Card Identification Forum

There is no checklist listed for this group of cards.  Was this set actually spread out over 3 years of cards.  Tried to find info on cardboard connection and Beckett but could not find any more info.

The ones I have are from the 2006 set.

Yes, it was spread out over 3 years. Here's the breakdown:

BB1-BB330: 2005 Topps Series Two
BB331-BB660: 2005 Topps Updates & Highlights
BB661-BB708: 2006 Topps Series One
BB709-BB734: 2006 Topps Updates & Highlights
BB735-BB762: 2007 Topps Updates & Highlights

The complete checklist is here: http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Subsets.cfm/sid/20202/2005-Topps---Barry-Bonds-Home-Run-History. But probably shouldn't be; it should be 5 separate checklists as an Insert to the appropriate base set.

I find it interesting that this set was started in 2005, two years before the media circus that was the 2007 season until he cracked the record at home against my Nats. The next night after he broke the record, the circus left and within a few days you didn't hear about Bonds again. I was sick of hearing about Bonds the closer he got to the record. It is also interesting that it was during the Giants dry spell for post seasons. Now days you can't keep them out in the even years.

I wonder what Topps would have done if sometime between 2005 and 2007 Bonds had had some kind of career ending injury that would have prevented him from breaking Aaron's record? I guess they would have finished the series with whatever he stopped at.

So I found the checklist with the 2005 inserts.  It lists all of the cards from each year.  Should it stay that way or be broken up and listed with the set that it was issued???

Jeff

As I said in my post, they should be separated. Even though they used a continuation numbering, inserts should be listed with the card set packs they were inserted in.  They were inserts in different years and in different card sets.  The way it is now, some collectors might be led to believe that they can only complete this set by buying 2005 Topps base set packs.