Today's addition to the Completely Red series is 1978 Topps. Good looking set, in Red Cardboard's opinion. I like the script team name. The yellow frame bothers me a bit. The set feels older than it is, if that makes any sense. The set is lacking in action shots, at least for the Reds cards. Tons of stars in this set though, which makes it great. Six rookie cards, including Mario Soto and Ray Knight, two of Cincinnati's favorites. A special shout-out to Pete Rose's haircut, which is barely able to be contained by his batting helmet, an apparent theme of the late 70's Reds team.
STATS:
Cards - 32
RC's - 6 (Soto, Capilla, Knight, Hume, Werner, Revering)
All Stars - 14 (Rose x2, Billingham, Griffey, Concepcion, Foster x3, Morgan, Soto, Seaver, Knight, Bench, Hume)
Hall of Famers - 4 (Morgan, Anderson, Seaver, Bench)
Candid vs. Posed Shots - 4 vs. 28
Too Much Hair for Hat/Helmet - 12
Checklist:
5 Pete Rose RB
20 Pete Rose
47 Jack Billingham
80 Ken Griffey
106 Bill Plummer
126 Paul Moskau
149 Dale Murray
180 Dave Concepcion
202 Home Run Leaders George Foster - Jim Rice
203 RBI Leaders George Foster - Larry Hisle
220 Pedro Borbon
246 Dan Driessen
273 Fred Norman
276 Bill Bonham
300 Joe Morgan
326 Mike Lum
354 Cesar Geronimo
377 Manny Sarmiento
401 Sparky Anderson
427 Mario Soto
450 Tom Seaver
477 Doug Capilla
500 George Foster
526 Reds Team
556 Ed Armbrister
622 Champ Summers
646 Rick Auerbach
674 Ray Knight
700 Johnny Bench
701 Tom Hume - Larry Landreth - Steve McCatty - Bruce Taylor
702 Bill Nahorodny - Kevin Pasley - Rick Sweet - Don Werner
706 Wayne Cage - Ted Cox - Pat Putman - Dave Revering
Go Reds.
I wouldn't complain too much about the yellow frame, not when other teams got stuck with pink, green, brown or purple.
ReplyDeleteI've always been amused by Bill Bonham's thinly-disguised Cubs hat.