Year - 2010
Main Brands - Topps, Upper Deck
Number of Players Included Among All the Sets: 30
Players Included in Every Set: 14
Today I've reached the end of the line, the last year with more than one major brand. Upper Deck lost their MLB license after 2009 but decided to put out a set in 2010 anyway. They made no attempt to hide logos, which lead to a lawsuit. Topps and MLB won and UD was barred from releasing their second series.
I debated whether or not to do this season, but UD's first series has 600 cards, nearly matching the 660 put out by Topps in total, so I went ahead.
There are 20 Upper Deck Cubs cards and you can see the Cubs logo or name in 18 of the 20, so UD was really daring legal action. Seems like a pretty arrogant and stupid thing to do. They designed the cards like it would be their last set though, with and ugly green border on the bottom and black and white head shots.
The Topps 2010 set design - was similar to the cereal issue they had issued in2001?
ReplyDeleteNever realized how hard it was to see the name on the scanned cards.
I always thought Upper Deck did decent job of selecting photos that hid the logo
I also thought UD did fine with hiding the logo. You never see the complete logo on the jersey and only see the C of the cap on a couple of cards. I would have rather collected this version of UD than all the Paninis.
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