1962 saw a much improved Topps Baseball Stamp insert. Better colors and a better looking album snazzed up an insert set that was far more hip than the regular issue cards in year no. 2 of major league expansion.
Bright yellow (NL) or red (AL) backgrounds for the players made the stamps almost glow in 1962. Some panels had both colors at once even (players in different combination could appear on 2 or 3 different panels):
The album reiterated those colors:
I can't find a scan of a retail box of the albums unfortunately. If one turns up I'll amend this post.
The album interior team pages have a capsule summary of what might come and some stats. I actually like the team pages better in '61 but these aren't bad:
Team logos were added, as you can see and the stamp images in each slot make these a different kind of collectible for team or player enthusiasts:
Those stats came right from the backs of the cards, like so:
Stamps were cut down into vertical panels from a larger sheet. A couple of colors were added to the palette by Topps, to great effect, on the logos:
As with the 61's, I need to do a deep dive into the printing of the stamps. There are multitudes of extra and short printed panels in '62 but that's for another time.
The wax wrapper hawked the stamps of course:
While. thanks to a site called the Lifetime Topps Project, we can see how the wax pack retail box scans hawked the albums:
There were more teams but less subjects in 1962: 200 vs 208 the year prior. No matter, the '62 stamps were a great little insert in a decade filled with such things.
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