Topps Baseball Cards

1964 Topps Checklist

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1 1963 NL E.R.A Leaders

2 1963 AL E.R.A Leaders

3 1963 NL Pitching Leaders

4 1963 AL Pitching Leaders

5 1963 NL Strikeout Leaders

6 1963 AL Strikeout Leaders

7 1963 NL Batting Leaders

8 1963 AL Batting Leaders

9 1963 NL HR Leaders

10 1963 AL HR Leaders

11 1963 NL RBI Leaders

12 1963 AL RBI Leaders

13 Hoyt Wilhelm

14 Dick Nen RC

15 Zoilo Versalles

16 John Boozer

17 Willie Kirkland

18 Billy O'Dell

19 Don Wert

20 Bob Friend

21 Yogi Berra MG

22 Jerry Adair

23 Chris Zachary

24 Carl Sawatski

25 Bill Monbouquette

26 Gino Cimoli

27 Mets Team

28 Claude Osteen

29 Lou Brock

30 Ron Perranoski

31 Dave Nicholson

32 Dean Chance

33 Reds Rookies

34 Jim Perry

35 Eddie Mathews

36 Hal Reniff

37 Smoky Burgess

38 Jim Wynn RC

39 Hank Aguirre

40 Dick Groat

41 Friendly Foes

42 Moe Drabowsky

43 Roy Sievers

44 Duke Carmel

45 Milt Pappas

46 Ed Brinkman

47 Jesus Alou RC

48 Bob Perry

49 Bill Henry

50 Mickey Mantle

51 Pete Richert

52 Chuck Hinton

53 Denis Menke

54 Sam Mele MG

55 Ernie Banks

56 Hal Brown

57 Tim Harkness

58 Don Demeter

59 Ernie Broglio

60 Frank Malzone

61 Angel Backstops

62 Ted Savage

63 John Orsino

64 Ted Abernathy

65 Felipe Alou

66 Eddie Fisher

67 Tigers Team

68 Willie Davis

69 Clete Boyer

70 Joe Torre

71 Jack Spring

72 Chico Cardenas

73 Jimmie Hall

74 Pirates Rookies

75 Wayne Causey

76 Checklist 1

77 Jerry Walker

78 Merritt Ranew

79 Bob Heffner

80 Vada Pinson

81 All-Star Vets

82 Jim Davenport

83 Gus Triandos

84 Carl Willey

85 Pete Ward

86 Al Downing

87 Cardinals Team

88 John Roseboro

89 Boog Powell

90 Earl Battey

91 Bob Bailey

92 Steve Ridzik

93 Gary Geiger

94 Braves Rookies

95 George Altman

96 Bob Buhl

97 Jim Fregosi

98 Bill Bruton

99 Al Stanek

100 Elston Howard

101 Walt Alston MG

102 Checklist 2

103 Curt Flood

104 Art Mahaffey

105 Woody Held

106 Joe Nuxhall

107 White Sox Rookies

108 John Wyatt

109 Rusty Staub

110 Albie Pearson

111 Don Elston

112 Bob Tillman

113 Grover Powell

114 Don Lock

115 Frank Bolling

116 Tony Oliva

117 Earl Francis

118 John Blanchard

119 Gary Kolb

120 Don Drysdale

121 Pete Runnels

122 Don McMahon

123 Jose Pagan

124 Orlando Pena

125 Pete Rose

126 Russ Snyder

127 Angels Rookie

128 Mickey Lolich RC

129 Amado Samuel

130 Gary Peters

131 Steve Boros

132 Braves Team

133 Jim Grant

134 Don Zimmer

135 Johnny Callison

136 World Series Game 1

137 World Series Game 2

138 World Series Game 3

139 World Series Game 4

140 World Series Summary

141 Danny Murtaugh MG

142 John Bateman

143 Bubba Phillips

144 Al Worthington

145 Norm Siebern

146 Tommy John RC

147 Ray Sadecki

148 J.C. Martin

149 Paul Foytack

150 Willie Mays

151 Athletics Team

152 Denny Lemaster

153 Dick Williams

154 Dick Tracewski RC

155 Duke Snider

156 Bill Dailey

157 Gene Mauch MG

158 Ken Johnson

159 Charlie Dees

160 Ken Boyer

161 Dave McNally

162 Hitting Area

163 Donn Clendenon

164 Bud Daley

165 Jerry Lumpe

166 Marty Keough

167 Lou Piniella RC

168 Al Weis

169 Del Crandall

170 Dick Radatz

171 Ty Cline

172 Indians Team

173 Ryne Duren

174 Doc Edwards

175 Billy Williams

176 Tracy Stallard

177 Harmon Killebrew

178 Hank Bauer MG

179 Carl Warwick

180 Tommy Davis

181 Dave Wickersham

182 Sox Shockers

183 Ron Taylor

184 Al Luplow

185 Jim O'Toole

186 Roman Mejias

187 Ed Roebuck

188 Checklist 3

189 Bob Hendley

190 Bobby Richardson

191 Clay Dalrymple

192 Cubs Rookies

193 Jerry Lynch

194 John Goryl

195 Floyd Robinson

196 Jim Gentile

197 Frank Lary

198 Len Gabrielson

199 Joe Azcue

200 Sandy Koufax

201 Orioles Rookies

202 Galen Cisco

203 John Kennedy

204 Matty Alou

205 Nellie Fox

206 Steve Hamilton

207 Fred Hutchinson MG

208 Wes Covington

209 Bob Allen

210 Carl Yastrzemski

211 Jim Coker

212 Pete Lovrich

213 Angels Team

214 Ken McMullen

215 Ray Herbert

216 Mike de la Hoz

217 Jim King

218 Hank Fischer

219 Young Aces

220 Dick Ellsworth

221 Bob Saverine

222 Billy Pierce

223 George Banks

224 Tommie Sisk

225 Roger Maris

226 Jerry Grote RC

227 Barry Latman

228 Felix Mantilla

229 Charley Lau

230 Brooks Robinson

231 Dick Calmus

232 Al Lopez MG

233 Hal Smith

234 Gary Bell

235 Ron Hunt

236 Bill Faul

237 Cubs Team

238 Roy McMillan

239 Herm Starrette

240 Bill White

241 Jim Owens

242 Harvey Kuenn

243 Richie Allen RC

244 Tony LaRussa RC

245 Dick Stigman

246 Manny Mota

247 Dave DeBusschere

248 Johnny Pesky MG

249 Doug Camilli

250 Al Kaline

251 Choo Choo Coleman

252 Ken Aspromonte

253 Wally Post

254 Don Hoak

255 Lee Thomas

256 Johnny Weekly

257 San Francisco Giants Team

258 Garry Roggenburk

259 Harry Bright

260 Frank Robinson

261 Jim Hannan

262 Mike Shannon RC

263 Chuck Estrada

264 Jim Landis

265 Jim Bunning

266 Gene Freese

267 Wilbur Wood RC

268 Bill's Got It

269 Ellis Burton

270 Rich Rollins

271 Bob Sadowski

272 Jake Wood

273 Mel Nelson

274 Checklist 4

275 John Tsitouris

276 Jose Tartabull

277 Ken Retzer

278 Bobby Shantz

279 Joe Koppe UER

280 Juan Marichal

281 Yankees Rookies

282 Bob Bruce

283 Tom McCraw RC

284 Dick Schofield

285 Robin Roberts

286 Don Landrum

287 Tony Conigliaro RC

288 Al Moran

289 Frank Funk

290 Bob Allison

291 Phil Ortega

292 Mike Roarke

293 Phillies Team

294 Ken L. Hunt

295 Roger Craig

296 Ed Kirkpatrick

297 Ken MacKenzie

298 Harry Craft MG

299 Bill Stafford

200 Hank Aaron

301 Larry Brown

302 Dan Pfister

303 Jim Campbell

304 Bob Johnson

305 Jack Lamabe

306 Giant Gunners

307 Joe Gibbon

308 Gene Stephens

309 Paul Toth

310 Jim Gilliam

311 Tom Brown RC

312 Tigers Rookies

313 Chuck Hiller

314 Jerry Buchek

315 Bo Belinsky

316 Gene Oliver

317 Al Smith

318 Minnesota Twins Team

319 Paul Brown

320 Rocky Colavito

321 Bob Lillis

322 George Brunet

323 John Buzhardt

324 Casey Stengel MG

325 Hector Lopez

326 Ron Brand

327 Don Blasingame

328 Bob Shaw

329 Russ Nixon

330 Tommy Harper

331 AL Bombers

332 Ray Washburn

333 Billy Moran

334 Lew Krausse

335 Don Mossi

336 Andre Rodgers

337 Jeff Torborg RC

338 Jack Kralick

339 Walt Bond

340 Joe Cunningham

341 Jim Roland

342 Willie Stargell

343 Senators Team

344 Phil Linz

345 Frank Thomas

346 Joey Jay

347 Bobby Wine

348 Ed Lopat MG

349 Art Fowler

350 Willie McCovey

351 Dan Schneider

352 Eddie Bressoud

353 Wally Moon

354 Dave Giusti

355 Vic Power

356 Reds Rookies

357 Charley James

358 Ron Kline

359 Jim Schaffer

360 Joe Pepitone

361 Jay Hook

362 Checklist 5

363 Dick McAuliffe

364 Joe Gaines

365 Cal McLish

366 Nelson Mathews

367 Fred Whitfield

368 Don Buford RC

369 Jerry Zimmerman

370 Hal Woodeshick

371 Frank Howard

372 Howie Koplitz

373 Pirates Team

374 Bobby Bolin

375 Ron Santo

376 Dave Morehead

377 Bob Skinner

378 Woody Woodward RC

379 Tony Gonzalez

380 Whitey Ford

381 Bob Taylor

382 Wes Stock

383 Bill Rigney MG

384 Ron Hansen

385 Curt Simmons

386 Lenny Green

387 Terry Fox

388 John O'Donoghue RC

389 Jim Umbricht

390 Orlando Cepeda

391 Sam McDowell

392 Jim Pagliaroni

393 Casey Teaches

394 Bob Miller

395 Tom Tresh

396 Dennis Bennett

397 Chuck Cottier

398 Mets Rookies

399 Jackie Brandt

400 Warren Spahn

401 Charlie Maxwell

402 Tom Sturdivant

403 Reds Team

404 Tony Martinez

405 Ken McBride

406 Al Spangler

407 Bill Freehan

408 Cubs Rookies

409 Bill Fischer

410 Dick Stuart

411 Lee Walls

412 Ray Culp

413 Johnny Keane MG

414 Jack Sanford

415 Tony Kubek

416 Lee Maye

417 Don Cardwell

418 Orioles Rookies

419 Ken Harrelson RC

420 Jim Maloney

421 Camilo Carreon

422 Jack Fisher

423 Tops in NL

424 Dick Bertell

425 Norm Cash

426 Bob Rodgers

427 Don Rudolph

428 Red Sox Rookies

429 Tim McCarver

430 Juan Pizarro

431 George Alusik

432 Ruben Amaro

433 Yankees Team

434 Don Nottebart

435 Vic Davalillo

436 Charlie Neal

437 Ed Bailey

438 Checklist 6

439 Harvey Haddix

440 Roberto Clemente

441 Bob Duliba

442 Pumpsie Green

443 Chuck Dressen MG

444 Larry Jackson

445 Bill Skowron

446 Julian Javier

447 Ted Bowsfield

448 Cookie Rojas

449 Deron Johnson

450 Steve Barber

451 Joe Amalfitano

452 Jim Ray Hart RC

453 Frank Baumann

454 Tommie Aaron

455 Bernie Allen

456 Wes Parker RC

457 Jesse Gonder

458 Ralph Terry

459 Red Sox Rookies

460 Bob Gibson

461 George Thomas

462 Birdie Tebbetts MG

463 Don Leppert

464 Dallas Green

465 Mike Hershberger

466 A's Rookies

467 Bob Aspromonte

468 Gaylord Perry

469 Cubs Rookies

470 Jim Bouton

471 Gates Brown RC

472 Vern Law

473 Baltimore Orioles Team

474 Larry Sherry

475 Ed Charles

476 Rico Carty RC

477 Mike Joyce

478 Dick Howser

479 Cardinals Rookies

480 Bob Purkey

481 Chuck Schilling

482 Phillies Rookies

483 Fred Valentine

484 Bill Pleis

485 Tom Haller

486 Bob Kennedy MG

487 Mike McCormick

488 Yankees Rookies

489 Julio Navarro

490 Ron Fairly

491 Ed Rakow

492 Jim Beauchamp RC

493 Don Lee

494 Al Jackson

495 Bill Virdon

496 White Sox Team

497 Jeoff Long

498 Dave Stenhouse

499 Indians Rookies

500 Camilo Pascual

501 Bob Veale

502 Bobby Knoop RC

503 Earl Wilson

504 Claude Raymond

505 Stan Williams

506 Bobby Bragan MG

507 Johnny Edwards

508 Diego Segui

509 Gene Alley RC

510 Lindy McDaniel

511 Lou Jackson

512 Willie Horton RC

513 Don Larsen

514 Jim Hickman

515 Johnny Romano

516 Twins Rookies

517 Checklist 7

518 Carl Bouldin

519 Charlie Smith

520 Jack Baldschun

521 Tom Satriano

522 Bob Tiefenauer

523 Lou Burdette UER

524 Reds Rookies

525 Al McBean

526 Lou Clinton

527 Larry Bearnarth

528 Dave Duncan RC

529 Alvin Dark MG

530 Leon Wagner

531 Dodgers Team

532 Joe Nossek RC

533 Johnny Klippstein

534 Gus Bell

535 Phil Regan

536 Mets Rookies

537 Dan Osinski

538 Minnie Minoso

539 Roy Face

540 Luis Aparicio

541 Braves Rookies

542 Don Mincher

543 Bob Uecker

544 Colts Rookies

545 Max Alvis

546 Joe Christopher

547 Gil Hodges MG

548 NL Rookies

549 Joe Moeller

550 Ken Hubbs MEM

551 Billy Hoeft

552 Indians Rookies

553 Jim Brewer

554 Hank Foiles

555 Lee Stange

556 Mets Rookies

557 Leo Burke

558 Don Schwall

559 Dick Phillips

560 Dick Farrell

561 Rick Wise RC UER

562 Pedro Ramos

563 Dal Maxvill

564 AL Rookies

565 Stu Miller

566 Ed Kranepool

567 Jim Kaat

568 NL Rookies

569 Fred Newman

570 Bill Mazeroski

571 Gene Conley

572 AL Rookies

573 Jim Duffalo

574 Manny Jimenez

575 Tony Cloninger

576 Mets Rookies

577 Gordy Coleman

578 Glen Hobbie

579 Red Sox Team

580 Johnny Podres

581 Yankees Rookies

582 Rod Kanehl

583 Tito Francona

584 Joel Horlen

585 Tony Taylor

586 Jimmy Piersall

587 Bennie Daniels

2011 Topps and Topps Heritage

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Ok, I am overwhelmed. When I first started this blog I was planning on sorting all my 70's and 80's cards and filling in some gaps and letting it be at that. Then I started buying some cards on eBay and then a few more and next thing you know I have piles of cards I haven't even looked at while my old cards are being neglected (not that they aren't already used to that). So while I am still turn my nose up at "relic cards", I think some of the insert sets are really tempting. Then I made the mistake of buying some of the Topps Heritage cards to see what all of the fuss was about. Boy, those are cool! The photography suffers a bit with the intentionally retro look, but the cards "feel" so thick and substantial. The backs of the cards are really interesting. And there are only 10 years of cards, so it is conceivable to collect them all, right? Not so fast... It turns out (which is news to no one but totally out of touch me) that a large minority of the cards are hard to find (intentionally short-printed) to drive the chase and thus sell more cards (obviously!) Then there are the "Chrome" sets, which are even harder to find without buying huge amounts of packs, or scouring eBay and emptying your wallet.

So is card collecting too complicated? Is it ruined? I don't think so. I think the last 10 years must have woken up the card ~~companies~~ company. The cards have vastly improved, the subsets are (mostly) great. And there is something to stimulate everyone, from the base sets all the way to the "master" sets and then even more with parallel sets, autographs, etc. I don't like the feeling of never being able to "finish" your set, but I think the variety more than makes up for it. I for one find card collecting a lot more fun with all the new options.

I also am greatly relieved to find Topps as the sole baseball card producer. I never really like Fleer/Donruss/Score etc. and resented Upper Deck for being "better" and making me feel that Topps was old-fashioned and stodgy. I don't miss that at all.

I am going to try to make lists of "wants" and "doubles" for trading, which I would love to see pick up again. Send me your lists! Look at mine and feel free to contact me...

These "New" Cards Are So Distracting!

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Where has my collection gone? Nowhere, but that is not a bad thing.
There is a reason. Stay tuned...

I'm Back and Recharged.

2011-05-16T21:00:00.000-07:00

Had a bit of a baseball card break there (yes, two years is still "a bit" considering that last time it was for more than a decade.)

Spur of the moment, bought a few packs of the 2011 Topps and my interest was rekindled. I really like the 2011 Topps - and the 60 Years of Topps Inserts. The "original back" versions will be the death of me - those are really awesome.

I just had the 2010 Topps set dropped off by the mailman. I hadn't even seen the cards since last year I was really out of baseball altogether. My first impression was "What happened??" I think the design is terrible. The colored "swoop" on the left of the cards makes the picture look as if someone had their thumb partially over the camera lens, just like a lot of my pictures. The foil print is very hard to read, and the backs of the cards are B-O-R-I-N-G.

I'm going to do a full review here as soon as I finish looking at all of the cards, but there is already a contender for worst card of the set... Stay tuned.

Back to a more positive note. Did I mention that I love the 2011 set? I like the diamond parallels, I like the Kimball Champions (though I am not sure why there is a checklist on the back of every single one - that was the best idea they had?). I don't know if my wallet will withstand my enthusiasm, but I just gotta finish this one and the Sixty Years of Topps with the original backs. (I already broke down and finished the Series One base set - thank you eBay!)

Well, that's all for now - if anyone is still around from 2 years ago, drop in and say "hi" and I'll try to reciprocate. That is all.

