
1954 Topps Scoops squeezes 1,000 years of history into a sharp (156) card set.
The cards, slightly smaller 2-1/16" x 2-15/16", were released in (2)
(78) card series. Each card had a colorful painting and caption
with date on front.
Cards were issued with strips of black coating on the surface
to conceal the image. The coating could be scratched off to reveal the
picture. Cards can be found with and without the coating.
Mostly a non-sports set, the most popular are the eleven
sports related cards, like Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Notre Dame's
Four Horsemen, Joe Louis, Bob Feller and Ben Hogan.
Backs are similar to a newspaper's front page with newspaper's name,
headline, date & location at top. The set seemed to focus on
disasters like the San Francisco Earthquake, Fire Sweeps Chicago,
Rome Burned, Pompeii Destroyed (#91); and wars: Battleship Maine
Blown Up, Alamo Falls, U.S. Troops Reach France, World War II
Begins, Victory in Europe & Napoleon Loses at Waterloo plus many
other events that shaped the world.
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