1963-64 Topps Hockey Cards
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Once again, 1964-63 Topps Hockey went with a 66-card set that was broken down among the league's three American teams. However, the set's design marked the first time the company went with a horizontally oriented format in a hockey set.
The 1963-64 Topps Hockey card fronts were broken into two fields. To the left was the larger part, which contained a close-up head shot of a player. The right part of the card had an action photo, which didn't always have anything to do with the player featured on the card.
Interestingly, there were several pictures that featured players from the three teams Topps didn't have any rights to include. The two parts were separated by a solid-colored icon shaped like a hockey stick, with the player's name and team appearing in the area below his head shot. The backs are printed in blue and gray on white card stock. The player's name, position and team run across the top of the card, followed by a single line of stats from the previous season. A block of text with the player's biography follows on the left side, with a French translation in the gray area below. The right side of the card has a trivia question whose answer needed to be revealed by scratching it with the edge of a coin.
Boston Bruins players were featured on cards # 1-21, Chicago Blackhawks took up cards #22-43 and New York Rangers appeared on cards #44-65. The head coaches for the Bruins and Blackhawks also had their own cards along with their teams. A team picture card was the last card in each subset, and a checklist card was once again the final card in the 1963-64 Topps Hockey set.
Notable rookies in 1963-64 Topps Hockey include Ed Johnston, Gilles Villemure and Ed Westfall. Legendary goalie Jacques Plante also appears on his first Topps card, after being traded from the Canadiens to the Rangers.
Key 1963-64 Topps Hockey Cards:
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Set Checklist
1963-64 Topps Hockey Cards Set Checklist
2 Ed Johnston RC
3 Doug Mohns
4 Tom Johnson
5 Leo Boivin
6 Bob McCord RC
7 Ted Green
8 Ed Westfall RC
9 Charlie Burns
10 Murray Oliver
11 Johnny Bucyk
12 Tom Williams
13 Dean Prentice
14 Bob Leiter RC
15 Andy Hebenton
16 Jean-Guy Gendron
17 Wayne Rivers RC
18 Jerry Toppazzini
19 Forbes Kennedy
20 Orland Kurtenbach
21 Boston Bruins Team Card
22 Billy Reay Coach
23 Glenn Hall
24 Denis DeJordy
25 Pierre Pilote
26 Elmer Vasko
27 Wayne Hillman
28 Al MacNeil
29 Howie Young RC
30 Ed Van Impe RC
31 Reg Fleming
32 Bob Turner
33 Bobby Hull
35 Murray Balfour
36 Stan Mikita
37 Ab McDonald
38 Ken Wharram
39 Eric Nesterenko
40 Ron Murphy
41 Ron "Chico" Maki
42 John McKenzie
43 Blackhawks Team Card
44 George "Red" Sullivan
45 Jacques Plante
46 Gilles Villemure RC
47 Doug Harvey
48 Harry Howell
49 Albert Langlois
50 Jim Neilson
51 Larry Cahan
52 Andy Bathgate
53 Don McKenney
54 Vic Hadfield
55 Earl Ingarfield
56 Camille Henry
57 Rod Gilbert
58 Phil Goyette
59 Don Marshall
60 Dick Meissner
61 Val Fonteyne
62 Ken Schinkel
63 Jean Ratelle
64 Don Johns RC
65 Rangers Team Card
66 Checklist
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