1979 Topps premium

[novakjr]

Let see if I've got this straight. These were basically the pictures that the parents of a little leaguer could get so that they could have a card of their kids? And that a few people submitted pictures of major leaguers to make their own brand of card?

I believe Topps started doing a similar thing online a few years ago, and you could create the card virtually online using their templates from older year layouts, and then order limited print runs of anything from 50-750(or something like that). People started making cards of Bryce Harper and other highly touted minor leaguers/ draft prospects/ or picks. They are technically Topps cards, also dated with stats(if the buyer/designer chose to include them). I wonder if these will ever have any kind of effect on the hobby?

[steve B]

That's exactly what they are. I'm fairly sure this promotion was for 20 cards at a time. If I recall things right there were a few submissions they did that got rejected. They did use photos they took themselves, so no copyright worries aside from no MLB license or team license for the logos.

I'll have to check out the Topps online card thing.

Hard to say of they'll have any hobby impact. Probably not since stuff like this is very hard to catalog. I bought these as curiosities and examples of that Topps premium. They cost a bit since it's actual players. The modern ones could be interesting as they're a labeled Topps product.

Steve B

[ALR-bishop]

Somehow I ended up with a bunch of the scratch off game cards

[D. Bergin]

Hmmmm.

Didn't Fleer have a similar make your own card or sticker promotion in the 80's?

Same deal, they discouraged actual players being submitted, but I think somebody got a Mantle or somebody else very prominent through, and that caused a bit of a stir on the show circuit for a little while..........at least here in the Northeast where I'm from.

[Bob Lemke]

Yes, Fleer had the do-it-yourself sticker offer in 1981. The collectors' issue Mantles, Mattinglys, Boggs, etc. are mentioned on Page 786 of the 2011 Standard Catalog.

[ALR-bishop]

Bob---what about the 1971 Topps Winners cards or "set". ? Did that involve some contest to get your kid on a baseball card ? Not sure if anyone could do it or you had to be a "winner". Also, do you know if there is a checklist of any kind, even partial, to the 71 set, or the 79, or the 81 Fleer "set" ?

[Bob Lemke]

I always viewed those types of cards as impossible to accurately checklist, so I never attempted to do so.

[doug.goodman]

I show the 1971 Topps Winners checklist as follows :

#01 - Mark D. Audia
#02 - April D. Bole
#03 - Lisa C. Bole
#04 - Allen G. Csuk Jr.
#05 - Theresa D. Faulkner
#06 - Vernon Grover
#07 - Tim J. Harlan
#08 - Jeff Hooper
#09 - Darren K. Lazzari
#10 - Jeffrey M. Mihalik
#11 - Jerry R. Nachtrieb
#12 - Ricky E. Nobile
#13 - Brucette A. Rumenyak
#14 - Fred A. Sinopoli
#15 - Christine Ulicny

Dave Hornish goes into them pretty deep on his blog http://toppsarchives.blogspot.com/se...opps%20Winners

For those of you holding a big stash of these cards, I'm still looking for #2, 6, 10, 11, 12 & 13.

Thanx,
Doug