Sports Cards--Bicycle Spokes Beware!

None of this mattered, of course, because Topps was the only card manufacturer on the block. The card stock was thin and gray. Some photos were used for several years at a stretch, designs were uninspiring and the printing methodology used in 1957 was the same one employed in 1977. But cards being what they were—the nerdy sports equivalent of its nerdy non-sport brethren (but classier dresser) the comic book—kids were not about to turn their backs because the quality was lacking on many fronts.