1960 Topps Checklist

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1 Early Wynn
2 Roman Mejias
3 Joe Adcock
4 Bob Purkey
5 Wally Moon
6 Lou Berberet
7 Master & Mentor
8 Bud Daley
9 Faye Throneberry
10 Ernie Banks
11 Norm Siebern
12 Milt Pappas
13 Wally Post
14 Jim Grant
15 Pete Runnels
16 Ernie Broglio
17 Johnny Callison
18 Los Angeles Dodgers Team
19 Felix Mantilla
20 Roy Face
21 Dutch Dotterer
22 Rocky Bridges
23 Eddie Fisher
24 Dick Gray
25 Roy Sievers
26 Wayne Terwilliger
27 Dick Drott
28 Brooks Robinson
29 Clem Labine
30 Tito Francona
31 Sammy Esposito
32 Sophomore Stalwarts
33 Tom Morgan
34 Sparky Anderson
35 Whitey Ford
36 Russ Nixon
37 Bill Bruton
38 Jerry Casale
39 Earl Averill
40 Joe Cunningham
41 Barry Latman
42 Hobie Landrith
43 Washington Senators Team
44 Bobby Locke
45 Roy McMillan
46 Jerry Fisher
47 Don Zimmer
48 Hal Smith
49 Curt Raydon
50 Al Kaline
51 Jim Coates
52 Dave Philley
53 Jackie Brandt
54 Mike Fornieles
55 Bill Mazeroski
56 Steve Korcheck
57 Win Savers
58 Gino Cimoli
59 Juan Pizarro
60 Gus Triandos
61 Eddie Kasko
62 Roger Craig
63 George Strickland
64 Jack Meyer
65 Elston Howard
66 Bob Trowbridge
67 Jose Pagan
68 Dave Hillman
69 Billy Goodman
70 Lew Burdette
71 Marty Keough
72 Detroit Tigers Team
73 Bob Gibson
74 Walt Moryn
75 Vic Power
76 Bill Fischer
77 Hank Foiles
78 Bob Grim
79 Walt Dropo
80 Johnny Antonelli
81 Russ Snyder
82 Ruben Gomez
83 Tony Kubek
84 Hal R. Smith
85 Frank Lary
86 Dick Gernert
87 John Romonosky
88 John Roseboro
89 Hal Brown
90 Bobby Avila
91 Bennie Daniels
92 Whitey Herzog
93 Art Schult
94 Leo Kiely
95 Frank Thomas
96 Ralph Terry
97 Ted Lepcio
98 Gordon Jones
99 Lenny Green
100 Nellie Fox
101 Bob Miller
102 Kent Hadley
103 Dick Farrell
104 Dick Schofield
105 Larry Sherry
106 Billy Gardner
107 Carlton Willey
108 Pete Daley
109 Clete Boyer
110 Cal McLish
111 Vic Wertz
112 Jack Harshman
113 Bob Skinner
114 Ken Aspromonte
115 Fork & Knuckler
116 Jim Rivera
117 Tom Borland
118 Bob Bruce
119 Chico Cardenas
120 Duke Carmel
121 Camilo Carreon
122 Don Dillard
123 Dan Dobbek
124 Jim Donohue
125 Dick Ellsworth
126 Chuck Estrada
127 Ron Hansen
128 Bill Harris
129 Bob Hartman
130 Frank Herrera
131 Ed Hobaugh
132 Frank Howard
133 Julian Javier
134 Deron Johnson
135 Ken Johnson
136 Jim Kaat
137 Lou Klimchock
138 Art Mahaffey
139 Carl Mathias
140 Julio Navarro
141 Jim Proctor
142 Bill Short
143 Al Spangler
144 Al Stieglitz
145 Jim Umbricht
146 Ted Wieand
147 Bob Will
148 Carl Yastrzemski
149 Bob Nieman
150 Billy Pierce
151 San Francisco Giants Team
152 Gail Harris
153 Bobby Thomson
154 Jim Davenport
155 Charlie Neal
156 Art Ceccarelli
157 Rocky Nelson
158 Wes Covington
159 Jim Piersall
160 Rival All-Stars
161 Ray Narleski
162 Sammy Taylor
163 Hector Lopez
164 Cincinnati Reds Team
165 Jack Sanford
166 Chuck Essegian
167 Valmy Thomas
168 Alex Grammas
169 Jake Striker
170 Del Crandall
171 Johnny Groth
172 Willie Kirkland
173 Billy Martin
174 Cleveland Indians Team
175 Pedro Ramos
176 Vada Pinson
177 Johnny Kucks
178 Woody Held
179 Rip Coleman
180 Harry Simpson
181 Billy Loes
182 Glen Hobbie
183 Eli Grba
184 Gary Geiger
185 Jim Owens
186 Dave Sisler
187 Jay Hook
188 Dick Williams
189 Don McMahon
190 Gene Woodling
191 Johnny Klippstein
192 Danny O'Connell
193 Dick Hyde
194 Bobby Gene Smith
195 Lindy McDaniel
196 Andy Carey
197 Ron Kline
198 Jerry Lynch
199 Dick Donovan
200 Willie Mays
201 Larry Osborne
202 Fred Kipp
203 Sammy White
204 Ryne Duren
205 Johnny Logan
206 Claude Osteen
207 Bob Boyd
208 Chicago White Sox Team
209 Ron Blackburn
210 Harmon Killebrew
211 Taylor Phillips
212 Walter Alston MG
213 Chuck Dressen MG
214 Jimmy Dykes MG
215 Bob Elliott MG
216 Joe Gordon MG
217 Charlie Grimm MG
218 Solly Hemus MG
219 Fred Hutchinson MG
220 Billy Jurges MG
221 Cookie Lavagetto MG
222 Al Lopez MG
223 Danny Murtaugh MG
224 Paul Richards MG
225 Bill Rigney MG
226 Eddie Sawyer MG
227 Casey Stengel MG
228 Ernie Johnson
229 Joe Morgan
230 Mound Magicians
231 Hal Naragon
232 Jim Busby
233 Don Elston
234 Don Demeter
235 Gus Bell
236 Dick Ricketts
237 Elmer Valo
238 Danny Kravitz
239 Joe Shipley
240 Luis Aparicio
241 Albie Pearson
242 St. Louis Cardinals Team
243 Bubba Phillips
244 Hal Griggs
245 Eddie Yost
246 Lee Maye
247 Gil McDougald
248 Del Rice
249 Earl Wilson
250 Stan Musial
251 Bob Malkmus
252 Ray Herbert
253 Eddie Bressoud
254 Arnie Portocarrero
255 Jim Gilliam
256 Dick Brown
257 Gordy Coleman
258 Dick Groat
259 George Altman
260 Power Plus
261 Pete Burnside
262 Hank Bauer
263 Darrell Johnson
264 Robin Roberts
265 Rip Repulski
266 Joey Jay
267 Jim Marshall
268 Al Worthington
269 Gene Green
270 Bob Turley
271 Julio Becquer
272 Fred Green
273 Neil Chrisley
274 Tom Acker
275 Curt Flood
276 Ken McBride
277 Harry Bright
278 Stan Williams
279 Chuck Tanner
280 Frank Sullivan
281 Ray Boone
282 Joe Nuxhall
283 Johnny Blanchard
284 Don Gross
285 Harry Anderson
286 Ray Semproch
287 Felipe Alou
288 Bob Mabe
289 Willie Jones
290 Jerry Lumpe
291 Bob Keegan
292 Dodger Backstops
293 Gene Conley
294 Tony Taylor
295 Gil Hodges
296 Nelson Chittum
297 Reno Bertoia
298 George Witt
299 Earl Torgeson
300 Hank Aaron
301 Jerry Davie
302 Philadelphia Phillies Team
303 Billy O'Dell
304 Joe Ginsberg
305 Richie Ashburn
306 Frank Baumann
307 Gene Oliver
308 Dick Hall
309 Bob Hale
310 Frank Malzone
311 Raul Sanchez
312 Charley Lau
313 Turk Lown
314 Chico Fernandez
315 Bobby Shantz
316 Willie McCovey
317 Pumpsie Green
318 Jim Baxes
319 Joe Koppe
320 Bob Allison
321 Ron Fairly
322 Willie Tasby
323 John Romano
324 Jim Perry
325 Jim O'Toole
326 Roberto Clemente
327 Ray Sadecki
328 Earl Battey
329 Zack Monroe
330 Harvey Kuenn
331 Henry Mason
332 New York Yankees Team
333 Danny McDevitt
334 Ted Abernathy
335 Red Schoendienst
336 Ike Delock
337 Cal Neeman
338 Ray Monzant
339 Harry Chiti
340 Harvey Haddix
341 Carroll Hardy
342 Casey Wise
343 Sandy Koufax
344 Clint Courtney
345 Don Newcombe
346 J.C. Martin
347 Ed Bouchee
348 Barry Shetrone
349 Moe Drabowsky
350 Mickey Mantle
351 Don Nottebart
352 Cincy Clouters
353 Don Larsen
354 Bob Lillis
355 Bill White
356 Joe Amalfitano
357 Al Schroll
358 Joe DeMaestri
359 Buddy Gilbert
360 Herb Score
361 Bob Oldis
362 Russ Kemmerer
363 Gene Stephens
364 Paul Foytack
365 Minnie Minoso
366 Dallas Green
367 Bill Tuttle
368 Daryl Spencer
369 Billy Hoeft
370 Bill Skowron
371 Bud Byerly
372 Frank House
373 Don Hoak
374 Bob Buhl
375 Dale Long
376 John Briggs
377 Roger Maris
378 Stu Miller
379 Red Wilson
380 Bob Shaw
381 Milwaukee Braves Team
382 Ted Bowsfield
383 Leon Wagner
384 Don Cardwell
385 WS Game 1: Neal Steals Second
386 WS Game 2: Neal Belts 2nd Homer
387 WS Game 3: Furillo Breaks Up Game
388 WS Game 4: Hodges' Winning Homer
389 WS Game 5: Luis Swipes Base
390 WS Game 6: Scrambling After Ball
391 World Series: The Champs Celebrate
392 Tex Clevenger
393 Smoky Burgess
394 Norm Larker
395 Hoyt Wilhelm
396 Steve Bilko
397 Don Blasingame
398 Mike Cuellar
399 Young Hill Stars
400 Rocky Colavito
401 Bob Duliba
402 Dick Stuart
403 Ed Sadowski
404 Bob Rush
405 Bobby Richardson
406 Billy Klaus
407 Gary Peters
408 Carl Furillo
409 Ron Samford
410 Sam Jones
411 Ed Bailey
412 Bob Anderson
413 Kansas City Athletics Team
414 Don Williams
415 Bob Cerv
416 Humberto Robinson
417 Chuck Cottier
418 Don Mossi
419 George Crowe
420 Eddie Mathews
421 Duke Maas
422 John Powers
423 Ed Fitzgerald
424 Pete Whisenant
425 Johnny Podres
426 Ron Jackson
427 Al Grunwald
428 Al Smith
429 American League Kings
430 Art Ditmar
431 Andre Rodgers
432 Chuck Stobbs
433 Irv Noren
434 Brooks Lawrence
435 Gene Freese
436 Marv Throneberry
437 Bob Friend
438 Jim Coker
439 Tom Brewer
440 Jim Lemon
441 Gary Bell
442 Joe Pignatano
443 Charlie Maxwell
444 Jerry Kindall
445 Warren Spahn
446 Ellis Burton
447 Ray Moore
448 Jim Gentile
449 Jim Brosnan
450 Orlando Cepeda
451 Curt Simmons
452 Ray Webster
453 Vern Law
454 Hal Woodeshick
455 Baltimore Orioles Coaches
456 Boston Red Sox Coaches
457 Chicago Cubs Coaches
458 Chicago White Sox Coaches
459 Cincinnati Reds Coaches
460 Cleveland Indians Coaches
461 Detroit Tigers Coaches
462 Kansas City A's Coaches
463 Los Angeles Dodgers Coaches
464 Milwaukee Braves Coaches
465 New York Yankees Coaches
466 Philadelphia Phillies Coaches
467 Pittburgh Pirates Coaches
468 St. Louis Cardinals Coaches
469 San Francisco Giants Coaches
470 Washinton Senators Coaches
471 Ned Garver
472 Alvin Dark
473 Al Cicotte
474 Haywood Sullivan
475 Don Drysdale
476 Lou Johnson
477 Don Ferrarese
478 Frank Torre
479 Georges Maranda
480 Yogi Berra
481 Wes Stock
482 Frank Bolling
483 Camilo Pascual
484 Pittsburgh Pirates Team
485 Ken Boyer
486 Bobby Del Greco
487 Tom Sturdivant
488 Norm Cash
489 Steve Ridzik
490 Frank Robinson
491 Mel Roach
492 Larry Jackson
493 Duke Snider
494 Baltimore Orioles Team
495 Sherm Lollar
496 Bill Virdon
497 John Tsitouris
498 Al Pilarcik
499 Johnny James
500 Johnny Temple
501 Bob Schmidt
502 Jim Bunning
503 Don Lee
504 Seth Morehead
505 Ted Kluszewski
506 Lee Walls
507 Dick Stigman
508 Billy Consolo
509 Tommy Davis
510 Gerry Staley
511 Ken Walters
512 Joe Gibbon
513 Chicago Cubs Team
514 Steve Barber
515 Stan Lopata
516 Marty Kutyna
517 Charlie James
518 Tony Gonzalez
519 Ed Roebuck
520 Don Buddin
521 Mike Lee
522 Ken Hunt
523 Clay Dalrymple
524 Bill Henry
525 Marv Breeding
526 Paul Giel
527 Jose Valdivielso
528 Ben Johnson
529 Norm Sherry
530 Mike McCormick
531 Sandy Amoros
532 Mike Garcia
533 Lu Clinton
534 Ken MacKenzie
535 Whitey Lockman
536 Wynn Hawkins
537 Boston Red Sox Team
538 Frank Barnes
539 Gene Baker
540 Jerry Walker
541 Tony Curry
542 Ken Hamlin
543 Elio Chacon
544 Bill Monbouquette
545 Carl Sawatski
546 Hank Aguirre
547 Bob Aspromonte
548 Don Mincher
549 John Buzhardt
550 Jim Landis
551 Ed Rakow
552 Walt Bond
553 Bill Skowron AS
554 Willie McCovey AS
555 Nellie Fox AS
556 Charlie Neal AS
557 Frank Malzone AS
558 Eddie Mathews AS
559 Luis Aparicio AS
560 Ernie Banks AS
561 Al Kaline AS
562 Joe Cunningham AS
563 Mickey Mantle AS
564 Willie Mays AS
565 Roger Maris AS
566 Hank Aaron AS
567 Sherm Lollar AS
568 Del Crandall AS
569 Camilo Pascual AS
570 Don Drysdale AS
571 Billy Pierce AS
572 Johnny Antonelli AS

2011 Topps Checklist

2011-02-28T19:56:00.002-08:00

Series One is complete...

Series 2 added 5/13/11 but has TBD in many spots - will fill in as I find more specifics.

Also, 60 Years of Topps checklist added at the bottom.

1 Ryan Braun
2 Jake Westbrook
3 Jon Lester
4 Jason Kubel
5 Joey Votto
6 Neftali Feliz
7 Mickey Mantle
8 Julio Borbon
9 Gil Meche
10 Stephen Strasburg
11 R.Halladay/A.Wainwright/U.Jimenez LL
12 Carlos Marmol
13 Billy Wagner
14 Randy Wolf
15 David Wright
16 Aramis Ramirez
17 Mark Ellis
18 Kevin Millwood
19 Derek Lowe
20 Hanley Ramirez
21 Michael Cuddyer
22 Barry Zito
23 Jaime Garcia
24 Neil Walker R Cup
25 Carl Crawford
26 Netfali Feliz ROY
27 Ben Zobrist
28 Carlos Carrasco
29 Josh Hamilton MVP
30 Gio Gonzalez
31 Erick Aybar
32 Chris Johnson
33 Max Scherzer
34 Rick Ankiel
35 Shin-Soo Choo
36 Ted Lilly
37 Vincente Padilla
38 Ryan Dempster
39 Ian Kennedy
40 Justin Upton
41 Freddy Garcia
42 Mariano Rivera
43 Felipe Lopez
44 Martin Prado
45 Hunter Pence
46 Hong-Chih Kuo
47 Kevin Correia
48 Andrew Cashner
49 Los Angeles Angels TC
50 Alex Rodriguez
51 David Eckstein
52 Tampa Bay Rays TC
53 Arizona Diamondbacks TC
54 Brian Fuentes
55 Matt Joyce
56 Johan Santana
57 Mark Trumbo RC
58 Edgar Renteria
59 Gaby Sanchez R Cup
60 Andrew McCutchen
61 David Price
62 Jonathan Papelbon
63 Edinson Volquez
64 Yorvit Torrealba
65 Chris Sale RC
66 R.A. Dickey
67 Vladimir Guererro
68 Cleveland Indians TC
69 Brett Gardner
70 Kyle Drabek RC
71 Trevor Hoffman RB
72 Jair Jurrjens
73 James McDonald
74 Tyler Clippard
75 Jered Weaver
76 Tom Gorzelanny
77 Tim Hudson
78 Mike Stanton
79 Kurt Suzuki
80 Desmond Jennings RC
81 Omar Infante
82 J.Johnson/A.Wainwright/R.Halladay LL
83 Greg Halman RC
84 Roger Bernadina
85 Jack Wilson
86 Carlos Silva
87 Daniel Descalso RC
88 Brian Bogusevic RC
89 Placido Polanco
90 Yadier Molina
91 Lucas May RC
92 Chris Narveson
93 Paul Konerko
94 Ryan Raburn
95 Pedro Alvarez
96 Zach Duke
97 Carlos Gomez
98 Bronson Arroyo
99 Ben Revere RC
100 Albert Pujols
101 Gregor Blanco
102 CC Sabathia
103 Cliff Lee
104 Ian Stewart
105 Jonathan Lucroy
106 Felix Pie
107 Aubrey Huff
108 Zack Greinke
109 J.Hamilton/M.Cabrera/J.Mauer LL
110 Aroldis Chapman RC
111 Kevin Gregg
112 Jorge Cantu
113 Arthur Rhodes
114 Russell Martin
115 Jason Varitek
116 Russell Branyan
117 Brett Sinkbeil RC
118 Howie Kendrick
119 Jason Bay
120 Mat Latos
121 Brandon Inge
122 Bobby Jenks
123 Mike Lowell
124 Sabathia/Lester/Price LL
125 Evan Meek
126 San Diego Padres
127 Chris Volstad
128 Manny Ramirez
129 Lucas Duda RC
130 Robinson Cano
131 Kevin Kouzmanoff
132 Brian Duensing
133 Miguel Tejada
134 C.Gonzalez/J.Votto/O.Infante LL
135 Mike Stanton R Cup
136 Jason Marquis
137 Xavier Nady
138 A.Pujols/C.Gonzalez/J.Votto LL
139 Eric Young Jr.
140 Brett Anderson
141 Ubaldo Jimenez RB CL
142 Johnny Cueto
143 Jeremy Jeffress RC
144 Lance Berkman
145 Freddie Freeman RC
146 Roy Halladay CY
147 Jon Niese
148 Ricky Romero
149 David Aardsma
150 Miguel Cabrera
151 Fausto Carmona
152 Baltimore Orioles TC
153 A.J. Pierzynski
154 Marlon Byrd
155 Alex Rodriguez RB CL
156 Josh Thole
157 New York Mets TC
158 Casey Blake
159 Chris Perez
160 Josh Tomlin
161 Chicago White Sox TC
162 Ronny Cedeno
163 Carlos Pena
164 Koji Uehara
165 Jeremy Hellickson RC
166 Josh Johnson
167 Clay Hensley
168 Felix Hernandez CY
169 Chipper Jones
170 David DeJesus
171 Garrett Jones
172 Lyle Overbay
173 Jose Lopez
174 Roy Oswalt
175 Brennan Boesch
176 Daniel Hudson
177 Brian Matusz
178 Heath Bell
179 Armando Galarraga
180 Paul Maholm
181 Magglio Ordonez
182 Jeremy Bonderman
183 Stephen Strasburg R Cup
184 Brandon Morrow
185 Peter Bourjos
186 Carl Pavano
187 Milwaukee Brewers TC
188 Pablo Sandoval
189 Kerry Wood
190 Coco Crisp
191 Jay Bruce
192 Cincinnati Reds TC
193 Cory Luebke RC
194 Andres Torres
195 Nick Markakis
196 Jose Ceda RC
197 Aaron Hill
198 Buster Posey R Cup
199 Jimmy Rollins
200 Ichiro
201 Mike Napoli
202 Bautista/Konerko/Cabrera LL
203 Dillon Gee RC
204 Oakland Athletics
205 Ty Wigginton
206 Chase Headley
207 Angel Pagan
208 Clay Buchholz
209 Carlos Santana
210 Brian Wilson
211 Joey Votto MVP
212 Pedro Feliz
213 Brandon Snyder RC
214 Chase Utley
215 Edwin Encarnacion
216 Jose Bautista
217 Yunel Escobar
218 Victor Martinez
219 Carlos Ruiz
220 Todd Helton
221 Scott Hairston
222 Matt Lindstrom
223 Gregory Infante RC
224 Milton Bradley
225 Josh Willingham
226 Jose Guillen
227 Nate McLouth
228 Scott Rolen
229 Jonathan Sanchez
230 Aaron Cook
231 Mark Buerhle
232 Jamie Moyer
233 Ramon Hernandez
234 Miguel Montero
235 F.Hernandez/C.Buchholz/D.Price LL
236 Nelson Cruz
237 Jason Vargas
238 Pedro Ciriaco RC
239 Jhoulys Chacin
240 Andre Ethier
241 Wandy Rodriguez
242 Brad Lidge
243 Omar Vizquel
244 Mike Aviles
245 Neil Walker
246 John Lannan
247 Starlin Castro
248 Wade LeBlanc
249 Aaron Harang
250 Carlos Gonzalez
251 Alcides Escobar
252 Michael Saunders
253 Jim Thome
254 Lars Anderson RC
255 Torii Hunter
256 Tyler Colvin
257 Travis Hafner
258 Rafael Soriano
259 Kyle Davies
260 Freddy Sanchez
261 Alexei Ramirez
262 Alex Gordon
263 Joel Pineiro
264 Ryan Perry
265 John Danks
266 Rickie Weeks
267 Jose Contreras
268 Jake McGee RC
269 Stephen Drew
270 Ubaldo Jimenez
271 Adam Dunn
272 J.J. Hardy
273 Derrek Lee
274 Michael Brantley
275 Clayton Kershaw
276 Miguel Olivo
277 Trevor Hoffman
278 Marco Scutaro
279 Nick Swisher
280 Andrew Bailey
281 Kevin Slowey
282 Buster Posey ROY
283 Colorado Rockies TC
284 Reid Brignac
285 Hank Conger RC
286 Melvin Mora
287 Scott Cousins RC
288 Matt Capps
289 Yuniesky Betancourt
290 Ike Davis
291 Juan Gutierrez
292 Darren Ford RC
293 Justin Morneau
294 Luke Scott
295 Jon Jay
296 John Buck
297 Jason Jaramillo
298 Jeff Keppinger
299 Chris Carpenter
300 Roy Halladay
301 Seth Smith
302 Adrian Beltre
303 Emilio Bonifacio
304 Jim Thome RB
305 James Loney
306 Cabrera/Rodriguez/Bautista LL
307 Alex Rios
308 Ian Desmond
309 Chicago Cubs TC
310 Alex Gonzalez
311 James Shields
312 Gaby Sanchez
313 Chris Coghlan
314 Ryan Kalish
315 David Ortiz
316 Chris Young
317 Yonder Alonso RC, UER
318 A.Pujols/A.Dunn/J.Votto LL
319 Atlanta Braves TC
320 Michael Young
321 Jeremy Guthrie
322 Brent Morel RC
323 C.J. Wilson
324 Boston Red Sox TC
325 Jayson Werth
326 Ozzie Martinez RC
327 Christian Guzman
328 David Price RB
329 Brett Wallace
330 Derek Jeter

