Yesterday, Topps released a version of the 2017 series one checklist. The list was done alphabetically by the player's first name. They plan to issue the list with card numbers in a week.
The set includes something that has never been in any Topps baseball set..... World Series Highlight cards featuring the Chicago Cubs! Remember that the first Topps cards came out in 1952, seven years after the Cubs previous Series appearance.
Those cards (there are four of them) boost the number of Cubs for my team set. The League Leader cards also include several Cubs (six cards). The regular player cards have ten of the boys in blue. That makes a team set of twenty Cubs from just series one. I'm guessing that would be the most Cubs from any one series.
Here's the numberless list
Base Card Players
Chicago Cubs Team Card
Addison Russell
Ben Zobrist
Hector Rondon
Jason Hammel
Jason Heyward
Jorge Soler
Kris Bryant
Kyle Schwarber
Pedro Strop
League Leaders
Anthony Rizzo
Jake Arrieta
Jon Lester
Jon Lester
Kris Bryant
Kyle Hendricks
World Series Highlights
Chicago Cubs
Addison Russell
Aroldis Chapman
Jake Arrieta
Maybe I'll go after the World Series cards. It was a once in a lifetime occurrence, after all.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine that Topps will have an overkill of World Series cards for the Cubs this year, mostly to capitalize on relic and sig cards for Schwarber, Russell, Bryant and Rizzo. I did notice that in the series 1 checklists, there isn't one player that overlaps into all three lists, which is a little odd given Topps' history of overusing its superstars.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why they would put Hammel in a series 1 set, Not sure there was anyone in baseball that expected him to be on the Cubs this year. Soler was a tossup, would have waited on him as well.
ReplyDeleteAgree.. two odd choices
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