Wednesday, January 31, 2018

2018 Set Project #1- 2018 Topps 1983 Baseball Cards

I thought that trying to put together some 1983 style cards would be a good place to start with my efforts to assemble a complete set from the 2018 Topps cards.  At some point back in December I made a post about some different things I wanted to accomplish this year with my collection.  The biggest change is getting away from collecting base sets.

My interest has slowly drifted away from the base sets and it's time for a new direction.  The 1983 set was actually one of the first that I collected, so I am really excited about this project.



These are great looking cards.  The 2018 versions of the 1983 Topps cards are also very nice looking cards.  Topps did a good job of getting a lot of the little details right with the rehashed cards....




This Matt Carpenter card is not actually mine, so I have all 100 cards left to collect.  For the moment I am going with the regular inserts and not the Silver Pack Chrome versions.  If at some point I finish the insert set version, I might go back and pick up the cards from the Silver Packs.  Not now, I am going to be focused....

There are Cardinals and former Durham Bulls players in the autograph parallels, but some are already former players (Aledmys Diaz) and others are on stickers.  Not sure I am going to go after some of these yet.  The two that are on my list for sure are Jacob Faria and Steven Souza.  Both are on-card and I am fairly confident I will actually have these two cards crossed off my list by the end of the night.

Here's what I am looking for:


83-1 Ryne Sandberg - Chicago Cubs
83-2 Hank Aaron - Atlanta Braves
83-3 Andrew McCutchen - Pittsburgh Pirates
83-4 Mookie Betts - Boston Red Sox
83-5 Jacob deGrom - New York Mets
83-6 Noah Syndergaard - New York Mets
83-7 Frank Thomas - Chicago White Sox
83-8 Khris Davis - Oakland Athletics
83-9 Alex Verdugo - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-10 Eric Thames - Milwaukee Brewers
83-11 Matt Carpenter - St. Louis Cardinals
83-12 Carlos Martinez - St. Louis Cardinals
83-13 Mike Trout - Los Angeles Angels
83-14 Rafael Devers - Boston Red Sox
83-15 Ian Happ - Chicago Cubs
83-16 Clayton Kershaw - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-17 Dominic Smith - New York Mets
83-18 Nolan Ryan - Houston Astros
83-19 Nick Williams - Philadelphia Phillies
83-20 Alex Wood - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-21 Jake Arrieta - Chicago Cubs
83-22 Giancarlo Stanton - Miami Marlins
83-23 Kris Bryant - Chicago Cubs
83-24 Aaron Judge - New York Yankees
83-25 Yu Darvish - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-26 Brian Dozier - Minnesota Twins
83-27 Charlie Blackmon - Colorado Rockies
83-28 Luis Severino - New York Yankees
83-29 Harrison Bader - St. Louis Cardinals
83-30 Rhys Hoskins - Philadelphia Phillies
83-31 Jose Altuve - Houston Astros
83-32 Manny Machado - Baltimore Orioles
83-33 Michael Fulmer - Detroit Tigers
83-34 Kyle Seager - Seattle Mariners
83-35 Nelson Cruz - Seattle Mariners
83-36 Stephen Strasburg - Washington Nationals
83-37 Miguel Sano - Minnesota Twins
83-38 Matt Kemp - Atlanta Braves
83-39 Cal Ripken Jr. - Baltimore Orioles
83-40 Ozzie Albies - Atlanta Braves
83-41 Miguel Cabrera - Detroit Tigers
83-42 Yadier Molina - St. Louis Cardinals
83-43 Andrew Benintendi - Boston Red Sox
83-44 Roy Halladay - Philadelphia Phillies
83-45 Josh Donaldson - Toronto Blue Jays
83-46 Dansby Swanson - Atlanta Braves
83-47 Jose Berrios - Minnesota Twins
83-48 Darryl Strawberry - New York Mets
83-49 Freddie Freeman - Atlanta Braves
83-50 Amed Rosario - New York Mets                                                              
83-51 Buster Posey - San Francisco Giants
83-52 Jeff Bagwell - Houston Astros
83-53 Willie Calhoun - Texas Rangers
83-54 Anthony Rizzo - Chicago Cubs
83-55 Justin Upton - Los Angeles Angels
83-56 Don Mattingly - New York Yankees
83-57 Barry Larkin - Cincinnati Reds
83-58 Nolan Arenado - Colorado Rockies
83-59 Yoan Moncada - Chicago White Sox
83-60 Justin Turner - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-61 Felix Hernandez - Seattle Mariners
83-62 Sandy Koufax - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-63 Kenta Maeda - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-64 Robinson Cano - Seattle Mariners
83-65 Edwin Encarnacion - Cleveland Indians
83-66 Daniel Murphy - Washington Nationals
83-67 Ichiro - Miami Marlins
83-68 Derek Jeter - New York Yankees
83-69 Tom Glavine - Atlanta Braves
83-70 Clint Frazier - New York Yankees
83-71 Craig Kimbrel - Boston Red Sox
83-72 Didi Gregorius - New York Yankees
83-73 Adam Jones - Baltimore Orioles
83-74 Gary Sanchez - New York Yankees
83-75 Max Scherzer - Washington Nationals
83-76 Ryan McMahon - Colorado Rockies
83-77 Byron Buxton - Minnesota Twins
83-78 Masahiro Tanaka - New York Yankees
83-79 Jose Canseco - Oakland Athletics
83-80 George Springer - Houston Astros
83-81 Kyle Schwarber - Chicago Cubs
83-82 Trea Turner - Washington Nationals
83-83 Paul Goldschmidt - Arizona Diamondbacks
83-84 Bryce Harper - Washington Nationals
83-85 Victor Robles - Washington Nationals
83-86 Javier Baez - Chicago Cubs
83-87 Cody Bellinger - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-88 John Smoltz - Atlanta Braves
83-89 Bo Jackson - Kansas City Royals
83-90 J.P. Crawford - Philadelphia Phillies
83-91 Eric Hosmer - Kansas City Royals
83-92 Carlos Correa - Houston Astros
83-93 Chris Sale - Boston Red Sox
83-94 Wil Myers - San Diego Padres
83-95 Francisco Lindor - Cleveland Indians
83-96 Alex Bregman - Houston Astros
83-97 Corey Seager - Los Angeles Dodgers
83-98 Justin Verlander - Houston Astros
83-99 Addison Russell - Chicago Cubs
83-100 Wade Boggs - Boston Red Sox



3 comments:

  1. Sad to see that they included Boggs and Sandberg in the 83 set, but not Gwynn.

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    1. I'd be willing to bet that we see Gwynn pop up in series 2.

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    2. Gwynn has to show up at some point. Someone really wrong with the person making the checklist if he does not.

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