General Forum

I recently acquired a pile of 1993 Topps cards. I noticed that on the card backs, in the center of the bottom of each card is an A, B or C. Does anybody know what this means? The cards in the database seem to be a mixture of all three letters. I checked 10-15 of my cards against the database and the letters match in all cases. So whatever it means, it probably doesn't mean much.

From what I know, and I'm not an expert, it marks which sheet the cards came from. I have some Bowmans and Stadium Clubs with the same kind of lettering system.

Yes, it's the sheet letter code (A-F for many of the Topps 792 card sets to designate which of the 132 card sheets the card came from).  I don't know of any variations in the 1993 Topps, but other years have some variations in the lettering.  Some of the older Topps sets used <no sheet mark>, *, ** in place of the lettering.

As mentioned in the previous two posts, the letters and/or asterisks are just indicators from the printing process. Some collectors are ultra completist and search out all variations, especially player collectors.