Topps Living Set

[Chihuahuas]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

That would be cool.

Pitch it to Topps to gauge their interest.

Maybe we will get a Charlie Hustle card after all

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #831 - Kyren Paris - PR: 1,064
Kyren Paris is the Los Angeles Angels 26th franchise and 23rd team member featured.
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Topps Living Set Fine Art Print #831 - Kyren Paris


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #832 - Joe DiMaggio - PR: 4,426
Joe DiMaggio is the New York Yankees 49th franchise and team member featured, and 101st Hall of Fame member featured.
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Topps Living Set Fine Art Print #832 - Joe DiMaggio

[Chihuahuas]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

Topps MLB Living Set Card #831 - Kyren Paris
Kyren Paris is the Los Angeles Angels 26th franchise and 23rd team member featured.
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Topps Living Set Fine Art Print #831 - Kyren Paris


Topps MLB Living Set Card #832 - Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio is the New York Yankees 49th franchise and team member featured, and 101st Hall of Fame member featured.
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Topps Living Set Fine Art Print #832 - Joe DiMaggio

Wow! Joltin’ Joe this week. Let the celebrations begin

[Fsegaud]

The Yankees just come fast and furious at us in this set. Nothing wrong with Joltin' Joe though.

Yankee #50 will be next.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by Fsegaud

The Yankees just come fast and furious at us in this set. Nothing wrong with Joltin' Joe though.

Yankee #50 will be next.

I'm leaning towards Whitey Ford or Bill Dickey. Both are in the top 10 of bWAR for the franchise, 7th and 9th respectively, and both numbers are retired (Ford #16 and Dickey #8).

[PedroPapi]

Love the Joe D., but I hope they correct the hometown. He may have been born in Martinez but he famously grew up in San Francisco.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by PedroPapi

Love the Joe D., but I hope they correct the hometown. He may have been born in Martinez but he famously grew up in San Francisco.

From what I can tell, Topps uses Baseball Reference to verify the bio text for each card.

[Comiskey2001]

Two things. One, love the DiMaggio. One of the biggest players missing from the set. Is that the same green background as the Gehrig card?

The other thing is about the NFL and NBA licenses going to Topps in the next year. I would love Living sets for the other sports. Does anyone think it might happen?

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by Comiskey2001

Two things. One, love the DiMaggio. One of the biggest players missing from the set. Is that the same green background as the Gehrig card?

The other thing is about the NFL and NBA licenses going to Topps in the next year. I would love Living sets for the other sports. Does anyone think it might happen?

I think that is the same background as the Gehrig card, especially since Jared is the artist for both.

I would also like to see Living Sets for the NFL and NBA. I imagine they would be big money makers, at least initially, like MLB was. The early print runs are through the roof, especially for the top players, and I would expect the same for the other two leagues.

[Dukefett]

What is that patch on his shoulder, looks like the NFL shield?

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by Dukefett

What is that patch on his shoulder, looks like the NFL shield?

Check out this Uni-Watch article on the "Health" patches worn in 1942.

Hale, Hearty, and Full of Unresolved Questions



The patch makes it easy to identify the season this photo was taken, which was also the last season DiMaggio played prior to his military service for the next three years, prior to returning to MLB in 1946.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by Comiskey2001

The other thing is about the NFL and NBA licenses going to Topps in the next year. I would love Living sets for the other sports. Does anyone think it might happen?

They have the WWE license and for whatever reason have yet to restart the WWE Living Set line ... not a good sign.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

They have the WWE license and for whatever reason have yet to restart the WWE Living Set line ... not a good sign.

That's a good point.

I haven't looked at the print runs for the initial run of the WWE Living Set, but I wonder if that had anything to do with Topps pausing/canceling the set.

I assume MLB, and NFL or NBA for that matter, have larger fanbases than WWE with a greater focus on card collecting.

