2009 Topps T-206 Baseball 100th Anniversary Edition
Product Details:
(350) total cards, (7) cards per pack with (50) short prints
(2) autographs and/or relics per Hobby box
(20) packs per box, (10) boxes per case
Original T-206 Buybacks included!
Release Date:
Week of November 23rd
CLICK HERE to view the checklist
(thumbnails lead to a full-size scan)
I like the variations on the frame, representing each of the original tobacco producers. If boxes are around $50 (ha!) I’ll probably pick up one or 2. Luckily I’m not much of a set collector, cause the one base card we’ve been provided doesn’t look like anything special.
Just what we need. More sets.
The checklist has Andrew Miller. I’m sold!
Wow, it’s been raining new Topps products this week!
I’m glad that they’re doing a T206 retro set to commemorate the 100th anniversary, but it doesn’t look very good. The foil stickers look beyond awful on the retro design, and do we really need meaningless jersey cards in this product?
If I could do it my way, I’d make a T206 retro set with all of the cards (not just parallels) in the original tobacco card size. Now THAT would be a nice product.
Looks like Bowman Heritage and Allen & Ginter had a baby and slapped a shiny foil sticker on it’s forehead
I wonder how we’re going to be able to tell this T206 release from prior T206 releases. Just by looking at the back of the card at the copyright date or can tell from the fronts onlly if the Rookie Card logo is present? if my memory is good, the front of the base preview looks similar to the Topps T206 release from a few years ago. Topps probably should have put “Topps T206 2009″ or something in the upper right to make it obvious from looking at the card front.
That would be T205 Robert.
You should share the MSRP with us!
Better yet, why haven’t you set up some kind of partnership with blowout/da/atl whatever, whereby you link to the product with the price in it. I’ll teach you how to write internet contracts: Send them all letters and say you’ll link to whoever offers it the cheapest, and then demand 10% of their profit margin per confirmed referrer purchase to keep your blog-afloat.
Collectors won’t bitch, because you’re linking to the cheapest reputable place to buy the product. You’ll only clear like 100 bucks a year, which coincidentally keeps your blog afloat.
Monetarize / Whore yourself out.
It looks as if the relic cards are framed minis like A&G, are they actually produced that way or does it just look like it?
Love the idea, dislike the execution.
If they are going to do a set like this they should have ACTUALLY mimicked the old T206s: no Topps logo on the front, no “rookie” labels, no paragraph and a half of legal jargon on the back, use a more “authentic” looking print process so these look more like T206s than cheap Dover repros, go lower def with the photos, the list goes on.
I’m sure the hits will be great and people will go nuts, but I am sure you can score 10+ real T206s for the MSRP of a single box of this stuff.
Kris,
I wish I had the SRP price, if I did it would certainly make it into the preview.
There is a Hobby Direct price…
now that looks like a “unique” product.
Charlie: “That would be T205 Robert.”
Actually Topps did T206 before T205. They’ve lapped themselves.
In other news… WHY AM I BROKE GODDAMNIT I CAN’T AFFORD ANOTHER SET
If the price is right its worth another look. If its going to be in Ginter range, forget it
dayf – you’re right. They just called it Topps 206. Now it’s T-206.
For a second there I thought they were re-rehashing a set they’d already done.
Funny thing is, in 2002, the autos were all on-card framed minis
Didn’t see Pettitte… maybe he’s in there but I looked twice, and then got sick of reading.
I take it these are the size of regular cards, and not smaller like the originals?
I’ve been looking forward to this set for a while. The 2002 Topps 206 was the last set I collected before I got out of the hobby for about 6 or so years. But why oh why did they have to put sticker autos on there. And not even clear sticker, but the nasty foil stickers. Terrible mistake Topps.
gah! no pelf in this set either!
Wow, Wagner/Jeter/Mantle/Ruth/Gehrig are shortprints…..thanx for being predictable, Topps execs!
Barf.
Hurt