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60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #46: 1994 Topps
Jun 19th
By Drew Pelto AKA *censored*
On April 23, 1994, the Painesville Little League season opened and I began my second year of organized baseball. It was my tenth birthday, and I was the leadoff hitter and starting catcher for the Kent Marks Home Improvement Pirates (long story on the team change between 1994 and 1995, don’t ask). I went 0-for-2 with two strikeouts as we got no-hit by the Malkamaki Builders Browns in a 10-0 mercy rule decision, but I didn’t care. It was my birthday, it was my first game behind the plate, and I wasn’t going to let what More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #48: 1998 Topps
Jun 12th
by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
Aside from 1995, I liked a lot of Topps sets in my major years of collecting baseball (pretty much the decade of the 90’s, as I got more into hockey in the 2000’s). But 1998 was not one of those years. As a baseball fan, that year was kind of the beginning of the end for me for a while. The Indians’ once-great teams were starting to fall off, they missed out on Pedro Martinez (because they wanted to keep Jaret Wright… can you believe that?), and the steroid-inflated numbers were entering the picture in a More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #49: 2001 Topps
Jun 8th
by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored*
Oh Topps. What should have been…
Back in my 2000 Topps review, I pointed out that 2001 was an incredible year for rookies. Ichiro, Albert Pujols, C.C. Sabathia, Alfonso Soriano, Roy Oswalt, Jimmy Rollins, and Adam Dunn were among those receiving votes for the Rookie of the Year Awards. Draft picks in 2000 included Adrian Gonzalez, Rocco Baldelli, Chase Utley, and Grady Sizemore in the first 100 picks. That’s two definite Hall of Famers, five potential Hall of Famers, and four Hall of Pretty Gooders that could, probably even should have had rookie cards in this set. More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #50: 1978 Topps
Jun 6th
By Drew Pelto aka *censored*
The good news: we’re out of the 10 worst. The bad news: the next 10 really aren’t that great either. Sorry about this, kids. But stay tuned, the sets will start to get good in August, I swear! And in the mean time, I’ll try to keep it entertaining.
1978 was a bad year for sports as the Three Major Evil Empires all won. A Yankees World Series win, a Cowboys Super Bowl win, a Canadiens Stanley Cup win… and Washington beat Seattle for an NBA Championship that as far as I know, no one cares about. More >
60 Years of Topps Baseball Countdown – #51: 1986 Topps
Jun 2nd
By Drew Pelto aka *censored*
And so, as we enter June, we have the ten worst Topps sets out of the way with the 1986 Topps set.
I have a lot of reasons for not liking this set. It comes in at a bad time first off. I mentioned back in the 1988 set that Topps had a lot of trouble doing things well in even-numbered years in the 1980’s. This is one of those sets. The breakdown of the decade in my rankings is as follows:
Top 10: 3 sets (all odd-numbered years) 11-20: 1 set (even) 21-30: 1 set (odd) ———-The More >
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