By Brian Joura
1969 DECKLE JERRY KOOSMAN
Most Topps inserts from the 1960s and 1970s get a big thumbs up from me. And then there’s this deckle insert from 1969. It would be curious to know the exec who greenlighted a glossy, black and white offering. And if that contrast wasn’t bad enough, we have the “deckle” edging. It’s hard to believe that the kids of the late 60s wanted an imitation of imperfection. Because this kid of the 70s wanted nothing to do with these.
If all of the above wasn’t enough, you had a handful of cards in this set featuring players with a cap with no logo, indicative of the trademark issues that Topps (and to a lesser degree, Kellogg’s) was having at this rough time period. Fifty-odd years later, the ones with the cap logo displayed, like this Jerry Koosman, don’t seem so bad. The blank cap ones are still ugly as sin.
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