1960 Topps Football Cards

The Topps football set from 1960 has a lot of things about it that tend to go against sets. It has few big-name rookie cards. There is no scarce series that makes it difficult to collect, and can easily be pieced together in nice condition. However, it has a near pure card design in which the player's picture dominates the card and is one of the better-looking sets of its day.

In a way, the pictures used on the card fronts are similar to what Topps used in its 1957 baseball card set. A small football icon in one of the lower corners contains the player's name, team and position. The football itself has one of several colors: blue, green, red, yellow or orange. The only other thin on the front is a white border. Backs are laid out similar to the 1959 Topps format. A football-shaped icon contains the card number, ant the player's name, team and position appear beside it. There are two lines of vital stats below that. Some players get a box with year and lifetime statistics, while the rest get a short biography. The rest of the back is taken up by a Football Funnies feature, which is a cartoon hidden under a scratch-off surface. As usually, a card that has been scratched is worth less than one that hasn't.

Cards are numbered so that each team has its own part of the set, but the players are not arranged alphabetically. Instead, the quarterback is usually first, followed by the running backs. The teams are arranged alphabetically by city, so Baltimore is first and Washington is last. Dallas was an expansion team, so the very first Cowboy cards are featured in the set. Also, the Cardinals are shown in their new home city of St. Louis. Each team except for the Cowboys is also represented by a team photo card, which features one of two checklists on the back. The team card is the final card in each team's section of the set.

There are 132 cards in the set, which were issued as a single series despite the checklists calling them the first and second series. The only rookie of note is Forrest Gregg. For the second year in a row, Topps placed a picture of Cardinals linebacker Jim Taylor on a card that was supposed to show Jim Taylor of the Packers. This error was never corrected.

Key 1960 Topps Football Cards:

• Jim Brown #23
• Johnny Unitas #1
• Bart Starr #51
• Paul Hornung #54
• Forrest Gregg RC #56

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