331 Carlos Guillen
332 Melky Cabrera
333 Tom Wilhelmson
334 St. Louis Cardinals Team Card
335 Buster Posey
336 Chris Heisey
337 Jordan Walden
338 Jason Hammel
339 Alexi Casilla
340 Kyle Lohse
341 Kyle Kendrick
342 Jorge De La Rosa
343 TBD
344 TBD
345 TBD
346 Jason Heyward
347 TBD
348 Landon Powell
349 Drew Stubbs
350 Francisco Liriano
351 Jacoby Ellsbury
352 Colby Lewis
353 Cliff Pennington
354 Phil Hughes
355 Skip Schumaker
356 Alfonso Soriano
357 TBD
358 TBD
359 TBD
360 Ivan Rodriguez
361 TBD
362 Shane Victorino
363 Aaron Rowand
364 TBD
365 Adam Lind
366 Logan Morrison
367 Hiroki Kuroda
368 TBD
369 Wilson Betemit
370 Matt Garza
371 Taylor Teagarden
372 Jarrod Saltalamacchia
373 TBD
374 Team Card
375 Matt Kemp
376 Clayton Richard
377 Esmil Rodgers
378 Mark Reynolds
379 Yovani Gallardo
380 A.J. Burnett
381 Dan Uggla
382 Travis Snider
383 Ryan Ludwick
384 Nick Hundley
385 TBD
386 Evan Longoria
387 Danny Valencia
388 Kenley Jansen
389 Carlos Quentin
390 Danny Valencia
391 Phil Coke
392 Tommy Hanson
393 Jake Arrieta
394 Austin Jackson
395 Tyler Flowers
396 Adam Jones
397 Sean Rodriguez
398 Team Card
399 Billy Butler
400 Joe Nathan
401 TBD
402 Jack Cust
403 TBD
404 TBD
405 Ian Kinsler
406 John Lackey
407 Jonathan Broxton
408 Denard Span
409 Vin Mazzaro
410 Ben Francisco
411 Josh Bell
412 TBD
413 Derek Holland
414 Jose Molina
415 Bobby Abreu
416 Everth Cabrera
417 TBD
418 TBD
419 Kelly Johnson
420 Team Card
421 Domonic Brown
422 Juan Pierre
423 Hideki Okajima
424 Team Card
425 Adrian Gonzalez
426 Travis Buck
427 TBD
428 Brett Myers
429 Jose Reyes
430 Trevor Crowe
431 TBD
432 Matt Harrison
433 Curtis Granderson
434 Mark DeRosa
435 Elvis Andrus
436 Trevor Cahill
437 Vernon Wells
438 Ryan Theriot
439 Ervin Santana
440 Chris Heisey
441 Rafael Furcal
442 Brad Bergesen
443 Brian Roberts
444 Brett Cecil
445 Mitch Talbot
446 Brandon Beachy
447 Team Card
448 Colby Rasmus
449 TBD
450 TBD
451 Livan Hernandez
452 David Freese
453 Joe Saunders
454 Alberto Callaspo
455 TBD
456 Ryan Doumit
457 Brandon Allen
458 Juan Gutierrez
459 Franklin Francisco
460 Jose Lopez
461 TBD
462 Daric Barton
463 Will Venable
464 Daniel Bard
465 TBD
466 Alfredo Simon
467 Wade Davis
468 Chone Figgins
469 Joe Blanton
470 Scott Baker
471 TBD
472 Jason Kendall
473 Matt Holliday
474 Jeff Mathis
475 Team Card
476 Matt Laporta
477 Franklin Gutierrez
478 Mike Minor
479 Ryan Howard
480 Carlos Zambrano
481 Randy Wells
482 TBD
483 Justin Smoak
484 Gerardo Parra
485 Delmon Young
486 Francisco Rodriguez
487 Chris Snyder
488 TBD
489 Mark Rzepczynski
490 TBD
491 TBD
492 Chad Billingsley
493 Ryan Sweeney
494 Drew Storen
495 Doug Fister
496 Gavin Floyd
497 Alex Avila
498 Scott Feldman
499 J.A. Happ
500 Kosuke Fukudome
501 TBD
502 TBD
503 TBD
504 Jhonny Peralta
505 Kris Medlan
506 TBD
507 Huston Street
508 Homer Bailey
509 Michael Bourn
510 Dan Haren
511 Team Card
512 John Maine
513 Adam LaRoche
514 Kelly Shoppach
515 Carlos Beltran
516 Mike Leake
517 Fred Lewis
518 Michael Morse
519 Corey Hart
520 TBD
521 TBD
522 Asdrubal Cabrera
523 TBD
524 TBD
525 TBD
526 Jason Donald
527 Kila Ka'aihue
528 Brian McCann
529 TBD
530 TBD
531 Juan Rivera
532 Joe Mauer
533 Lorenzo Cain
534 Bud Norris
535 Luis Castillo
536 Casey Kotchman
537 Grady Sizemore
538 Jason Motte
539 Brandon Lyon
540 Joakim Soria
541 John Jaso
542 Mike Pelfrey
543 Team Card
544 Justin Masterson
545 Travis Ishikawa
546 Pat Burrell
547 TBD
548 Austin Jackson
549 TBD
550 Adam Moore
551 TBD
552 Starlin Castro
553 Troy Tulowitzki
554 TBD
555 Rajai Davis
556 B.J. Upton
557 TBD
558 Dustin Pedroia
559 Jorge Posada
560 Chris Iannetta
561 Luke Gregerson
562 Gordon Beckham
563 TBD
564 Jeff Samardzija
565 Team Card
566 TBD
567 Dallas Braden
568 TBD
569 Prince Fielder
570 TBD
571 Jeremy Affeldt
572 TBD
573 Nyjer Morgan
574 Josh Hamilton
575 Ryan Franklin
576 Jed Lowrie
577 Mike Fontenot
578 Willy Aybar
579 Jeff Niemann
580 TBD
581 Fernando Rodney
582 Kevin Youkilis
583 Ryan Spilborghs
584 Jason Bartlett
585 TBD
586 Carlos Lee
587 J.P. Arencibia
588 Felix Hernandez
589 TBD
590 Tim Lincecum
591 John Axford
592 Dayan Viciedo
593 Francisco Cordero
594 Jose Valverde
595 Lastings Milledge
596 Anibal Sanchez
597 Rick Porcello
598 Johnny Gomes
599 Justin Verlander
600 Neftali Feliz
601 TBD
602 TBD
603 David Murphy
604 Cole Hamels
605 Mitch Moreland
606 TBD
607 TBD
608 Casey McGehee
609 Juan Francisco
610 Edwin Jackson
611 Geovany Soto
612 Madison Bumgarner
613 Dexter Fowler
614 Mark Teixeira
615 Shaun Marcum
616 Ross Ohlendorf
617 TBD
618 TBD
619 Jonny Venters
620 Luke Hochevar
621 Omar Beltre
622 Matt Thornton
623 Leo Nunez
624 Luke French
625 Ruben Tejada
626 Jason Heyward
627 Kyle Blanks
628 Blake DeWitt
629 Ivan Nova
630 Jake Peavy
631 Matt Cain
632 Scott Kazmir
633 TBD
634 Jose Tabata
635 Team Card
636 Chris Tillman
637 Ricky Nolasco
638 Ryan Madson
639 TBD
640 Mike Gonzalez
641 Travis Wood
642 TBD
643 Jaime Garcia
644 Joel Hanrahan
645 Adam Wainwright
646 Team Card
647 Jeanmar Gomez
648 Cody Ross
649 Joba Chamberlain
650 TBD
651 Kendry Morales
652 Josh Beckett
653 JD Drew
654 TBD
655 TBD
656 Raul Ibanez
657 Nick Blackburn
658 Mitch Maier
659 Clint Barmes
660 Ryan Zimmerman

60YOT-01 Jackie Robinson
60YOT-02 Roy Campanella
60YOT-03 Monte Irvin
60YOT-04 Ernie Banks
60YOT-05 Phil Rizzuto
60YOT-06 Mickey Mantle
60YOT-07 Pee Wee Reese
60YOT-08 Roger Maris
60YOT-09 Stan Musial
60YOT-10 Juan Marichal
60YOT-11 Gaylord Perry
60YOT-12 Frank Robinson
60YOT-13 Bob Gibson
60YOT-14 Lou Brock
60YOT-15 Al Kaline
60YOT-16 Tony Perez
60YOT-17 Frank/Brooks Robinson
60YOT-18 Tom Seaver
60YOT-19 Reggie Jackson
60YOT-20 Nolan Ryan
60YOT-21 Rod Carew
60YOT-22 Carlton Fisk
60YOT-23 Mike Schmidt
60YOT-24 Carl Yastrzemski
60YOT-25 Robin Yount
60YOT-26 Bruce Sutter
60YOT-27 Niekro/Ryan
60YOT-28 Eddie Murray
60YOT-29 Paul Molitor
60YOT-30 Andre Dawson
60YOT-31 Jim Palmer
60YOT-32 Ozzie Smith
60YOT-33 Tony Gwynn
60YOT-34 Steve Garvey
60YOT-35 Dave Winfield
60YOT-36 Dennis Eckersley
60YOT-37 Greg Maddux
60YOT-38 Bo Jackson
60YOT-39 Bernie Williams
60YOT-40 Roberto Alomar
60YOT-41 Frank Thomas
60YOT-42 Jim Edmonds
60YOT-43 Mike Piazza
60YOT-44 Barry Larkin
60YOT-45 Mickey Mantle
60YOT-46 Mariano Rivera
60YOT-47 Bob Abreu
60YOT-48 Piazza/Rodriguez/Kendall
60YOT-49 Alex Rodriguez
60YOT-50 Manny Ramirez
60YOT-51 Vladimir Guerrero
60YOT-52 Cliff Lee
60YOT-53 Mark Teixeira
60YOT-54 Justin Verlander
60YOT-55 Ryan Howard
60YOT-56 Troy Tulowitzki
60YOT-57 Johnny Cueto
60YOT-58 Joe Mauer
60YOT-59 Albert Pujols
60YOT-60 Yogi Berra
60YOT-61 Warren Spahn
60YOT-62 Jackie Robinson
60YOT-63 Ed Mathews
60YOT-64 Mickey Mantle
60YOT-65 Brooks Robinson
60YOT-66 Luis Aparicio
60YOT-67 Richie Ashburn
60YOT-68 Harmon Killebrew
60YOT-69 Stan Musial
60YOT-70 Orlando Cepeda
60YOT-71 Duke Snider
60YOT-72 Carl Yastrzemski
60YOT-73 Frank Robinson
60YOT-74 Roger Maris
60YOT-75 Steve Carlton
60YOT-76 Ernie Banks
60YOT-77 Johnny Bench
60YOT-78 Tom Seaver
60YOT-79 Gaylord Perry
60YOT-80 Nolan Ryan
60YOT-81 Rich Gossage
60YOT-82 Dave Parker
60YOT-83 Reggie Jackson
60YOT-84 Dave Winfield
60YOT-85 Don Sutton
60YOT-86 Gary Carter
60YOT-87 Eddie Murray
60YOT-88 Ron Guidry
60YOT-89 Jim Palmer
60YOT-90 Steve Garvey
60YOT-91 Cal Ripken Jr.
60YOT-92 Rickey Henderson
60YOT-93 Andre Dawson
60YOT-94 Don Mattingly
60YOT-95 Ozzie Smith
60YOT-96 Dale Murphy
60YOT-97 Paul Molitor
60YOT-98 Curt Schilling
60YOT-99 Larry Walker
60YOT-100 Wade Boggs
60YOT-101 Craig Biggio
60YOT-102 Manny Ramirez
60YOT-103 Frank Thomas
60YOT-104 Derek Jeter
60YOT-105 Tony Gwynn
60YOT-106 Mariano Rivera
60YOT-107 Roy Halladay
60YOT-108 Chris Carpenter
60YOT-109 David Ortiz
60YOT-110 Josh Beckett
60YOT-111 Albert Pujols
60YOT-112 A-Rod/Jeter
60YOT-113 Billy Butler
60YOT-114 Hanley Ramirez
60YOT-115 Josh Hamilton
60YOT-116 Ryan Braun
60YOT-117 Longoria/Price
60YOT-118 Buster Posey

2010 Topps Checklist

2011-02-23T20:15:00.000-08:00

Updated March 2001 - added the Update Set (1-330)

1 Prince Fielder

2 Buster Posey

3 Derrek Lee

4 H. Ramirez/Sandoval/Pujols

5 Texas Rangers®

6 Chicago White Sox®

7 Mickey Mantle

8 J. Mauer/Ichiro/Jeter

9 Tim Lincecum (NL CY)

10 Clayton Kershaw

11 Orlando Cabrera

12 Doug Davis

13 Melvin Mora

14 Ted Lilly

15 Bobby Abreu

16 Johnny Cueto

17 Dexter Fowler

18 Tim Stauffer

19 Felipe Lopez

20 Tommy Hanson

21 Cristian Guzman

22 Anthony Swarzak

23 Shane Victorino

24 John Maine

25 Adam Jones

26 Zach Duke

27 Berkman/Mike Hampton

28 Jonathan Sanchez

29 Aubrey Huff

30 Victor Martinez

31 Jason Grilli

32 Cincinnati Reds®

33 Adam Moore

34 Michael Dunn

35 Rick Porcello

36 Tobi Stoner

37 Garret Anderson

38 Houston Astros®

39 Jeff Baker

40 Josh Johnson

41 Los Angeles Dodgers®

42 P. Fielder/R. Howard/Pujols

43 Marco Scutaro

44 Howie Kendrick

45 David Hernandez

46 Chad Tracy

47 Brad Penny

48 Joey Votto

49 Jorge De La Rosa

50 Zack Greinke

51 Eric Young Jr

52 Billy Butler

53 Craig Counsell

54 John Lackey

55 Manny Ramirez

56 Andy Pettitte

57 CC Sabathia

58 Kyle Blanks

59 Kevin Gregg

60 David Wright

61 Skip Schumaker

62 Kevin Millwood

63 Josh Bard

64 Drew Stubbs

65 Nick Swisher

66 Kyle Phillips

67 Matt LaPorta

68 Brandon Inge

69 Kansas City Royals®

70 Cole Hamels

71 Mike Hampton

72 Milwaukee Brewers®

73 Wainwright/Carpenter/De La Rosa

74 Casey Blake

75 Adrian Gonzalez

76 Joe Saunders

77 Kenshin Kawakami

78 Cesar Izturis

79 Francisco Cordero

80 Tim Lincecum

81 Ryan Theroit

82 Jason Marquis

83 Mark Teahen

84 Nate Robertson

85 Ken Griffey Jr.

86 Gil Meche

87 Darin Erstad

88 Jerry Hairston Jr.

89 J.A. Happ

90 Ian Kinsler

91 Erik Bedard

92 David Eckstein

93 Joe Nathan

94 Ivan Rodriguez

95 Carl Crawford

96 Jon Garland

97 Luis Durango

98 Cesar Ramos

99 Garrett Jones

100 Albert Pujols

101 Scott Baker

102 Minnesota Twins®

103 Daniel Murphy

104 New York Mets®

105 Madison Bumgarner

106 Carpenter/Lincecum/Jurrjens

107 Scott Hairston

108 Erick Aybar

109 Justin Masterson

110 Andrew McCutchen

111 Ty Wigginton

112 Kevin Correia

113 Willy Taveras

114 Chris Iannetta

115 Gordon Beckham

116 Carlos Gomez

117 David DeJesus

118 Brandon Morrow

119 Wilkin Ramirez

120 Jorge Posada

121 Brett Anderson

122 Carlos Riuz

123 Jeff Samardzija

124 Rickie Weeks

125 Ichiro

126 John Smoltz

127 Hank Blalock

128 Garrett Mock

129 Reid Gorecki

130 Vladimir Guerrero

131 Dustin Richardson

132 Cliff Lee

133 Freddy Sanchez

134 Philadelphia Phillies®

135 Ryan Dempster

136 Adam Wainwright

137 Oakland Athletics™

138 C. Pena/Teixeira/Jason Bay

139 Frank Francisco

140 Matt Holliday

141 Chone Figgins

142 Tim Hudson

143 Omar Vizquel

144 Rich Harden

145 Justin Upton

146 Yunel Escobar

147 Huston Street

148 Cody Ross

149 Jose Guillen

150 Joe Mauer

151 Mat Gamel

152 Nyjer Morgan

153 Justin Duchscherer

154 Pedro Feliz

155 Zack Greinke (AL CY)

156 Tony Gwynn Jr.

157 Mike Sweeney

158 Jeff Niemann

159 Vernon Wells

160 Miguel Tejada

161 Denard Span

162 Wade Davis

163 Josh Butler

164 Carlos Carrasco

165 Brandon Phillips

166 Eric Byrnes

167 San Diego Padres™

168 Brad Kilby

169 Pittsburgh Pirates®

170 Jason Bay

171 F. Hernandez/Sabathia/Verlander

172 Joe Mauer (AL MVP)

173 Kendry Morales

174 Mike Gonzalez

175 Josh Hamilton

176 Yovani Gallardo

177 Adam Lind

178 Kerry Wood

179 Ryan Spilborghs

180 Jayson Nix

181 Nick Johnson

182 Coco Crisp

183 Jonathan Papelbon

184 Jeff Francoeur

185 Hideki Matsui

186 Andrew Bailey

187 Will Venable

188 Joe Blanton

189 Adrian Beltre

190 Pablo Sandoval

191 Mat Latos

192 Andruw Jones

193 Shairon Martis

194 Niel Walker (RC)

195 James Shields

196 Ian Desmond (RC)

197 Cleveland Indians (TC)

198 Florida Marlins (FH)

199 Seattle Mariners (TC)

200 Roy Halladay

201 Detroit Tigers (TC)

202 San Francisco Giants (FH)

203 Zach Greinke/Felix Hernandez/Roy Halladay

204 Elvis Andrus/Ian Kinsler (CC)

205 Chris Coghlan

206 Albert Pujols/Prince Fielder/Ryan Howard

207 Colby Rasmus

208 Tim Wakefield

209 Alexei Ramirez

210 Josh Beckett

211 Kelly Shoppach

212 Magglio Ordonez

213 Ricky Nolasco

214 Matt Kemp

215 Max Scherzer

216 Mike Cameron

217 Gio Gonzalez

218 Fernando Martinez

219 Kevin Hart

220 Randy Johnson

221 Russell Branyan

222 Curtis Granderson

223 Ryan Church

224 Rod Barajas

225 David Price

226 Juan Rivera

227 Josh Thole (RC)

228 Chris Pettit (RC)

229 Daniel McCutchen (RC)

230 Jonathan Broxton

231 Luke Scott

232 St. Louis Cardinals (TC)

233 Teixeira/Bay/Adam Lind

234 Tampa Bay Rays (FH)

235 Neftali Feliz

236 Andrew Bailey (AL ROY)

237 Ryan Braun/Prince Fielder (CC)

238 Ian Stewart

239 Juan Uribe

240 Ricky Romero

241 Rocco Baldelli

242 Bobby Jenks

243 Asdrubal Cabrera

244 Barry Zito

245 Lance Berkman

246 Leo Nunez

247 Andre Ethier

248 Jason Kendall

249 Jon Niese

250 Mark Teixeira

251 John Lannan

252 Ronny Cedeno

253 Bengie Molina

254 Edwin Jackson

255 Chris Davis

256 Akinori Iwamura

257 Bobby Crosby

258 Edwin Encarnacion

259 Daniel Hudson

260 New York Yankees®

261 Matt Carson

262 Homer Bailey

263 Placido Polanco

264 Arizona Diamondbacks®

265 Angels®

266 Humberto Quintero

267 Toronto Blue Jays®

268 Juan Pierre

269 A. Rodriquez/Jeter/Cano

270 Michael Brantley

271 Jermaine Dye

272 Jair Jurrjens

273 Pat Neshek

274 Stephen Drew

275 N.L. Rookie of the Year

276 Matt Lindstrom

277 Jarrod Washburn

278 Carlos Delgado

279 Randy Wolf

280 Mark DeRosa

281 Braden Looper

282 Washington Nationals®

283 Adam Kennedy

284 Ross Ohlendorf

285 Kurt Suzuki

286 Javier Vasquez

287 Jhonny Peralta

288 Boston Red Sox®

289 Lyle Overbay

290 Orlando Hudson

291 Austin Kearns

292 Tommy Manzella

293 Brent Dlugach

294 Adam Dunn

295 Kevin Youkilis

296 Atlanta Braves™

297 Ben Zobrist

298 Baltimore Orioles®

299 Gary Sheffield

300 Chase Utley

301 Jack Cust

302 Kevin Youkilis/David Ortiz

303 Chris Snyder

304 Adam LaRoche

305 Juan Francisco

306 Milton Bradley

307 Henry Rodriguez

308 Robinzon Diaz

309 Gerald Laird

310 Elvis Andrus

311 Jose Valverde

312 Tyler Flowers

313 Jason Kubel

314 Angel Pagan

315 Scott Kazmir

316 Chris Young

317 Ryan Doumit

318 Nate Schierholtz

319 Ryan Franklin

320 Brian McCann

321 Pat Burrell

322 Travis Buck

323 Jim Thome

324 Alex Rios

325 Julio Lugo

326 Tyler Colvin

327 N.L. MVP

328 Chicago Cubs®

329 Colorado Rockies®

330 Brandon Allen

331 Ryan Braun

332 Brad Hawpe

333 Ryan Ludwick

334 Jayson Werth

335 Jordan Norberto (RC)

336 C.J. Wilson

337 Carlos Zambrano

338 Brett Cecil

339 Jose Reyes

340 John Buck

340 Cal Ripken, Jr. *

341 Texas Rangers®

342 Melky Cabrera

343 Brian Bruney

344 Brett Myers

345 Chris Volstad

346 Taylor Teagarden

347 Aaron Harang

348 Jordan Zimmermann

349 Felix Pie

350 Price/Ryan Fielder/Braun

350 Pee Wee Reese *

351 Koji Uehara

352 Cameron Maybin

353 Jason Heyward (RC)

354 Evan Longoria

355 James Russell (RC)

356 Angels®

357 Scott Downs

358 Mark Buehrle

359 Aramis Ramirez

360 Justin Morneau

360 Richie Ashburn *

361 Washington Nationals®

362 Travis Snider

363 Joba Chamberlain

364 Trevor Hoffman

365 Logan Ondrusek (RC)

366 Hiroki Kuroda

367 Wandy Rodriguez

368 Wade LeBlanc

369 David Ortiz

370 Robinson Cano

370 Thurman Munson *

371 Nick Hundley

372 Philadelphia Phillies®

373 Clint Barmes

374 Scott Feldman

375 Mike Leake (RC)

376 Esmil Rogers (RC)

377 Felix Hernandez

378 George Sherrill

379 Phil Hughes

380 J.D. Drew

380 Mel Ott *

381 Miguel Montero

382 Kyle Davies

383 Derek Lowe

384 Chris Johnson (RC)

385 Torii Hunter

386 Dan Haren

387 Josh Fields

388 Joel Pineiro

389 Troy Tulowitzki

390 Ervin Santana

390 Johnny Mize *

391 Manny Parra

392 Carlos Monasterios (RC)

393 Jason Frasor

394 Luis Castillo

395 Jenrry Mejia (RC)

396 Jake Westbrook

397 Colorado Rockies®

398 Carlos Gonzalez

399 Matt Garza

400 Alex Rodriguez

400 Honus Wagner *

401 Chad Billingsley

402 J.P. Howell

403 Jimmy Rollins

404 Mariano Rivera

405 Dustin McGowan

406 Jeff Francis

407 Nick Punto

408 Detroit Tigers®

409 Kosuke Fukudome

410 Oakland Athletics™

410 Frank Robinson *

411 Jack Wilson

412 San Francisco Giants®

413 J.J. Hardy

414 Sean West

415 Cincinnati Reds®

416 Ruben Tejada (RC)

417 Dallas Braden

418 Aaron Laffey

419 David Aardsma

420 Shin-Soo Choo

420 Dale Murphy *

421 Doug Fister

422 Vin Mazzaro

423 Brad Bergesen

424 David Herndon (RC)

425 Dontrelle Willis

426 Mark Reynolds

427 Brandon Webb

428 Baltimore Orioles®

429 Seth Smith

430 Kazuo Matsui

430 Dizzy Dean *

431 John Raynor (RC)

432 A.J. Burnett

433 Julio Borbon

434 Kevin Slowey

435 Nelson Cruz

436 New York Mets®

437 Luke Hochever

438 Jason Bartlett

439 Emilio Bonifacio

440 Willie Harris

440 Nolan Ryan *

441 Clete Thomas

442 Dan Runzler (RC)

443 Jason Hammel

444 Yuniesky Betancourt

445 Miguel Olivo

446 Gavin Floyd

447 Jeremy Guthrie

448 Joakim Soria

449 Ryan Sweeney

450 Omir Santos

450 Eddie Mathews *

451 Michael Saunders

452 Allen Craig (RC)

453 Jesse English (RC)

454 James Loney

455 St. Louis Cardinals®

456 Clayton Richard

457 Kanekoa Texeira (RC)

458 Todd Wellemeyer

459 Joel Zumaya

460 Aaron Cunningham

460 Jimmie Foxx *

461 Tyson Ross (RC)

462 Alcides Escobar

463 Carlos Marmol

464 Francisco Liriano

465 Chien-Ming Wang

466 Jered Weaver

467 Fausto Carmona

468 Delmon Young

469 Alex Burnett (RC)

470 New York Yankees®

470 Mickey Mantle *

471 Drew Butera (RC)

472 Toronto Blue Jays®

473 Jason Varitek

474 Kyle Kendrick

475 Johnny Damon

476 Yadier Molina

477 Nate McLouth

478 Conor Jackson

479 Chris Carpenter

480 Boston Red Sox®

480 Tom Seaver *

481 Scott Rolen

482 Mike McCoy (RC)

483 Daisuke Matsuzaka

484 Mike Fontenot

485 Jesus Flores

486 Raul Ibanez

487 Dan Uggla

488 Delwyn Young

489 Russell Martin

490 Michael Bourn

490 Roy Campanella *

491 Rafael Furcal

492 Brian Wilson

493 Travis Ishikawa

494 Andrew Miller

495 Carlos Pena

496 Rajai Davis

497 Edgar Renteria

498 Sergio Santos (RC)

499 Michael Bowden

500 Brad Lidge

500 Tris Speaker *

501 Jake Peavy

502 Jhoulys Chacin

503 Austin Jackson (RC)

504 Jeff Mathis

505 Andy Marte

506 Jose Lopez

507 Francisco Rodriguez

508 Chris Getz

509 Todd Helton

510 Justin Upton/

Mark Reynolds (CC)

510 Eddie Murray *

511 Chicago Cubs®

512 Elijah Dukes

513 Scott Sizemore (RC)

514 Rafael Soriano

515 Seattle Mariners™

516 Marlon Byrd

517 Cliff Pennington

518 Corey Hart

519 Alexi Casilla

520 Randy Wells

520 Ozzie Smith *

521 Jeremy Bonderman

522 Jordan Schafer

523 Phil Coke

524 Dusty Hughes (RC)

525 David Huff

526 Carlos Guillen

527 Brandon Wood

528 Brian Bannister

529 Carlos Lee

530 Fu-Te Ni

530 Ty Cobb *

531 Matt Cain

532 Hunter Pence

533 Gary Matthews Jr.

534 Hideki Okajima

535 Andy Sonnanstine

536 Matt Palmer

537 Michael Cuddyer

538 Travis Hafner

539 Arizona Diamondbacks®

540 Sean Rodriguez

540 Ernie Banks *

541 Jason Motte

542 Heath Bell

543 Nick/Adam Markakis.Jones

544 Kevin Kouzmanoff

545 Fred Lewis

546 Bud Norris

547 Brett Gardner

548 Minnesota Twins®

549 Derek Jeter

550 Freddy Garcia

551 Everth Cabrera

552 Chris Tillman

553 Florida Marlins®

554 Ramon Hernandez (RC)

555 B.J. Upton

556 Chicago White Sox®

557 Aaron Hill

558 Ronny Paulino

559 Nick Markakis

560 Ryan Rowland-Smith

561 Ryan Zimmerman

562 Carlos Quentin

563 Bronson Arroyo

564 Houston Astros®

565 Franklin Morales (RC)

566 Junichi Tazawa

567 Mike Pelfrey

568 Jarrod Saltalamacchia

569 Jacoby Ellsbury

570 Josh Willingham

571 Brandon Lyon

572 Clay Buchholz

573 Johan Santana

574 Milwaukee Brewers®

575 Ryan Perry

576 Paul Maholm

577 Jason Jaramillo

578 Aaron Rowand

579 Trevor Cahill

580 Ian Snell

581 Chris Dickerson

582 Martin Prado

583 Anibal Sanchez

584 Matt Capps

585 Dioner Navarro

586 Roy Oswalt

587 David Murphy

588 Landon Powell

589 Edinson Volquez

590 Ryan Howard

591 Fernando Rodney

592 Brian Roberts

593 Derek Holland

594 Andy LaRoche

595 Mike Lowell

596 Brendan Ryan

597 J.R. Towles

598 Alberto Callaspo (RC)

599 Jay Bruce

600 Hanley Ramirez

601 Blake DeWitt

602 Kansas City Royals®

603 Gerardo Parra

604 Kansas City Royals®

605 A.J. Pierzynski

606 Chad Qualls

607 Ubaldo Jimenez

608 Pittsburgh Pirates®

609 Jeff Suppan

610 Alex Gordon

611 Josh Outman

612 Lastings Milledge

613 Eric Chavez

614 Kelly Johnson

615 Justin Verlander

616 Franklin Gutierrez

617 Luis Valbuena

618 Jorge Cantu

619 Mike Napoli

620 Geovany Soto

621 Aaron Cook

622 Cleveland Indians

623 Miguel Cabrera

624 Carlos Beltran

625 Grady Sizemore

626 Glen Perkins

627 Jeremy Hermida

628 Ross Detwiler

629 Oliver Perez

630 Ben Francisco

631 Marc Rzepczynski

632 Daric Barton

633 Daniel Bard

634 Casey Kotchman

635 Carl Pavano

636 Rick/Justin Porcello/Verlander

637 Babe/Lou Ruth/Gehrig

638 Paul Konerko

639 Los Angeles Dodgers®

640 Matt Diaz

641 Chase Headley

642 San Diego Padres™

643 Michael Young

644 David Purcey

645 Texas Rangers®

646 Trevor Crowe

647 Alfonso Soriano

648 Brian Fuentes

649 Casey McGehee

650 Dustin Pedroia

651 Mike Aviles

652 Chipper Jones

653 Nolan Reimold

654 Collin Balester

655 Ryan Madson

656 Jon Lester

657 Chris Young

658 Tommy Hunter

659 Nick Blackburn

660 Brandon McCarthy

661 Stephen Strasburg (RC)

US-1 Vladimir Guerrero

US-2 Dayan Viciedo RC

US-3 Sam Demel RC

US-4 Alex Cora

US-5 Troy Glaus

US-6 Adam Ottavino RC

US-7 Sam LeCure RC

US-8 Fred Lewis

US-9 Danny Worth

US-10 Hideki Matsui

US-11 Vernon Wells

US-12 Jason Michaels

US-13 Max Scherzer

US-14 Ike Davis RD

US-15 Ike Davis RC

US-16 Felipe Paulino

US-17 Marlon Byrd AS

US-18 Omar Beltre RC

US-19 Russell Branyan

US-20 Jason Bay

US-21 Roy Oswalt

US-22 Ty Wigginton AS

US-23 Andy Pettitte AS

US-24 "NL East Origins" (V. Guerrero/M. Cabrera) CC

US-25 Andrew Bailey

US-26 Jesus Feliciano RC

US-27 Koyie Hill

US-28 Bill Hall

US-29 Livan Hernandez

US-30 Roy Halladay AS

US-31 Corey Patterson

US-32 Doug Davis

US-33 Matt Capps AS

US-34 Shaun Marcum

US-35 Ryan Braun AS

US-36 Omar Vizquel

US-37 Alex Avila

US-38 Chris Young HRD

US-39 Kila Ka'aihue

US-40 Evan Longoria AS

US-41 Anthony Slama RC

US-42 Conor Jackson

US-43 Brennan Boesch RD

US-44 Scott Rolen AS

US-45 David Price AS

US-46 Colby Lewis

US-47 Jody Gerut

US-48 Geoff Blum

US-49 Bobby Wilson

US-50 Mike Stanton

US-51 Tom Gorzelanny

US-52 Andy Oliver

US-53 Jordan Smith RC

US-54 Akinori Iwamura

US-55 Stephen Strasburg RD (highlight card, non-SP, running onto field)

US-56 Matt Holliday HRD

US-57 "Andrus' All-Star Advisor" (D. Jeter/E. Andrus) CC

US-58 Brian Wilson AS

US-59 Jeanmar Gomez RC

US-60 Miguel Tejada

US-61 Alfredo Simon

US-62 Chris Narveson

US-63 David Ortiz

US-64 Jose Valverde

US-65 "See you in September" (V. Martinez/R. Cano) CC

US-66 Ronnie Belliard

US-67 Kyle Farnsworth

US-68 John Danks

US-69 Lance Cormier

US-70 Jonathan Broxton AS

US-71 Jason Giambi

US-72 Milton Bradley

US-73 Torii Hunter AS

US-74 Ryan Church

US-75 Jason Heyward AS

US-76 Jose Tabata RD

US-77 John Axford

US-78 Jon Link RC

US-79 Jonny Gomes

US-80 David Ortiz

US-81 Rich Harden

US-82 Emmanuel Burriss

US-83 Jeff Suppan

US-84 Melvin Mora

US-85 Starlin Castro RC

US-86 Matt Guerrier

US-87 Trevor Plouffe RC

US-88 Lance Berkman

US-89 Frank Herrmann RC

US-90 Rafael Furcal AS

US-91 Nick Johnson

US-92 Pedro Feliciano

US-93 Jon Rauch

US-94 Reid Brignac

US-95 Jamie Moyer

US-96 John Bowker

US-97 "Mile High Memories" (T. Tulowitzki/M. Holliday) CC

US-98 Yunel Escobar

US-99 Jose Bautista

US-100 Roy Halladay

US-101 Jake Westbrook

US-102 Chris Carter

US-103 Matt Tuiasosopo

US-104 Paul Konerko AS

US-105 Chone Figgins

US-106 Orlando Cabrera

US-107 Matt Capps

US-108 John Buck AS

US-109 Luke Hughes RC

US-110 Curtis Granderson

US-111 Willie Bloomquist

US-112 Chad Qualls

US-113 Brad Ziegler

US-114 Kenley Jansen RC

US-115 Brad Lincoln

US-116 Brandon Morrow

US-117 Martin Prado AS

US-118 Jose Bautista AS

US-119 Adam LaRoche

US-120 Brennan Boesch RC

US-121 J.A. Happ

US-122 Darnell McDonald

US-123 Alberto Callaspo

US-124 Chris Young AS

US-125 Adam Wainwright

US-126 Elvis Andrus

US-127 Nick Swisher AS

US-128 Reed Johnson

US-129 Gregor Blanco

US-130 Ichiro AS

US-131 Takashi Saito

US-132 Corey Hart

US-133 Javier Vazquez

US-134 Rick Ankiel

US-135 Starlin Castro RD

US-136 Jarrod Saltalamacchia

US-137 Austin Kearns

US-138 Brandon League

US-139 Jorge Cantu

US-140 Josh Hamilton AS

US-141 Phil Hughes

US-142 Mike Cameron

US-143 Jonathan Lucroy RC

US-144 Eric Patterson

US-145 Adrian Beltre

US-146 Peter Bourjos RC

US-147 Argenis Diaz RC

US-148 J.J. Putz

US-149 Kevin Russo RC

US-150 Hanley Ramirez AS

US-151 Kerry Wood

US-152 Ian Kennedy

US-153 Brian McCann AS

US-154 Jose Guillen

US-155 Ivan Rodriguez

US-156 Matt Thornton AS

US-157 Jason Marquis

US-158 "CC Times Two" (CC Sabathia/C. Crawford) CC

US-159 Octavio Dotel

US-160 Josh Johnson AS

US-161 Matt Holliday AS

US-162 Hong-Chih Kuo

US-163 Marco Scutaro

US-164 Gaby Sanchez

US-165 Omar Infante

US-166 Jon Garland

US-167 Ramon Santiago

US-168 Wilson Ramos RC

US-169 Ryan Ludwick

US-170 Carl Crawford AS

US-171 Cristian Guzman

US-172 Josh Donaldson RC

US-173 Lorenzo Cain RC

US-174 Matt Lindstrom

US-175 Drew Storen

US-176 Felipe Lopez

US-177 Chris Heisey RC

US-178 Jim Edmonds

US-179 Juan Pierre

US-180 David Wright AS

US-181 J.P. Arencibia

US-182 Randy Wolf

US-183 Luis Atilano RC

US-184 Blake DeWitt

US-185 Brian Matusz RC

US-186 Scott Hairston

US-187 "Young AL East Aces" (P. Hughes/D. Price) CC

US-188 Orlando Hudson

US-189 Derrek Lee

US-190 John Lackey

US-191 Danny Valencia

US-192 Daniel Nava RC

US-193 Ryan Theriot

US-194 Vernon Wells AS

US-195 Mark DeRosa

US-196 Aubrey Huff

US-197 Sean Marshall

US-198 Francisco Cervelli

US-199 Jhonny Peralta

US-200 Albert Pujols

US-201 Jeffrey Marquez RC

US-202 Mitch Moreland RC

US-203 Jon Jay RC

US-204 Carlos Silva

US-205 Ben Sheets

US-206 Garret Anderson

US-207 Jerry Hairston Jr.

