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1983 Topps Ernie Whitt
This a list with brief descriptions of Toppstrading card products for 1983. All sets listed are standard size (2½ × 3½inches) unless noted.
Baseball
Base Set
The 1983 Topps set had 792 cards issued in wax, cello and rack packs. It was also issued as a complete factory set in the J.C. Penney catalog circular portrait inset in the lower corner on the front. Subsets include All-Stars, League Leaders, Record Breakers, Super Veterans, and Team Leader cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Traded Set
The Traded set totals 132 cards and was issued as a factory set and for the first time was printed in Ireland on white cardstock. The cards are identical in appearance to the base set except for the T in the numbering arranged alphabetically by player name. This set featured traded players and managers, and rookie cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Glossy Send-Ins
The Glossy set has 40 cards and were redeemable by mailing-away the game cards available in the 1983 Topps wax packs. The cards featured a glossy photo front and the back said All-Star Set Collector's Edition and included the players name, team, and position. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Foldouts
The Foldout set was distributed in 5 subsets each of which had 17 players for a total of 85 photos. The subsets included are Career Wins, Home Run Leaders, Batting Leaders, Relief Aces, and Stolen Base Leaders. Size: 31⁄2 × 55⁄16inches
Reprint 52
This set is a reprinting of the 1952 Topps set. The set includes 402 reproductions of the original 407 card set reduced to standard size from the original 25⁄8 × 33⁄4. It was available as a factory set. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Other sets
Traded Steve Carlton Bronze A replica of a Steve Carlton card done in bronze. It was available to hobby dealers that bought cases of 1983 Topps Traded. Size: 1¼ × 1¾inches. 1982 League Leaders Sheet An uncut sheet of nine players who led the league in major statistical categories in 1982. The sheet is blanked backe but most of the cards look like their regular issue card except for a white strip at the top noting the players feat. The sheet was available by mail-in offer. Size: 7½ × 10½inches. Stickers This stickers set is basically the same as the previous year but was increased to 330 stickers. There are 28 foil stickers as well as season highlights, playoffs and World Series. Size: 1-15/16 × 2-9/16inches. Sticker Boxes The back panels of the sticker boxes featured one card. There are eight cards total in this set. The cards have a borderless player photo on the front and are blank backed. Standard sized.
Food/Retail Issues
In 1983, Topps issued several promotional sets in conjunction with other companies.
Drake's Big Hitters
For the third straight year, Topps produced for Northeastern regional bakery Drake's a promotional set of 33 cards. The cards were issued in boxes of Drake's Cakes and featured position players and no pitchers. The front of the cards have a design that differs from the Topps set while the backs resemble the Topps cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Gardner's Bakery Brewers
Topps produced for Wisconsin bakery Gardner's Bakery a promotional set of 22 cards of Milwaukee Brewers players. The cards were issued with the company's baked goods. The front of the cards have a design that differs from the Topps set while the backs resemble the Topps cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Perma-Graphics
For the second straight year, Topps issued two sets for Perma-Graphics. One set was an 18 card set of All-Stars while the other was 24 cards. Both sets were made of plastic and resemble credit cards Size: 21⁄8 × 33⁄8inches
The 1983 football set contains 396 cards, a reduction from the 528 card sets that Topps had been producing since 1973. Subsets include Record Breakers, playoffs, league leaders, checklists, and Team Leaders cards. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Sticker Inserts
This set contains 33 cards and was issued as an insert in the regular issue wax packs. The backs of the cards form one of three puzzles. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Stickers
This set totals 330 stickers. Unlike previous years the photos of these stickers have rounded frames instead of square. The backs advertise an album for placing the stickers in. There are also four foil subsets. Stickers 1 and 2 combine to form a photo of Franco Harris while stickers 3 and 4 have the Walter Payton photo. Size: 115⁄16 × 29⁄16inches
Sticker Boxes
On each sticker box was printed two cards; an offensive and a defensive player were featured on each box. There are 12 boxes, or 24 cards in all. Numbering appears on the boxes, but the numbering of each individual card is unclear. (Wes Chandler/Nolan Cromwell)(Marvin Powell/Ed "TOO TALL" Jones) (Ken Anderson/Tony Peters)(Pat Donovan/Mark Gastineau)(Mark Moseley/Dave Jennings)(Freeman McNeil/Lawrence Taylor)(Randy Moss/Gary Johnson)(Dwight Clark/Mark Haynes)(Jeff Van Note/Harry Carson)(Kellen Winslow/Lester Hayes)(Tony Dorsett/Hugh Green)(John Hannah/Randy White) Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Multi-sport
Greatest Olympians
Ahead of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, Topps issued a 99 card set commemorating past Olympians and was distributed in rack packs. The cards have white backgrounds with a yellow frame around the athlete's photo. The set title is above the photo and the athletes name in red is below. The Olympic games that the athlete participated in is written within the yellow frame. The cards also feature the LA Olympic Committee logo and the flag of the athlete's nation. The set is mostly U.S. Olympians with a few international athletes from both the summer and winter games. There are variations of these cards with the Olympic rings logo instead of the LA Committee logo. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
M&M's Olympic Heroes
This Olympic issue was available as a 44-card box set. The card designs are nearly the same as the Greatest Olympians set above. The differences are the set title 'Olympic Heroes' above the photo, the name below is done in black, and the photo frame is red. The M&M logo is included on the fronts along with the LA Committee and Olympic rings logos. Size: 2.5 × 3.5in.
