are colorful and give you a good shot of late 1960s/early 1970s style.</p>
<p>Significantly, these posters gave the first hint of the bubble heads to come.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1970 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1970+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1970+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5671" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1970-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1970 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="698" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1970-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 698w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1970-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x215.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1970-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x437.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px" /></a></p>
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<p>Topps brought team cards back in 1970 and rendered them with the same gray borders lavished on player cards. Gone were the solid backgrounds of the team cards from the 1960s, replace with &#8220;real&#8221; surroundings, which in the case of the Cubs was apparently the inside of a canvas sack.</p>
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<h2>1971 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1971+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1971+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5672" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1971 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="500" height="706" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 500w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
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<p>By the early 1970s, things were funky everywhere.</p>
<p>That went double for baseball cards.</p>
<p>Topps had already begun fiddling with their borders, opting for the aforementioned gray in 1970.</p>
<p>Then, in 1971, they fired the artistic shot that still reverberates nearly 50 years later &#8212; black borders!</p>
<p>Topps also kept up their tradition of issuing team cards that closely matched the style of their player cards, turning them to landscape and replacing the player info with the team name in big, colorful block letters.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1971+Topps+Juan+Pizarro.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1971+Topps+Juan+Pizarro&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-5701" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Juan-Pizarro.jpg" alt="1971 Topps Juan Pizarro" width="350" height="486" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Juan-Pizarro.jpg 278w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1971-Topps-Juan-Pizarro-216x300.jpg 216w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a></p>
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<p>But the Cubs were also getting funky on the Northside in 1971, at least on their Topps team card.</p>
<p>Instead of the &#8220;boring&#8221; design afforded to other clubs, the Cubs card is presented in a vertical format with just the heads and necks &#8212; &#8220;floating heads&#8221; &#8212; of players and coaches scattered around a green diamond. Each is garnished with a facsimile signature under the disembodied head. The Cubs logo sits dead center, atop the pitcher&#8217;s mound.</p>
<p>All of <em>that</em> is surrounded by the typical small white piping and thick black border of  the 1971s, but there is no text at all outside of the field of play.</p>
<p>So the question is &#8230;</p>
<p>Why is the Cubs card so different from other teams&#8217; pasteboards?</p>
<p>I can only assume that Topps either didn&#8217;t want to or couldn&#8217;t convince the Cubs to gather as a team for a photo. Maybe it had something to do with that <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-cubs-mets-1969-spt-1018-20151017-story.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer">collapse in 1969</a>.</p>
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<h2>1972 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1972+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1972+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5673" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1972-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1972 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="500" height="715" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1972-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 500w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1972-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-210x300.jpg 210w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
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<p>So in 1972, Topps <em>fully</em> embraced 1970s funk with a psychedelic starburst design that still hurts various brain lobes when glimpsed today.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s awesome.</p>
<p>And once again, the Cubs made an already wild set all the funkier by showing up as head bubbles, this time without any necks at all and without the courtesy of a diamond behind them.</p>
<p>If there were ever a haunted baseball card, this just might be the one, what with its ghostly sheet of a background and orbed-up headshots.</p>
<p>At least we still get to see Banks and <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jenkife01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Fergie Jenkins</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?pid=willibi01,willibi02&amp;search=Billy+Williams&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Billy Williams</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santoro01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Ron Santo</a></strong>.</p>
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<h2>1973 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1973+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1973+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5674" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1973 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="696" height="495" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 696w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x213.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x434.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" /></a></p>
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<p>The 1973 Topps team cards just may be the <em>plainest</em> subset ever issued by a major card maker. They feature the same basic typeface and black piping inside a thick white border as the player cards, sure, but all traces of personality are gone.</p>
