As was the case with baseball cards, Topps and Bowman led the way in producing the first post-war football cards in the late 1940s and early 1950s. After Topps acquired Bowman, they had little competition in the football card market (Philadelphia Gum and Fleer aside) until the 1980s. In 1974, Topps got the idea to create a small subset of cards for baseball players that were … [Read more...] about 1989 Kicked Off Football Traded/Update Card Era
