Your favorite set from the 70's

garnettstyle

What is your favorite set from the 70's? Any sport.

Mine is 1975 topps/OPC baseball regular. I also love the minis.

2nd favorite: 1972 topps/OPC baseball

Gemyanks10

1978 OPC baseball....like you also love the 72's, both Topps and OPC and will throw the 74's in there too.

GoDodgersFan

1975 topps baseball is #1 with 1978 topps as #2. The 1978 design is not the best, but tremendous sentimental value.

CW

!977 baseball for sentimental reasons and the great photography.

1971 baseball for the set design -- love the black borders (the photography is no slouch this year, either).

In hockey, 71 OPC is a great looking set.

BaltimoreYankee

I'll go with 1971 Topps first and '75 Topps second.

TNP777

The only possible answer to this question is 1978. You 1975 collectors are dead wrong and can suck an egg.

grote15

Why, 1975 minis, of course.



78s aren't bad, either.



Actually, I like any set from the 70s.

tennesseebanker

Have to give some love to the 72 & 74 Topps Football.

TNP777

Originally posted by: tennesseebanker
Have to give some love to the 72 & 74 Topps Football.

shakes fist at '72 football and curses the high numbers

LarkinCollector

72 BB, 71 FB
Honorable Mentions: 70 & 73 BB

dennis07

1970

strat4454

My favs by sport

1970 BB first set collected followed by 1976 for design
1972 FB
1971-72 BKB
1971-72 HKY

Stingray

That is tough!! Started buying packs in 74, but really began my collecting career in 75. But I would have to say 1977, just because of the sentimental reason of trying to get a Mark Fidrych rookie card and Jason Thompson rookie card. I still can remember to this day the first Tiger card I got out of a pack of 77s, Tom Veryzer.

gemint

1976 is my favorite because it's the first set I collected as a kid. 1971 and 1975 are a close second but only in high grade due to the colored borders showing any flaw.

ugaskidawg

1970 baseball all day long

TheMick6

71 BB with 76 a close second for me

1954

71 Greatest Moments
76 Topps
71 Topps

49ersGuy

1971 Topps Basketball
1971 Topps Football / 1972 Topps Football
1977 Topps Baseball

longtimemetsfan

1973 Topps baseball. First set I collected as a kid. Great memories riding my bike to the store to buy packs.

rtimmer

Easily the 1974 Hanna barbera Wonderbread magic trick set with Scooby doos rookie cards followed by the 1972 topps basketball set.

jmaciu

1976 Topps Baseball, followed by 1975 Topps baseball

baz518

Purely for sentimental reasons, 78 and 79 are my favorite baseball sets... with 75 closely behind. 79 football and any 70s basketball as well.

bishop

Base set--1972 baseball
Off Beat-- 1974 Deckle

bobsbbcards

1974 Topps Deckle Edge
1970 Kelloggs
1975 OPC (Colors are richer than their Topps counterpart)
1970 Topps Candy Lids
1971 Topps Greatest Moments
1973 Topps Comics
1970 Transogram
1971 OPC
1972 Topps
1973 Laughlin Super Stand Ups

bishop

That is far too many selections Bob. Your entry is disqualified

KendallCat

Originally posted by: gemint
1976 is my favorite because it's the first set I collected as a kid. 1971 and 1975 are a close second but only in high grade due to the colored borders showing any flaw.

Sounds like a lot of people born in 1968-69 in this thread. 1976 was my favorite set as a kid since it was my first year of little league, and the first year I collected along with my brothers. After games we would go to 7-11 about a mile from our LL park and get lots of packs. It was also because my Reds won another World Series, and seemed like every other pack had a Reds All Star player.

I actually had cards from 1973 and 1974, a bunch more from 1975, and 1976 and 1977 we were full bore into cards. Collected 1978-1980, and one we hit teenage years cards went poof! Around 1985 got back into it all the way through college and pretty much never stopped. Can remember as a kid a Brett rookie, Ryan rookie, 1970 Bench hi number 660 as impossible cards to get. Also, remember how big a deal it was to see an Aaron card, 1974 Kaline or Bob Gibson or Killebrew card. Still love those years to this day.

54topps

1971 OPC Hockey

70ToppsFanatic

With my user name you have to ask?

ugaskidawg

Originally posted by: KendallCat

Originally posted by: gemint

1976 is my favorite because it's the first set I collected as a kid. 1971 and 1975 are a close second but only in high grade due to the colored borders showing any flaw.

Sounds like a lot of people born in 1968-69 in this thread. 1976 was my favorite set as a kid since it was my first year of little league, and the first year I collected along with my brothers. After games we would go to 7-11 about a mile from our LL park and get lots of packs. It was also because my Reds won another World Series, and seemed like every other pack had a Reds All Star player.



I actually had cards from 1973 and 1974, a bunch more from 1975, and 1976 and 1977 we were full bore into cards. Collected 1978-1980, and one we hit teenage years cards went poof! Around 1985 got back into it all the way through college and pretty much never stopped. Can remember as a kid a Brett rookie, Ryan rookie, 1970 Bench hi number 660 as impossible cards to get. Also, remember how big a deal it was to see an Aaron card, 1974 Kaline or Bob Gibson or Killebrew card. Still love those years to this day.

I was born in the tail end of the 70s, so I never got to enjoy collecting 70s in their prime. As I stated before, the 1970 Topps set is my favorite, because that was the only set my uncle collected in his life. When he died unexpectedly, One of the things he left me was his 70 Topps cards. I still possess many of them today - however, I did put up one of my many Munson RC in the PIF thread this past week...but I got a 72 OPC Series 1 pack from Jim for my offerrings, so no complaints here!

yankeesman

Like many others I was a child of the 70s and 1978 BB was the first set I collected. Still my favorite with 71 BB and 70 BB right behind.