Non-sport
A-Team
Topps made 78 cards about the television series The A-Team. The set features 66 cards and 12 stickers. The cards have blue borders with thin red, yellow, and black frame lines around the photo below which is the caption written in black over a yellow panel. The stickers are red bordered. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
Barbie Album Stickers
The Barbie set contains 216 stickers and was produced by Panini for Topps. There are 150 story stickers distributed among 18 different themes dealing primarily with fashion. Other subsets include 6 die-cut logos and slogans, 18 fashion overlays, 4 two-on-ones, and 38 die-cut dolls. There is also a 36-page album for which the stickers can be placed. Size: 2 × 3inches
Jaws 3-D
Topps produced a 44 card set based on the 3-D Jaws film. The front photos have wave style frames. Below the picture is a description next to which the card number is printed on Jaws' head jutting out from the bottom of the card. Topps applied the 3-D concept to the images sketched on the card backs. These backs are viewed with 3-D glasses that came in the packs. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
Menudo
This is an 88 card set based on the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. There are 66 cards and 22 stickers some of which are puzzle backs. The text backs in this set are done in both English and Spanish. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
Perlorian Cats Stickers
This 56 card set features cats in human clothing performing human activities. The whole set is stickers except for one title card. The stickers are of two types: one is rectangular color pictures with rounded edges of which there are 42 and the second type is smaller color photos set on solid color, irregular shaped backgrounds of which there are 13. The backs of the cards are puzzle pieces that combine to form one of 4 different pictures. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
The set for Episode VI of Star Wars totals 275 cards and was issued in two series. The first series had 132 cards and 33 stickers while the second series had 88 cards and 22 stickers. The card backs have text while the sticker backs form large pictures. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
Return of the Jedi Album Stickers
This ROTJ set is entirely made up of stickers, 180 in all. This set was manufactured by Panini for Topps and included a 24-page album to house the stickers. Size: 21⁄8 × 3.5inches
Superman III
Topps issued a 121 card set of the third Superman movie. The set is made up of 97 cards, 22 stickers, one title card, and one checklist. The cards have black borders with a yellow frame line around the picture. The captions below the picture are accompanied by the Superman 'S' logo. The card backs have text in red borders below a picture of Superman and Gus Gorman(Richard Pryor). The stickers have red and white striped backgrounds with thick blue frame lines around the photos. The sticker backs form one of two different puzzles. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
24 Tattoos
This set is made up of 12 sheets of tattoos containing 24 tattoos each. The sheet was large enough that it was folded in half in the package which was a large blue paper wrapper with crimped edges at top and bottom. Size: 67⁄8 × 95⁄8inches
Video City
This set totals 30 cards and is based on the video games Donkey Kong Junior, Frogger, Turbo, and Zaxxon. Four of the cards are scratch-off style game cards one for each title. The other 26 cards are stickers the backs of which feature either puzzle pieces, game play tips, or ads for 'Electronic Games' magazine. Size: 2.5 × 3.5inches
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1980. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1981. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1982. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1984. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1985. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1986. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1987. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1988. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1989. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1990. All sets listed are standard size unless noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1991. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
The company Topps joined the sports cards market in the 1950s becoming a rival to Bowman. After competing with each other for five years Topps bought out Bowman in 1956. Competition still remained however, in the form of Parkhurst hockey cards. Topps produced cards of the United States-based National Hockey League teams while Parkhurst covered the Canadian teams. Topps had produced multi-sport photo cards prior to 1950, namely the 1948 Topps Magic Photos but each set was very small and not considered a major set. This trend was consistent with their first baseball and college football issues: the 1950 Feltbacks resembled college pennants; 1951 Magic football included a scratch-off game on the reverse; Red/Blue Backs intended to be a card game; Connie Mack/Current All-Stars are foldable stand-ups. It was in 1952 that Topps released their first truly major card set. In the autumn of 1951, Woody Gelman and Sy Berger, then a 28-year-old veteran of World War II, designed the 1952 Topps baseball card set on the kitchen table of Berger's apartment on Alabama Avenue in Brooklyn. The 1957 Topps set featured dimensions of 2½ by 3½ inches which has become known as the standard card size. Below is a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for the 1950s.
Despite a brief attempt by Fleer to sign baseball players in 1963, Topps continued its reign as the only major baseball card manufacturer in the United States. On the other hand, Football had more than one professional league in operation, allowing for competing companies to co-exist by producing a major national set for each league. Topps was able to produce National Football League sets from 1960 to 1963 while Fleer issued American Football League sets. Topps then began producing AFL sets from 1964 to 1967 while Philadelphia Gum issued NFL sets. Before the end of the decade Topps revived their basketball issue after a ten-year hiatus. The following is a list with brief descriptions of Topps sports card products for the 1960s. All cards listed are standard size(2½ × 3½ inches). Exceptions are noted.
The 1970s saw Topps go largely uncontested in the sports card market. The decade featured full runs of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Aside from issues like Kellogg's cereal premiums which ran throughout the 70s there was not much in the way of major national card manufacturers to compete with. Topps maintained its license agreement with O-Pee-Chee in baseball and hockey. The company would have significantly more ground to cover given the growth of the professional sports leagues during the decade. Major League Baseball added four new teams in 1969 and two in 1977; the National Football League added two teams in 1976; the National Basketball Association gained three in 1970, one in 1974, and the American Basketball Association picked up one in 1972; the National Hockey League acquired two teams in each of 1970, 1972, and 1974. Soccer also made the Topps roster in the 70s, producing English and Scottish 'Footballers' for distribution in the United Kingdom. Domestic soccer was not to be forgotten with a North American Soccer League sticker set in 1979. The following are trading card sets issued by Topps in the 1970s. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1992. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1993. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
This a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1994. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
This is a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1995. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
This is a list with brief descriptions of Topps trading card products for 1996. All cards listed are standard size. Exceptions are noted.
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