2019 Topps Update Series Baseball Cards

All sorts of good stuff in this set. I do have a Bryce Harper Welcome to Philly 150th Anniv. BH-14 that is serial numbered to /150. Most that I have seen are not serial numbered. I noticed above that the parallels for this sub-set says “TBD”. Not sure what parallel it is, but they are out there.

I like the product itself but the collation by Topps is awful. I just finished opening a blaster box from Target and within 3 packs I got the 150th Anniversary Parallel of Card #170, the actual card of #170 and the SP card of #170. In a 7 pack blaster box. The SP and regular card were in the SAME PACK.

Oh, and why does it seem the ONLY hits I EVER seem to get are for the stinking Red Sox?!?!?

I meant to say the checklist for black parallels say /299 instead of /199 that I have in this Randy Johnson card. Thanks.

Hello Trey. I pulled a card from the 2019 Topps Update Series that doesn’t seem to be listed in the checklist.

It was pulled from the 4-pack of cards from the 1984 Topps 35th Anniversary cards. The card is a black parallel of Randy Johnson named T-84-4on the back.

The numbering for the parallel doesn’t match either. It’s numbered 165/199 but black parallels are supposed to be /199. It’s a beautiful card but I don’t see it listed. Am I missing something here? Card T-84-4 is listed as Gerrit Cole from the checklist.

I have that particular card being Randy Johnson in a DBacks uniform & a parallel card numbered 165/199. Do the 4-card packs not list the same as regular packs? I’m just confused about this pull from this hobby box. Thanks.

Anyone know the print run on the Meijer purple parallels?

Mostly buying for Will Smith RCs…

Bought a jumbo box for each series. Completed each series with one box. Got my best hits from this one. The only thing is, Series 2 has the best rookies. It really should just be the small traded sets they had awhile ago. Too many rookies to just toss in the trash for this series. And many of the insert sets have active players that I believe aren’t worthy of being in the set(s).

pulled mike trout bryant patch auto last year ronald acuna auto

I haven’t seen a single unnumbered Update Legacy of Baseball Auto Chavis or D. Hernandez. I did a quick look on eBay and don’t see ANY unnumbered LOB Autos for any player. Anyone know if those are being released later?

Great product…just wondering i got the Shohei Ohtani 84 instert with the RC logo on it.. is it a real rookie card?

I thought this product was good. It was above average but not great. You had Vlad Rc’s and a few guys that have great potential. In my opinion 2019 topps series 2 is the product to get. With Vlad SP, Alonso, Tatis Jr, Jimenez all have great upside. 18 updates are immaculate and will be hard to ever beat other then 11 updates but has the potential. 19 Series 2 is really good IMO

So I guess the Ohtani 35th anniversary RC is an error card as well? I pulled one today and was wondering what was going on with it.

I still bought it anyway….I commented earlier about the price….I know….my shop gave me $10 off, cause he priced it like Blowout and other online guys.

Just a quick note about serial numbering on the 150th Anniversary Medallions (AMM-xxx), the Golds are actually xx/50 and the Reds are xx/25, just like the blaster patch relics. Not a big deal, just noticed when I was making my wanted list after I printed the checklist above.

Other than that, I still like it, got a set from a regular hobby box, so I can’t complain.
I did see a lot about the damages in jumbos….what a shame that is, glad I didn’t get one.

I liked this and wondering if anyone got a box topper in jumbo? I did and it was Jeter!! Was a nice surprise

Hi Trey
Any word on Gerrit Cole 84 being an error?

Half the cards in my five jumbos had creased corners, dings or dents. Must be that superior quality control. I can’t sell sets with half the cards damaged. All of it will be returned for replacement, Topps, all $600 worth. Where is your quality control and caring? Or do you just employ incompetents and settle for mediocrity?

Two Jumbos and One Hobby. Im happy.
Ive gotten every rookie i wanted and some. Even some SPs.
ERROR ALERT!! Two of them!!
The Gerrit Cole 1984 silver pack card and auto is an Error!!! Topps spelled his name wrong!! This is a fact. No way around it. It must soon be acknowledged as an error card or at the least an uncorrected error.
Also Shohei Ohtani 1984 has an RC on it!! error!!

There are many other Cole cards in the product with the correct spelling.

Thank you for your help.

Opened a Jumbo Box today. Worst collation ever. 460 cards in a jumbo box and only got 240 of the 300 card set with many triples. used to almost always complete the set with one jumbo box. Lots of rough edges as well and missing the guaranteed auto. Also no short print. Could have just been a bad box, but all the rough edges are not a sign that the quality of this product is not what it used to be.

Mr Treutel, do you think they made a lot more SSPs for Vlad Jr. this year than they did for Acuna Jr. last year? The pack odds indicate about a 40% increase if I’m looking at it right and overall production was equal from year to year. Do you know if production was lot higher this year vs. last for Update, as it was for Sapphire. Just trying to get an early value on some SSPs. Thanks for your time.

Question – How is a short print or a super short print different from the base card? Is it marked on the card somewhere?

Thanks.

What’s with the price on this garbage….

How is Mike Tauchman listed as a rookie card when he was in 2018 update series as US61? haven’t seen it yet so don’t know if they put the RC logo on it. Hope not otherwise they just destroyed the value of the RC logo since we will have two from different years in the Topps Update set.

I agree, there are way too many of the parallel ‘sets’. Everything is just so watered down.

And the crappy relics. Mostly garbage. Especially the manufactured medallions or patches. Garbage.

Legacy of Baseball
150 Years of Professional Baseball 
Iconic Card Reprints
The Family Business 
Perennial All-Stars
1984 Oversized Box Loaders

Garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Garbage.

It’s really too bad.

All-Time Great Redemptions Set Checklist.

They have this but no babe ruth. Well I guess this list is the not so all time greats list.

How the hell could you omit babe ruth.

A’s got no variation cards either, no rookies, not even a veteran! Extremely easy set to collect and finish off this year. Thanks Topps, now I can spend my money elsewhere!

Thomas Bonanno,

I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU! I have collected EVERY LEAGUE LEADER CARD SINCE 1961, AND THE LOOK OF THE THREE MAN LEADERS WAS A BEAUTIFUL CARD! Topps, for some reason, has decided to go with a short cut one man card, which I detest. Bring back the old leader cards AND THE OLD STYLE UPDATED CARDS

Mike Yastrzemski not listed on Family Business or Legacy of Baseball autographs? Especially with a Yaztrzemski returning to Fenway Park and Carl throwing out the 1st pitch to his grandson? Pfft…whatever…

Then you go to a crappy cards store!

Hurray!!
So now my local card stores wont be able to tell me that they are out of the silver packs when they still have cases and cases of the product it was meant to be given out for.

Hi, wasn’t sure if you had this yet but base ends in 010, SP 055 and SSP 057.

Maybe A’s collector’s will get a few variation cards of players actually on the team that contributed to their wild card playoff run, but more than like if they have any at all it will be just another Henderson, Mcgwire, Canseco or Jackson rehash card. Topps used to make a great “traded set” that actually highlighted the players in the uniforms of the teams they actually played for without all this extra fluff junk card subsets that are for the most part worthless.

I much agree with your comment and thoughts. Topps update set is more like players highlites, all star / rookie debut. Like you had mentioned, lets have more (bullpen / bench) player cards. How many Aaron Judge cards do people need. And as far as League Leader cards go, do like the 1960’s cards were, picture the top 3 players on front of it and mention the rest on the back. As I’m writing this, I have in front of me a Topps 1965 RBI leader card. Top billing- (with the large picture) is Brooks Robinson, 3 players made the under billing- (with the smaller pictures) are Dick Stuart, Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew. Who the hell is Dick Stuart you say, he was the guy that drove in more runs than Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew in 1964. Its a beautiful baseball card.

Topps continues to despise the Oakland A’s as shown by the lames they decided to put in this set .Brooks, Hundley, Bolt and Estrada are no longer with the team. Montas is a suspended dope fiend. That leaves Profar and Grossman along with grudgingly acknowledging Chapman as the teams all star. while ignoring Liam Hendriks. Players ignored include catchers Josh Phegley and Sean Murphy, pitchers Brett Anderson, Homer Bailey,Chris Bassitt, Ryan Buchter, Jake Diekman, Liam Hendriks, Jesus Luzardo, A J Puk, Joakim Soria and Tanner Roark. And of course no A’s combo card of Matt Chapman/Matt Olson, Platinum/Gold glover’s and the heart of Oakland’s offense. Tired of NY based Topps’ BS!

Too many insert cards, all topps wants you to do is spend more these inserts. Why can’t topps just have 3 series, the first 2 series 300 cards each plus the balance for the 3rd series. you don’t need cards for every minor leaguer that comes up to the majors, just have prospect or rookie team cards with 2 or 3 players on the card like they used to do prior to the 1980’s.

So no Alvarez RC, what a joke. Mike Tauchman has a rookie card in 2018 topps update US61 and apparently RC in 2019 update also US2 lol.

Apparently, the cut-off date for getting in Update was June 8th. Tommy Edman debuted on June 8th and is card US84 in the set and Yordan Alvarez debuted on June 9th and didn’t make the set.

Disappointed by the amount of what I consider ‘fluff’ cards – All Star, Home Run Derby, checklists, combos. Needlessly increases the size of the set. I would rather replace the fluff cards with cards of players that weren’t included in the first two series i.e. bench players, bullpen pitchers and more of players who changed teams during the year in their new uniforms. Bring update series to what it was like in years past.

This product is a joke. Same rookies as series 2.
No Bichette? He missed the cutoff?.. yet they magically squeezed in a Vlad with no number. Please ,just topps figuring out a way to keep people interested in next years product.
What a joke.

Topps, once again, holding rookie cards for the 2020 launch…Alvarez, Aquino…who else? Just so they can boost sales in the new year. GTFO. I hope Donruss/Panini puts out a rookie set before 2020 featuring all the players that topps is holding out on. God I can’t wait til licensing comes back to Panini. Competition is truly needed.

Thanks for the insight. I was surprised to see Biggio on the list. I thought he came after Bichette. Oh well. Pretty solid checklist. Got 6 boxes coming.

Didn’t see Bichette mentioned in the link. Why would they hold off until 2020 for him? For the star power? Seems he was called up plenty early enough.

I think it will be a great product just wandering if Tommy Edman from the Cardinals will have a rookie card. Look forward to buying this product.

I’m hearing no Yordan. Havent heard about Yaz or Bichette.

They have a huge opportunity to move a lot of this product if they put the right rookies in… here’s hoping they don’t mess it up…

What is going on with pre order prices on this stuff? $100 as of 6/16, for just a “small” hobby box, and that is a cheap price from the big three online guys…come on. It’s been $60-ish a box for several years now. And there’s less cards.
But credit Topps for now putting the silver continuity packs INSIDE the boxes…..genius!!! Prevents all these shady dealers/stores/vendors from selling them for $10 (or more…) each….it takes all the fun out of it for us little guys who only want a box or two.
I’ve been back in the hobby for about 7 years, and this year is the beginning of the end for me….can’t afford all this stuff anymore, it’s getting out of hand…this hobby is ALL about money and profit all the way around anymore.

Topps and Bowman card stock appears to be thinner than the online cards. Heritage is thicker than the on line cards. The card stock for Gypsy Queen was lowered

Does Update, along with series 1,2 have the same cardstock as paper Bowman? Is Bowman paper 16pt? Topps online sets are mostly 16pt as well, is that heritage or bowman pt?

I will collect this series as I like the extension of the season classic set. Though why not call this Series 3 and number from 701-1000?