Topps' last set without competition. And it's a nice set. The banner theme is good lookin. I only wish the color scheme for the Reds wasn't fuchsia and blue. They could have went with, oh, I don't know... RED. And there are too many posed shots. This ain't the 60's anymore, Topps. Let's see some movement.
We've got a lot of the Big Red Machine lineup still plugging away. Bench, Foster, Concepcion, Griffey, Geronimo, and Morgan were still around. Rose and Perez were gone, but both would come back in a few years. In their stead was an OK pitcher named Tom Seaver. Decent.
STATS:
Cards - 26
RC's - 2 (Art DeFreites, Frank Pastore)
All Stars - 11 (Johnny Bench, Tom Hume, Ray Knight, Mike LaCoss, Dave Concepcion, Paul Blair, George Foster, Tom Seaver, Ken Griffey, Mario Soto, Joe Morgan)
All Stars - 11 (Johnny Bench, Tom Hume, Ray Knight, Mike LaCoss, Dave Concepcion, Paul Blair, George Foster, Tom Seaver, Ken Griffey, Mario Soto, Joe Morgan)
Hall of Fame - 3 (Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver, Joe Morgan)
Reds Hall of Famers - 9 (Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Dave Concepcion, Mario Soto, George Foster, Ken Griffey, Tom Seaver, Cesar Geronimo, Dan Driessen)
Checklist:
21 Manny Sarmiento
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47 Bill Bonham
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73 Dave Collins
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100 Johnny Bench
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126 Dave Tomlin
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149 Tom Hume
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174 Ray Knight
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199 Mike LaCoss
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220 Dave Concepcion
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258 Paul Moskau
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281 Paul Blair
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325 Dan Driessen
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354 Rick Auerbach
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377 Junior Kennedy
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400 George Foster
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419 Vic Correll
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449 Doug Bair
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475 Cesar Geronimo
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500 Tom Seaver
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516 Hector Cruz
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550 Ken Griffey
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606 John McNamara MGR
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622 Mario Soto
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650 Joe Morgan
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677 Future Stars - Art DeFreites, Frank Pastore & Harry Spillman
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714 Fred Norman
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Go Reds.
IMHO, the 1980 topps George Foster is one of the top-9 most iconic Reds cards ever.
ReplyDeleteCool looking year, having completed that yet. The next year gets even more pink. Yay 80s!
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