Completely Red: 1983 Topps

This set is quite nice. Fleer and Donruss were putting out pretty lame sets for a couple years by now, and Topps blew them out of the water with this set. At least, it blew them out of the water in terms of lasting awesomeness. I have no idea if this is true sales-wise. It probably was. This was before i was out of diapers, so my professional business acumen was sorely lacking.

The base and traded sets contain 37 Reds cards, including 5 in the most-excellent Super Veterans subset (2 in their current jerseys and 3 in their rookie year jerseys), a Concepcion All Star, and a Cedeno/Soto Team Leader card. We also have the last regular base card of Johnny Bench and a single RC (Gary Redus).

STATS:

Cards - 37

RC's - 1 (Gary Redus)

All Stars - 9 (Johnny Bench, Tom Hume, Pete Rose, Mario Soto, Cesar Cedeno, Lee May, Dave Concepcion, Tony Perez, Tom Seaver)

Hall of Famers - 3 (Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Tom Seaver)

Reds Hall of Famers - 8 (Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, Mario Soto, Lee May, Tom Seaver, Dan Dreissen, Ron Oester)

Spectacles - 2 Pair (Tom Hume, Alan Knicely)

Sexy Pete Rose Haircuts - 2

Iwo Jima Flag Pole Re-Enactments - 1 (Dave Concepcion)

Checklist:

34 Paul Householder

60 Johnny Bench

61 Johnny Bench SV

86 Tom Hume

101 Pete Rose SV

112 Bob Shirley

139 Bruce Berenyi

165 Dan Driessen

191 Joe Price

215 Mario Soto

243 Duane Walker

269 Ron Oester

296 Greg Harris

322 Dave Van Gorder

351 Reds TL Cesar Cedeno & Mario Soto

374 Wayne Krenchicki

378 Lee May SV

400 Dave Concepcion AS

423 Tom Lawless

449 Eddie Milner

475 Cesar Cedeno

527 Larry Biittner

554 Mike Vail

580 Tom Seaver

581 Tom Seaver SV

607 Charlie Leibrandt

632 Alex Trevino

658 Frank Pastore

684 Rafael Landestoy

716 Tony Perez SV

720 Dave Concepcion

756 Russ Nixon MG

11T Dann Bilardello
35T Rich Gale
57T Alan Knicely
88T Charlie Puleo
94T Gary Redus XRC

Go Reds.