It is redundant, but what Topps did was stamp the date of Opening Day for that particular team. So they took the base card, made it blue, put a fancy design behind it and stamped a date on it.
Beckett calls it Blue Foil, Cardboard Connection has it as Rainbow Blue Foil, BaseballCardPedia as Opening Day Edition and a sell sheet has it as "Opening Day Edition". Seeing that Topps published the sell sheet and as Sahall mentioned...
They put a note saying it is also referred to as "Opening Day Edition". Me thinkith that it should be swapped. Set called opening Day Edition and a note put in saying that others refer to it as Blue Foil or Rainbow Blue Foil
captkirk42 wrote:
Sheesh the 1,000s of parallels are confusing enough and then someone has to change a dang name? OK so these cards are the blue foil parallel to the regular "base" Opening Day cards. Isn't calling a parallel set to the "base" Opening Day set "Opening Day Edition" a bit redundant? Maybe they were inserted in flagship set packs?
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