MLB 2011 Topps Baseball Complete Set Reviews
MLB 2011 Topps Baseball Complete Set
- Each complete set of 2011 Topps Baseball contains 660 Regular Cards PLUS 1 special five-card set packed in a shrink-wrapped, full color display box.
Collect all 660 2011 Topps Baseball cards. Appeals to both baseball fans & card collectors! Every baseball and subset card from 2011 Topps Baseball Series 1 & 2! PLUS one pack of 5 base card variations.
List Price: $ 49.99
Price: $ 39.76
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The 40th Anniversary Topps Baseball Card Set from 1991,
It is rather interesting to discover that a complete set of 1991 Topps Baseball Cards costs you less than what it woudl cost to pick up last year’s set (or this year’s set for that matter). Now, the reasons is that we do not know how much these recent sets will be worth down the road because we do not know if they contain the rookie card for the next Babe Ruth. When you get about 60 cards labeled future stars, prospects, draft picks, and first-year players, there is always the possibility that one of them could turn out to be the official rookie card for the next Roger Clemens or Albert Pujouls. True, the card might come out years before they actually make it to the big leagues (e.g., Mark McGwire’s card with the Olympic team), but in the speculation market that is modern baseball card collecting one card that can be worth half the set is the goal.
However, I do not buy into the speculation part because I collect what I must now quantify as the regular Topps baseball cards because they are the set that has been around since before I was born, unlike Upper Deck, Bowman, Fleer, Leaf and whatever else is out there today. Currently I have complete Topps sets going back to 1968, with 23 cards to go to finish the 1967, so I would then have complete sets back to 1964, plus 1962, 1957, 1956, and four cards to go for the 1953. Each set is arranged by teams, with the World Series winner first (the Cincinnati Reds in this case) and how each team finished in the standings. True, this become complicated in a world with three divisions and wild card teams winning the championship, but there are basic rules to all this (league leaders and highlights card up top, etc.).
The 1991 Topps set, which was the 40th anniversary set for the company, includes seven Record Breaker cards (e.g., Bobby Thigpen sets saves record), 22 All-Star cards (left-handed and right-handed starters, and a relief pitcher, to go with the eight fielder players), seven checklist cards (arranged alphabetically by team), and ten #1 Draft Pick cards, including Chipper Jones (#33), which is the high priced rookie card in the set (he is pretty good, but you would not say he is a lock for Cooperstown at this point). The second highest priced card is #100A, a Don Mattingly error card, which is not going to be part of the factory set so forget about it, which makes the next highest card that of Nolan Ryan (#1). The 1991 Topps Traded set is where the double-digit card is from this year with Jeff Giambi’s team USA card; it also has the Topps rookie cards for Jeff Bagwell, Ivan Rodriguez, Phil Nevin, and Luis Gonzales.
What is missing are team cards, which is a bummer, but you do have managers cards with team leaders listed on the back. In terms of current members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, in addition to Ryan there is Tony Gwynn (#180), Dennis Eckersley (#250), Sparky Anderson (#519), George Brett (#540), and Ryne Sandberg (#740). As for future Hall of Famers, the controversy overs the likes of McGwire (#270), Barry Bonds (#570), and Sammy Sosa (#414) will continue for some time to come (Rafael Palmeiro appears to be toast at this point), but Greg Maddux (#35), Cal Ripken (#150), Randy Johnson (#225), Roger Clemens (#530), Eddie Murray (#590), Rickey Henderson (#670), and Ken Griffey, Jr. (#790) are obvious first ballot selectees down the road (unless “Sports Illustrated” runs book excerpts on them between now and when the BWAA votes on their admission). Others would be purely speculation at this point, but during Spring Training that is just one of the things baseball fans get to argue about.
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