<p>Whereas you get a little text and a cool player icon with, say, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cardejo02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Jose Cardenal</a></strong> &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1973+TOPPS+Jose+Cardenal.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1973+TOPPS+Jose+Cardenal&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5697" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Jose-Cardenal.jpg" alt="1973 Topps Jose Cardenal" width="350" height="495" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Jose-Cardenal.jpg 350w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1973-Topps-Jose-Cardenal-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a></p>
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<p>&#8230; with the teams, you get just the piping, the team name, the photo &#8230; and that&#8217;s all. At least the Cubs were able to sneak some ivy into their club shot.</p>
<p>Although &#8230; the photo quality is poor enough that the Cubs logo looks sorta like a bullseye or &#8230; a rose? &#8230;. on their chests.</p>
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<h2>1974 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1974+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1974+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5675" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1974-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.png" alt="1974 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="706" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1974-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.png 706w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1974-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x212.png 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1974-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x432.png 610w" sizes="(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px" /></a></p>
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<p>After a one-year reprieve to enjoy the ivy, the Cubs were back in floating-head mode on their 1974 Topps team card.</p>
<p>And this time, the whole thing was more thrown-together than ever.</p>
<p>Instead of a quasi-artistic arrangement like in 1971 and 1972, the 1974 rendition of the Cubbies has a bunch of heads ironed on to a crappy piece of paper that someone then pasted to a corkboard.</p>
<p>&#8220;You want a Cubs team card? <em>You want a Cubs team card??</em> <strong>Well, here&#8217;s your stinkin&#8217; Cubs team card!!!</strong>&#8220;</p>
<p>On the plus side, the Cubs are starting to break out the cheese that would come to dominate their cardboard toward the end of the decade.</p>
<p>Check out those beasts perched above the lips of <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fanzoca01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Carmen Fanzone</a></strong> (what a sports name!) and <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lockebo02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Bob Locker</a></strong> (what a sports name!). Even <a href="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/billy-williams/" data-wpel-link="internal">Billy Williams</a> got in on the act.</p>
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<h2>1975 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1975+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1975+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5676" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1975-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1975 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="699" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1975-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 699w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1975-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x215.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1975-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x436.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px" /></a></p>
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<p>The Cubs pulled themselves back into Topps&#8217; good graces in 1975, scoring a &#8220;normal&#8221; team card for just the second time since 1970.</p>
<p>The dark ivy background both makes up for and accentuates the ethereal glow splashed across players&#8217; faces, but at least manager <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marshji01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Jim Marshall</a></strong> is happy with his closeup</p>
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<h2>1976 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1976+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1976+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5677" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1976-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1976 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="703" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1976-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 703w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1976-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x213.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1976-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x434.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px" /></a></p>
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<p>Marshall still looks pretty engaged on the Cubs 1976 Topps card, but the floating heads are back.</p>
<p>As in 1972, we get a ghostly white background and no-neck cabezas, but at least there is some fun facial hair to ponder.</p>
<p>I mean, without this card, how would we have known that old dudes liked to wear white sideburns sans a beard in the middle 1970s?</p>
<h2>1977 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1977+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1977+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5678" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1977-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1977 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="712" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1977-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 712w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1977-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x211.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1977-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x428.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px" /></a></p>
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<p>The 1977 Topps Cubs team card brought more disembodied noggins, but with a twist: instead of just plopping the heads on a white background, Topps enclosed each head in bluish-white circle and then plopped that whole thing on a slightly less white, more brown background.</p>
<p>Refreshing.</p>
