2015 Stadium Club
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There have been threads on the other major Topps releases this year, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned 2015 Stadium Club yet. Is anyone else collecting it? To me, it is the best thing Topps put out this year. It has an interesting mix of active and retired players that includes guys who were good players but weren't superstars, and really great photography. It's also a small enough set that you can put it together pretty easily and has no annoying short prints. It's also in retail, so I've just been grabbing a blaster box here and there when I'm in Target anyway. It's a fun rip. Here's 9 cards I pulled in about 3 minutes just now out of the first handful of 50 or so I picked up out of my unorganized stack.
The Gehrig card is just fantastic. If you like interesting cards and cool photos it may be for you.
The Gehrig card is just fantastic. If you like interesting cards and cool photos it may be for you.
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I liked the look so much that what I decided to do is to just focus on putting together a set of the gold autographs. I love that the autos are on-card and the mix of players is pretty good as well. If I'm able to put it together, it will be the first modern baseball set I will have completed in ages.
Right now, I have 62 of the 75 autographs, of which 45 are gold. I will probably put something up on BST to see if anyone can fill my needs list.
One oddity, though:
I monitor ebay frequently for new ones. In doing so (and checking ended listings), I have never seen a gold autograph version of Kris Bryant (all auto redemptions have been base), Noah Syndergaard (all auto redemptions have been base), Jung-Ho Kang, and Carolos Rodon. Has anyone seen gold versions, or know if Topps did not distribute the gold versions of these?
<< <i>I've been meaning to bring this set up too.
I liked the look so much that what I decided to do is to just focus on putting together a set of the gold autographs. I love that the autos are on-card and the mix of players is pretty good as well. If I'm able to put it together, it will be the first modern baseball set I will have completed in ages.
Right now, I have 62 of the 75 autographs, of which 45 are gold. I will probably put something up on BST to see if anyone can fill my needs list.
One oddity, though:
I monitor ebay frequently for new ones. In doing so (and checking ended listings), I have never seen a gold autograph version of Kris Bryant (all auto redemptions have been base), Noah Syndergaard (all auto redemptions have been base), Jung-Ho Kang, and Carolos Rodon. Has anyone seen gold versions, or know if Topps did not distribute the gold versions of these? >>
Very impressive start! I have no idea on whether those others are available in the gold or not because I haven't been buying for the autos really. But I've pulled two out of the four or five blasters I've bought so I like that they aren't all that tough to pull.
Buster Posey (only seen gold)
Bryce Harper (only seen gold)
Mike Trout (only seen gold)
Fernando Valenzuela (only seen gold)
Ryne Sandberg (only seen gold)
Davis Ortiz (only seen gold)
David Wright (only seen gold)
Evan Longoria (only seen gold)
Freddie Freeman (only seen gold)
Jose Abreu (only seen gold)
Josh Donaldson (seen gold and black)
Clayton Kershaw (redemption - seen gold and black)
Joey Votto (only seen gold)
Mike Piazza (only seen gold)
Mariano Rivera (only seen gold)
Roger Clemens (only seen gold)
Jorge Soler (seen gold and black)
<< <i>Yeah, I am loving the Stadium Club this year. The photos and overall look of the cards are fantastic. I have been putting together the gold foil parallel set. >>
Those will look great. I have a handful of gold foils but don't plan to put it together. PM me your list and I'll see if I can help out.
I don't mind the inclusion of retired players in a secondary set like this if it's done right. I hate it when you get the same photo of the same players in 5 different sets and 4 more insert sets. I don't need another card of Jackie Robinson posed finishing his swing. I could do with far fewer inserts in general. But here, the photos are fresh even if the players are long retired. Take that Gehrig card. It is wonderful because it makes you see him in a new light after all these years. The enduring image of him is head bowed at the microphone, already sick. Here you see him joyfully jumping a bat. You get a sense of another side of the man, and I'm fine with a set that can pull that off. Certainly Topps can beat the nostalgia factor to death, but I think they got it right with this set. And if a card with a great picture of Carlos Baerga turning two causes a younger collector to read about him, I think that's great too.