Random Topps Team Set of the Week: 2008 Topps Cincinnati Reds

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

• Team: 2008 Topps Cincinnati Reds
• Record: 74-88, fifth place, NL Central Division.
• Manager: Dusty Baker
• Card on the Top: Brandon Phillips

The checklist consists of the following players:

• CIN1 Brandon Phillips
• CIN2 Ken Griffey Jr.
• CIN3 Scott Hatteberg
• CIN4 Homer Bailey
• CIN5 David Weathers
• CIN6 Bronson Arroyo
• CIN7 Edwin Encarnacion
• CIN8 Alex Gonzalez
• CIN9 Joey Votto
• CIN10 Edinson Volquez
• CIN11 Norris Hopper
• CIN12 Francisco Cordero
• CIN13 Aaron Harang
• CIN14 Adam Dunn

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:

• The base card of Francisco Cordero shows you more of the picture from the retail set:
  
  

• Ditto for Aaron Harang:
  
  

• And Adam Dunn:
  
  

So of the 14 players included in this set, three are closeups of their eponymous card. The other 11 cards use the same pictures.

Next week's featured set will be the 2011 New York Mets. Hope you'll be here when we compare the cards from the retail set to their counterparts found in Topps and Topps Update Series.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama