2017 "Rediscover Topps" 1993 Topps #370

Card Review: 9.0  I like this 1993 Topps design.  It just has that inherent "baseball card feel" to it.  The superfluous blue "rediscover Topps" stamping along the side does nothing but slightly detract from the original, thankfully, it's somewhat difficult to see in blue foil.  Hopefully any kid that may have pulled one of these and was seeing 1993 Topps for the first time, wouldn't get to bad of an impression.

Number in my Collection: 1

2020 update: 2

Color Break Down:
Blue: 1

Red: 1

1993 Topps Micro #570

Card Review: Incomplete  This thing is tiny.  Just ridiculously small.  Too small to be graded as a "card."  It's a novelty item for all intents and purposes.  If I remember correctly these were sold in box sets that resembled a skinny tube of toothpaste box.  I never bought one because while I wanted the Wallach, I didn't need the other 824 cards in the set ('93 Topps was huge).  This is the 5th, and I believe final, variation of the 1993 Topps base card that I've posted.  If you click this all five will pull up, plus the '93 Topps Traded which, mercifully, didn't  come with any variations.

Number of this "card" in my collection: 1
2013 update: 2

1993 Topps Marlins Inaugural #570

Card Review: 8.8  This is basically identical to the Rockies Ingaugural (click here to read about it), but instead of a Rockies logo, it has a Marlins logo.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2014 update: 4
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 5
2019 update: 6

2020 update: 9

1993 Topps Rockies Inaugural #570

 



Card Review: 8.8  This card is identical to the regular '93 card but for the little gold foil stamp in the lower left corner. It may not show up well in the scan, but it's the logo of the Colorado Rockies.  Topps put out these inaugural sets for both the Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies in 1993.  I find them to be a goofy gimmick.  I believe they were only sold as complete sets.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2014 update: 2
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 3

1993 Topps Traded #127T

 








Card Review: 9.3  Topps finally had a second chance to include Wallach in a Traded set and this time they didn't drop the ball.  In 1981 they inexplicably left Wallach out of their traded set.  Bad enough Topps blew the chance to put Tim Raines and Tim Wallach on the same 1981 base card, then they had to go and leave him out of the traded set as well.  An omission that still burns me.  Wallach also should have been in the 1996 Traded set, as he went from the Angels to the Dodgers mid-season.  But Topps didn't issue a Traded set in 1996.  Worse yet, they didn't even include Wallach in the 1996 base set.  It was weird time for Topps, and they were making a lot of bad choices, so I've come to forgive them for that omission, but I haven't forgotten. 

I'm a little embarrassed to say how long it took me to track down this card.  So I won't give an exact year, other than to say, Wallach was retired already.  It was the last of the (somewhat) standard issue Wallach cards for me to obtain.  All in all, not a bad card.

Number of this card in my collection: 8
2012 update: 10
2013 update: 16
2014 update: 17
2015 update: 22 
2016 update: 23
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 29
2019 update: 37

2020 update: n/a

2021 update: 38

2022 update: 39

2023 update: n/a

2024 update: n/a

2025 update: n/a

2026 update: 41

1993 Topps #570

Card Review: 9.3 I've always liked the 1993 Topps design.  It's all the unecessary variations that I don't like.  The gold variants are particularly unflattering given this card's design.

1993 marks a major line of demarcation in the Topps set, as it was a huge departure from anything they'd done previously.  I can accept the changes Topps made for the '93 and '94 sets, it's where they went from there that still disappoints me.  In '95 they added the foil stamping and the cards became extremely glossy.  I think the two year window from '93-94 represents a reasonable compromise between the classic and modern cards, assuming of course, they still came with gum.

Number of this card in my collection: 18
2012 update: 25
2013 update: 70
2014 update: 84
2015 update: 115 
2016 update: 139
2017 update: 144
2018 update: 194
2019 update: 254
2020 update: 263

2021 update: 284

2022 update: 311

2023 update: 319

2024 update: 347

2025 update: 364

2026 update: 365