Are There any color variations for 1970 TOPPS BASEBALL?

EarlsWorld

Can anyone tell me if there are suppose to color variations for TEAM NAMES on the 1970 Topps baseball cards? I have some cards that have color variations - not of the same player, but the same team name. I just noticed this. Thanks for any help!

EARL

purduepete

Can we see some scans please?

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

Yeah, need pics. Are color variances lighter? Ink running out?

I only see the the word "Baseball" on a Checklist in different colors and various players bats with color variations.

EarlsWorld

Sorry guys~

I had some cards that I had sold and when I was packing them up I realized that some of the Athletics team names were BLCK and others RED, but I saw this variance with other team names as well. The actual card that caught my attention had a green INDIANS team name and found that very strange. I never noticed a GREEN team name on any of the cards before. Is that anything or do you need something to see? If I have to, I will tear the box open and get them out!

Thanks~

EARL

killingdream

I am only aware of the variations already mentioned. Could the ones that you speak of have been colored in perhaps?

SDSportsFan

I believe the colors are different among the total cards; in other words, there are no individual card variations.

For instance, I'm looking at my Surf Laundry Detergent book of Topps Padres cards (these books were published in 1987-88...one for each team...picturing all the Topps cards for that particular team). The Jose Arcia card has "Padres" printed in white. The Bob Barton has "Padres" printed in yellow, the Nate Colbert card has "Padres" printed in red, and the Al Ferrara has "Padres" printed in black. Those four colors (black, yellow, white and red) are the only colors represented. To the best of my knowledge, with the Padres for instance, ALL Bob Barton cards have "Padres" printed in yellow, ALL Nate Colberts have "Padres printed in red, and so on.


Steve


Edited to add the following pictures of some examples (of St Louis Cardinals):

EarlsWorld

That was a very good explanation! That is exactly what I was trying to ask. The only question now is does any of the Indians players have a GREEN Team name? I only had one Indians player and the Team Name was in GREEN which did not seem right for some reason to me. It was not colored in, but printed that way! From the explanation given, I believe those colors expressed in your description are the base colors for all cards. I did not see any green team names on any others!

<< <i>I believe the colors are different among the total cards; in other words, there are no individual card variations.

For instance, I'm looking at my Surf Laundry Detergent book of Topps Padres cards (these books were published in 1987-88...one for each team...picturing all the Topps cards for that particular team). The Jose Arcia card has "Padres" printed in white. The Bob Barton has "Padres" printed in yellow, the Nate Colbert card has "Padres" printed in red, and the Al Ferrara has "Padres" printed in black. Those four colors (black, yellow, white and red) are the only colors represented. To the best of my knowledge, with the Padres for instance, ALL Bob Barton cards have "Padres" printed in yellow, ALL Nate Colberts have "Padres printed in red, and so on.


Steve


Edited to add the following pictures of some examples (of St Louis Cardinals):


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purduepete

<< <i>That was a very good explanation! That is exactly what I was trying to ask. The only question now is does any of the Indians players have a GREEN Team name? I only had one Indians player and the Team Name was in GREEN which did not seem right for some reason to me. It was not colored in, but printed that way! From the explanation given, I believe those colors expressed in your description are the base colors for all cards. I did not see any green team names on any others! >>



From the internet...

downtown

Here is a card of an Indians player with green team name...also some of the Yankees cards team name is just YANKS. One of my favorite sets and I never really took notice of that. Funny to say I never thought anything of the YANKS name as a kid. Saw that they shortened Cardinals to CARDS on some of the ones posted earlier too.

EarlsWorld

You have unraveled the mystery...as I KNEW someone here would! Thank you so much! That is the very card I packed up! It is strange how Topps did that set with the colored team name variations and the way the shortened team names. Kind of reminds me of the 1958 baseball issue. In that set, the team players usually had a certain color background, but for some of the cards the background color isn't at all the same. For instance, the 58 Indians players usually have a yellow background with Red name letters. However, Maris name is in White lettering and his picture background color is orange! Completely different. Why, I don't know - would like to though!

Thanks again for everyone's help. I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,

EARL

SOM

In addition to the Klimchock, Card #182 of Dick Hall has the Orioles team name in green, #249 Bob Locker Pilots is in green and on #658 Ken Tatum, Angels is printed in Royal Blue!

But the neatest thing about this thread: I've been flipping through my set off and on for 39 years, and until now, I never noticed these oddities before !

Very cool!

Nick

EarlsWorld

That's funny! I once made a friend a custom mouse pad with a 1959 Topps card image on it. After receiving it, he asked me why I slanted the name across the top the way I did? My simple reply was, that's the way the card was made! He went to his collection and pulled out his 59 Topps Banks and said --- "I need to look at these things more often -- I never noticed that before!" True story! I have to give him a break though he is getting older! LOL Thanks for your input and help! It turns out we all have found something new about this set!

Thanks~

EARL