1972 Topps

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This is a list with brief descriptions of Topps sports card products for 1972.

Baseball

SetDescriptionCards in SetSize
Base set7872.5 x 3.5 inches

Base set

The background or border for the photos is Topps only psychedelic production in a base set in baseball. The base set includes standard posed photos of players and managers, photos of players and managers in action during games, and league leader cards with three players per card.

Parallel Sets

Since 1965, the Canadian candy company O-Pee-Chee produced virtually identical, but smaller, sets identical to the Topps issue of the same year. The Canadian printed cards tended to be printed on lighter grey cardstock and often included traded lines on the front of the cards. In 1972, due to Canadian law, the cards were modified to include both French and English text in which

case T.C.G was replaced by O.P.C. in the copyright line.

SetDescriptionCards in SetSize
O-Pee-Chee5252.5 x 3.5 inches

Football

In 1972, Topps issued two Football sets featuring the National Football League.

SetDescriptionCards in SetSize
Base set3512.5 x 3.5 inches
Bazooka Official Signals126.25 x 2.875 inches

Hockey

SetDescriptionCards in SetSize
Base set1762.5 x 3.5 inches

Basketball

Topps issued one set featuring the two professional basketball leagues, the National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association, playing during the 1972-1973 season.

SetDescriptionCards in SetSize
Base set2642.5 x 3.5 inches

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1960s Topps

Despite a brief attempt by Fleer to sign baseball players in 1963, Topps continued its reign as the only major baseball card manufacturer in the United States. On the other hand, Football had more than one professional league in operation, allowing for competing companies to co-exist by producing a major national set for each league. Topps was able to produce National Football League sets from 1960 to 1963 while Fleer issued American Football League sets. Topps then began producing AFL sets from 1964 to 1967 while Philadelphia Gum issued NFL sets. Before the end of the decade Topps revived their basketball issue after a ten-year hiatus. The following is a list with brief descriptions of Topps sports card products for the 1960s. All cards listed are standard size(2½ × 3½ inches). Exceptions are noted.

1970s Topps

The 1970s saw Topps go largely uncontested in the sports card market. The decade featured full runs of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Aside from issues like Kellogg's cereal premiums which ran throughout the 70s there was not much in the way of major national card manufacturers to compete with. Topps maintained its license agreement with O-Pee-Chee in baseball and hockey. The company would have significantly more ground to cover given the growth of the professional sports leagues during the decade. Major League Baseball added four new teams in 1969 and two in 1977; the National Football League added two teams in 1976; the National Basketball Association gained three in 1970, one in 1974, and the American Basketball Association picked up one in 1972; the National Hockey League acquired two teams in each of 1970, 1972, and 1974. Soccer also made the Topps roster in the 70s, producing English and Scottish 'Footballers' for distribution in the United Kingdom. Domestic soccer was not to be forgotten with a North American Soccer League sticker set in 1979. The following are trading card sets issued by Topps in the 1970s. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.

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