US-208 Jeff Keppinger

US-209 Bengie Molina

US-210 Ubaldo Jimenez AS

US-211 Daniel Hudson

US-212 Mitch Talbot

US-213 Alex Gonzalez

US-214 Jason Heyward RD

US-215 "The Machine and The Hammer" (A. Pujols/R. Braun) CC

US-216 John Baker

US-217 Yorvit Torrealba

US-218 Kevin Gregg

US-219 Bobby Crosby

US-220 Jon Lester AS

US-221 Heath Bell AS

US-222 Ted Lilly

US-223 Henry Blanco

US-224 Scott Olsen

US-225 Josh Bell RC

US-226 Scott Podsednik

US-227 Mark Kotsay

US-228 "Second Base Sluggers" (B. Phillips/M. Prado) CC

US-229 Joe Saunders

US-230 Robinson Cano AS

US-231 Gabe Kapler

US-232 Jason Kendall

US-233 Brendan Harris

US-234 Matt Downs

US-235 Jose Tabata RC

US-236 Matt Daley

US-237 Jhan Marinez RC

US-238 Mark Ellis

US-239 Gabe Gross

US-240 Adrian Gonzalez AS

US-241 Joey Votto AS

US-242 Shelley Duncan

US-243 Michael Bourn AS

US-244 Mike Redmond

US-245 Placido Polanco

US-246 LaTroy Hawkins

US-247 Nick Swisher HRD

US-248 Matt Harrison

US-249 Rafael Soriano AS

US-250 Miguel Cabrera AS

US-251 Jake Arrieta

US-252 Jim Thome

US-253 Mike Minor RC

US-254 Chris Perez

US-255 Kevin Millwood

US-256 Mike Gonzalez

US-257 Joel Hanrahan

US-258 Dana Eveland

US-259 Yadier Molina

US-260 Andre Ethier AS

US-261 Jason Vargas

US-262 Rob Johnson

US-263 Randy Winn

US-264 Vicente Padilla

US-265 Ryan Howard AS

US-266 Billy Wagner

US-267 Eugenio Velez

US-268 Logan Morrison RC

US-269 Dave Bush

US-270 Vladimir Guerrero

US-271 Travis Wood RC

US-272 Brian Stokes

US-273 John Jaso

US-274 "Merry Stras-mas" (S. Strasburg/I. Rodriguez) CC

US-275 Hong-Chih Kuo AS

US-276 Austin Jackson

US-277 Micah Owings

US-278 Brad Penny

US-279 Hanley Ramirez HRD

US-280 Alex Rodriguez AS

US-281 Jose Valverde AS

US-282 Rhyne Hughes

US-283 Kevin Frandsen

US-284 Josh Reddick

US-285 Jaime Garcia

US-286 Arthur Rhodes

US-287 Alex Sanabia RC

US-288 Jonny Venters RC

US-289 Adam Kennedy

US-290 Justin Verlander AS

US-291 Corey Hart HRD

US-292 Kelly Shoppach

US-293 Pat Burrell

US-294 Aaron Heilman

US-295 Andrew Cashner

US-296 Lance Zawadzki RC

US-297 Don Kelly

US-298 David Freese

US-299 Xavier Nady

US-300 Cliff Lee

US-301 Jeff Clement

US-302 Pedro Feliz

US-303 Brandon Phillips AS

US-304 Kris Medlen

US-305 Cliff Lee AS

US-306 Dan Haren

US-307 Carlos Santana RD

US-308 Matt Thornton

US-309 Andruw Jones

US-310 Derek Jeter

US-311 Felix Doubront RC

US-312 Coco Crisp

US-313 Mitch Maier

US-314 Cole Gillespie RC

US-315 Edwin Jackson

US-316 Rod Barajas

US-317 Mike Leake

US-318 Domonic Brown RC

US-319 Josh Tomlin RC

US-320 Joe Mauer AS

US-321 Jason Donald RC

US-322 John Ely

US-323 Ryan Kalish RC

US-324 George Kottaras

US-325 Ian Kinsler AS

US-326 Miguel Cabrera HRD

US-327 Mike Stanton RD

US-328 Adrian Beltre AS

US-329 "Dominican Pride" (Jose Reyes/Hanley Ramirez) CC

US-330 Carlos Santana RC

The Current State of My Hobby

2009-03-18T17:42:00.000-07:00

Please note that this post is entitled "The Current State of MY Hobby", but maybe my current state is similar to other collectors out there. Perhaps some of these thoughts might also apply to "The Current State of THE Hobby".

The journey to get back in collecting has been fun and nostalgic as I open box after box of cards that haven't seen the light of day in 15-20 years. It is taking longer than expected now that I've gotten sidetracked by the 2009 Topps cards that were released last month. After buying a "hobby box" and various other loose packs, I've finally completed the 2009 Series One and additionally have small piles of insert cards, "game-used" cards, parallel cards, and miscellaneous duplicates to look at, some better than others. But I have a nagging suspicion that I have been going about collecting the "new" stuff the wrong way.

I don't have buyer's remorse, but all of this action in the past month has led me to a realization. It is far, far cheaper just to go to eBay and buy a set of cards than trying to collect a set by buying packs. This may seem obvious to most of you, but the difference between the two methods is astonishing. I may have spent $120-$140 in small increments over the past 6 weeks just to complete half (or a third) of the 2009 Topps set, whereas that same set of cards, minus the duplicates and inserts can be had for less than $20 on eBay, shipping included. And I am fairly certain that by the year end I would be able to buy the entire set of Series 1 and 2 even cheaper.

So what do you miss by taking the quick and dirty route to set-building? Well, you certainly miss the thrill of opening a pack of cards, and especially the excitement that your pack might contain (it doesn't) some amazing insert card that MIGHT be valuable or at least entertaining to look at. At least, in theory, that seems like a lot to give up, since that was originally the fun of baseball card collecting. In reality it is completely insane to attempt to complete any insert set simply by buying packs. I have even spent the last few weeks attempting to trade for the last of the 2009 Turkey Red Set (rather, HALF of the Turkey Red Set), which has been interesting, but I am still missing 9 cards, or almost 20%. I am even further from completing any of the other insert sets. It used to feel like cheating to buy a complete set at a card show or on eBay. I was missing out on half the fun of card collecting, right?

My experience this month has erased that vague feeling of guilt. A quick perusal of eBay again reveals that these elusive inserts can be bought quickly and in total for less than I have spent so far. What is so insane about not wanting to spend $300+ dollars for a set of baseball cards every year? The joy of collecting for me is to look at the cards, not to tally their total net value in some fanciful Beckett-induced fantasy. Trading is fun, collecting is fun, but SPENDING a lot of money is not always necessary for fun. For the same $300 I could buy the entire 2009 set plus an entire set of cards from the 1970's for instance. Stretching the collecting dollar is totally within the spirit of the hobby in my opinion. I think from now on I am going to be more judicious about where I spend the baseball card dollar. The farther I can stretch it, the better, no?

I'm not going to state that Topps has made card collecting too complicated. If the demand is there, than by all means, I hope Topps can supply it and be profitable and the more the better. If the general public wants a bunch of inserts and chase cards to track down and Topps can sell more cards by providing it, then let me step out of the way and let it roll.

BUT,

There is one area of collecting that I will step up and call madness. I only have had to look at three of these atrocities to know a stupid idea when I see it. Below are three "game-used artifact" cards, or "relics" as they are distastefully called. Would I like a game-used jersey in my collection? Perhaps yes, if it was George Brett's #5 that he wore during one of his campaigns. Probably no if it was a player I had no strong connection with at all. Would I want a tiny piece of George Brett's jersey crammed into a poorly made card with his picture slapped on it? Not at all. Is there really any meaning to be found in a 1" square piece of fabric that looks like every other 1" piece of fabric I've ever seen? How about a bat? Again, not a bad souvenir IF I could actually hold the bat and imagine it being used to strike the decisive blow in a big game at the hands of one my heroes. How about a small sliver of wood that may or may not have at one time been a bat, but looks identical to a sliver of wood that at one time might have been the end of a doorstop in some derelict office complex or housing project? Umm, no thanks.

There may be some perceived value in these cards currently, but there will someday be a glut of relic cards so vast and so worthless that it will make the overproduction issues of the 1980's and 1990's seem trivial. At least today, twenty years later, there is still some demand for the cards of that era. Collectors share a common connection with these cards because they are so familiar and easy to obtain. The blogosphere has come alive the past year or two with rhapsodic musings about baseball players and teams of that bygone era simply because there are so many other collectors out there that can appreciate it. They also have had the same thoughts and revels about the same cards and players I had many years ago and can relate to it well. After reading an exceptional post on a blog I actually experience a desire to go look at that card the writer was referencing.

How can there be any common connection with a card that is "1/1", or "34/51" or other nonsense? In the future is there going to a blogpost about some rare relic card of a journeyman shortstop that will mean anything if no one else has actually seen or held that card before? If my experience with cards is at all common, than the answer will be "NO".

I can fully imagine an eBay auction in 20 years for "800 GU Jersey/Bat Cards - NICE! with a Buy It Now option of $9.99 FREE SHIPPING!" that will end without a sale.

This isn't even addressing the depressing thought that actual pieces of history are being destroyed by band saw and fabric shear. Isn't there any better use for a pile of authentic game-worn jerseys and game-used bats than putting them in a proverbial paper-shredder? How about the novel idea of selling the ACTUAL jersey and/or bat? How about random redemption cards that could used to obtain the actual item? Who came up with the crazy idea that the best use of a Major League Baseball player's game bat is the take it the wood shop and hack it into tiny pieces?

I think this latest process takes the collector beyond simple fandom and into a semi-religious realm of literal hero-worship. The cards are even called "relics" just like the tiny slivers of bone and hair from the saints contained in the reliquaries of every Medieval cathedral . This level of collecting makes me think more of "creepy" than "cool". Am I alone here?

I will be giving away all three cards here, starting with the one and only contributor to my post on the Rickey Henderson card. So, if MMayes of the "1972 Topps Baseball" blog cares to email me, the card of his choice is his. Email me a toppsbaseball at gmail.com. If none of those cards interests you, email me anyway and we can work out another prize. Thanks!

One last comment before I go. As I actually look at these cards I am amazed at the craftmanship, or lack thereof, in these cards. Some have loose threads, all have irregular cut mattes surrounding the patch which seems to indicate that it was cut by hand with an exacto knife instead of an automated press. Amazing!

1983 Topps Review

2009-03-09T17:43:00.000-07:00

The 1983 Topps Baseball Card set is my favorite set of the 1980's. It is made up of 792 cards, the second year that Topps had expanded the set from 726 cards. Visually the most appealing set of the decade, it is a step up from the 1982 Topps set in production value and miles ahead of the woeful 1981 set. A similar style set was released by Topps in 1984 that didn't catch the eye as well as the Topps 1983 release. After 1984, Topps seems to have let their baseball cards slip in quality with poor designs and unimaginative photography, a trend that would end up costly them dearly a few later as the competition caught up and surpassed them later in the decade.

The entire 1983 Topps set was bought for me at a card show in the mid 1980's but I don't remember the price. This set looked great at the time and hasn't lost any of its appeal over time. Like all baseball cards from this era, though, it has lost a lot of its value. This set peaked at around $160.00, but today can be bought on eBay for $20-$40 including delivery.

Lets look at the Good, the Bad, and the rest of this set.

The Good

One aspect of the 1983 Topps card that was innovative and new was the inclusion of a small portrait photo in the lower right or left corner. This allowed Topps to include far more action photography in the main photo without neglecting the traditional head shot. Some of the best Topps cards of the 1980's utilize this feature quite well.

Card #540 Ozzie Smith is a great example of the new design and its improved photography. It is also one of my favorite baseball cards overall probably because the gold chain suspended in mid-air around Ozzie's neck gives the photo such a sense of motion.

Card #604 Joe Morgan Super Veteran and card #101 Pete Rose Super Veteran are great examples of my favorite of the subsets Topps included in most of their 1980's sets. I really like the Joe Morgan card because, as you can see in the photo on the left, he is wearing a Houston Colt .45's uniform. I don't have any Colt .45's cards unless you count this one. The backs of these cards really stand out from the typical written copy that Topps slapped on most of their cards. Instead of "Had 13th-inning Single for game-winning RBI, 5-29-82" like you find on Ryne Sandberg's #83 Rookie Card, the Super Veterans set gives you a wonderful rundown of the player's career and accomplishments including their all-time rankings and awards. Way to go, Topps!

The League Leader cards from 1983 are fairly typical, but card #704 is just amazing. It features Rickey Henderson's 130 stolen bases - the single season record that still stands and probably always will. Rickey's photo is slightly out of focus, but perhaps that's because he never stood still long enough for Topps to get a good shot that year. Second place with fewer than half of Rickey's total was Damaso Garcia and even the National League Leader, Tim Raines, trailed by 52 stolen bases.

Cards #350 Robin Yount, #478 Phil Garner, and #768 Chris Speier are some more great examples of the improved action poses Topps captured in this set. Two of the cards also capture one of my favorite aspects of a card when there are additional players featured in the photo. In this case, it appears that Phil Garner has failed to stop the sliding Lenny Faedo, who wore #12 for the Twins, whereas in the last card, Chris Speier is tagging out the Dodger's Derrel Thomas, wearing #30.

The Bad

Card #789 Bryan Clark has long been one of of the most memorable cards in the 1983 set, but not exactly in any flattering way. Clark's facial expression captured by the Topps photographer would certainly not have caused any trepidation in the batters he might have faced that day. That, or Godzilla just stepped up to the plate. I have just never understood how photos like this make it past a final review before going to press.

Card #360 Nolan Ryan is one of the most mundane cards I've ever seen of the Ryan Express and probably just a more traditional portrait would have been better.

The Rest...

The 1983 Topps Traded Set is the standard 132 card set and features the rookie cards of Julio Franco and Darryl Strawberry.

Significant cards from this set.

#83 Ryne Sandberg RC
#100 Pete Rose
#163 Cal Ripken
#360 Nolan Ryan
#482 Tony Gwynn RC
#498 Wade Boggs RC
#34T - Julio Franco RC
#108T - Darryl Strawberry RC

Overall

This is a very strong set from Topps for the 1980's, definitely in the top 2 of the decade. The use of two photographs on each card certainly foreshadowed the rise of Upper Deck with its improved production values in the 1990's. Why Topps got away from a real winning design that it had in 1983 I've never been sure, but it would take Topps enormous effort and time to regain the lead from the competition that it squandered in the early 1980's

My 1978 Joe Morgan Baseball Card

2009-03-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

This 1978 Joe Morgan is one of my original baseball cards, which is part of a pile that includes the 1978 George Brett in my profile. Unfortunately, someone took a hatchet to this card. And unfortunately, that someone was me. I do remember, however how it happened. The upper left corner of this card had gotten bent and, even at a young age, I had realized that might detract from the desirability (and thus, tradability) of the card. To correct this problem I simply took a pair of scissors and trimmed the edge off with the defective corner. But now the border on the top was uneven with the side. I had to trim the same amount off of the left edge, then a bit more...

When I dug this card out of its shoebox I just cracked up. I remember thinking that this card looked pretty good immediately after I had finished doctoring it. In hindsight, it looked more like Ralphie's glasses in "A Christmas Story" after he had shot his eye out with his BB gun. I can't remember if I had actually offered this card as tradebait or not, but I can imagine the response it might have generated from the school bus crowd.

Now this card is worth more as a laugh then as a baseball card but I wouldn't part with it for anything.

Testing the Power of the Internet

2009-03-08T08:38:00.000-07:00

On many occasions I have seen the power of the Internet come to life when a blogger is stumped as to the identity of certain players in the background of cards, what set a card belongs to, or various other obscure minutiae that is part of the allure of baseball and baseball card collecting. Invariably another reader is able to fill in the missing information just because the internet has such far reaching exposure to so many people with the same interests but different backgrounds.

Let's test the power of the Internet. Below is a 1991 Topps Rickey Henderson card #391. I have determined that he sliding back into first base. It isn't second base because I am assuming you would be able to see home plate in the background from that angle if Rickey was at second. If it was third base, you should see the outfield in the background and that isn't the case either. What I am trying to figure out is who is applying the tag during the pick-off attempt? My guess is Frank Thomas. He had just started playing first base for Chicago in 1990, which would make him one of 13 American League candidates since I can assume Rickey is not being tagged by Mark McGwire, his Oakland teammate. The black armband is something I kind of remember Frank Thomas wearing and that would be the right color to be a White Sox. The size of the biceps and the color of the skin look right too. I don't think he looks like Cecil Fielder or Fred McGriff, but I can't tell for sure.

OK, Internet, do your thing. Who is the first baseman in this picture? If we have a winner, there may be a prize which I have yet to determine, but stay tuned... Bonus points if you can convince me as to where this game is being played.

Trading Baseball Cards on the Internet

2009-03-07T09:38:00.000-08:00

When I started this blog just a short while ago, I had no idea people traded baseball cards on the Internet. I put a few "Want Lists" up on the site, but figured it would be mostly for me to keep track of my collection. Then Ben, from 1988 Score sent a few cards to me out of the blue and helped finish a couple of sets! Thanks again, Ben. This blog has enabled me to meet many great people with the same interests and are all happy to help out a fellow baseball card nut. So far I've completed trades with 1988 Score, Baseball Cards Come to Life, Night Owl Cards, Shane, a reader from Massachusetts, and James, a reader from Maryland. I want to thank everyone who has taken the time and effort to actually mail baseball cards to me. I want to especially thanks James from Maryland. He just sent me 167 cards I was missing from my 1980 Topps set. Wow, I just got them in the mail yesterday. These cards are awesome! I'm down to just missing 203 cards, so James almost cut the list in half all by himself. Picture below are the James' cards just after I opened the package...

In addition to this blog, it turns out there are other ways to trade baseball cards over the internet. Websites like Sports Card Forum, where I have traded about 10 times under the name "brettforpresident", allow members to arrange trades with other members in a suprisingly organized fashion. Worked really well with the current 2009 Topps set, though not too sure if it would be as easy to find traders for my older sets.

So what all of this has made me realize is I've got to not only organize my sets, but start compiling a list of all my doubles so I can do a better job of helping out some collectors myself. For the years that I just bought the factory set, I probably don't have a lot of doubles, but many years I have stacks of lonely doubles that would probably love a new home. I guess this project isn't over quite yet...

One last thing, when I made the want lists, I just used a copy of my checklist and made the missing cards stand out in bold. Looks very pretty, but may not be as useful as just a written list. I'll be working on a master list written out the traditional way with both the wants and trade bait included.

Anyways, thanks again!

