1992 Topps Gold Winners

[brian26]

There are a lot of stories out there about how many millions of cards Topps printed once the flashlight scheme came to light, no pun intended. Does anyone have a good grasp on how many gold Winners cards were printed for each card in the set?

 

[Letch77]

Not sure on print run, but this topic does bring back memories as a kid, coming home from trips to the store, grabbing the strongest flashlight in the house and going into the windowless bathroom to match the stats! At the time, I thought I was the only one that knew that secret.

 

[Tibor]

Back in 1995 I was at a show at the Charlotte fair grounds. I was looking for Ripken
cards and came across a dealer who sold me 100 of the Ripken Gold Winner cards
along with a couple on front Topps cello and Raks. He had quantities of other major
players with him. Good prices from what I remember.

 

[gt2590]

Bumping this cuz I got a big lot of "Gold Winners" from 1992 Topps baseball.

People online are saying the "Winners" Golds are more plentiful than the "base" Golds.

Is that accurate?

I would think it'd be the opposite...

 

[deaconblues63]

Bumping this cuz I got a big lot of "Gold Winners" from 1992 Topps baseball.

People online are saying the "Winners" Golds are more plentiful than the "base" Golds.

Is that accurate?

I would think it'd be the opposite...

Yes, base golds are much rarer than Winner golds.

Golds were a 1 per box insert.

 

[KLARNOLD]

Yes, base golds are much rarer than Winner golds.

Golds were a 1 per box

If you bought a complete box, you could have received 360 Winner Gold cards (36 packs X 10) . Winning game card was for a pack of 10 Gold cards.

 

[deaconblues63]

I remember that Topps would only send you what they deemed to be $600 worth of Gold Winners cards unless you submitted an I9 so they could W2 you for the value of the prize.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

Not sure on print run, but this topic does bring back memories as a kid, coming home from trips to the store, grabbing the strongest flashlight in the house and going into the windowless bathroom to match the stats! At the time, I thought I was the only one that knew that secret.

I'm probably the only one at the time that didn't know the secret. I did "win" a few packs of the winner cards on my own, but it stung a bit when my friend showed me the flashlight trick.

Didn't matter, all Topps sent me in return was a bunch of bums. Not a Ripken, Thomas, Manny Ramirez. No, it was usually manager cards or something dumb.

 

[finestkind]

Here's some information on the 1993 Topps gold cards

https://baseballcardpedia.com/index.php/1992_Topps

 

[jacksoncoupage]

Yes, base golds are much rarer than Winner golds.

Golds were a 1 per box insert.

This is not totally true. Maybe slightly less than winners but there are at minimum 12,000 factory sets of non-winners plus all the ones inserted into products and factory sets and winning runs game mail-in redemptions.

Had Topps not issued those Gold sets, this would be true.