Random Topps Team Set of the Week: 2009 Colorado Rockies

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

• Team: 2009 Colorado Rockies
• Record: 92-70, second place, NL West Division.
• Managers: Clint Hurdle & Jim Tracy
• Card on the Top: Troy Tulowitzki

The checklist consists of the following players:

• COL1 Troy Tulowitzki
• COL2 Ubaldo Jimenez
• COL3 Garrett Atkins
• COL4 Jeff Francis
• COL5 Clint Barmes
• COL6 Ryan Spilborghs
• COL7 Brad Hawpe
• COL8 Huston Street
• COL9 Todd Helton
• COL10 Dexter Fowler
• COL11 Chris Iannetta
• COL12 Aaron Cook
• COL13 Ian Stewart
• COL14 Jeff Baker
• COL15 Coors Field

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 2009 Topps eponymous set:

• The regular card of Troy Tulowitzki shows him getting ready during spring training:
  
  

• The retail card of Jeff Francis utilizes another shot of the former 1st round draft pick:
  
  

• Clint Barmes' eponymous card is horizontally-oriented:
  
  

• Here's Ryan Spilborghs' base card...getting ready to make a spectacular catch:
  
  

• When Topps says that they get close to the game...can it get any closer than this shot from closer Huston Street?:
  
  

• Mr. Rockie himself, Todd Helton, getting ready to take the throw at first on his base card:
  
  

• On his regular Topps card, Chris Iannetta models the tools of ignorance:
  
  

Of the 14 players included in this set, 7 players have different pictures on the retail set compared to the base set, and none were of the same-photo-different-cropping variety. A fantastic set to collect if you're a Topps collector because of all of the photo variations.

Next week's featured set will be the 2010 Detroit Tigers. Hope you'll be here when we compare the cards from the retail set to their counterparts found in Topps and Topps Updates Series sets.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama