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| The 5 cards I chose to represent 2010 on the Topps 300 (and then some...) blog. |
Back in 2010, Topps had this wonderful idea of a promotion that coincided with the 60th Anniversary of Topps Baseball cards. They picked 100 cards out of their (at the time) catalog of 43,133 regular and traded Topps cards (as of 2010 Topps Update) and asked collectors to vote for their top 10 cards from the small list of 100. To save the trouble, my original post, from November 7, 2010, is linked here. Feel free to review and try to come back to this post. There is a reason why I am bringing this up.
For those who stayed, basically, Topps' 100-card list featured almost EVERY Mickey Mantle card in their catalog (15 of 17 cards made the cut), did not include any cards from the following years: 1976, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, included a card that was not meant to be produced (but did) in the 2006 Topps Alex Gordon card, and also included then-wunderkind's Stephen Strasburg's 2010 SP rookie card as one of the best 100 ever cards. I picked my top 10, eventually Topps revealed their Top 60 cards, and everyone moved on.
For the most part.
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| The 5 cards I chose to represent 1952 on the Topps 300 (and then some...) blog. |
I thought this could have been done better. So I decided to do something about it (how naïve was I back then??!)
On November 14, 2010, I selected 300 cards, 5 cards from Topps (then) 60-year history that I thought were the best from each year, and created a blog with images of the cards I picked. I called the blog The Topps 300 (and then some...). I picked the 300 cards based on a few qualifiers, including: Key Rookie, Unique Photo, Action Shot, Card caused a buzz in the Hobby, Noteworthy Errors, Player had an impact on the game that particular year.
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| The 5 cards I chose to represent 1976 on the Topps 300 (and then some...) blog. |
After I posted my picks, I opened the floor to readers who wanted to chime in and add their choices (this is where the "and then some..." comes from). It gained a bit of publicity thanks to a blurb that appeared in Sports Collector's Daily (it's a blink and you miss it thing, but I still am grateful for the publicity). I had big plans for what to do with it, but then...you know...life happened (excuses, excuses...sheesh).
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| The 5 cards I chose to represent 1989 on the Topps 300 (and then some...) blog. |
Five-plus years later, Topps announced that one of the inserts they were including in the eponymous brand would be a 65-card set (turned into 130 among two series) called Berger's Best, showcasiing reprints of Topps designs, with a brief blurb of Sy Berger's influence on the baseball card world on the back. I did a brief update of the Topps 300 project, adding my top 5 cards from 2011 through 2015. I didn't add them to the main site, you can see the cards I chose here.
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| The 5 cards I chose to represent 2014, not on the Topps 300 blog. |
Now it's 2026, more than 15 years later. I think that now is the right time to showcase what I think are the top 5 cards from each year from 2016 through 2025. It's not going to happen tonight, please give me a bit of time so I can review over 10,070 cards (that's the number of cards from 2016 through 2025 between the Series 1, 2, and Update) to come up with a final 75 cards.
It's something to think about. What cards would you include from the last 15 years for this project. Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Sincerely,
JayBee Anama
