2018 Topps Update Series Baseball Cards Checklist

Opened 2 factory sealed Blaster Boxes (10 packs, 101 card per box). Bonus Jackie Robinson Day commemorative patch card.

I open cards today the same way I did in the late 70’s, for fun. For the hope that I get some awesome player I love. If I get something like a signature card, that’s like catching a ball at the park, the best experience ever. The fountain of youth is nostalgia…

I believe it was way more fun back in the day to collect cards, trade them with friends, and go to ball games hoping you could get an autograph from a pro, or hoping your favorite mlb’er coming back from injury had a scheduled stop at your local farm team.

This was fun to open. I received dozens of non base set cards, from RC’s to All-Stars, Postseason Preeminence, 35th Anny throwbacks, and the several others offered in this set. I like the subsets to a degree. But I believe less is more, something Topps doesn’t believe. And honestly, I don’t want a signed torn piece of jock strap, or sock, or jersey, that just feels lame, like collecting Elvis’ used napkins or something. But to each his own.

I’ve been collecting Topps for 40+ years and I am a Master Set Builder. This will be a set to remember for a long time. Every base player is an action photo with a great design. No one player standing there posing. Great action photos. I really like the stadium shots, but more importantly the stats of the teams, their lineups and starting rotation. It’s basically asking Google/Alexa or Apple/Siri everything you need to know about the players and teams with their respective stats on the back of the card. League leaders, rookies and future stars are identified and labeled on the front honoring them like a diploma or special ‘certification’ on a resume. Inserts are standard, yet way too many once again. Overall a VERY solid set worth collecting with a ton of upside. I tip my cap off to you Topps!

I GOT A BOX OF 72 CARDS,
1983-8 WILLY ADAMES CARD- NO NAME ON FRONT AND NO TOPP’S LOGO.
SCANED IT, IT SHOWS YELLOW NAME AND LOGO.
ARE THERE MORE BLANK CARDS LIKE THIS?

Do you know if they made a update purple parallel? The series 2 wasn’t acknowledged until late.

Tons of rookies that you don’t know. Solid hits, if you’re getting a mega box. I got a sick Acuña auto!

Is it now standard for Topps to include players that are released in their Update sets? US117 Kyle Martin was released on July 25th. He also appears in the Chrome Update as one of only four on card autos. Yet he doesn’t get an auto in the regular Update set. Kyle Martin actually pitched in japan after his release on July 26th.

You get a lot of rookies combined with a fine design.

Nice set purchased base set through ebay for about $21.00 including shipping. The purchase of a jumbo box way too high unless you get lucky with a good auto.

I always enjoy the Update Series, inserts aren’t the best as others have said, but I like the variety of autos.

Trey – Do have a question maybe you can answer. I’m a little confused with the Salute Autos, are certain players only /5 for example like Ohtani? I haven’t seen any standard Salute Autos for a lot of the ‘legends’ (Bo Jackson, Gooden) or the likes of Trout or Ohtani. Does every Salute auto get a base version?

So I pulled a Bryce Harper Highlights Autographed Parallel, I see you have the base auto listed, any idea what the parallel would be, as is color or numbering?

In a hobby box I pulled 4 cards that seem to be refractors but the player and the name/logo at the bottom are almost but not quite blacked out. Have not seem this variation listed. Error?

Is anyone else having this problem. On many of the cards in the set, if you hold the card up to the light and at an angle you can see a small indentation on the card. Almost everyone of my HOF cards have this on it. Does this take away from the value. I’ve also noticed this on other Topps cards. This is why I gave it a 3. If I trade with anyone, we have trade shows here, they want a “perfect” card. In order to have a complete rookie set, I need another 30+ cards to replace those with the “nicks” on them. It is getting frustrated.

Very Little Value In the jumbos what so ever chances are you get a no name auto 1 all star stitches and 1 postseason manufactured patch. You might be lucky to get 10$ worth of cards in your jumbo

Topps just milking the set at this point. The All-Star/HR Derby cards are overkill. The Rookie cards are mostly redundant b/c they appeared in one of the first two series. The inserts are lazy: International Affair has been done far too often; the “Don’t Blink” set features very few superstars/HoFers; the “Topps Salute” is too similar to base set; the “Storybook Endings” is boring & typical. A waste of cardboard IMO.

I have enjoyed opening a jumbo box, but the variation cards don’t seem as numerous opening regular packs usually 2:12 in a pack and 5:50 in a jumbo.

Also Post Season 2017 logo patch red cards are /25 not /10.

Say it isn’t so Trey, I opened two boxes of regular hobby (non Jumbo) and got a manufactured MLB Postseason Logo Patch as my relic card in each box. Is this new? In the past the manufactured relics were reserved for Jumbo boxes.

(If it is true I think it is very deceptive of Topps to change policy in mid production with out announcing in advance. As a collector since 1979, I may stop.)

I love this product. Still bugged that Pedro Baez hasn’t gotten a base card in the Topps this year or last year. He has put up great numbers and deserves a card. Good work this year!

Curious as to why numbered front and back. #/10 and below front #/25 on reverse? How’s Judge on International insert?

Didn’t get anything too exciting in my hanger packs. Did get a Blue and Black parallel HOF Highlights. They are not numbered.

Thank you for the quick reply and running a great site.

Trey, Do you know if the black Hall of Fame
highlights are stamped with a serial number
or is that a print run? I have one that the border is black but can not find a serial number
on the card.Thank you for any info you have
on this!

Historically? I beg to differ. The Topps traded sets of the late 80s early 90s were issued as factory sets. But I’m old.

Is there a checklist for the 1983 chrome promo cards from the update set?

Remember the days where a normal person could collect a complete set?

Why no Edwin Jackson, Topps? After all he is half of Oakland’s starting rotation behind Mike Fiers who gets an A’s card. Maybe he’ll be a photo variation eh? And way too many cards of Dustin Fowler, at best a triple A player. I guess Topps, a New York based outfit, wants to rub A’s fans’ noses in the dirt seeing that is all Billy Beane got in return for Sonny Gray…

Ugh waiting on this checklist is agonizing.

When we will see the checklist?

will this come out as a factory set also?

Storybook Endings helps celebrate the last season for a baseball legend.

Looking forward to this.

Here is hoping they have Helton.

With Ohtani being pictured in the update series you wonder if he will have a series 2 rookie card? Like last season its looking like series 2 will basically have almost no notable rookie cards as Acuna and Torres will most likely be released in this update set also.