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Originally Posted by Morty
What still doesn't make any sense to me is that the checklist includes 150 individuals, while only 100 have showed up on eBay, COMC, and box breaks. Why would Topps put them on the checklist, and then not release the cards? My first thought was that Topps maybe held these 50 cards back to build even more hype for a second release. That would possibly explain why only a small handful of the black 1/1s have surfaced so far. Heck, even the purple, green and orange refractors have seemed tough to find. I've only seen three Otani green refractors and maybe a half dozen Otani purple refractors surface on eBay. For a set with this much popularity and low supply, you would think the market would have seen up to half the print run hit eBay so far.
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I don't think Topps ever released a checklist. With the exception of the Otani/Adams card (#31) the hobby saw the same players and numbers and assumed the checklist was the same. It is entirely likely that Topps only intended to have a 100 card set and they were too lazy to renumber or announce the checklist.