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| 1970 TOPPS BUD HARRELSON |
By Brian Joura
I humbly submit this Bud Harrelson offering for consideration as the greatest in-stadium card Topps produced before they started doing live-action cards the following year. Typically cards of this era and earlier showed head shots or mock baseball poses. But here we have Harrelson signing autographs, in a familiar setting, assuming you were ever a kid who got to the park early and yelled at anyone in a uniform within earshot to sign your scorecard.
And the autograph scene on a baseball card is great enough but Harrelson is wearing a uniform impossibly white that just absolutely pops against a brilliant blue sky, which is further enhanced by what looks like 21st Century field maintenance. Games that I went to at Shea in the 1970s, the field never looked this perfect and there was inevitably garbage being blown everywhere.
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