1991 Topps

If I were to sit down and pick my top five favorite Topps sets of all-time, this would be one of them. This is just about as good as it gets. (The scans really don't do these cards justice) I remember Topps switching to a higher line screen in '91, which in resulted in the clearest and sharpest photographs they ever produced. The nice use of the logo complemented by the subtle blue and orange frames is great. Even the gaudy Topps logo seems to blend right in. Hell, they even managed to make Mike Henneman look like a real ballplayer. 

The 1991 Topps Detroit Tigers:

16 Mike Heath

75 Jack Morris

106 Ed Nunez

128 Travis Fryman

145 Lou Whitaker

183 Clay Parker

236 Frank Tanana

275 Alan Trammell

281 Larry Sheets

328 Walt Terrell

369 Steve Searcy

386 Cecil Fielder All-Star

389 Alan Trammell All-Star

412 Dave Bergman

431 Paul Gibson

469 Chet Lemon

498 Mark Salas

506 Darnell Coles

519 Sparky Anderson

556 Gary Ward

583 Tony Phillips

597 Jerry Don Gleaton

632 Lloyd Moseby

641 Mike Henneman

658 Scott Aldred

684 Milt Cuyler

720 Cecil Fielder

746 John Shelby

766 Jeff Robinson

Now I don't know what happened, but I don't have the Traded Set. I thought I did. I do have the checklist of cards in the set, but not the set itself. So I'll just stick in this great card of Lou Whitaker instead. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

The 1991 Topps Traded Detroit Tigers:

5T Skeeter Barnes

30T Rob Deer

57T Pete Incaviglia

119T Mickey Tettleton

I was under the impression that this was the first Topps debut set. I was wrong. One of my emailers informed me just today that the first set was done in 1990. When I looked at the checklist he sent me for it, well, I didn't do anything. But I wanted to. It was that bad. Not like this one, which had a few of my favorite Tigers for years to come.

The 1991 Topps Debut Detroit Tigers:

3 Scott Aldred

36 Milt Cuyler

49 Travis Fryman

136 Rich Rowland

163 Steve Wapnick