I'll try here: 1988 Topps Football question

[Anthony]

I posted on the football boards 30 minutes ago, no views on my post, so I'll try here:

I am a baseball collector, so I don't know much about the football side of the hobby. I was in a thrift store today and picked up a binder with a bunch of biggio RCs and some Maddux RCs, and mixed in there were some football and hockey. Nothing too amazing as far as I can tell, but I'm curious about these 1988 Topps football cards. Some of them habe blue backs instead of regular cardboard coloring. Any significance to that?

Thanks in advance,
Anthony

 

[Halonut]

They may be box bottoms

 

[Anthony]

Pictures added for reference.

 

[hofmichael]

I just checked my box abs the bottoms have blue backs as well. I looked at the checklist and it appears all the box bottoms are two player cards also. Perhaps the card just missed part of the printing process.

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[Anthony]

I just checked my box abs the bottoms have blue backs as well. I looked at the checklist and it appears all the box bottoms are two player cards also. Perhaps the card just missed part of the printing process.

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Hmmm, maybe. There are about 14-15 pairs of cards like the Rice one I pictured, a lot of them are the two player cards.

Thanks for the help, folks!

 

[Anthony]

Just for reference, here are the card numbers. I'm not so sure they are box bottoms:
6, 215, 216, 208, 282, 351, 35, 342, 218, 85, 21, 7, 116, 301, 217, 102, 231, 108

 

[magicpapa]

Hmmm, maybe. There are about 14-15 pairs of cards like the Rice one I pictured, a lot of them are the two player cards.

Thanks for the help, folks!

[h=3]Box Bottoms[/h] The box card set has 16 cards that were found on the bottom of regular issue wax pack boxes as a four card panel. The cards feature two players per card of NFL stars who won awards when in college. The cards are lettered A-P. Size: 2.5 × 3.5 in. (individually)

 

[Anthony]

I saw that, too--thanks magic. It's just that 208 , 282, 108, 231, 102, 301, 116, 21, 85, 7, and 6 are not two player cards. They are highlight cards and record breaker cards and even a few just regular base cards.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

I saw that, too--thanks magic. It's just that 208 , 282, 108, 231, 102, 301, 116, 21, 85, 7, and 6 are not two player cards. They are highlight cards and record breaker cards and even a few just regular base cards.

If you are gonna move them, I'm sure there are some players collectors looking for the other version. I know in baseball some of the Topps Send Ins have white n grey variations. If these are even less common there may be a market

Ryan

 

[Anthony]

If you are gonna move them, I'm sure there are some players collectors looking for the other version. I know in baseball some of the Topps Send Ins have white n grey variations. If these are even less common there may be a market

Ryan

Thanks--good point.

 

[Anthony]

I'm blind. Just noticed: no blue ink at all on the backs. So, the name/team/position is blank on the backs. Maybe it is a printer error.