Completely Red: 1982 Fleer

This set, ooh, I don't know. It's pretty boring. It was only Fleer's second year, so I suppose we can assume they were still trying to figure this whole thing out. But geez. You couldn't come back for photos when it wasn't overcast? And did you think being slightly out of focus might fix it? Did you use one of those WalMart disposable cameras? And how about some semblance of a card design? Could it BE any more basic? Yeesh.

There's a tiny bit of redemption with the Big Red Machine and Dynamic Duo cards. I enjoy bonus subsets without a theme. These seam to have disappeared by the 90's. And there are some good names here (Bench, Seaver, etc) so it's not a total failure. That's right. 1982 Fleer: Not a Total Failure.

STATS:

Cards - 32

RC's - 0

All Stars - 9 (Johnny Bench, Dave Concepcion, George Foster, Ken Griffey, Tom Hume, Ray Knight, Mike LaCoss, Tom Seaver, Mario Soto)

Hall of Famers - 2 (Johnny Bench, Tom Seaver)

Reds Hall of Famers - 8 (Johnny Bench, Dave Concepcion, Mario Soto, George Foster, Ken Griffey, Tom Seaver, Dan Driessen, Ron Oester)

All the Leaves - Brown (all the leaves are brooooooown)

And the Sky - Gray (and the sky is graaaaaaay)

Checklist:

57 Johnny Bench

58 Bruce Berenyi

59 Larry Biittner

60 Scott Brown

61 Dave Collins

62 Geoff Combe

63 Dave Concepcion

64 Dan Driessen

65 Joe Edelen

66 George Foster

67 Ken Griffey

68 Paul Householder

69 Tom Hume

70 Junior Kennedy

71 Ray Knight

72 Mike LaCoss

73 Rafael Landestoy

74 Charlie Leibrandt

75 Sam Mejias

76 Paul Moskau

77 Joe Nolan

78 Mike O'Berry

79 Ron Oester

80 Frank Pastore

81 Joe Price

82 Tom Seaver

83 Mario Soto

84 Mike Vail

630 Big Red Machine – Dan Driessen, Dave Concepsion & George Foster

634 Dynamic Duo - Johnny Bench & Tom Seaver

645 Tom Seaver - Most Wins

Go Reds.