Three players and the manager already gone (and Perez is on his 2nd team since)
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Topps Project Completion
’80-’00, ’04 Topps – COMPLETED
’81-’00, ’03 Traded – COMPLETE
2001 Topps – 789 / 790 (99.9%)
2002 Topps – 706 / 718 (98.3%)
2003 Topps – 719 / 720 (99.9%)
2001 Traded – 256 / 265 (96.6%)
2002 Traded – 232 / 275 (84.4%)
2004 Traded – 187 / 221 (84.6%)
’05-’09 Topps – NOT STARTED
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Total = 20,941 / 26,107 (80.2%)
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Cards on my wantlist
335 Topps base cards needed
417 Topps insert cards needed
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758 cards total
(also - 814 retro cards on my wantlist)
The Elusive Eight
1995 Topps Pre-Production Spectralite #PP5 – Travis Fryman
1996 Topps Masters of the Game #15 – Kirby Puckett
2012 Topps Archives In Action #82IA-JE – Jacoby Ellsbury
2013 Gypsy Queen #218 – Adam Wainwright
2012 Topps Archives Combos #58-YE – Yaz/Ellsbury
2012 Allen & Ginter Giants of the Deep #14 - Bottlenose Whale
1998 Hall Bound #1 - Paul Molitor
2002 Topps Traded #5 – Tyler Houston
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Lifetime Topps project 
This post makes me sad…if they had kept that infield in tact they could have at least challenged for another 3-4 years. What a great team that was.