If you are anything like me, and I think we've established plenty that you are not at all, then you have been looking forward to Heritage's journey through the 1970s Topps designs. There are many reasons for that, but one of them in particular involves the greatest bat pose of all-time. It absolutely flourished in the '70s. The picture of a batter frozen in mid-swing, eyes trained on the imaginary point of contact (hopefully), and the bat looming closest to the frame was the epitome of bat poses for me as a kid collecting baseball cards. This pose didn't originate in the '70s. You could find it plenty on cards from the '60s, and I'm assuming it's in photos from the '50s and much earlier. But that titan bat pose erupted on '70s cards and continued throughout the decade: That is just a small, small sampling. That's 1970 through 1979 right there, with a bit of a bleed-over into 1980 because you've all heard Funkytown ...
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