Maybe I'm just old school, but this is a League Leader card:
In the next decade, they were similar...
And in the 80's...
Not sure what happened in the 90's. They kinda went away. Then in 2000, they did this:
OK, not bad. Change it up a little. Somewhere they quit featuring pitching victories. But then we got back to normal.
And swung around to horizontal again...
Now they called 'em "Wins". Continued on til 2016...
Then this happened.
The card on the right is not a League Leader card. It's just like the one on the left with an extra title.
Same thing in 2018. Single player base card with a small text addition. (The white border is just bad cropping on my part.)
OK, now you're not even using different shots. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Over.
Skip forward to this year. Same deal.
The windup, quick tilt of the camera, the pitch...and an even SMALLER "League Leader" tag.
C'mon Topps. Go back to something like this. I put this together in a couple hours.
Oh yeah, and - extra bonus - you can read the text from more than a foot away!
You’re 1000% correct on this one. That 1967 card is amazing - only the 1962 League Leaders cards, with the floating heads, are better.
ReplyDeleteThat 67T pitching leaders card is fantastic. I love 60's & 70's league leaders cards... but they're even cooler when every player featured is a hall of famer.
ReplyDeleteAmen, love your custom. But how are breakers doing to divvy up three people on a card? We need competition in this hobby really bad!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely. At least we have a run of Heritage sets to fall back on.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they just don't want to have more cards of non-star players in the set. But they could do the combo leader cards and just add more categories. WAR, WHIP, OPS, steals, and so on.
ReplyDeleteYou're custom is the best looking 2021 Topps that I've seen so far!
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