1960s Topps - Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey

During the 1960s Topps issued cards featuring the National Hockey League. From 1960 until 1964 Topps only included players from the U.S. teams, Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, and New York Rangers except the Detroit Red Wings. The Canadian teams as well as Detroit were included in sets issued by Parkhurst. After the demise of Parkhurst in 1965, the Topps sets included players from the entire league. All sets, with the exception of the 1966-67 USA Test set were bilingulal English and French.

Beginning in 1968, Topps issued sets in conjunction with their Canadian partner O-Pee-Chee. The Topps sets from then on were English only. The Canadian sets contained more cards and were bilingual, but were otherwise basically identical.