1991 Topps Review

2009-03-02T18:51:00.000-08:00

The 1991 Topps Baseball Set consists of 792 ignored and unappreciated baseball cards. I barely remember buying the factory set in the mid 1990's and probably only looked at some of the key cards if at all before closing the box and setting it down on a shelf in the basement for the next 15 years. My enthusiasm for this set dwindled even further once it became clear that it would never appreciate in value. Even eBay auctions for $0.99 for the entire set occasionally end up without a bid. You can buy a brand new, unopened set for $8-$10. I can't remember what I paid for mine.

That all changed once I actually got the cards out, sorted them and put them into their own binder. As I really looked at the cards I realized that Topps actually did a good job with this set. Yes, it is still on the old-fashioned cardboard in 1991, while Upper Deck had been putting out glossy cards on attractive whiteboard for 3 years that were far superior in production value. And yes, even stodgy old Topps was branching out with the costier Stadium Club set, but there is a lot to like in these cards.

Compared to the fairly routine or even mundane portraits of previous years, 1991 marks a start of better photography with more inventive poses and much better action shots. There are quite a few cards that stand out in this set if you don't let the fact that they aren't worth anything dampen your perspective.

1991 also witnessed a return to putting the player's position on the front of the card. This had been done away by Topps from 1987-1990 and was a source of irritation to me. Did Topps assume every kid knows the position of 700+ players by heart? A simple two letters gives a lot of information in a small space and I was pleased to see it reappear in the bottom left corner of the 1991 set.

Let's look at the Good, the Bad, and all the rest of this set...

The Good

Card #455 Walt Weiss is one of my favorite cards of the set and pretty much sums up what is great about this set. I can't imagine getting a better action shot than here with Weiss elevating over the oncoming Joel Skinner to complete a double play. The flying dirt is seen in vivid detail without any blurring and I especially like that Topps let some of the action extend outside the frame in a lot of its cards.

Card #760 Benny Santiago is the centerpiece of the set and is another action shot that I really like. Notice that the frame covers the catcher's mask on the right while on the left Santiago's arm seems to be reaching out of the card giving the viewer the sense of depth. While this pose is obviously a bit more staged than the previous card of Walt Weiss, it is one of the best portraits I've ever seen.

Card #530 depicts a younger Roger Clemens posing against the Fenway Park outfield scoreboard. The pose just seems iconic to have the Rocket posed next to the words "STRIKE OUT". I was never a fan of Roger Clemens, but he almost seems likable depicted in this manner.

Card #1 of the 1991 Topps Set again featured Nolan Ryan. This pose is by far the best shot Topps ever took of the Ryan Express and captures perfectly the delivery that produced 100 mph fastballs for 27 years.

Card #450 at first looks as if Wade Boggs is standing in front of those ridiculous grey felt studio backdrops. Further inspection actually reveals a grey sky with menacing storm clouds ominously hovering over a towering Boggs. Not my favorite card of the set, and the pose is more appropriate for a power hitter, but if I try to imagine that the clouds are real and hanging over Fenway Park, then the cards becomes a bit more bearable.

The Bad

How bad would you feel if you worked to make it to the Major Leagues and this turned out to be your rookie card? He looks just like a little kid trying on his daddy's work clothes. His helmet looks too big, his glasses look WAY too big, and he just looks out of place. His jersey even looks fake though it is probably a practice jersey. I wish someone at Topps, while proofing this set prior to production would have been able to realize that this card looked ridiculous and simply chose a different photo. Was there really only one photo of Jeff McKnight?

I think more than one photo taken on "Turn Back the Clock" Day at Comiskey Park is a bad choice. Overuse a gimmick and it loses its appeal. Also, look at Robin Ventura's expression - looks like he is in pain or constipated. Again, Topps could have tried a bit harder to flatter it subjects with its photos instead of just slapping the first photo they come across on the card.

The Rest...

The backs of the cards are nothing special, but I have always been loyal to Topps in part because the "Complete Major League Pitching Record (League Leader In Italics, Tie <>)". They have thankfully never deviated from this practice and hopefully never will.

The traded set consists of the standard 132 cards released later in 1991 and have the same design as the base set except that they are printed on slightly different card stock (which I have never understood) and the backs are lighter in color.

Significant cards from this set:

#113 Carl Everett RC
#333 Chipper Jones RC
#4T Jeff Bagwell RC
#45T Jason Giambi RC
#101T Ivan Rodriguez RC

Overall

This set has gotten a lot better with age even though its value hasn't. I really like what Topps did with the upgraded photography. 1991 is miles ahead of the 1987-1990 era and overall I give the set 3 1/2 stars.

Progress Report

2009-03-02T17:06:00.000-08:00

So, am I getting organized or just getting sidetracked by all the new 2009 Topps baseball cards? Well, both, it turns out.

What do I have organized?

1978 Topps - still in the box, but due up next.
1979 Topps - in an album and missing only 10 cards
1980 Topps - still in the box and only 50% complete
1981 Topps - complete and in an album
1982 Topps - in an album and missing only a few cards!
1983 Topps - complete and in an album
1984 Topps - complete and in an album
1985 Topps - complete and in an album
1986 Topps - still in the box and only about half complete.
1987 Topps - complete and in an album
1988 Topps - complete and in an album
1989 Topps - complete but still in the box
1990 Topps - complete and in an album
1991 Topps - complete and in an album
1992 Topps - complete and in an album
1993 Topps - about 80% complete and still in a box
1994 Topps - complete and in an album
1995-2004 Topps - don't have any of these cards (except maybe a stray or 2)
2005 Topps - complete and in an album
2006 Topps - complete and in an album
2007 Topps - complete and in an album
2008 Topps - complete and in an album
2009 Topps - complete and in an album (series 1 only)

After all of this work, I still have quite a few loose cards, but they have been consolidated into 2 large 5000 count boxes instead of scattered shoeboxes and most are organized. I seem to have picked up about 2000 miscellaneous Score and Donruss cards and I haven't even looked at them yet. The rest are sorted by year and number in a fairly orderly fashion and as you can see, only two sets are complete or almost complete and still waiting on an album (which I still have to buy...)

I have also started going through all of the loose cards and creating a list of all the doubles in hope that some day I can post the list here to help find some of them a new home...

For those of you who have unorganized baseball card collections, my advice is to get organized now before you reach a point of no return. Once you have 20,000 loose baseball cards you are looking at weeks, not days, of sorting. I actually enjoyed most of the sorting except it is tough on your back if you do it on the floor like I did and if I had known how long it was going to take I probably would have hesitated and never gotten started.

Once I finish this I am going to buy a set from 1995-2004 every couple of months and keep going. Once 1995-2004 is complete I'll start going back to pre-1978 and start filling in the missing cards.

Getting a complete set into a binder gives me a whole new appreciation for some of these cards.

2009 Topps

2009-02-08T07:35:00.000-08:00

2009 Want list

Cards I need are in black
Cards I have are in grey

updated February 23, 2009

Thanks much to Ben at 1988 Score for sending me cards #145 and #227. And thanks to James from Maryland for trading for the last two cards - #41 and #100! Series 1 is now complete! Stay tuned for series 2 later this year...

I'll post any of the inserts I am looking for - I kind of want to complete the Turkey Reds if possible, but there are fifty of them I believe, so that may take a while...

330/330 (100% complete)

1 Alex Rodriguez
2 Omar Vizquel
3 Andy Marte
4 Jones/Pujols/Holliday LL
5 John Lackey
6 Raul Ibanez
7 Mickey Mantle
8 Terry Francona MGR
9 Dallas McPherson
10 Dan Uggla
11 Fernando Tatis
12 Andrew Carpenter RC
13 Ryan Langerhans
14 Jon Rauch
15 Nate McClouth
16 Evan Longoria PSH
17 Bobby Cox MGR
18 George Sherrill
19 Edgar Gonzalez
20 Brad Lidge
21 Jack Wilson
22 Longoria/Price CC
23 Gerald Laird
24 Frank Thomas
25 Jon Lester
26 Jason Giambi
27 Jonathon Niese RC - New York Mets
28 Mike Lowell
29 Jerry Hairston
30 Ken Griffey Jr.
31 Ian Stewart
32 Daric Barton
33 Jose Guillen
34 Brandon Inge
35 David Price RC
36 Kevin Slowey
37 Erick Aybar
38 Eric Wedge MGR
39 Nick Swisher
40 Carl Crawford
41 Mike Mussina - New York Yankees
42 Jeff Francoeur
43 Mauer/Pedroia/Bradley LL
44 Geoff Jenkins
45 Aubrey Huff
46 Brad Ziegler
47 Jose Valverde
48 Mike Napoli
49 Kazuo Matsui
50 David Ortiz
51 Will Venable RC
52 Marco Scutaro
53 Jonathan Sanchez
54 Dusty Baker MGR
55 J.J. Hardy
56 Edwin Encarnacion
57 Jo-Jo Reyes
58 Travis Snider RC
59 Eric Gagne
60 Mariano Rivera
61 Berkman/Lee CC
62 Brian Barton
63 Josh Outman RC
64 Miguel Montero
65 Mike Pelfrey
66 Pedroia A.L. MVP
67 Andruw Jones
68 Kyle Lohse
69 Rich Aurilia
70 Jermaine Dye
71 Mat Gamel RC
72 David Dellucci
73 Shane Victorino
74 Trey Hillman MGR
75 Rich Harden
76 Marcus Thames
77 Jed Lowrie
78 Lincecum N.L. CY
79 David Eckstein
80 Brian McCann
81 Howard/Dunn/Delgado LL
82 Miguel Cairo
83 Ryan Garko
84 Rod Barajas
85 Justin Verlander
86 Kila Ka'aihue RC
87 Brad Hawpe
88 Fredi Gonzalez MGR
89 Lester/Bay PSH
90 Justin Morneau
91 Cody Ross
92 Luis Castillo
93 James Parr RC
94 Adam Lind
95 Andrew Miller
96 Dexter Fowler RC
97 Willie Harris
98 Akinori Iwamura
99 Juan Castro
100 David Wright
101 Nick Hundley
102 Garrett Atkins
103 Kyle Kendrick
104 Brandon Moss
105 Francisco Liriano
106 Marlon Byrd
107 Pedro Feliz
108 Alcides Escobar RC
109 Tom Gorzelanny
110 Hideki Matsui
111 Troy Percival
112 Hideki Okajima
113 Chris Young
114 Chris Dickerson
115 Kevin Youkilis
116 Omar Infante
117 Ron Gardenhire MGR
118 Josh Johnson
119 Craig Counsell
120 Mark Teixeira
121 Greg Golson RC
122 Joe Mather
123 Casey Blake
124 Reed Johnson
125 Roy Oswalt
126 Orlando Hudson
127 Cabrera/Quentin/Rodriguez LL
128 Johnny Cueto
129 Angel Berroa
130 Vladimir Guerrero
131 Joe Torre MGR
132 Juan Pierre
133 Brandon Jones
134 Longoria A.L. ROY
135 Carlos Delgado
136 Tim Hudson
137 Angel Salome RC
138 Ubaldo Jimenez
139 Stairs PSH
140 Brandon Webb
141 Mark Teahen
142 Brad Penny
143 Matt Joyce
144 Matt Tuiasosopo RC
145 Alex Gordon
146 Glen Perkins
147 Howard/Wright/Gonzalez LL
148 Ty Wigginton
149 Juan Uribe
150 Kosuke Fukudome
151 Carl Pavano
152 Cody Ransom
153 Lastings Milledge
154 A.J. Pierzynski
155 Roy Halladay
156 Carlos Pena
157 Webb/Haren CC
158 Ray Durham
159 Matt Antonelli RC
160 Evan Longoria
161 Brendan Harris
162 Mike Cameron
163 Ross Gload
164 Bob Geren MGR
165 Matt Kemp
166 Jeff Baker
167 Aaron Harang
168 Mark DeRosa
169 Juan Miranda RC
170 CC Sabathia
171 Jeff Bailey
172 Yadier Molina
173 Manny Delcarmen
174 James Shields
175 Jeff Samardzija
176 Hamilton/Morneau/Cabrera LL
177 Eric Hinske
178 Frank Catalanotto
179 Rafael Furcal
180 Cliff Lee
181 Jerry Manuel MGR
182 Daniel Murphy
183 Jason Michaels
184 Bobby Parnell RC
185 Randy Johnson
186 Ryan Madson
187 John Garland
188 Josh Bard
189 Jay Payton
190 Chien-Ming Wang
191 Victorino PSH
192 Collin Balester
193 Zack Greinke
194 Jeremy Guthrie
195 Tim Lincecum
196 Jason Motte RC
197 Ronnie Belliard
198 Conor Jackson
199 Ramon Castro
200 Chase Utley
201 Saltalamacchia/Hamilton CC
202 Gaby Sanchez RC
203 Jair Jurrjens
204 Andy Sonnanstine
205 Miguel Tejada
206 Santana/Lincecum/Peavy LL
207 Joe Blanton
208 James McDonald RC
209 Alfredo Amezaga
210 Geovany Soto
211 Ryan Rowland-Smith
212 Denard Span
213 Jeremy Sowers
214 Scott Elbert RC
215 Ian Kinsler
216 Joe Maddon MGR
217 Pujols N.L. MVP
218 Emmanuel Burriss
219 Shin-Soo Choo
220 Jay Bruce
221 Lee/Halladay/Matsuzaka LL
222 Mark Sweeney
223 Dave Roberts
224 Max Scherzer
225 Aaron Cook
226 Neal Cotts
227 Freddy Sandoval RC
228 Scot Rolen
229 Cesar Izturis
230 Justin Upton
231 Xavier Nady
232 Gabe Kapler
233 Erik Bedard
234 John Russell MGR
235 Chad Billingsley
236 Kelly Johnson
237 Aaron Cunningham RC
238 Jorge Cantu
239 Brandon League
240 Ryan Braun
241 David Newhan
242 Ricky Nolasco
243 Chase Headley
244 Sean Rodriguez
245 Pat Burrell
246 Upton/Crawford/Longoria PSH
247 Yuniesky Betancourt
248 Scott Lewis RC
249 Jack Hannahan
250 Josh Hamilton
251 Greg Smith
252 Brandon Wood
253 Edgar Renteria
254 Cito Gaston MGR
255 Joe Crede
256 Reggie Abercrombie
257 George Kottaras RC
258 Casey Kotchman
259 Lincecum/Santana/Haren LL
260 Manny Ramirez
261 Jose Bautista
262 Mike Gonzalez
263 Elijah Dukes
264 Dave Bush
265 Carlos Zambrano
266 Todd Wellemeyer
267 Michael Bowden RC
268 Chris Burke
269 Hunter Pence
270 Grady Sizemore
271 Lee A.L. CY
272 Chan Ho Park
273 Brian Roberts
274 Alex Hinshaw
275 Alex Rios
276 Soto N.L. ROY
277 Asdrubal Cabrera
278 Philadelphia Phillies PSH
279 Ryan Church
280 Joe Saunders
281 Tug Hulett
282 Chris Lambert RC
283 John Baker
284 Luis Ayala
285 Justin Duchscherer
286 Odalis Perez
287 Greg Maddux
288 Guillermo Quiroz
289 Josh Banks
290 Albert Pujols
291 Chris Coste
292 Francisco Cervelli RC
293 Brian Bixler
294 Brandon Boggs
295 Derrek Lee
296 Reid Brignac
297 Bud Black MGR
298 Jonathan Van Every
299 Hamels PSH
300 Ichiro Suzuki
301 Clint Barmes
302 Brian Giles
303 Zach Duke
304 Jason Kubel
305 Ivan Rodriguez
306 Javier Vazquez
307 Burnett/Santana/Halladay LL
308 Chris Duncan
309 Humberto Sanchez RC
310 Johan Santana
311 Kelly Shoppach
312 Ryan Sweeney
313 Jamey Carroll
314 Matt Treanor
315 Hiroki Kuroda
316 Brian Stokes
317 Jarrod Saltalamacchia
318 Manny Acta MGR
319 Brian Fuentes
320 Miguel Cabrera
321 Kazmir/Price CC
322 John Buck
323 Vicente Padilla
324 Mark Reynolds
325 Dustin McGowan
326 Ramirez PSH
327 Phil Coke RC
328 Doug Mientkiewicz
329 Gil Meche
330 Daisuke Matsuzaka

2009 Topps Checklist

2009-02-07T10:18:00.000-08:00

I replaced all of the "To Be Determined" spots and filled in the correct cards, so this may be the only "complete" checklist available.

Update! I went ahead and typed the Series 2 checklist so 2009 is now COMPLETE!

Update #2! - I added the Update checklist at the end so that is 1-660 + UH1 - UH330.