[CanadaShane]

Finally ! I was waiting for Joe Dimaggio. Great artwork by Jared as well. Thank You Topps. One of my personal favorite selections for the set.

[Silas Barnaby]

Apologies if this has already been answered but do we know how the choice of team logo is made for each card?

The Yankees currently have 3 different ones (hat on bat, white interlocking NY on blue, blue interlocking NY on white) and there isn't a clear pattern as to which players get which logo.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by Comiskey2001

Two things. One, love the DiMaggio. One of the biggest players missing from the set. Is that the same green background as the Gehrig card?

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

I think that is the same background as the Gehrig card, especially since Jared is the artist for both.

NEW YORK - 1930. Lou Gehrig, first baseman for the New York Yankees, poses for a portrait in the dugout before a game at Yankee Stadium in 1930. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)


UNSPECIFIED - UNDATED: Joe DiMaggio posed in the Yankee locker room. (Photo by Sports Studio Photos/Getty Images)

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

NEW YORK - 1930. Lou Gehrig, first baseman for the New York Yankees, poses for a portrait in the dugout before a game at Yankee Stadium in 1930. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)


UNSPECIFIED - UNDATED: Joe DiMaggio posed in the Yankee locker room. (Photo by Sports Studio Photos/Getty Images)

Thank you for sharing the reference photos.

I appreciate Jared taking some creative license with the DiMaggio background to tie it in with his Gehrig portrait.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

Thank you for sharing the reference photos.

I appreciate Jared taking some creative license with the DiMaggio background to tie it in with his Gehrig portrait.

Perhaps it was just because he knew what the background of the dugout is colored correctly and there may not exist any color photos of what Joe is sitting in front of (a baseball stitched curtain of some kind in the locker room?)

Also, when I looked them up, it appears a catcher's mitt is suspended above or falling onto Joe in the photo? So perhaps he thought if he was going to remove that oddity, he might as well make the background a little more authentic?

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

Perhaps it was just because he knew what the background of the dugout is colored correctly and there may not exist any color photos of what Joe is sitting in front of (a baseball stitched curtain of some kind in the locker room?)

Also, when I looked them up, it appears a catcher's mitt is suspended above or falling onto Joe in the photo? So perhaps he thought if he was going to remove that oddity, he might as well make the background a little more authentic?

I imagine that's where he was going with his choice.

The catcher's mitt is interesting, but the curtain on the left side of the photo has me perplexed. I'd love to know what it actually is.

[eldavojohn]

Love the Ivan!

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #833 - Carlos Beltrán - PR: 1,245
Carlos Beltrán is the New York Mets 33rd franchise and team member featured.
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Topps Living Set® Fine Art Print #833 - Carlos Beltrán


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #834 - Connor Norby - PR: 1,109
Connor Norby is the Miami Marlins 20th franchise and 17th team member, and 270th rookie featured.
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Topps Living Set® Fine Art Print #834 - Connor Norby

[Lawmaker]

Beltran not a Royal is crazy. How in the f?

[MtnAg08]

Originally Posted by Lawmaker

Beltran not a Royal is crazy. How in the f?

A golden opportunity to get another Royal representative wasted...Even though he has the same number of seasons with both teams his games played and WAR are higher with the Mets so guessing that played into it (as well as the more obvious of they just love representing New York). He did play for the Yankees so at least we didn't get our 3rd Yankee of the month!!

[Chihuahuas]

I’m guessing no more Jean Segura cards w/ announcement of retirement today. Unless, of course, he gets 1 more for getting in HoF

[TUAlum96]

Originally Posted by MtnAg08

A golden opportunity to get another Royal representative wasted...Even though he has the same number of seasons with both teams his games played and WAR are higher with the Mets so guessing that played into it.!

I mean, what he’s most remembered for as a Met is the worst strikeout in club history and getting fired as manager before the ink was even dry on his contract. This is just torturing those fans; better to show him as the fresh faced Rookie of the Year that we all loved when he was a Royal.