2016 Topps Anthology Series 1 Baseball Card Details
By Ryan Cracknell | Hobby Editor
2016 Topps Anthology Series 1 Baseball offers a chronological look at Topps Baseball through the years. The online-exclusive box set includes one card from each of its first 66 years — 1951 through 2016.
For the majority of the cards in the set, it’s the most iconic one. However, this isn’t always the case. Some players appear on non-rookies at different parts of their career. This balances things out for years where there are multiple big-name rookies or key cards.
A couple of players are absent from 2016 Topps Anthology Series 1 Baseball. The most noticeable is Mickey Mantle, arguably the face of Topps baseball cards. However, Mickey Mantle doesn’t currently have a card deal. That makes it tough to include the 1952 Topps Mantle, or any other for that matter.
Cards in the set are over-sized, measuring 5 x 7. The standard version of the set is numbered to 499 and costs $99.99. Silver has 49 copies and costs $149.99 while a Gold version numbered to 10 runs $499.99.
In addition to the box set, the entire series has been printed as a poster. This also has regular ($49.99), Silver (/49, $99.99) and Gold (/10, $199.99) versions.
2016 Topps Anthology Series 1 Baseball at a glance:
Cards per set: 66
Set size: 66 cards
Release date: March 10, 2016
2016 Topps Anthology Series 1 Baseball Checklist
66 cards.
1951 Duke Snider #38
1952 Warren Spahn #33
1953 Jackie Robinson #1
1954 Hank Aaron #128
1955 Roberto Clemente #164
1956 Ted Williams #5
1957 Brooks Robinson #328
1958 Roger Maris #47
1959 Bob Gibson #514
1960 Willie McCovey #316
1961 Billy Williams #141
1962 Sandy Koufax #5
1963 Willie Mays #300
1964 Frank Robinson #260
1965 Luis Tiant #145
1966 Jim Palmer #126
1967 Carl Yastrzemski #355
1968 Nolan Ryan #177
1969 Reggie Jackson #260
1970 Johnny Bench #660
1971 Steve Garvey #341
1972 Tom Seaver #445
1973 Goose Gossage #174
1974 Dave Winfield #456
1975 George Brett #38
1976 Robin Yount #316
1977 Bruce Sutter #144
1978 Eddie Murray #36
1979 Ozzie Smith #116
1980 Rickey Henderson #482
1981 Gary Carter #660
1982 Cal Ripken Jr. #98T
1983 Tony Gwynn #482
1984 Don Mattingly #8
1985 Roger Clemens #181
1986 Jose Canseco #20T
1987 Bo Jackson #170
1988 Tom Glavine #779
1989 Randy Johnson #647
1990 Frank Thomas #414
1991 Chipper Jones #333
1992 Manny Ramirez #156
1993 Ken Griffey Jr. #179
1994 Mike Piazza #1
1995 Omar Vizquel #404
1996 Craig Biggio #306
1997 Albert Belle #69
1998 Mark McGwire #325
1999 Alex Rodriguez #300
2000 Nomar Garciaparra #435
2001 Ichiro Suzuki #726
2002 Joe Mauer #622
2003 Albert Pujols #200
2004 Yadier Molina #324
2005 David Ortiz #49
2006 Alex Gordon #297
2007 Mariano Rivera #570
2008 Joey Votto #319
2009 David Price #35
2010 Buster Posey #2
2011 Mike Trout #US175
2012 Bryce Harper #661
2013 Matt Harvey #577
2014 Jose Abreu #496
2015 Kris Bryant #616
2016 Jose Bautista #96
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Boring and over priced. Topps needs originality fast.
For the starting price of $99, I think you could buy a real base card from every year for less than that (or if you are into reprints, you can buy one iconic reprint for each year from some of the billions of reprint inserts that topps flagship has given us in recent years).
I’m afraid topps is killing the prestige of their history with each overdone reprint item they release.
I agree with the previous 2 comments, though I’d say the poster is pretty interesting. The cards, very tired.
YIPPPIE
more topps reprints
I’ll echo the previous comments… And add this. Where the heck is Boggs. The man put up a 3,ooo Hit HOF career, and you got four years of guys that won’t even sniff the HOF from Boggs years taking up space.
But, I’m a Boggs collector, so I could be biased.
Likely a contract issue. If they don’t have him signed to a deal, they can’t use him (like Mantle for 1952).