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    What’s old is Nu again

    Nov 08, 2019 4 minutes
    by Doug Koztoski
    Photos courtesy of Dave’s Vintage Baseball Cards (
    gfg.com
    ).
    Photos of 1960 Nu Card Hi-Lites.

    With the ink barely dry on the latest World Series, the 2019 version between the first-time pennant-winning Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros, the idea of revisiting cards featuring Fall Classics from decades past blended well like mustard (or cheese) on a hot ballpark pretzel. Salt is optional.

    Sure, Topps included World Series subsets in many 1960s and ‘70s issues, but this article focuses on selections from these championship battles in the 1960-61 Nu Card offerings, both sets in a newspaper headline/front-page style format.

    Nu Card streaked across the trading card

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