Tuesday, January 13, 2015

All The Cubs Inserts From the 1960s

With the last 60's inserts in hand, I now have that decade wrapped up!

During this era, the inserts were always true inserts....something other than a card.  Remember that at this time, the cards were king; the base cards were king.  We didn't need anything shiny, or fancy; we didn't need autographs of chips from a bat.  The cards were more than good enough.

So the inserts needed to be something other than cards.  And Topps went through several different items.... stamps, rub-offs, transfers, stickers, coins, posters, embossed, decals, deckle edge cards, game cards.

These were in cards from 1961 through 1969.

To make sure that I've got all the inserts, I went through both the Standard Catalog and Baseballcardpedia year by year to put together a master list of inserts and Cubs.

Here's what I came up with for the years 1961 - 1969

1961 Stamps: George Altman, Bob Anderson, Richie Ashburn, Ernie Banks, Ed Bouchee, Jim Brewer, Dick Ellsworth, Don Elston, Ron Santo, Sammy Taylor, Bob Will, Billy Williams
1962Stamps: George Altman, Ernie Banks, Dick Bertell, Don Cardwell, Dick Ellsworth, Glen Hobbie, Ron Santo, Barney Schultz, Team Logo, Billy Williams
1963Peel Offs: Ernie Banks, Ken Hubbs
1964Coins: Ernie Banks, Lou Brock, Dick Ellsworth, Larry Jackson, Ron Santo, Ron Santo All-Star, Billy Williams
1965Embossed: 58 Ernie Banks, 67 Dick Ellsworth, 28 Ron Santo, 40 Billy Williams
Rub Offs: Ron Santo, Billy Williams
1966Transfers: Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs, Dick Ellsworth, Don Landrum, Ron Santo, Billy Williams
1967Poster: Ron Santo
1968Game: Ron Santo
1969Decal: Fergie Jenkins, Ron Santo
Deckle Edge: Don Kessinger, Ron Santo

And now, the best part...a look at all of them!


4 comments:

  1. The best part of '60s inserts is the fact that they're not cards. You don't have to collect them if you don't want. I have some of these in Dodger form, but it's gonna be a long time before I care about collecting the stamps and coins.

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  2. That my friend is a thing of beauty. I have about half of the Angels collection, but similar to Night Owl, I dont think I'll be going for the coins. I don't do coins so well.

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  3. Great grouping....but what about 1969 Topps Super? There's a few opinions out there that they were inserted in cello packs of the base issue....there's 3 HOFers to chase!

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  4. Don't know how nutty you want to be, but there are two versions of the 1963 Peel-Offs: those with a blank back and those with instructions on the back.

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