Monday, February 15, 2016

An Updated List of All the Team-Issued Sets

I've gone and updated my list of all the Cubs baseball cards that were given away at Wrigley Field over the years.

  • The list is a work in progress.  I thought I had it finished a couple years ago only to recently discover the 2000 set.
  • The Cubs have made other sets (Vineline, Convention), but my list is just those given away at the ballpark
  • A set was supposed to be given away in 1994, but the players strike wiped it out.
  • In the early years, the sets were given to all who attended the game. The give away amount on my chart is the attendance for the game.
  • For reasons I don't understand, some of the sets are not listed in the Standard Catalog. Missing are the 1996 Gatorade set (though the  '95 and '97 sets are included), 1999 Budweiser Top Ten Wrigley Field Moments, 2000 Fox Sports Net, and 2004 Topps reprints

Year   Game Date(s) Card Sponsor Give away amount
1982 August 20 Red Lobster 18,110
1983 September 2 & 3 Thorn Apple Valley 15,000
1984 August 8 7Up 37,392
1985 August 14 7 Up 30,055
1986 July 17 Gatorade 30,598
1987 July 29 David Berg 37,019
1988 August 24 David Berg 35,065
1989 August 10 Marathon 36,745
1990 August 17 Marathon 29,893
1991 August 14 Marathon 34,817
1992 July 10 Marathon 35,067
1992 August 28 Old Style Nostalgia 20,000
1993 July 28 Marathon 15,000
1993 August 17 Old Style Billy Williams 15,000
1993 September 24 Rolaids Relief Pitchers 15,000
1995 August 24 Gatorade 10,000
1996 August 18 Gatorade 10,000
1997 August 7 Gatorade 10,000
1999 May 15, June 26, August 3 Old Style All Century 20,000
1999 August 6 Budweiser Top Ten Wrigley Field Moments 20,000
2000 August 15 Fox Sports Net 10,000
2001 May 16, 19, June 23, 27, July 16, 25, Aug. 12, 21, 28, Sept. 29 Topps 50 Years 30,000
2002 April 21, May 6, 7, June 19, 24, 26, July 25, Aug. 16, Sept. 1, 2, 28 Topps 20,000
2003 April 12, May 3, 7, 28, Aug. 1, 3Topps20,000
2003 September 28Ron Santo Jersey39, 940
2004 May 19, June 16 Topps 20,000
2005 August 28 Ryne Sandberg Jersey 38,763
2009 May 3 Vineline Maddux Jenkins Jersey 40,457
2010 September 7 Ballpark Franks Billy Williams Statue 31,596
2013 Season Ticket Holders Topps Archives
2013 May 3, July 5, August 2, 30 Topps Archives 10,000

Here's a look at one card from each of the 31 sets...


4 comments:

  1. Ah, it figures, the 1994 strike wiped out Tuffy Rhodes' chance at a team issued card. Any plans to do a similar post on the oversize black & white photos the team issued?

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  2. Those b&w pics are very hard to nail down. I've never seen checklists for them. Also, player photos were not changed some years, making it almost impossible to decide what year a picture came from.

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  3. Maybe my favorite image of Ron Santo is that one at the end of the third row.

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  4. I have a mint set of the 1999 Wrigley top ten moments still in the plastic they were given out in. Are they worth anything?

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