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dsorek
Posts: 640
Joined: Mar 2014
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:20 PM | |
Sad to see Topps decided to unretire #7 this year. What are your thoughts? Is Gary Sanchez worthy? Will Topps re-retire it next year? Will they ever come to an agreement with the Mantle family?
I'm used to Topps not being very fast with their transaction updates, but Yoenis Cespedes never received a (base) card in a Tigers outfit and yet they put Cameron Maybin in Series 1 as a Tiger when he was the very first transaction at the end of the year last year. About as frustrating as a Guido Knudsen card last year but not Alex Wilson or Dixon Machado or Bruce Rondon...
Sorry for the rant.
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pistonfan
Posts: 198
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:35 PM | |
I'm glad they unretired #7. I'm not big on retiring uniform numbers, so I think retiring card numbers is even dopier.
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Mitch
Posts: 258
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:56 PM | |
I certainly don't think card numbers should be retired ever. Retiring a card number would only make sense if players were consistently given the same card # year after year. Just my thoughts. I dno't have any issue with retiring jerseys.
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,467
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:12 PM | |
Retiring a card number is nonsensical. Why don't they just make every card number 7 a Mickey Mantle card every year/release.
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Vvvergeer
Posts: 2,058
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:14 PM | |
Retiring jersey numbers: fine.
Never liked the retired Mantle number. I know 52 was his rookie card, etc. But was Mantle so much better than Mays, or Aaron, or Griffey? Why single him out? Always felt wrong.
Of unretiring it just feels weird.
Sigh.
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RoundtheDiamond87
Posts: 808
Joined: Oct 2015
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:19 PM | |
I wasn't a fan of the card retiring because it messed up my 9-pocket page numbering and my set counts. I'm glad they went back and "re-produced" the missing #7's from the 1997-2005 Topps sets, and I'd like them to go fill in the more recent missing #7's as well. Although I think "un-retiring" a card kind of a slap in the face, it had to be done, and I hope they never retire another card again. Dumb idea. If they want to dedicate a certain card number to a player as a tribute for a few years, that's fine with me. A tribute can be undone, but a card retiring? Imagine the Yankees unretiring #7 because a modern star wanted to wear it?
Edited on: Jan 26, 2017 - 5:20PM
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DarkSide830
Posts: 227
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| Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:46 PM | |
I wouldn't expect anything specific. It changes quite often.
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bkim
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2017 2:06 PM | |
I was waiting for them to retire numbers from other players. Never liked it that it went on after more then year. I understand okay to skip a number to honor someone for just one year but for a long time nope.
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cynicalbuddha
Posts: 609
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2017 2:59 PM | |
Topps had retired #7 before, as well, and then unretired it when they got the rights to use Mantel's image and then reretired it when that ran out. I assumed that they were hoping to get a new license to use his likeness again and just didn't.
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ckrakowski
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| Sunday, February 19, 2017 9:51 PM | |
What I do not get is how did the mantle estate get the #7 card spot. Did they buy it or was it just because it was mantles number. I think the Babe is more deserving to have a card number retired after him.
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