<p>And, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reuscpa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Paul Reuschel</a></strong>&#8216;s black-rim spectacles are featured prominently.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1978 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1978+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1978+TOPPS+CHICAGO+CUBS+TEAM+CARDS&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5679" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1978-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1978 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="703" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1978-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 703w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1978-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x213.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1978-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x434.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px" /></a></p>
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<p>The 1978 Topps Cubs team card is notable for several monumental developments:</p>
<ul>
<li>The return of necks.</li>
<li>The expansion of the inner bubble to include the necks.</li>
<li>A hint of shoulders.</li>
<li>A bluer inner bubble.</li>
<li>A maroon background on which the blue bubbles rest.</li>
<li>The Cubs debut of a wonderfully hirsute <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bucknbi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Bill Buckner</a></strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s terrible.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s glorious.</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1979 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1979+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1979+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5680" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1979-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1979 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="697" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1979-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 697w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1979-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x215.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1979-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x438.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px" /></a></p>
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<p>Ho hum.</p>
<p>Another year, another floating heads permutation for Topps and their <a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> team card.</p>
<p>This one conforms pretty well to the base player design, with a simple black piping around the photo leading to a chevron-indented banner at the bottom of the card.</p>
<p>On team cards, this ribbon features a headshot of the manager &#8212; <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/frankhe01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Herman Franks</a></strong> for the Cubs.</p>
<p>To be fair, these aren&#8217;t your typical head bubbles, as Cubs players got to keep not just their necks but also an even bigger part of their shoulders than the year before. Such progress!</p>
<p>The green background gives the card a very baseball-y feel, and the cheesy mustache ratio is outstanding!</p>
<p>Heck, there is even a doofy looking <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsda02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Davey Johnson</a></strong> thrown in there somewhere, which almost makes up for a glassesless Reuschel (Rick only in this case, Paul was gone to Cleveland).</p>
<p> </p>
<h2>1980 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.X1980+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards.TRS5&amp;_nkw=1980+Topps+Chicago+Cubs+Team+Cards&amp;_sacat=0&amp;mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&amp;siteid=0&amp;mkcid=1&amp;campid=5338737273&amp;toolid=20004&amp;mkevt=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5681" src="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1980-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg" alt="1980 Topps Chicago Cubs Team Card" width="700" height="500" srcset="https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1980-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card.jpg 700w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1980-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-300x214.jpg 300w, https://staging.waxpackgods.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1980-Topps-Chicago-Cubs-Team-Card-610x436.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
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<p>Everything I said about the 1979 Topps Cubs team card applies to the 1980 Topps team card except the basic card design &#8212; this one has the 1980 banner, not the 1979 banner.</p>
<p>Oh, and except for there is no Davey Johnson.</p>
<p>There is still Rick Reuschel with no glasses, though, making us miss Paul again. In fact &#8230; it&#8217;s the exact same glassesless shot as in 1979</p>
<p>And another in fact, <em>all</em> of the repeat players have the same pic as in 1979 &#8212; <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kingmda01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Dave Kingman</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/biittla01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Larry Biittner</a></strong> (reeaallyy), a clean-shaven <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suttebr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Bruce Sutter</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/trillma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Manny Trillo</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellemi02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Mick Kelleher</a></strong> &#8212; all of &#8217;em.</p>
<p>You get the feeling Topps had just about given up the ghost on team cards by this point?</p>
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<h2>1981 Topps <span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Chicago Cubs Team Cards&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}"><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/chicago-cubs-baseball-cards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Chicago Cubs</a> Team Cards</span></h2>
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<p>Well, yeah, Topps <em>had</em> just about given up the ghost.</p>
<p>But they hung around long enough to give the Cubs one last floating heads-and-partial-shoulders against creamy background team card in 1981.</p>
<p>There were plenty of holdover photos from the previous two years, but out of 29 players and coaches pictured, a whopping 51 of them have big, cheesy mustaches, which makes it all OK.</p>
<p>One can only wonder &#8230;</p>
<p>Did the Topps team cards cause the mustaches to appear, or did the mustaches make Topps team cards self-destruct?</p>
<p>If it was the former, can you imagine what <strong><a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sandbry01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external">Ryne Sandberg</a></strong> might have looked like had Topps limped their team cards along into the middle 1980s?</p>
<p>Oh, the horror!</p>
<p>Oh &#8230; the missed glory!</p>
<p><i>(Check out our other team pages </i><a href="http://staging.waxpackgods.com/category/teams/" data-wpel-link="internal"><i>here</i></a><i>.)</i></p>
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