Posting cards from the 1970 Topps set that I've acquired recently got blog reader, and fellow TCDB member Mark Z. to reach out and offer some less than mint cards for the set build.
My main thing so far with the vintage football cards that come by? No writing. No paper loss.
These 4 cards fit the bill.
You can easily see the crimp on the lower left hand corner of the Gene Washington card, and on the top right of the Dave Wilcox card, it looks like it was folded over a little, kind of like what happens after a time when you use a trading card for a book mark.
Even with the poorly attempted scan here, the Tom Beier is easily the best of the 4 cards. There actually is a top border on the card, and if I had to rate the condition, it would probably go EX-MT. Now Gale Gillingham is another story. When I showed the cards to the Mrs. this morning, she thought the exact same thing that I did, it looks like it was bit by a dog. In a couple of places!!
So for extra writing credit, I was curious about the Tom Beier card because he's wearing a Dolphins uniform and is listed on the 49ers, so off to Football Reference we go.
Tom only played 2 seasons in the NFL, 1967 & 1969, with the Dolphins. He was taken in the 10th round of the draft, and in his 2 NFL seasons he had 2 INT's and 2 fumble recoveries as a safety/defensive back. It took a little bit of digging to find out that Tom was traded to the 49ers on April 30th, 1970 only to be released by them that year and not to play again.
These 4 bring the set build to 47%, almost half way now! Thank you very much Mark for the cards, they are appreciated!!
Robert
Dave just passed a couple of months ago. He was a heckuva player in his time, though few remember that these days.
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