Several weeks ago, our group put our brains together and determined, once and for all (?), the best Topps set of the 1970s. Here is the original article, and here are our results.
At the time I promised that we would be running other polls, tout de suite, but things got kind of crazy for a while, and here we are. Let’s get back to it, shall we?
I ask today that you consider the best Topps designs of the 1960s. I suggest (please) that you not vote for a set because you like the great rookie cards, or your grandpop got you the Mickey Mantle for Easter. If we do that it just becomes a big nostalgia battle. I have nothing against nostalgia, it is the reason many of us still haul out our cards. But for this poll I am trying to set aside that element. This could mean that the card set that you voted for in some other poll last year, or in some other blog post back in 2012, is no longer your answer for this poll.
Further, I ask you to consider the front of the card (the size and quality of the photos, the way the design elements work together or are prioritized) and the back of the card (readability, statistics, cartoons, quizzes, etc.).
I next present an example of each set for your consideration. At the bottom of this post is a link where you can vote. Look at these cards carefully, and then get to it.
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE POLL. Note that there are two questions in addition to the rankings.
SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee 
Those are the best cards.while i was growing up. Specialy those coins i had garbage bags full playing ,the games that kids dont play today with cards and win the best cards from your opponent.But are home burnt down back in 1980.everything went.
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All my 60s cards got stolen …. well 90% of them did , in a burglary. I still miss em.
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1965 was an easy pick for number one…. the fronts are the best of the 1960’s, and the backs with the large cartoon, hand-drawn name and appealing blue & white, are the best card backs from any Topps baseball set.
I ranked 1960 down at the bottom; I think it works fairly well when the various colors work well (like with the Aaron you provide as an example), but between the clashing colors on many of the cards, the alternating colors on the players name (which sometime make it hard to read), and the portrait cropped in landscape, the set is often a trainwreck. The design they used for the managers cards should’ve been the primary design.
1962 is just dull, even more so in my collection because of all of the capless Mets.
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