1993 Topps

Total Cards: 825

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1993 Topps

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• 1st year that Topps issued a base set by series since 1973.
• Largest Topps base set since 1972.
• 1st Topps base set to not consist of 792 cards since 1981.
• Last Topps set to issue packs with folded-back wrappers since beginning in 1951.
• Last player card for George Brett included in this set.
• Card #230 features the final card of future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk.
• Card #205 features the last card of future Hall of Famer Gary Carter.
• Card #185 features the final Topps card of Hall of Famer Jack Morris.
• One Topps Gold card was included in each 15-card pack.
• First team sets of the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins, and each team also had their own specially-stamped 825-card set
• Cards were released to the general public in the following formats:
  * 15-Card Poly Packs
  * 34-Card Cello Packs
  * 41-Card Jumbo Packs
  * 45 (15x3) Card Rack Packs
  * 74-Card "Supermarket" Jumbo Packs
• #557 Pedro Martinez - UER: Born "7-25-71", should be "10-25-71"
• #633 "Three Russians" (Rudy Razjigaev / Eugneyi Puchkov / Ilya Bogatyrev) - UER: Ilya Bogatyrev is a shortstop but has the "Pitching Statistics" header instead of the expected "Batting Statistics" one
• #765 Vince Coleman - The first Topps card of Coleman's where his birth year is correct. All cards from 1986 through 1992 have his birth year as 1960 instead of 1961.
  
• #802 Phil Clark - UER: 3rd line of the write-up on the back, "in campaign" should be "in a campaign"