The preliminary checklist breakdown includes:
- 350 card set, 50 short prints,
- 263 (for some reason, card #'s 24 and 228 are not even listed) veterans,
- 36 "Rookie Card Logo" players (31 TBD's)
- 25 Historic figures/landmarks including Samuel Morse, Louis Braille, the Alamo, and the Electron)
- 24 Champions (Michael Phelps, Dominique Wilkins, and Jason Wong)
Mini inserts this year include two-20 card sets. Creatures of Legend, Myth & Terror include the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti, Cyclops, and other monsters of yore. The other, World’s Biggest Hoaxes, Hoodwinks, & Bamboozles, include con men like Charles Ponzi and Bernie Maddoff, and hoaxes like Spaghetti Trees and Cold Fusion. (Topps probably couldn't get a certain rival card company executive to agree to appear in this set...)
Product information can be found here. As always, the checklist is subject to change.
Sincerely,
JayBee Anama
4 comments:
GREAT POST!! We will definitely be collecting this set in 2009. Thank you for the information and images.
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I have to think of something appropriate for the Bernie Madoff card when/if I get it.
Something symbolic and as destructive as he was.
Unless I missed something on the initial checklist, I'm wondering why Mantle, Ruth, Robinson, Gehrig, etc. are not included in the base set? Mantle has been in the base set before and I thought for sure with the CMG agreement, they would include Ruth, etc. I guess they still could be as there are several cards "TBD" just thought Topps would include and hype the CMG players as part of the set.
On a side note, it will be interesting to see what the Invisible Man card looks like. :)
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