Random Topps Team Set of the Week: 2008 San Francisco Giants

Thanks to the Topps Card Randomizer, introducing the Random Topps Team Set of the Week:

• Team: 2008 San Francisco Giants
• Record: 72-90, fourth place, NL West Division.
• Manager: Bruce Bochy
• Card on the Top: Tim Lincecum

The checklist consists of the following players:

• SFG1 Tim Lincecum
• SFG2 Barry Zito
• SFG3 Aaron Rowand
• SFG4 Ray Durham
• SFG5 Noah Lowry
• SFG6 Matt Cain
• SFG7 Bengie Molina
• SFG8 Omar Vizquel
• SFG9 Dave Roberts
• SFG10 Rajai Davis
• SFG11 Kevin Frandsen
• SFG12 Rich Aurilia
• SFG13 Randy Winn
• SFG14 Brad Hennessey

The cards in order from the set (the checklist at the end was cut from the back of the package. What, you don't do that?):

Key differences between the team set and 2008 Topps eponymous set:

• It's the same picture, but you can see more of Aaron Rowand's at bat on his base card:
  
  

• The same goes for Bengie Molina:
  
  

• And check out Rajai Davis...it's the same thing:
  
  

So while the cards of the other 11 players in the retail set are exactly the same as the ones in the base set, three cards use closeups of the pictures already in the base set.  No wildly obvious variations here.

Next week's featured set will be the 2006 Pittsburgh Pirates.  Hope you'll be here when we compare the cards from the retail set to their counterparts found in Topps and Topps Updates & Highlights.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama