This is my third Hall of Fame post. I did the 80’s, then the 90’s and now I’m doing Topps traded sets from those decades. I’m just going to focus on the years that have changed with the new 2014 inductees. This is a much easier exercise than the previous two posts, as I just looked up who out of the 6 inductees had Topps Traded / Update cards in the 80’s and 90’s.
- Joe Torre, and
- Tony LaRussa were both never featured in a Traded set. That’s really easy!
- Bobby Cox – Cox is in the 1990 Topps Traded set for taking over the reigns in Atlanta. He is also in a later Update set – 2005.
- Tom Glavine isn’t in any Traded sets I’ve posted on thus far – but he’s in 2007 and 2008 Update for this blog’s future.
- Frank Thomas is in 1995 Topps Traded – he actually has 2 cards, one for being an All-Star and one for the “At the Break” subset that starts off that set. Thomas was also in 2006 Topps Update with a couple of subset cards for his brief time with the A’s.
- Greg Maddux has his RC in 1987 Topps Traded, and is featured in 1993 Topps Traded for his free agency move from Chicago to Atlanta. Maddux is also in 2005 and 2006 Topps Update in later years.
I mentioned this was an easier exercise – for determining the sets to update, that’s true. Only 1987, 1990 and 1995 from what I’ve done so far. But updating my Topps Traded posts will not be such an easy exercise! I scanned the cards of each HOF-er for the Traded posts, and OCD will make me update those pictures at some point!
Here are update Topps Traded numbers for reference:
1981 Topps Traded – 8 HOF
Bert Blyleven, Rollie Fingers, Carlton Fisk, Joe Morgan, Gaylord Perry, Bruce Sutter, Don Sutton, Dave Winfield
1982 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Reggie Jackson, Ferguson Jenkins, Perry, Cal Ripken, Ozzie Smith
1983 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Morgan, Tony Perez, Tom Seaver
1984 Topps Traded – 7 HOF
Yogi Berra (mgr), Dennis Eckersley, Goose Gossage, Morgan, Phil Niekro, Perez, Seaver
1985 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Gary Carter, Rickey Henderson, Sutter, Sutton, Earl Weaver (mgr)
1986 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Niekro, Seaver, Dick Williams (mgr)
1987 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Steve Carlton, Andre Dawson, Eckersley, Reggie Jackson, Greg Maddux
1988 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Roberto Alomar, Gossage, Frank Robinson (mgr)
1989 Topps Traded – 4 HOF
Blyleven, Henderson, Eddie Murray, Nolan Ryan
1990 Topps Traded – 4 HOF
Carter, Red Schoendienst (mgr), Bobby Cox (mgr), Winfield
1991 Topps Traded – 2 HOF
Alomar, Carter
1992 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Carter, Murray, Winfield
1993 Topps Traded – 4 HOF
Wade Boggs, Dawson, Paul Molitor, Winfield
1994 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Henderson, Murray, Ryne Sandberg
1995 Topps Traded – 7 HOF
Dawson, Boggs (subset), Tony Gwynn (subset), Kirby Puckett (subset), Cal Ripken (subset), Frank Thomas (subset), Smith (subset)
1999 Topps Traded – 0 HOF
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