1954 Topps Scoop trading cards highlighted the biggest moments in history ranging from presidential assassinations to earthquakes to technological advancements. Despite the wrappers for these cards branding the set as “Magic Headline Scoop” the set is often referred to with the plural “Scoops” shorthand.
The set was released in two evenly sized series and several — but not all — cards included black bars across the front which needed to be peeled or scratched off to reveal the card’s headline. The reverse of each card includes more information about the specific event portrayed on the front and is designed to resemble the front page of a newspaper.
There are four baseball specific events included in this set including a card for Babe Ruth (#41).
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1954 Topps Scoop Checklist
Base Set – 156 Cards
ACC# – R714-19
| 1 | San Francisco Earthquake |
| 2 | Fire Sweeps Chicago |
| 3 | Lindbergh Flies Atlantic |
| 4 | Battleship Maine Blown Up |
| 5 | Lusitania Sinks |
| 6 | Lincoln Shot |
| 7 | Monitor Battles Merrimac |
| 8 | Alamo Falls |
| 9 | Garfield Shot |
| 10 | Panama Canal Opened |
| 11 | Statue of Liberty Unveiled |
| 12 | First Atom Bomb Dropped |
| 13 | Victory for Rough Riders |
| 14 | President McKinley Shot |
| 15 | First Airplane Flight |
| 16 | D-Day Landing On Normandy |
| 17 | S.S. Titanic Sinks |
| 18 | World War I Declared |
| 19 | Pearl Harbor Attacked |
| 20 | Dirigible Hindenburg Burns |
| 21 | US Troops reach France |
| 22 | United Nations Born |
| 23 | War in Korea |
| 24 | Retreat from Dunkirk |
| 25 | King Edward Abdicates |
| 26 | Atlantic Charter Drafter |
| 27 | Bob Feller |
| 28 | Boston Tea Party |
| 29 | Battle of Britain |
| 30 | Landings on North Africa |
| 31 | Roosevelt Wins 4th Term |
| 32 | World War II Begins |
| 33 | MacArthur Returns |
| 34 | Doolittle Bombs Tokyo |
| 35 | Gold Discovered |
| 36 | Marines land at Iwo Jima |
| 37 | John Brown’s Raid |
| 38 | Oklahoma Gold Rush |
| 39 | Dempsey defeats Willard |
| 40 | Joe Louis New Champ |
| 41 | Babe Ruth Sets Record |
| 42 | Massacre in Chicago |
| 43 | Normandie Capsizes |
| 44 | East Meets West |
| 45 | Custer’s Last Stand |
| 46 | Pony Express Starts |
| 47 | Armistace Signed |
| 48 | Blizzard sweeps New York |
| 49 | Black Tom Explodes |
| 50 | Fulton’s Steamboat |
| 51 | Washington Inaugurated |
| 52 | Queen Elizabeth II Crowned |
| 53 | Gandhi murdered |
| 54 | Stock Market Crashes |
| 55 | Peary discovers North Pole |
| 56 | Byrd Reaches South Pole |
| 57 | Victory in Europe |
| 58 | Japanese Surrender |
| 59 | Big 3 Meet at Yalta |
| 60 | Acrobat crosses Niagara |
| 61 | Berlin Airlift Begins |
| 62 | Bandits Rob Brink’s |
| 63 | Morro Castle Burns |
| 64 | Quintuplets Born |
| 65 | Marciano K.O.’s Walcott |
| 66 | Jet Breaks Speed Record |
| 67 | Korea Truce Signed |
| 68 | Jet Passes Sound Barrier |
| 69 | Piccard Descends 2 Miles Under Sea |
| 70 | Mt. Everest Climbed |
| 71 | John L. Sullivan Defeated |
| 72 | Ederle Swims Channel |
| 73 | Johnstown Flooded |
| 74 | Mussolini Dead |
| 75 | Dillinger Shot |
| 76 | Brooklyn Bridge Opened |
| 77 | Hurricane in Florida |
| 78 | War with Mexico |
| 79 | British Lose at New Orleans |
| 80 | Nathan Hale |
| 81 | John Paul Jones |
| 82 | Hamilton Shot In Duel |
| 83 | Battle of Manila Bay |
| 84 | Chief Red Cloud Defeated |
| 85 | Jesse James Robs Train |
| 86 | Indians Defeat Gen. Crook |
| 87 | Joan of Arc burned |
| 88 | Troy falls to Greeks |
| 89 | Rome Burned |
| 90 | Columbus Discovers America |
| 91 | Pompeii Destroyed |
| 92 | U.S. Navy Battles Pirates |
| 93 | United States Gets Flag |
| 94 | Lewis & Clark Reach Pacific |
| 95 | Chief Sitting Bull Killed |
| 96 | Geronimo Surrenders |
| 97 | Captain Kidd Hanged |
| 98 | Witch Hunts in Salem |
| 99 | Fort Sumter Surrenders |
| 100 | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| 101 | Perry Opens Door To Japan |
| 102 | Stanley Finds Livingston |
| 103 | Magellan’s Ship circles World |
| 104 | Pilgrims Land At Plymouth |
| 105 | U.S.S. Panay Sunk |
| 106 | Bridge Crashes |
| 107 | Circus Blaze |
| 108 | Skyscraper Crash |
| 109 | Bikini A-Bomb Test |
| 110 | Notre Dame’s 4 Horsemen |
| 111 | Declaration of Independence |
| 112 | Gen. Braddock Defeated |
| 113 | Spanish Armada Defeated |
| 114 | Suez Canal Opened |
| 115 | Napoleon Loses at Waterloo |
| 116 | Daimler tests first Auto |
| 117 | Flagpole-Sitting Record Set |
| 118 | Julius Caesar Assassinated |
| 119 | Plague Sweeps London |
| 120 | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| 121 | West Point Trains Cadets |
| 122 | Wild Bill Hickok Shot |
| 123 | Boy Scouts Organized |
| 124 | Top Nazis to Hang |
| 125 | New State of Israel |
| 126 | Carlsen Quits Sinking Ship |
| 127 | Flying Saucers |
| 128 | Jesse Owens |
| 129 | Ben Hogan |
| 130 | Braves go to Milwaukee |
| 131 | Corrigan Flies Wrong Way |
| 132 | Eisenhower Elected |
| 133 | Erie Canal Opened |
| 134 | First Baloon Flight |
| 135 | Flood Kills Hundreds |
| 136 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies |
| 137 | New York World’s Fair |
| 138 | Radar Beam Reaches Moon |
| 139 | Air Speed Record Set |
| 140 | British Burn White House |
| 141 | Cornwallis Surrenders |
| 142 | Gold stored at Fort Knox |
| 143 | Louis XVI Guillotined |
| 144 | Franklin’s Famous Experiment |
| 145 | Brodie jumps off Brooklyn Bridge |
| 146 | Liberty or Death |
| 147 | Indians sell Manhattan |
| 148 | U.S. buys Louisiana |
| 149 | Leif Ericsson finds Finland |
| 150 | Pocahontas saves Colonist |
| 151 | United States buys Alaska |
| 152 | Ship sets Speed Record |
| 153 | T.V.A. Completed |
| 154 | 26-inning Tie Game |
| 155 | Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 156 | World’s Largest Telescope Built |