Keeping through the 2018 sets within the BASEball lot, we cover Archives today and can take a look at the different designs, and a few keepers.
A single Jays addition today, and though not new, nice to pick up. Love the look of the 1981 sets, and we have three short print base cards. It's a 300 card base set with another 30 cards tacked on which are short prints, so all good there, and Ichiro is a good pick up on one too!
The first hundred cards are the 1959 Topps design revisited...
Though I like the retro design, the faux stained backs are not my favourite. I get what they are looking to get out of it, but just looks too forced. Would rather they just be clean and cardboard coloured instead of this stained white look, but small complaint.
The second 100 cards are the 1977 TOpps design revisited...
The front designs look a lot crisper than the originals, but the overall design is there, including the fantastic cartoons on the back to go with the full stats. Nice Roger Clemens - much as I disliked him through most of his career spent against the Jays....he was solid during his short run with the team.
Last 100 cards are the 1981 Topps design...
Of the three designs, it's my favourite but that will be because it is the one I think I have more represented with the early years of the Jays. I wasn't around for the very start of the Jays, being born in 1980, so this one is more what I remember from early collecting in the late 80s.
I did take a second glance at whether I should pick this set up as one to collect given over 40% of the set here, but I am sticking to my thoughts on Archives - I'd rather not collect the sets, just my Jays (and anything insert/parallel/short print related.
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