2020 Topps Update Baseball Forum

I was investigating the checklist of this set, and I noticed that all the documentation regarding the set indicated it was a 100-card set, but our checklist here had 300 cards. Unfortunately, these are cards that are serial numbered out of only 10, so finding them has been a little tough. A couple of us put in some effort to verify what we could, but we only were able to verify 64 cards.

One of the biggest problems with the checklist is that it is showing 1 of each card number. Through our investigation, we have found that many of the SP VARs from the base set were used to make part of the Clear set. I have put together the list (based off of the base set checklist, not the checklist currently in the Clear set) of the cards currently verified to exist. If you know of any others that definitely exist in the Clear (SN10) format, please post a message here (and if you can post a link to an image of it online somewhere, even better).

The following are the confirmed cards in this set (card numbers in this list refer back to the current base set numbering scheme and will be formatted within the set to TCDB guidelines - they are there so we can use the base set images as reference to which version has been verified):

U-1 - Bo Bichette RD, RC - Toronto Blue Jays - 
U-1b - Bo Bichette SP, VAR - Toronto Blue Jays - VAR: Long sleeve shirt
U-8b - Buster Posey SP, VAR - San Francisco Giants - VAR: Seated waving
U-15b - Aaron Judge SP, VAR - New York Yankees - VAR: Belt on shoulder
U-21 - Kyle Lewis RC, RD - Seattle Mariners - 
U-21b - Kyle Lewis RC, SP, VAR - Seattle Mariners - VAR: Skipping in dugout
U-22 - Cody Stashak RC - Minnesota Twins - 
U-25 - Josh Taylor RC - Boston Red Sox - 
U-29 - Aristides Aquino RD, RC - Cincinnati Reds - 
U-29b - Aristides Aquino SP, VAR - Cincinnati Reds - VAR: All white uniform, holding two bats
U-33b - Alex Verdugo SP, VAR - Boston Red Sox - VAR: Red T-shirt press conference
U-50b - Nolan Arenado SP, VAR - Colorado Rockies - VAR: Blue suit
U-55b - Miguel Cabrera SP, VAR - Detroit Tigers - VAR: Sitting in Dugout
U-58 - Erick Mejia RC - Kansas City Royals - 
U-60 - Brendan McKay RD, RC - Tampa Bay Rays - 
U-65b - Yoshi Tsutsugo SP, VAR - Tampa Bay Rays - VAR: Interview in blue spring training sunburst jersey
U-79 - Sean Poppen RC - Minnesota Twins - 
U-80b - Cody Bellinger SP, VAR - Los Angeles Dodgers - VAR: Dark blue suit
U-83 - Trent Grisham RC - San Diego Padres - 
U-91 - Julio Teheran - Los Angeles Angels - 
U-94 - Jesus Luzardo RD, RC - Oakland Athletics - 
U-102 - Kevin Ginkel RC - Arizona Diamondbacks - 
U-112 - Nik Turley RC - Pittsburgh Pirates - 
U-113 - Devin Williams RC - Milwaukee Brewers - 
U-129 - Hunter Pence - San Francisco Giants - 
U-138 - Tommy Pham - San Diego Padres - 
U-143b - Francisco Lindor SP, VAR - Cleveland Indians - VAR: Interview
U-145b - Ronald Acuña Jr. SP, VAR - Atlanta Braves - VAR: Brick wall in background
U-149 - Nick Solak RD, RC - Texas Rangers - 
U-149b - Nick Solak SP, VAR - Texas Rangers - VAR: High-fiving teammates
U-152 - Sam Haggerty RC - Seattle Mariners - 
U-157 - Deivy Grullon RC - Philadelphia Phillies - 
U-173 - Edwin Encarnacion - Chicago White Sox - 
U-173b - Luis Robert SP, VAR - Chicago White Sox - VAR: White Suit
U-185b - Max Scherzer SP, VAR - Washington Nationals - VAR: Holding World Series trophy
U-187b - Pete Alonso SP, VAR - New York Mets - VAR: Wearing suit
U-188 - Luis Severino - New York Yankees - 
U-189 - Johnny Davis RC - Tampa Bay Rays - 
U-190b - Ken Griffey Jr. SP, VAR - Seattle Mariners - VAR: Press conference
U-192 - Ian Miller RC - Chicago Cubs - 
U-200b - Anthony Rendon SP, VAR - Los Angeles Angels - VAR: Holding up jersey
U-201b - Anthony Rizzo SP, VAR - Chicago Cubs - VAR: Smiling over shoulder
U-208 - Randy Arozarena RC - Tampa Bay Rays - 
U-209b - Cal Ripken Jr. SP, VAR - Baltimore Orioles - VAR: Press Conference
U-216 - Sean Murphy RD, RC, UER - Oakland Athletics - UER: Picture is of Matt Chapman
U-216b - Sean Murphy SP, VAR - Oakland Athletics - VAR: White jersey
U-224 - Cy Sneed RC - Houston Astros - 
U-228 - Starling Marte - Arizona Diamondbacks - 
U-229b - Giancarlo Stanton SP, VAR - New York Yankees - VAR: Wearing Yankees October Reign T-shirt
U-234 - Gavin Lux RD, RC - Los Angeles Dodgers - 
U-234b - Gavin Lux SP, VAR - Los Angeles Dodgers - VAR: Sitting in dugout
U-235b - Javier Baez SP, VAR - Chicago Cubs - VAR: Wearing black t-shirt
U-237b - Clayton Kershaw SP, VAR - Los Angeles Dodgers - VAR: Standing at podium
U-241 - Tyler Heineman - San Francisco Giants - 
U-251b - Nico Hoerner SP, VAR - Chicago Cubs - VAR: Signing autograph
U-257b - Derek Jeter SP, VAR - New York Yankees - VAR: Press Conference
U-268b - Mookie Betts SP, VAR - Los Angeles Dodgers - VAR: Wearing hard hat
U-269b - Christian Yelich SP, VAR - Milwaukee Brewers - VAR: Collared shirt
U-272b - Joey Votto SP, VAR - Cincinnati Reds - VAR: At microphone
U-279b - Bryce Harper SP, VAR - Philadelphia Phillies - VAR: Interview
U-287b - Chris Sale SP, VAR - Boston Red Sox - VAR: Wearing red shirt
U-293 - Mike King RC - New York Yankees - 
U-299b - Jacob deGrom SP, VAR - New York Mets - VAR: Interview
U-300 - Yordan Alvarez ASR, RC, RD - Houston Astros - 

Based on what I've read, and from previous years, this set contains only the 100 cards. There is no mention of any VAR or SPs.

Unfortunately we confirmed through eBay listings that VARs are included here. None of the usual sources for checklists are helpful either other than mentioning the Clear set is 100 cards.

"Base" card:

"SP VAR" card:

Ok. I'll do some research myself. Seems odd that there would be an SP of something that is already limited to 10 copies.

Well they're all numbered /10, but for some reason Topps decided to use multiple VARs of a bunch of players instead of picking 100 different subjects.

I would assume that means there are ten of each variation. I have an Allen & Ginter /10 auto, and I found another with the same serial number on eBay. Turns out there are several variations in the border design, so there are way more than ten cards in total.

Right, each card in Dan's list above gets 10 copies, so if a player appears on two (or more) different variations, each of those gets 10 copies.

So, if I have this right. There only 10 total copies of the Aquino card, but there are maybe 8 with a "base photo" and 2 with a variation?

Ignore the above post. I've got it now.