Brewer Andy
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- Aug 10, 2008
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I just read about these. I had no idea they were two glued together buybacks with the little trophy embedded, and that the checklist is 460+ subjects, most of whom were obviously not even in the base set of 2005 Topps Rookie Cup. I wonder how many of them never even got made? In the case of Mel Hall, he never had a card with the rookie cup logo, so I wonder if that caused the holdup for manufacture of these things? Would they use his 1984 base card, the Traded card, or what? Kinda crazy little subset this Rookie Cup "relic."
Dale Sveum never had a card with the cup logo on it either. They used his first Topps base card ('87) for his relics. Love those cards! Missed out on a Molitor earlier this year at a reasonable price I believe. I have NO idea what they used to determine the print run to use for each relic card