1970 3 Darrel Chaney
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| Darrel Chaney |
Darrel Chaney shared playing time at shortstop in 1970 with Woody Woodward and Dave Concepcion, with Concepcion and Woodward getting most of the time. Concepcion would soon win the position outright. Chaney would be mostly forgotten, even though he got some playing time on the team that went to the 1970 World Series. Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither was the Big Red Machine.
I was not a big fan of a gray bordered set. Had all of Topps' sets featured gray borders every year, I might soon have lost interest. But one set like this only two years after the sandstone border of 1968 and one year before the black border of 1971 provided nice variety. In the 1960s and 1970s, if you didn't particularly like the Topps set of the moment, you needed only wait a year and something very different might come along. Decades later there would be many sets each year (even within the Topps company). Incredibly, there is less variety now among the modern sets than existed 50 years ago when Topps enjoyed a monopoly and produced only one set per year.
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