1969 Topps Baseball Forum

Does anyone else collect insert sets from the 1960's? 

When I finally came to grips with modern insert sets, and how to incorporate them into my collections, I went back and started adding insert sets from days past into my collection.

Today, I finally completed the 1969 Topps Deckle Edge insert set of 35 cards.

Initially, these sets would go to the back of my binders, but I noticed that they were not getting looked at as much, so I've integrated the majority of my insert sets into my base set collection.  What makes this set unique is that it has corrugated edges, and is smaller than the standard size cards.  Even so, I'd still prefer to look at each of these insert cards positioned next to their base card counterparts.  It's become difficult for me to identify the 1969 Topps set without it's Deckle Edge insert counterpart since these cards would have been included in 5-cent wax packs to collectors.  With the completion of this set, only one card remains to finish off my 1969 Topps baseball set--Mickey Mantle #500.

Congrats on the completion.

Sounds odd though, as I always looked at the term of "inserts" being a fairly newer term hatched in the late eighties. I know that's not really the case as stickers had been a quite common 1 per pack type for many, many years.

The 1991 UD Baseball Michael Jordan SP1 was what I always felt started the whole insert craze, or what I like to blame as it was the first one I tried to really hunt down. Just never viewed the stickers, or say 1,000 yard club Topps FB as such, because they came 1 per pack, even if it was a bit different style pack from basic wax.

I like the way you described it, with putting the player beside his base card in the binder.  I hadn't heard of that method before.  I sort by player anyway, so I would already have a players inserts with his base card, but a lot of people who sort their sets in binders, in number order (from memory, I think that's how you do it) won't break away from that routine to put inserts in between them.  I always enjoy reading other people's methods of organizing.

Today, I completed the 1968 Topps Game insert set with the acquisition of #2 Mickey Mantle.  This set was reminiscent of the 1951 Topps set, but larger in size.  Actually, it's about the same size as the 1969 Topps Deckle Edge insert set, but without the corrugated edges.

I also never thought of "inserts" as a thing until the 1990's, but looking back, inserts have really been a part of wax packs since at least the 1951 Topps sets (and definitely throughout the 1960's).

Sets are organized by team performance, and then player age.