1 Alex Rodriguez
2 Omar Vizquel
3 Andy Marte
4 Jones/Pujols/Holliday LL
5 John Lackey
6 Raul Ibanez
7 Mickey Mantle
8 Terry Francona MGR
9 Dallas McPherson
10 Dan Uggla
11 Fernando Tatis
12 Andrew Carpenter RC
13 Ryan Langerhans
14 Jon Rauch
15 Nate McClouth
16 Evan Longoria PSH
17 Bobby Cox MGR
18 George Sherrill
19 Edgar Gonzalez
20 Brad Lidge
21 Jack Wilson
22 Longoria/Price CC
23 Gerald Laird
24 Frank Thomas
25 Jon Lester
26 Jason Giambi
27 Jonathon Niese RC
28 Mike Lowell
29 Jerry Hairston
30 Ken Griffey Jr.
31 Ian Stewart
32 Daric Barton
33 Jose Guillen
34 Brandon Inge
35 David Price RC
36 Kevin Slowey
37 Erick Aybar
38 Eric Wedge MGR
39 Nick Swisher
40 Carl Crawford
41 Mike Mussina
42 Jeff Francoeur
43 Mauer/Pedroia/Bradley LL
44 Geoff Jenkins
45 Aubrey Huff
46 Brad Ziegler
47 Jose Valverde
48 Mike Napoli
49 Kazuo Matsui
50 David Ortiz
51 Will Venable RC
52 Marco Scutaro
53 Jonathan Sanchez
54 Dusty Baker MGR
55 J.J. Hardy
56 Edwin Encarnacion
57 Jo-Jo Reyes
58 Travis Snider RC
59 Eric Gagne
60 Mariano Rivera
61 Berkman/Lee CC
62 Brian Barton
63 Josh Outman RC
64 Miguel Montero
65 Mike Pelfrey
66 Pedroia A.L. MVP
67 Andruw Jones
68 Kyle Lohse
69 Rich Aurilia
70 Jermaine Dye
71 Mat Gamel RC
72 David Dellucci
73 Shane Victorino
74 Trey Hillman MGR
75 Rich Harden
76 Marcus Thames
77 Jed Lowrie
78 Lincecum N.L. CY
79 David Eckstein
80 Brian McCann
81 Howard/Dunn/Delgado LL
82 Miguel Cairo
83 Ryan Garko
84 Rod Barajas
85 Justin Verlander
86 Kila Ka'aihue RC
87 Brad Hawpe
88 Fredi Gonzalez MGR
89 Lester/Bay PSH
90 Justin Morneau
91 Cody Ross
92 Luis Castillo
93 James Parr RC
94 Adam Lind
95 Andrew Miller
96 Dexter Fowler RC
97 Willie Harris
98 Akinori Iwamura
99 Juan Castro
100 David Wright
101 Nick Hundley
102 Garrett Atkins
103 Kyle Kendrick
104 Brandon Moss
105 Francisco Liriano
106 Marlon Byrd
107 Pedro Feliz
108 Alcides Escobar RC
109 Tom Gorzelanny
110 Hideki Matsui
111 Troy Percival
112 Hideki Okajima
113 Chris Young
114 Chris Dickerson
115 Kevin Youkilis
116 Omar Infante
117 Ron Gardenhire MGR
118 Josh Johnson
119 Craig Counsell
120 Mark Teixeira
121 Greg Golson RC
122 Joe Mather
123 Casey Blake
124 Reed Johnson
125 Roy Oswalt
126 Orlando Hudson
127 Cabrera/Quentin/Rodriguez LL
128 Johnny Cueto
129 Angel Berroa
130 Vladimir Guerrero
131 Joe Torre MGR
132 Juan Pierre
133 Brandon Jones
134 Longoria A.L. ROY
135 Carlos Delgado
136 Tim Hudson
137 Angel Salome RC
138 Ubaldo Jimenez
139 Stairs PSH
140 Brandon Webb
141 Mark Teahen
142 Brad Penny
143 Matt Joyce
144 Matt Tuiasosopo RC
145 Alex Gordon
146 Glen Perkins
147 Howard/Wright/Gonzalez LL
148 Ty Wigginton
149 Juan Uribe
150 Kosuke Fukudome
151 Carl Pavano
152 Cody Ransom
153 Lastings Milledge
154 A.J. Pierzynski
155 Roy Halladay
156 Carlos Pena
157 Webb/Haren CC
158 Ray Durham
159 Matt Antonelli RC
160 Evan Longoria
161 Brendan Harris
162 Mike Cameron
163 Ross Gload
164 Bob Geren MGR
165 Matt Kemp
166 Jeff Baker
167 Aaron Harang
168 Mark DeRosa
169 Juan Miranda RC
170 CC Sabathia
171 Jeff Bailey
172 Yadier Molina
173 Manny Delcarmen
174 James Shields
175 Jeff Samardzija
176 Hamilton/Morneau/Cabrera LL
177 Eric Hinske
178 Frank Catalanotto
179 Rafael Furcal
180 Cliff Lee
181 Jerry Manuel MGR
182 Daniel Murphy
183 Jason Michaels
184 Bobby Parnell RC
185 Randy Johnson
186 Ryan Madson
187 John Garland
188 Josh Bard
189 Jay Payton
190 Chien-Ming Wang
191 Victorino PSH
192 Collin Balester
193 Zack Greinke
194 Jeremy Guthrie
195 Tim Lincecum
196 Jason Motte RC
197 Ronnie Belliard
198 Conor Jackson
199 Ramon Castro
200 Chase Utley
201 Saltalamacchia/Hamilton CC
202 Gaby Sanchez RC
203 Jair Jurrjens
204 Andy Sonnanstine
205 Miguel Tejada
206 Santana/Lincecum/Peavy LL
207 Joe Blanton
208 James McDonald RC
209 Alfredo Amezaga
210 Geovany Soto
211 Ryan Rowland-Smith
212 Denard Span
213 Jeremy Sowers
214 Scott Elbert RC
215 Ian Kinsler
216 Joe Maddon MGR
217 Pujols N.L. MVP
218 Emmanuel Burriss
219 Shin-Soo Choo
220 Jay Bruce
221 Lee/Halladay/Matsuzaka LL
222 Mark Sweeney
223 Dave Roberts
224 Max Scherzer
225 Aaron Cook
226 Neal Cotts
227 Freddy Sandoval RC
228 Scot Rolen
229 Cesar Izturis
230 Justin Upton
231 Xavier Nady
232 Gabe Kapler
233 Erik Bedard
234 John Russell MGR
235 Chad Billingsley
236 Kelly Johnson
237 Aaron Cunningham RC
238 Jorge Cantu
239 Brandon League
240 Ryan Braun
241 David Newhan
242 Ricky Nolasco
243 Chase Headley
244 Sean Rodriguez
245 Pat Burrell
246 Upton/Crawford/Longoria PSH
247 Yuniesky Betancourt
248 Scott Lewis RC
249 Jack Hannahan
250 Josh Hamilton
251 Greg Smith
252 Brandon Wood
253 Edgar Renteria
254 Cito Gaston MGR
255 Joe Crede
256 Reggie Abercrombie
257 George Kottaras RC
258 Casey Kotchman
259 Lincecum/Santana/Haren LL
260 Manny Ramirez
261 Jose Bautista
262 Mike Gonzalez
263 Elijah Dukes
264 Dave Bush
265 Carlos Zambrano
266 Todd Wellemeyer
267 Michael Bowden RC
268 Chris Burke
269 Hunter Pence
270 Grady Sizemore
271 Lee A.L. CY
272 Chan Ho Park
273 Brian Roberts
274 Alex Hinshaw
275 Alex Rios
276 Soto N.L. ROY
277 Asdrubal Cabrera
278 Philadelphia Phillies PSH
279 Ryan Church
280 Joe Saunders
281 Tug Hulett
282 Chris Lambert RC
283 John Baker
284 Luis Ayala
285 Justin Duchscherer
286 Odalis Perez
287 Greg Maddux
288 Guillermo Quiroz
289 Josh Banks
290 Albert Pujols
291 Chris Coste
292 Francisco Cervelli RC
293 Brian Bixler
294 Brandon Boggs
295 Derrek Lee
296 Reid Brignac
297 Bud Black MGR
298 Jonathan Van Every
299 Hamels PSH
300 Ichiro Suzuki
301 Clint Barmes
302 Brian Giles
303 Zach Duke
304 Jason Kubel
305 Ivan Rodriguez
306 Javier Vazquez
307 Burnett/Santana/Halladay LL
308 Chris Duncan
309 Humberto Sanchez RC
310 Johan Santana
311 Kelly Shoppach
312 Ryan Sweeney
313 Jamey Carroll
314 Matt Treanor
315 Hiroki Kuroda
316 Brian Stokes
317 Jarrod Saltalamacchia
318 Manny Acta MGR
319 Brian Fuentes
320 Miguel Cabrera
321 Kazmir/Price CC
322 John Buck
323 Vicente Padilla
324 Mark Reynolds
325 Dustin McGowan
326 Ramirez PSH
327 Phil Coke RC
328 Doug Mientkiewicz
329 Gil Meche
330 Daisuke Matsuzaka
331 Luke Scott Baltimore Orioles
332 Chone Figgins Angels
333 Jeremy Sowers/Aaron Laffey Cleveland Indians
334 Blake DeWitt Los Angeles Dodgers
335 Chris Young Arizona Diamondbacks
336 Jordan Schafer Atlanta Braves Rookie Card
337 Bobby Jenks Chicago White Sox
338 Daniel Cabrera Washington Nationals
339 Jim Leyland Detroit Tigers
340 Wade Boggs Boston Red Sox Legends of the Game SP Variation
340 Joe Mauer Minnesota Twins
341 Willy Taveras Cincinnati Reds
342 Gerald Laird Detroit Tigers
343 Ian Snell Pittsburgh Pirates
344 J.R. Towles Houston Astros
345 Stephen Drew Arizona Diamondbacks
346 Mike Cameron Milwaukee Brewers
347 Jason Bartlett Tampa Bay Rays
348 Tony Pena Kansas City Royals
349 Justin Masterson Boston Red Sox
350 Ryne Sandberg Chicago Cubs Legends of the Game SP Variation
350 Dustin Pedroia Boston Red Sox
351 Chris Snyder Arizona Diamondbacks
352 Gregor Blanco Atlanta Braves
353 Cal Ripken Jr. Baltimore Orioles Legends of the Game SP Variation
353 Derek Jeter New York Yankees
354 Mike Aviles Kansas City Royals Rookie Card
355 Jim Palmer Baltimore Orioles Legends of the Game SP Variation
355 John Smoltz Boston Red Sox
356 Ervin Santana Angels
357 Huston Street Colorado Rockies
358 Chad Tracy Arizona Diamondbacks
359 Jason Varitek Boston Red Sox
360 Jorge Posada New York Yankees
361 Alex Rios/Vernon Wells Toronto Blue Jays
362 Luke Montz Washington Nationals Rookie Card
363 Jhonny Peralta Cleveland Indians
364 Kevin Millwood Texas Rangers
365 Mark Buehrle Chicago White Sox
366 Alexi Casilla Minnesota Twins
367 Bobby Abreu Angels
368 Trevor Hoffman Milwaukee Brewers
369 Matt Harrison Texas Rangers
370 Victor Martinez Cleveland Indians
371 Jeff Francis Colorado Rockies
372 Rickie Weeks Milwaukee Brewers
373 Joe Martinez San Francisco Giants Rookie Card
374 Kevin Kouzmanoff San Diego Padres
375 Carlos Quentin Chicago White Sox
376 Rajai Davis Oakland Athletics
377 Trevor Crowe Cleveland Indians Rookie Card
378 Mark Hendrickson Baltimore Orioles
379 Howie Kendrick Angels
380 Aramis Ramirez Chicago Cubs
381 Sharon Martis Washington Nationals Rookie Card
382 Wily Mo Pena Washington Nationals
383 Everth Cabrera San Diego Padres Rookie Card
384 Bob Melvin Arizona Diamondbacks
385 Mike Jacobs Kansas City Royals
386 Jonathan Papelbon Boston Red Sox
387 Adam Everett Detroit Tigers
388 Humberto Quintero Houston Astros
389 Garrett Olson Seattle Mariners
390 Joey Votto Cincinnati Reds Rookie Card
391 Dan Haren Arizona Diamondbacks
392 Brandon Phillips Cincinnati Reds
393 Alex Cintron Baltimore Orioles
394 Barry Zito San Francisco Giants
395 Magglio Ordonez Detroit Tigers
396 Alex Cora New York Mets
397 Carlos Ruiz Philadelphia Phillies
398 Cameron Maybin Florida Marlins
399 Wandy Rodriguez Houston Astros
400 Frank Robinson Baltimore Orioles Legends of the Game SP Variation
400 Alfonso Soriano Chicago Cubs
401 Tony La Russa St. Louis Cardinals
402 Nick Blackburn Minnesota Twins
403 Trevor Cahill Oakland Athletics Rookie Card
404 Matt Capps Pittsburgh Pirates
405 Todd Helton Colorado Rockies
406 Mark Ellis Oakland Athletics
407 Dave Trembley Baltimore Orioles
408 Ronny Paulino Florida Marlins
409 Jesse Chavez Pittsburgh Pirates Rookie Card
410 Lou Piniella Chicago Cubs
411 Troy Tulowitzki Colorado Rockies
412 Taylor Teagarden Texas Rangers
413 Ruben Gotay Atlanta Braves
414 Cha Seung Baek San Diego Padres
415 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals Legends of the Game SP Variation
415 Josh Beckett Boston Red Sox
416 Josh Whitesell Arizona Diamondbacks Rookie Card
417 Jason Marquis Colorado Rockies
418 Andy Pettitte New York Yankees
419 Braden Looper Milwaukee Brewers
420 Scott Baker Minnesota Twins
421 B.J. Ryan Toronto Blue Jays
422 Hank Blalock Texas Rangers
423 Melvin Mora Baltimore Orioles
424 Jorge Campillo Atlanta Braves
425 Curtis Granderson Detroit Tigers
426 Pablo Sandoval San Francisco Giants
427 Brian Duensing Minnesota Twins Rookie Card
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429 Mike Hampton Houston Astros
430 Francisco Rodriguez New York Mets
431 Ramon Hernandez Cincinnati Reds
432 Wladimir Balentien Seattle Mariners
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437 Austin Kearns Washington Nationals
438 Mark Loretta Los Angeles Dodgers
439 Ryan Spilborghs Colorado Rockies
440 Fausto Carmona Cleveland Indians
441 Andrew Bailey Oakland Athletics Rookie Card
442 Cliff Pennington Oakland Athletics
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444 Jody Gerut San Diego Padres
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446 Matt Holliday Oakland Athletics
447 Freddy Sanchez Pittsburgh Pirates
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449 Mike Fontenot Chicago Cubs
450 Hanley Ramirez Florida Marlins
451 Ryan Perry Detroit Tigers Rookie Card
452 Orlando Cabrera Oakland Athletics
453 Javier Valentin Cincinnati Reds
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455 Adam Jones Baltimore Orioles
456 Jason Kendall Milwaukee Brewers
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458 Jeremy Bonderman Detroit Tigers
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460 Nick Markakis Baltimore Orioles
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464 Bobby Crosby Oakland Athletics
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467 Chris Volstad Florida Marlins
468 Derek Lowe Atlanta Braves
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471 Kerry Wood Cleveland Indians
472 Bill Hall Milwaukee Brewers
473 Jered Weaver Angels
474 Franklin Gutierrez Seattle Mariners
475 Mike Schmidt Philadelphia Phillies Legends of the Game SP Variation
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476 Juan Marichal San Francisco Giants Legends of the Game SP Variation
476 Edinson Volquez Cincinnati Reds
477 Josh Willingham Washington Nationals
478 Jose Molina New York Yankees
479 Brad Nelson Milwaukee Brewers Rookie Card
480 Prince Fielder Milwaukee Brewers
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482 Jason Jaramillo Pittsburgh Pirates Rookie Card
483 John Lannan Washington Nationals Rookie Card
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485 Aaron Rowand San Francisco Giants
486 J.J. Putz New York Mets
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489 Matt Guerrier Minnesota Twins
490 Nolan Ryan Texas Rangers Legends of the Game SP Variation
490 Joba Chamberlain New York Yankees
491 Paul Bako Cincinnati Reds
492 Andre Ethier Los Angeles Dodgers
493 Ramiro Pena New York Yankees Rookie Card
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495 Brooks Robinson Baltimore Orioles Legends of the Game SP Variation
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498 Kyle Davies Kansas City Royals
499 Edwin Moreno San Diego Padres Rookie Card
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510 Ryan Ludwick St. Louis Cardinals
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512 Steve Pearce Pittsburgh Pirates
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515 Reggie Jackson New York Yankees Legends of the Game SP Variation
515 Gary Sheffield Detroit Tigers
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517 Kevin Frandsen San Francisco Giants
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520 Tony Gwynn San Diego Padres Legends of the Game SP Variation
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524 Andy LaRoche Pittsburgh Pirates
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529 Fernando Rodney Detroit Tigers
530 Felix Hernandez Seattle Mariners
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532 Garret Anderson Atlanta Braves
533 Darin Erstad Houston Astros
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559 Esteban German Kansas City Royals
560 Adrian Beltre Seattle Mariners
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569 Ted Lilly Chicago Cubs
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571 Noah Lowry San Francisco Giants
572 Michael Bourn Houston Astros
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580 Scott Kazmir Tampa Bay Rays
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593 Kenshin Kawakami Atlanta Braves Rookie Card
594 Milton Bradley Chicago Cubs
595 Robin Yount Milwaukee Brewers Legends of the Game SP Variation
595 Vernon Wells Toronto Blue Jays
596 Radhames Liz Baltimore Orioles
597 Randy Wolf Los Angeles Dodgers
598 Micah Owings Cincinnati Reds
599 Placido Polanco Detroit Tigers
600 Greg Maddux Atlanta Braves Legends of the Game SP Variation
600 Jake Peavy San Diego Padres
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603 Jose Reyes New York Mets
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607 Jarrod Washburn Seattle Mariners
608 Cristian Guzman Washington Nationals
609 Juan Rivera Angels
610 Paul Molitor Milwaukee Brewers Legends of the Game SP Variation
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611 Jeremy Hermida Florida Marlins
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613 Kendry Morales Angels
614 David Murphy Texas Rangers
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618 Brandon Backe Houston Astros
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620 Ryan Zimmerman Washington Nationals
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622 Kurt Suzuki Oakland Athletics
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624 Ben Francisco Cleveland Indians
625 Jim Thome Chicago White Sox
626 Scott Hairston San Diego Padres
627 Billy Butler Kansas City Royals
628 Justin Upton/Chris Young Arizona Diamondbacks
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630 A.J. Burnett New York Yankees
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632 Brett Myers Philadelphia Phillies
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634 Chris Davis Texas Rangers
635 Joakim Soria Kansas City Royals
636 Armando Galarraga Detroit Tigers
637 Donald Veal Pittsburgh Pirates Rookie Card
638 Eugenio Velez San Francisco Giants
639 Corey Hart Milwaukee Brewers
640 B.J. Upton Tampa Bay Rays
641 Jesse Litsch Toronto Blue Jays
642 Ken Macha Milwaukee Brewers
643 David Freese St. Louis Cardinals Rookie Card
644 Alfredo Aceves New York Yankees Rookie Card
645 Paul Maholm Pittsburgh Pirates
646 Chris Iannetta Colorado Rockies
647 Manny Parra Milwaukee Brewers
648 J.D. Drew Boston Red Sox
649 Luke Hochevar Kansas City Royals
650 Steve Carlton Philadelphia Phillies Legends of the Game SP Variation
650 Cole Hamels Philadelphia Phillies
651 Jake Westbrook Cleveland Indians
652 Doug Davis Arizona Diamondbacks
653 Nick Evans New York Mets
654 Brian Schneider New York Mets
655 Bengie Molina San Francisco Giants
656 Delmon Young Minnesota Twins
657 Aaron Heilman Chicago Cubs
658 Rick Porcello Detroit Tigers Rookie Card
659 Torii Hunter Angels
660 Carl Yastrzemski Boston Red Sox Legends of the Game SP Variation
660 Jacoby Ellsbury
UH1 Ivan Rodriguez
UH2 Felipe Lopez
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UH4 David Hernandez (RC)
UH5 Brian Fuentes
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UH218 Cliff Lee
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UH222 Ted Lilly (AS)
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UH227 Edwin Jackson (AS)
UH228 Jason LaRue
UH229 Kevin Millar
UH230 Freddy Sanchez
UH231 Josh Bard
UH232 Tim Lincecum (AS)
UH233 Ramon Santiago
UH234 Mike Sweeney
UH235 Joe Nathan (AS)
UH236 Kris Benson
UH237 Dustin Pedroia (AS)
UH238 Kevin Cash
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UH240 Jason Marquis (AS)
UH241 Dewayne Wise
UH242 Randy Wells
UH243 Jonathan Papelbon (AS)
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UH312 Ryan Hanigan
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UH317 Nelson Cruz (HRD)
UH318 Carl Crawford (AS)
UH319 Ramon Castro
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UH325 Torii Hunter (AS)
UH326 Nate McLouth
UH327 Julio Lugo
UH328 Matt Palmer
UH329 Curtis Granderson (AS)
UH330 Ken Griffey Jr.

Gary Gaetti and the Triple Play

2009-01-24T11:24:00.000-08:00

Who holds the record for the most triple plays started by a third baseman? If you didn't already know, you can probably correctly guess it's Gary Gaetti with 7. But I'll get back to that in a moment.

On May 15, 1994 the Kansas City Royals retired George Brett's number 5 during a pre-game ceremony. I was living in Kansas City at the time and was able to see many of George Brett's final games. That next spring I made the short trek to Kauffman Stadium to witness a bit of Royals history, to see George Brett one last time. Of course I stayed for the game and got to witness something that borders on amazing unless you know a bit of the background.

In the third inning, with runners on first and second with nobody out Geronimo Berroa hit a sharp grounder right down the third base line which was snared by Gaetti who fired to Terry Shumpert at second who relayed the throw to Wally Joyner at first for a routine double play. But wait, the Royals are running off the field - it wasn't a double play at all - it was a TRIPLE PLAY! When Gaetti came up with the ball, he was already positioned on third base for the first out, it just happened so fast I hadn't noticed initially.

After the game I remember an interview with Gaetti stating that whenever there were runners on first and second with nobody out, he played on the third base line LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT GROUNDER TO START A TRIPLE PLAY! When he scoops up the ball, he doesn't have to go far to get the force out which allows enough time to complete the throw to second. Gary Gaetti played every game of his career looking for a triple play! Just how effective was Gaetti at getting the elusive triple play? Between 1982 and 1994 there were 25 triple plays in the major leagues started by third basemen - seven of which were initiated by none other than Gary Gaetti. In other words, 28% of all triple plays started by third basemen (and 14% of ALL triple plays total) during that time period were a result of Gary Gaetti hugging the third base line looking for the opportunity. In fact, on July 17, 1990, Gary Gaetti was able to perform the feat TWICE in one game - something that had never been accomplished before and has never been repeated.

