Thursday, July 8, 2021

1955 Topps Football Cards as Baseball Cards

After Topps' 1951 (and their 1950 felt backs which I skipped over) venture into football cards, they took a break until 1955.  Again they were collegiate cards, not NFL cards.  The set was the 1955 Topps All-Americans, based on past All-American selections and included many all time greats of the game.  They were the same size as the 1955 Topps baseball cards, 3 5/8" by 2 5/8".  Here is Bears great Sid Luckman with the Columbia Lions.


For the baseball format, I substituted the words "All American" with "All Star" and resized it to modern standard  size of 3 1/2" by 2 1/2".  Here is the 1955 AL MVP Yogi Berra with a cameo of another famous #42.


1 comment:

  1. Looking forward to the '62s, that's a great design.

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