the first 30 homerun foursome and the 1978 topps record breaker card that should have been!

ok, so lou brock broke the record for most lifetime stolen bases, pete rose set the record for most career hits by a switch hitter, and sparky lyle set the record for most relief appearances in a career, but for topps to comemmorate such things as most consecutive seasons with one team (brooks robinson), most homeruns in one world series (reggie jackson), most times hitting 2 home runs in one inning in a career (willie mccovey) and most games with 10 or more strikeouts in a career (nolan ryan) with a 1978 record breaker card, but overlook the feat of the dodger foursome of steve garvey, reggie smith, dusty baker and ron cey was just plain wrong.

all they did was become the first set of four teammates to hit 30 homeruns in the same season. i mean, reggie was already going to be on the world series recap card. why inundate us with another yankee card?

here then, is the 1978 topps card that should have been:and, the back

18 years later, an upstart group from colorado would match the feat, and guess what? upper deck gave them a card to celebrate.oh, topps. what could have (and should have) been...