1993 Topps

Well between facebook and the election I have been severely slacking around here getting some stuff up. Hopefully I can get on a roll and get this finished by the end of the year so I can move on to newer stuff as well as the unveiling of my own personally designed set of baseball cards. With that being said, let's get going.

If I've said it once, I've said it at least more than once, but never on cyberspace though, and here it is: 1993 Topps was the last great base set they ever made. As far as I'm concerned, they've never even come close, and I don't even have any sentimental attachment to this set. (Other than that bitching card of Buddy Groom in the cool throwback. Check out the rotting Cleveland Municpal Stadium in the background.....) 

It's just a nice looking set. It's uncluttered, easy to read (gold foil will change all that in the years to come) and has some really nice subsets too. In fact, I wish Topps did more things like having multiple managers/all-stars/prospects on a single card. 

The Coming Attractions, Manager, and All-Star cards are nice in an innovative yet not too flashy sort of way. Since I mostly only collect Tigers, it's also a cool way to get some other guys that I normally wouldn't pay attention to, like Art Howe and Barry Larkin. The only thing bad about the Phil Clark Coming Attractions card is that Phil Clark is on it. Otherwise it's a nifty looking card. I know I've bashed the silly Score subsets in the past, and deservedly so, but these never gave off that chintzy vibe to me that Score did. 

The 1993 Topps Detroit Tigers:

26 Skeeter Barnes

53 Frank Tanana

80 Cecil Fielder

107 John Kiely

135 Mickey Tettleton

160 Lou Whitaker

189 Tony Phillips

216 Mark Leiter

233 Rick Greene

243 Rob Deer

272 Kurt Knudsen

298 Scott Livingstone

325 Bill Gullickson

353 Buddy Groom

379 Mike Munoz

392 Travis Fryman

423 Ivan Cruz

429 Milt Cuyler

491 Shawn Hare

506 Sparky Anderson

536 Dave Haas

567 Mark Carreon

598 Rico Brogna

626 Danny Gladden

660 Alan Trammell

692 Chad Kreuter

713 John Doherty

756 Mike Henneman

802 Phil Clark

The Traded set was short but sweet.

8T Kirk Gibson

50T David Wells

Topps continued with those crappy goil foil parallels that are just about impossible to read. Had I known they would eventually ALWAYS use the gold foil, I might not have disliked these so much.

In an obvious attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Soul Asylum, Topps debuted the Black Gold insert set. These could have left without a trace and nobody would have cared. They were definitely not the runaway train that Topps had hoped for......

30 Cecil Fielder

41 Mickey Tettleton