2016 Topps MLB Star Wars Tribute Prints Go Back to 1977 Stickers
By Ryan Cracknell | Hobby Editor
Topps is no stranger to to mashing up old designs with current players. For baseball, it’s usually stays within the sport. 2016 Topps Star Wars Tribute prints go to a galaxy far, far away instead. The online-exclusives head back to the original 1977 Topps Star Wars Stickers.
A total of 15 players have prints and posters in the series. Like a lot of the exclusives on the Topps site, they come in a few different forms. Posters measuring 10 x 14 are being sold individually. Blue versions, numbered to 10 cost $34.99 on the site while one-of-one Gold posters are $99.99 or $199.99, depending on the player.
Sets of all 15 players are done in a 5 x 7 format. Blue sets (/99) are $29.99 and Gold sets (/10) were $199.99. All of the rarer sets quickly sold out.
The 2016 Topps MLB Star Wars Tribute checklist is a mix of current players and retired Hall of Famers. Among them are rookies Trevor Story and Kenta Maeda. Of the current players, only David Ortiz was alive when the original series of 1977 Topps Star Wars trading cards came out.
Last year, Topps also did a Star Wars Tribute set for baseball. These were done in the style of the base set with the classic star field borders rather than the stickers.
2016 Topps MLB Star Wars Tribute Checklist
Each player comes in the following versions:
• 5 x 7 Blue Print – /99 (sold in sets)
• 5 x 7 Gold Print – /10 (sold in sets)
• 10 x 14 Blue Poster – /10
• 10 x 14 Gold Poster – 1/1
1 Kris Bryant, Chicago Cubs
2 Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals
3 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
4 Noah Syndergaard, New York Mets
5 Kenta Maeda, Los Angeles Dodgers
6 Trevor Story, Colorado Rockies
7 Carlos Correa, Houston Astros
8 Jake Arrieta, Chicago Cubs
9 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
10 David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox
11 Nolan Ryan, Houston Astros
12 George Brett, Kansas City Royals
13 Gary Carter, New York Mets
14 Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore Orioles
15 Ryne Sandberg, Chicago Cubs
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Why do the “1977” design subjects come mainly from the 1980s? Strange that it would show Nolan on the Astros instead of the Angels. Just another good idea that was poorly developed by Topps. Reggio Jackson and Mike Schmidt would have been neat in this product. Pete Rose, too … but we all know that’s not gonna happen.