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This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1980. All sets listed are standard size (2½ × 3½ inches) unless noted.
The 1980 Topps base set features 726 cards issued in wax packs, rack packs, and cello packs. Player cards have a facsimile autograph on the front. Subsets include Highlights, League Leaders, Future Stars, Checklists, and Team cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimeters
The 1980 Topps Super set contains 60 cards issued in cello packs. The cards feature a facsimile autograph on the players photo. The backs are white or gray and included the players name, team, and position. Size: 4 7⁄8 × 6 7⁄8 in., 12.38 × 17.46 centimeters
This uncut sheet was available by mail-in offer on packs. The sheet features 26 team cards from the regular set on thinner stock.
A blank backed card that shows Billy Martin as the Yankee manager. The regular issue shows Dick Howser as manager.
Five unreleased standard size cards that show a pair of player pictures stuck on cardboard with blank backs.
This test issue features three coins measuring 1⅜" diameter. The front has a player portrait and the backs shows personal data. There are bronze, silver, and gold looking variations.
1980 marked the final year for the Burger King promotional sets which began in 1977. Unlike the past two years, only one individual team set of Philadelphia Phillies was issued in the Philadelphia area. In the rest of the country, the Pitch/Hit/Run set was issued. Both sets featured Burger King logos on every card, unlike the past sets where the cards were basically identical to the Topps cards. As with the past sets, minor photo cropping variations exist between the Topps and Burger King cards when the same photo was used and in some cases the photo was changed.
The Pitch/Hit/Run set resembled the 1980 Topps regular issue cards with a red colored back as opposed to blue found in the Topps set. Some of the players had a different photo than their Topps counterpart. This Burger King set has 33 cards plus a checklist card. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.88 centimeters
The Phillies set resembled the 1980 Topps regular issue cards, with a Burger King logo on the back. Some of the players had a different photo than their Topps counterpart, included players not featured in the regular Topps set and a manager card of Dallas Green. This Burger King set has 22 cards plus a checklist card. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.85 centimeters
Pepsi-Cola All-Stars prototypes by Mike Schechter Associates and Topps was an unreleased promotional set. The cards share the design of the regular Topps issue with the use of the Pepsi logo and a color scheme change. The 22 cards were eventually released by Topps in 2005 through eBay.
For the O-Pee-Chee set that resembled the Topps issue see List of O-Pee-Chee Sports Cards.
The base set contains 528 cards of NFL players issued in 12-card wax packs including a stick of gum. Subsets include Record Breakers, league leaders, and playoffs. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimeters.
The Superstar Photo Football set contains 30 large size cards printed on white card stock similar to the Super baseball set. The cards were sold over the counter without Bubblegum at retail establishments. Size: 4 7⁄8 × 6 7⁄8 in., 12.38 × 17.46 centimetres
The Team Checklist cards were only available from the company as a mail-in offer in uncut sheets. These cards are similar to their counterparts in the base set. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimeters (individually)
Base Set
The 1980-81 Topps Basketball set contains 176 cards which are divided into three panels for a total of 264 individual players. The cards were available in 8-card wax packs. They are similar to the 1971-72 Trios sticker set with three players on one card. Each card has perforations for separating the panels. Subsets include Slam Dunk, All-Star, and Team Leader. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimetres or 1 2⁄3 × 2 1⁄2 inches, 4.24 × 6.35 centimeters (individually)
Team Posters
This set has 16 posters that were issued as inserts folded into the regular issue wax packs. They are printed on thin white paper and feature one of 16 NBA teams photos. The posters are the same design as the regular cards. Size: 4 7⁄8 × 6 7⁄8 in., 12.38 × 17.46 centimeters
Base set
The 1980–1981 Topps National Hockey League hockey set is basically identical to the first 264 cards of the 396 card 1980–1981 O-Pee-Chee set issued in Canada. Unlike the Canadian cards, the fronts contain a puck (black ink) at the bottom right which can be scratched-off to reveal the player’s name. Annual statistics including minor leagues, a brief biography and a cartoon style hockey fact are featured on the back. Members of the U.S.Olympic team are also included. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimeters
Team Posters
The 1980-81 team posters were issued as folded inserts in hockey packs. The 16 numbered posters are in full color with a white border on thin stock. The posters feature posed shots (on ice) of the entire 1979-80 hockey team. The name of the team is indicated in large letters to the left of the hockey puck, which contains the designation 1979-80 Season. Size: 5 × 7 in.
Footballers
In 1980, Topps issued a 66 card set in the United Kingdom featuring soccer players. The cards fronts are basically identical to the 1980 Topps basketball cards issued in the United States and have the same three player detachable panel format. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches, 6.35 × 8.89 centimeters (individually)
Football Posters
Topps issued a second set of 18 posters.
Two tattoos were printed on the interior of the wrapper of this gum product. There were three wrapper types each with 16 different tattoo pairs for a total of 96. Two Bugs Bunny wrappers, one yellow and one lavender, and a red Roadrunner wrapper. The tattoos are unnumbered and bear no captions. Size: 1 1⁄4 × 2 7⁄16 inches
This movie set featured 352 cards and 88 stickers and was produced in three series. First series cards have gray borders with red framed color pictures and yellow bordered stickers. Second series cards have gray borders with blue framed pictures and blue bordered stickers. Third series cards are yellow bordered with green frame lines and green stickers. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches
Topps made a second set for Star Wars' second installment. This set includes 30 giant photo cards. The cards feature glossy color scenes from the movie. The backs show one of two checklists which show black-and-white photos of either cards 1-15 or 16-30. A test version of the set appears identical on the front but the 'test' back has small drawings of 16 characters surrounding a text box. Size: 4 7⁄8 × 6 7⁄8 inches
This is the third time Topps has issued the Wanted Posters series. This reissue has the same artwork for the 24 posters but are done in a larger format than the two previous occasions(1967 and 1975) and have different numbering. The captioning for this edition says 'Class Bully'. Size: 12 × 20 inches
This set of 55 artwork designs depict an assortment of monsters wreaking havoc while driving and feature a pun caption. The cardboard backs have peel-off directions, checklist or puzzle pieces. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches
This set is actually a reissue of the 'You'll Die Laughing' series produced on two previous occasions(1959 and 1973). This version totals 110 cards. The black-and-white photos are from Universal Studios monster movies decorated with monster-art frames in various colors. The backs are the same but are done in a red, green, and yellow combination. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 inches
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The company Topps joined the sports cards market in the 1950s becoming a rival to Bowman. After competing with each other for five years Topps bought out Bowman in 1956. Competition still remained however, in the form of Parkhurst hockey cards. Topps produced cards of the United States-based National Hockey League teams while Parkhurst covered the Canadian teams. Topps had produced multi-sport photo cards prior to 1950, namely the 1948 Topps Magic Photos but each set was very small and not considered a major set. This trend was consistent with their first baseball and college football issues: the 1950 Feltbacks resembled college pennants; 1951 Magic football included a scratch-off game on the reverse; Red/Blue Backs intended to be a card game; Connie Mack/Current All-Stars are foldable stand-ups. It was in 1952 that Topps released their first truly major card set. In the autumn of 1951, Woody Gelman and Sy Berger, then a 28-year-old veteran of World War II, designed the 1952 Topps baseball card set on the kitchen table of Berger's apartment on Alabama Avenue in Brooklyn. The 1957 Topps set featured dimensions of 2½ by 3½ inches which has become known as the standard card size. Below is a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for the 1950s.
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.
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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