1988 Topps Stickers Baseball Forum

I just spent an hour writing up a complaint about this set before I saw this forum post. It's ludicrous to have a checklist for the Stickerbacks and all their possible stickers, AND a checklist for the stickers with all their possible Stickerbacks. It's redundant and you end up counting the same card twice.

Topps did this for three years, 1988, 1989, and 1990. The 1989 and 1990 sticker checklists (on TCDB) are clearer, and have the Stickerbacks as an insert set. The 1988 set should be changed to follow suit.

The OPC sticker checklists for these three years are identical, and the 1988 OPC Sticker checklist here on TCDB is fine. Copy/Paste it, lol.

Whoever uploaded the checklist for the 1988 stickers probably lifted it out of Standard, where they did it that way for the first two years. They wised up by 1990, and listed the stickers in order, with a number in parenthesis behind the name if that sticker was paired with another. That way you could tell if it was a double, and which number it was paired with. I think that's a good idea, and I wouldn't mind seeing it used here for all the sets that have paired stickers (or tripled or quadrupled).

If you have two stickers on one card then you have three items: two stickers and a card. They can all be separated. If you're worried about your card count, just don't count one of them. It's the same for all the topps stickers from 1981 on up.

When you take the stickers off their stickercard backing, both the stickers and the stickercard have a blank back. We should leave the backs blank. Otherwise, Varoomed is right: we'd end up with a bazillion variations.

The OPC stickers themselves are EXACTLY the same. Only the Stickercard backing is different. (As well as the combinations in which they are found, but that's a whole 'nuther can 'o worms).

I collect Bert Blyleven and people are finding different backs to his stickers all the time, so I know a little bit about these sticker things.  :)

What do the hockey checklists look like? I have a few stickers for my collections and one partial set of sticker backs but am curious to know what was done for them? Do they look the same as the ones in this thread?

Here's why the checklist should not have both names. Go to the 1990 Topps Stickers (Baseball), click on Teams and Phillies. Here is the list of Phillies cards in the set. The same card is listed twice.

#116a Ken Howell / Bud Black (213) / Rick Reuschel (26)

is the same exact card as

#213 - Bud Black / Ken Howell (116) / Rick Reuschel (26)

The funny thing is that the variation

#116b - Ken Howell / Bud Black (213) / Bobby Bonilla (7)  

does not show up as also a variation #213b.

PS: Sorry oilerRCguy, I have no idea about the Hockey stickers, but from looking at the lists here they look completely different.

Sets like this make me want to re-evaluate how I collect.

They're great for people who want to search for variations. If you are collecting a player who is one of the 66 on the stickerbacks, then you can just find all the sticker variations attached to it. Of course, those players also have a sticker or two of their own that are affixed to various backs. I just pulled 1989 Sticker back #1 George Brett out of my box of thousands of these (which takes very little room). I have 10 Bretts, with 7 different backs consisting of 12 different players. I have 11 of #2 Mattingly, with 6 different backs consisting of 11 different players. See what I mean?

Ranfordfan = oilerRCguy

Here is the link to the sticker set I mentioned above, it has multiple players and stickerbacks but I have no idea if they varied or not but at least you can see how they are cataloged on here. Not sure if it means much or not.

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/48406/1989-90-O-Pee-Chee-Stickers

Yep, looks like the same deal. You could check eBay or PSA set registry requirements and see if there are lots of variations. 

I think a shot of scotch is in order LOL