I still question the need for Archives. Isn't Heritage the set that harkens back to a previous design?
This year's Archives uses the designs from 1958 (Heritage 2007), 1975 (Heritage 2024) and 1993 (...will baseball cards still exist in 2042?). I won't bother putting the Archives along side the originals because you know that they are not exact duplicates.
The Cubs have eleven cards in the 300 card checklist. Here they are, by design, starting with the 1958 cards, followed by the '75s, and finishing with the ones from 1992.
My favorite is the Ernie Banks card. The action shot from 1969 looks great.
My least favorite? The wasted checklist spot for Francisco Arcia. Who's wife at Topps does he have pictures of that they continue to include him in their sets?
I like the action shot, but Ernie on the '93 design just seems off.
ReplyDeleteArcia is the Carl Edwards Jr of 2019
ReplyDeleteArcia is the annual show pony rookie that Topps circles in the previous winter and says "this is the guy" - it was Jen Ho Tseng, and Rob Z and Carl Edwards Jr., and in their Bowman cards are Keenan Thompson and Miguel Amaya. There's probably better choices, but those are who they invested in from the start and they are sticking to their guns!
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