Two years later and Gaetti was granted free agency and his Royals days were over. The next time I got to see him play was in the 1996 NLCS when Gaetti was playing for the Cardinals. Batting fifth, he put the Cardinals ahead for good in the 7th inning when he hit a grand slam -- the first and only grand slam Greg Maddux had ever given up spanning his entire career up to that point.

I don't really have the words to describe Gaetti's style adequately, but that pretty much sums up how intense he approached the game. Perhaps I'll leave you with perhaps the strangest, tackiest website ever dedicated to a Major League Baseball player (and I mean that in the nicest way possible). It's just one of those oddities that make the internet the place that it is and is how I started thinking about Gary Gaetti again a decade after he retired. So without further ado, let me present the The Gary Gaetti Cult

Once you have recovered enough from that, here is a list of all the triple plays since 1876 involving third basemen, and in which Gary Gaetti plays such a disproportionate part.

Whatever happened to Gary Gaetti? From Baseball-Reference.com:

Since retiring as a player, Gaetti coached in the minors with the New Orleans Zephyrs from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Houston Astros hitting coach. Following the 2006 season, Gaetti was named hitting coach of the Durham Bulls. Gaetti's son, Joe, played baseball for NC State and now plays in the Colorado Rockies farm system.

I think I am going to start something new on my blog. Whenever I feature a player on "Whatever happened to..." I am going to try to track down that player's current status and try to get an autographed card. I won't disclose his current address, but if I have success I'll let you know...

Topps Checklists

2009-01-21T20:15:00.000-08:00

Interesting to note that there is no place on the internet one place on the internet that I am aware of that has all of the Topps checklists. In fact, just finding one usable checklist is extremely hard. I am slowly compiling on my blog what I have found so far, but if anyone has a file with any of the Topps checklists 1988-2006, (done!) that would be extremely helpful. You can email me at toppsbaseball at gmail.com. My goal is have all of the base set checklists under one roof. We will see how easy that turns out to be. Amazing that it hasn't already been done somewhere. I will also go on record that the Topps.com website is more than a bit useless when it comes to checklists. You would think the site might be a bit more useful friendly and navigable, but what do I know...

Here is what I have so far:

2008 Topps Checklist
2007 Topps Checklist
2006 Topps Checklist
1985 Topps Checklist
1984 Topps Checklist
1983 Topps Checklist
1982 Topps Checklist
1981 Topps Checklist
1980 Topps Checklist
1979 Topps Checklist
1978 Topps Checklist
1977 Topps Checklist
1976 Topps Checklist
1975 Topps Checklist

Also, just found a few emails from a few people wandering by my new blog. Thanks for the support so far. I've added a couple of links to their blogs

Wait 'Til Next Year

and

1988 Score

Now back to sorting...

Whatever happened to...

2009-01-19T19:12:00.000-08:00

Bob Hamelin. Anyone remember Bob Hamelin? I'll give you a hint. Think Joe Charboneau. Getting warmer? Bob Hamelin won the 1994 AL Rookie Of The Year while playing for the Royals. While it isn't uncommon for a former ROY to have a mediocre follow-up campaign, few flame out as fast and as spectacularly as "The Hammer" (and he couldn't have had a better nickname!)

The 1994 Royals were a great team - they ended 1994 on a 14 game win streak that was only stopped by the player's strike that ended up canceling the entire postseason including the World Series. They were four games out of first place and gaining momentum. Besides the AL ROY in Hamelin, they also had the AL Cy Young Award winner David Cone anchoring their pitching staff and a fantastic infield (Gaetti, Gagne, Lind, and Joyner around the bases). It was the last time I ever looked at the Royals as a legitimate contender.

I liked all the players on that team, but none more than their 26 year old rookie phenom Bob Hamelin. I kind of viewed him as a modern incarnation of Babe Ruth - the same chunky build, the same swing, both left-handed. He looked more beer-league than major league and he wore glasses.

I saw him play several times and remember a game sometime in July of 2004. I don't remember the opponent, but I remember the game going into the bottom of the 9th or 10th inning tied 3-3. Bob Hamelin was the first to bat and sent a pitch sky high down the right foul-line. Looking up I was blinded by the setting sun and couldn't track the ball, but then I heard a resounding "gong" as the ball struck the foul pole and the game was over. I was sunburnt and deliriously happy and I have a hard time remembering a more dramatic ending to a game that I actually attended. (I can think of a few Jacob's field thrillers, but that is another story)

So after that meteoric rise, Bob Hamelin was gone from the Royals by 1996 and out of baseball entirely 2 years later. Injuries played a role, and perhaps his inability to stay in shape, but I still have never entirely gotten over the what might have been.

I lost track of him soon after he left the Royals, and saw that he played halfway decent for the Tigers for a year in 1997, but then nothing...

So the internet being what it is, I started to do a bit of searching. It turns out I entirely missed the story of how he left baseball. It certainly adds a bit of flair to his enigmatic career. From the LA Times

"On a warm spring night in Toledo, Ohio, while playing baseball for a team called the Mud Hens, Hamelin, the 1994 American League rookie of the year for the Kansas City Royals, hit an infield groundout, jogged off the field, kicked a bat and told his manager, Gene Roof, "I'm done."

After that game Monday night, Hamelin drove to Kansas City where his wife, Marie, and 1-year-old son, Jackson, live in the home Hamelin bought after he had been rookie of the year.

Hamelin's father, Robert (Hamelin), who lives in Irvine, where the Hamelins moved from Morristown, N.J., when Bob (Hamelin) was 12, where he became a fine football player and star baseball player at Irvine High and went on to play baseball for Santa Ana College and UCLA, says he had no idea that his son would make such a dramatic exit from the game he had loved and played for 26 years, until Bob called home on Monday night and said, 'Dad, I quit.'"

I don't have the rest of the story, since it is archived, but if anyone has, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story" I would love to read it...

The latest Hamelin news come from an interview he did in 2007.

http://blogs.cjonline.com/index.php?entry=3848

Six questions with former Royal Bob Hamelin
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Daily Dose - Sports

It’s been 13 years since “The Hammer,” Bob Hamelin, captivated Kansas City Royals fans with a magical summer. A year after the retirement of Hall of Famer George Brett, Hamelin stepped into the lineup and emerged as one of the top sluggers in the A.L.

Hamelin won the Rookie of the Year Award that season, but he was never the same after the strike in 1994. He had a decent season with Detroit in 1997 and played his last MLB game Sept. 27, 1998, with Milwaukee. Daily Dose tracked The Hammer down in North Carolina:

What are you up to these days?

I’m working as a scout for the Washington Nationals. I work the areas of North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I had a manufacturing business until a few years ago, then I went to a school for scouts, applied for some jobs and was fortunate enough to get this one.

So, you just couldn’t stay away from the game?

Baseball has always been my passion, and it’s something I’ve always wanted to be involved in. When I left the game, I needed to stay away for a while. But eventually I wanted to get back into it. I thought about coaching until this came up. The traveling is difficult, being away from my boys, but I’ve been surprised how much I enjoy it.

You retired abruptly. What’s the story behind that?

It was 1999, and I was playing for Toledo (Detroit’s AAA team). I grounded out, walked into the dugout and said enough was enough. That was it. I told them to put somebody else in and left. Even if I was going to get called up at the end of the year, I wasn’t looking forward to playing for the Tigers at all. They weren’t very good that season. When I realized I wasn’t even looking forward to the callup, I knew it was time to step away.

What was 1994 like for you, winning the Rookie of the Year?

It really was a special, fun time. Kansas City is a great baseball town, and the fans really supported that team. It’s too bad the strike hit because I think we had a good chance of making the playoffs. That was a good ballclub, and things were just working out for me.

You struggled after that season. What went wrong?

If I could tell you that, I might still be playing. I’m not sure. I know people say the weight was an issue, but I really never felt like it was. I was a hitter. And when I couldn’t hit, that was it. I had a good year with Detroit a few years later, but it’s not like I was going to help anybody defensively or stealing bases.

You hit a lot of big home runs in a relatively short time. Where did you get that flair for the dramatic?

It’s natural to be more focused in a situation like that, but I also was lucky to have those chances and to do something with them. I always enjoyed hitting in the big games in big moments.

WHAT ABOUT BOB?

Age: 39
Family: Sons Jackson, 9, and Sam, 6
Claim to fame: Won 1994 Rookie of the Year Award after hitting .282 with 24 home runs and 65 RBIs
Memorable hit: “I remember a homer I hit against Chicago in 1994 during our 14-game winning streak. I think it came in extra innings (it was a three-run bomb in the 12th inning of a 6-4 KC win).”

I find it interesting that Bob Hamelin's oldest son has the same name as George Brett's oldest son (who was named after one of his rivals, Reggie Jackson).

What does this have to with baseball cards? Nothing, just random musing, but that is part of what is so great about sports and baseball in particular. Though the players are just human, the stories surrounding them seem to soar larger than life and allow you for a moment to take flight with them and escape some of the mundanity of life...

And as much as I like Topps cards, I will have to admit that Upper Deck actually did a better rookie card for Bob Hamelin all the way back in 1990.

1981 Topps

2009-01-15T12:27:00.000-08:00

Finished putting the the 1981 Topps set into a binder- it appears to be the only complete set I own with no missing cards. I just posted a sample of how the project is looking. This set is probably the one I remember the best from my childhood, most likely due to those distinctive hats in the lower left corners emblazoned with the team name and player position. I always thought it was kind of funny that everyone had the same shaped hat except the Pittsburgh Pirates with those hideous "cake" hats that Topps even duplicated on the cards. I can't imagine making it to the big leagues and then having to wear those hats.

In retrospect, the 1981 Topps set is probably the worst set of the 1975-1984 era. Almost all of the photos are of the fairly bland head shot variety with only rare action shots. Compare these to the 1983 Topps set where every card features the player in action and the 1981 set really starts to look mundane and boring. I don't really get all that excited about rookie cards, but the 1981 set also stands out as the set with the fewest rookies by far. The 26 "Future Stars" are almost all pointless, except for Tony Pena and a few others.

Progress

2009-01-12T20:39:00.000-08:00

So I went out and bought 10 card binders and a few boxes of 9 pocket pages. The 1988 Topps set is done, the 1994 Topps is done. Tonight I can report the 1983 set (minus Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, and the Red Sox Team Leader card featuring Jim Rice) is sorted and put into pages... Stay tuned for photos and my highly influential opinion of this set.

Just to tie you over till I get back, here is a pic of my favorite card from the set so far..

One thing I like about the 1983 set is every card is an action shot - no more so than in this card of Ozzie Smith. Love the gold jewelry - gives the sense of motion better than most other cards...

Cardboard Gods

2009-01-10T14:12:00.001-08:00

Want to read about baseball cards in a way you never knew possible? Try Cardboard Gods. This is simply the most amazing blog I have ever read. I don't know anything about the author, Josh Wilker, other than we seem to be almost the same age and like baseball cards. This blog is a book waiting to be published. I just read his post on Dave Kingman and Freddie Patek and ended with tears in my eyes. Freddie Patek was everyone's favorite shortstop if you were a Royals fan in the 1970's. But to draw the contrast between him and Dave Kingman enlarges the subject far beyond just baseball to the universal experience of the underdog versus the proverbial schoolyard bully. Though I haven't really thought about Freddie Patek in 20 years, today I am saddened he never had the chance to play in the World Series. God Bless Freddie Patek.

Where Have I Been?

2009-01-10T12:45:00.000-08:00

The updates have been lacking, but my two main excuses are 1) The holidays, and 2) I've been so busy sorting cards! I am quite sure this comes as a relief to everyone, but I have not given up on this project. I'll give a quick update and then reflect on what it means so far.

I gathered all my baseball cards (and 15,000 seems like it was a good guess) and sorted them back into years. Then, true to my word, I sorted the 1988 set into teams and put them all into one binder - I even found that I have the traded set and added those cards. I like the set, and being able to read so much about it at the absolutely wonderful 88 Topps Blog makes up for the fact that this just wasn't a set that I spent a lot of time with. I am being drawn back to my original card collecting heyday of 1976-1982. I just loved those cards when I was a kid - and some of the cards certainly look the worse for it. I found the 1978 George Brett card I used to carry around in my vinyl wallet like it was a photo of my then non-existent children. It is thoroughly wrinkled and frayed, but the profile of #5 with the bulge in his cheek (chewing gum, right?) and the All-Star badge in the lower right corner made this the most sought after card of my childhood. I actually remember being on the school bus and trading for this exact card, though I don't remember what I had to give up to obtain it. Since the kid on the other end of the transaction was so much older, I'm sure the term "highway robbery" was mumbled by those observing the bargaining.

After reminiscing about the long lost Brett card, I then went on and finished sorting the 1981,1982, 1983, and 1984 sets. This took some major efforts since a lot of the good cards were in another shoebox that I had forgotten about and had sat untouched inside another box containing newspapers and sports magazines that has followed me around for about 10 different moving days. However, no amount of searching so far can explain why every Jim Rice card from every set is missing. Obviously at some point I put them some place separate from all the other cards for some reason that I don't even vaguely remember. I've looked in so many places that I have become resigned that they are gone. The rest of the cards will still go into binders, but I'll leave a scrap of paper in place of the missing Jim Rices. I have deduced that it must have been a Red Sox phenomenom since Fred Lynn is also missing from two of the sets.

Inexplicably, a few cards are missing from all the sets - even the couple of sets I bought at a baseball card show my dad took me to in the 1980's. Some of them might not actually be lost, but might simply in the wrong pile due to missorting. But no amount of sorting mistakes can account for a depressing string of missing Jim Rices. However, I have decided to wait until I am done with all the sets before I call off the search and start looking to replace them.

Speaking of replacing, I went and looked on eBay for some 1970's cards. It turns out that instead of appreciating in value, the prices have simply gone off a cliff. I remember Wade Boggs' rookie card being sold for $60 or more back in the 1990's. Now I see it sold for $2.25 just this week. My cherished George Brett from 1978 is routinely being sold for 99 cents. This doesn't phase me at all, in fact, it is giving my project a big enthusiastic boost. I might actually be able to go buy all the cards I'm missing with the change I find under the seat of my car. And I certainly am not going to worry about dinging a few corners while I am in the process of putting the cards in the pockets of the pages. I've even started scouting out what it would take to complete sets from 1975-1977, years that I only have 100 or so cards from. This might actually be possible...

Progress Is Being Made

2008-12-22T16:07:00.000-08:00

Right off the bat I can tell this is going to be a lot of fun. I put the complete 1994 Topps set into a brand new binder with 100+ nine-pocket pages and it looks fantastic. What was I thinking storing them in boxes? I started with 1994 simply because it is the only set that was still in its own box and not mixed in with 20 other years of cards. So the easy part is done, but now I can at least look at something I completed even if I get bogged down in the 80's somewhere. And look at card #180 - George Brett's final Topps issue. Shot from behind, his famous #5 plainly visible as is his characteristic swing. Brett himself takes up only a small portion of the photo. The Kaufman Stadium scoreboard and fountains are visible and the whole photo gives an impression of fading away which is quite appropriate since it was Brett's final campaign. This is probably my favorite card out of the set and my favorite George Brett card overall.

On deck is the 1988 Topps set. Not my personal favorite, but since the engrossing 88 Topps Blog inspired this project, I thought I would tackle it next. Maybe I'll change my mind about the set after studying it up close.

Which brings me to another point I wanted to make. I've read and heard so many disparaging words about baseball cards from the 80's and 90's. I've seen complete sets go for as little as $10 on eBay. That depresses a lot of people, but not me. I want to enjoy these cards, not monitor them like a stock portfolio. After storing all my cards for 20 years in boxes meant to protect them I think all I managed to accomplish was to get them ignored and unappreciated. After looking at some of them I came to realize something. These are real, honest baseball cards doing exactly what they are supposed to do, which is to artfully provide information about the players that season. It is also like looking at an old family picture album. With each team you get the well-known veterans that have provided the backbone of the success of the team for 10,15, even 20 years. You also get a glimmer of what is to come when you see the fresh faces of Kenny Lofton, Charlie Nagy, and Manny Ramirez in their Indian's uniforms two years before they propelled the lackluster Indians of 1975-1993 to the World Series. This is the kind of appreciation you can't get except by going back and looking at teams 10-20 years old. So far this project has been a smashing success as far as I am concerned.

Sorting, Sorting, Sorting

2008-12-20T18:39:00.000-08:00

OK, I started the immense task of sorting. First of all, to explain. I used to collect baseball cards - not in any over the top way, (no pun intended) but through the years I have managed to hang onto about 15,000 cards. Nothing overly valuable, but heavy with sentimental value. There are mainly Topps sets from 1983-1994 which were complete at one point but now... I have no idea. There are also several thousand cards from 1975-1982 but not sure how complete they are. (well, I seem to remember almost finishing the 1982 set) Back in the day, my brother and I sorted out all of the cards not by year, not by number, but alphabetically! So now there are twenty or so boxes of cards each containing 700-800 cards with nothing in common except that they all start with the same letter of the alphabet. Made for a lot of work then, and impossible to appreciate now - unless you ever wanted to see how many Nolan Ryan cards I have. (38 if you are keeping score at home)
After my own sons got interested in cards (Pokemon and baseball) I felt the tug of nostalgia and went down to the basement and looked through them. What a mess! The last twenty years did nothing to keep the boxes organized. The next thing that happened was that I stumbled upon a couple of cool blogs.

88 Topps Cards

and the aptly named

The Baseball Card Blog

I dreamt of a Baseball Card Renaissance. Not the kind with hundreds of insert cards, or the kind with 20 different rookie cards from 20 different card companies for every player to ever swing a bat. Not the kind that focuses on the cost of the cards and creates kiddie collectors that know how much a card is worth but can't even pronounce the player's name. That is exactly why I put down the hobby in the first place (that and college). What I want to do is create my own historical record with baseball cards. So I decided I would sort all those cards out by year and team and place them in binders - 9 cards to a page. One binder for every year 1975-2008. Each binder will have the teams sorted by the order they finished that year - first the American League and followed by the National League. League Leaders in the front, All-Stars in the middle between the American and National League teams, signifying the division between the leagues and symbolically in the middle, just like the All-Star game itself. Finishing up will be the "future stars", checklists, and any other miscellaneous whatnot.

These cards will be fun to look at. I never understood why baseball card numbering was so random - there is no way to appreciate a complete set if you sort it numerically and I've already done the alphabetical mistake. This time I'm doing it just to enjoy the cards. I'm not going to get bogged down on the condition of the cards or their worth. Stars will be mixed in with the commons, just like on the real teams. It will be fascinating to see the old teams come alive on a page just like I remember them when I watched them on TV and heard them on the radio. Looking at a Hal McRae card will so much more interesting if it is on a page filled with all the his other Royal teammates.

Once I get them sorted out I will hopefully be in a position to finish some of the older sets. Perhaps someone will read this someday and we can work out some trades. I can hardly wait to get going!

Oh, and one last thing. My favorite team as when I was a kid was the Kansas City Royals. Yes, those Royals, the perennial cellar dwellers. But my team was the George Brett Royals that won every year and were actually cool. My appreciation of the Royals has dampened somewhat since Brett retired and they have entered perpetual rebuilding mode. Their arch nemesis was the Yankees, and my intense dislike for them hasn't abated one bit. My new team, the Cleveland Indians seems to have picked up the rivalry right where the Royals left off. The more things change... (the more they stay the same).

So, in sum:

Goal - organize complete Topps sets from 1975-2008 in binders sorted by team ordered by their season finish.
Timeframe: as soon as possible given the real world circumstances.
Favorite team(s):
1975-1994 - the Kansas City Royals
1995-present - the Cleveland Indians

(there's no fair weather fandom here - I just happened to move from Kansas to Cleveland in 1995)

I'll post progress and pictures as I get going. Stay tuned...