I don't know where young kids today get their appreciation for baseball history. Maybe it comes from their mom or dad, or their baseball coach, or from seeing an old game on youtube, or some ESPN 30-for-30 show (when the network isn't obsessing about basketball). I just know that they're probably not getting their baseball history knowledge from baseball cards. Topps has been very piecemeal about the game's history the last 15-20 years. You still get the legends of the game with your cards, but they're more difficult to find, usually banished to an insert set or a short-print -- unless you pick up a set like Archives. But even then you're only going to see the legends that have a contract with Topps, in other words, only the legends they want you to see. I'm sure this is more the fault of MLB than Topps -- MLB wants everyone focused on TODAY'S STARS because it can't make the most money off of old, dead ballplayers. But I think this approach p...
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