If there was only one Topps set a year?

[72RangerFan]

If there was only one Topps set a year which one y'all choose? I said Topps because I'm not a fan of the non license cards. I guess this is kinda like a poll but I want feed back as to why you'd choose your favorite set not just a vote.

[Rorschach]

Straight flagship Topps with Heritage and Chrome as parallel inserts.

Thinking this through a bit more...

Topps - flagship, 11 cards per pack, 500 card base set per series. 3 series a year.
One insert card per pack...you get either a Chrome, Heritage or Gold Label parallel with a rare version, 4-6 a box. Rare version would be like refracted chrome or alt photo Heritage.


Fleer (made by UD) - flagship, same cards per pack, series and set.
Inserts would be like Rookie Sensations, EX, Metal with rare versions like Precious Metal Gems


Upper Deck - flagship, same config.
Inserts like Young Guns, Ice parallel, SP parallels. Heroes inserts. Goudey parallel.

You get the idea.

[Cliffroach]

Ditto on flagship. Work in some of the other stuff as inserts.

I'll give Stadium Club second place because the photos are so good.

[LCM1223]

Tough one between Flagship and Heritage

[EldoEsq]

Definitely flagship... Love Heritage, but if that was the only one, it would eventually stop!

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[Firerunner4]

I'd vote for chrome!

[88horsepower]

Flagship. I can't imagine breaking from decades of tradition for something shiny and newer, even if it's Chrome.

[NorCalSCM]

Those were fun times

[72RangerFan]

Those were actually the first baseball cards I ever had. My wife bought them for me for Christmas from Sears & Roebuck. Still have them in an album actually my son has them but still in the family. Hard to believe I was 26 and a die hard baseball fan and had never even seen a baseball card until I got those. We lived out in the country and nobody I knew had any or collected them coming up so we used playing cards in our bicycle spokes. Actually read box scores in the paper and magazines at the barber shop to keep with all the baseball news. Watched games on the radio every night on the porch. Didn't know who was doing this or that off the field all we knew was what happened in the game, that's all that mattered. Times were simpler and I'm not that old I don't reckon just grew up in the past hung around the old timers. Kids could learn a lot today if they'd slow down, anyway I got off topic. Flagship is my choice too. It's what got me started 792 cards and Charlie Hustle was 1 through 7. Thanks for posting that pic.

[tkraft24]

Considering I collect Refractors, Topps Chrome would be an easy choice.

[MotorboatJones]

Heritage

[nera20]

Flagship topps if it was only one release per year but make it really tough so its something that you could collect all year.

Have a heritage parallel set and a topps chrome parallel set with base refractors, gold refractors, and superfractors of each.

Then make sure you have ON CARD autograph inserts

Maybe one killer patch game used with the picture of the jersey on the back of the card.

Make it fun to open boxes.

[rats60]

If Topps only had one set per year, baseball cards would still be popular. Card companies killed the hobby by producing too many sets.

[jdandns]

Flagship.
I basically did stop buying sports cards regularly around 2003 or so (I mostly collect non-sports and comics) but to this day, I pick up a couple of hobby boxes each year of the flagship baseball (Series 1,2, and Update) and did the same with football until that era ended.

[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by 72RangerFan

Watched games on the radio every night on the porch.

Do you still have that radio?

[72RangerFan]

No it went out several years ago but I still listen to games when I'm not watching them on tv. Back then you didn't access to games on tv except GOTW or Monday Night Baseball and the playoffs so you watched games on the radio. If you're under 30 you can't understand what I'm talking about when I say we watched them on the radio but even President Ford once referred to it he caught flack over it. Thee was just something about sitting on out there on the porch with my Daddy Bo (that's what I called my mamas daddy) in the dark no sounds but the radio and our occasional comments about the action or should happen. Lightning bugs for special effects though they weren't synchronized with home runs like today's fireworks. The smell of camel filterless cigarettes, sweet tea, and whatever kind of candy we could sneak out of the living room candy dish. Baseball is more than sport to me it's my time with past while in the present that I try and share with the future. I have five grandsons and I'm going to get a radio so that next spring when they are the house they sit and play on the porch while we watch the games on the radio.

[bcubs]

Originally Posted by 72RangerFan

Watched games on the radio every night on the porch.

That must have been one hell of a radio.

[72RangerFan]

Made in America

[t206blogcom]

Bunt or Opening Day. Difficult decision.

[72RangerFan]

Bunt is that the digital cards? Whats the appeal to owning a digital card isn't a picture on the internet the same thing? I know I'm not computer literate or tech savvy and I'm certainly not trying to be disrespectful but you don't really have anything do you when you buy a digital card? I see them on eBay selling and some are autographs and I just scratch my head because I don't know what they are getting.

[sheetskout]

I don't even collect Flagship anymore and I'd say flagship.

[Rorschach]

Still waiting for someone to say "Bowman"...

[Darth Bryzzo]

For me, I think there has to be a unique flagship set every year if there are going to Topps baseball cards at all.

But if we assume flagship has to exist no matter what as long as there is a Topps company producing baseball cards, then for the “one other thing,” I’d personally vote Heritage.

But I also really like the idea some have thrown out of making things like Heritage and Archives more limited-checklist inserts in flagship.

[rcgdodge]

I'm okay with Flagship, Heritage or Stadium Club.

Flagship would probably get my vote, especially if/when they bring the borders back.

[Cubsfanp]

Originally Posted by Rorschach

Still waiting for someone to say "Bowman"...

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