First look: 2013 Topps Turkey Red baseball cards (with checklist)
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Turkey Red is coming … and it arrives in a week.
As previously reported, Topps is releasing an edition of Turkey Red baseball cards this year exclusively as a ShopTopps.com item and it’s set to arrive in just one week, on Feb. 18.
Each 11-card $20 box will include one autograph and a selection of 10 cards from a 100-card base set in the familiar look of the past cards. There will be 43 signers for the product and Black parallels of autos limited to 10 as well as 1/1 Red parallels. Also to be found are printing plates. Pre-orders begin tomorrow and the product will ship next week. There is a limit of 25 boxes per household.
Among the signers, according to Topps, will be Mike Trout, Yoenis Cespedes, Yu Darvish and Will Middlebrooks to name a few players.
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HERE IS A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST AS RELEASED BY TOPPS.
BASE SET
1 R.A. Dickey
2 Derek Jeter
3 Mike Trout
4 Jose Altuve
5 David Wright
6 Manny Machado
7 Albert Pujols
8 Bryce Harper
9 Felix Hernandez
10 Adam Jones
11 Clayton Kershaw
12 Justin Morneau
13 Roy Halladay
14 Jimmy Rollins
15 Curtis Granderson
16 Andre Ethier
17 Jose Reyes
18 Matt Kemp
19 Yovani Gallardo
20 Fernando Rodney
21 Jonathan Papelbon
22 Robinson Cano
23 Ryan Braun
24 Joe Mauer
25 Gio Gonzalez
26 Pablo Sandoval
27 Yonder Alonso
28 Ryan Zimmerman
29 Yadier Molina
30 David Price
31 Adam Wainwright
32 Prince Fielder
33 Edwin Encarnacion
34 Yasmani Grandal
35 Chase Utley
36 Jose Bautista
37 Jake Peavy
38 Carlos Santana
39 Brian McCann
40 Starlin Castro
41 Brandon Phillips
42 Aroldis Chapman
43 Justin Upton
44 Joey Votto
45 Jon Lester
46 Wade Miley
47 Mark Trumbo
48 Adrian Beltre
49 Eric Hosmer
50 Andrew McCutchen
51 C.J. Wilson
52 Dustin Pedroia
53 Asdrubal Cabrera
54 Tim Lincecum
55 Tim Hudson
56 Freddie Freeman
57 Paul Konerko
58 CC Sabathia
59 Josh Hamilton
60 Buster Posey
61 Matt Cain
62 Ian Kinsler
63 Matt Holliday
64 Jesus Montero
65 Carlos Gonzalez
66 Austin Jackson
67 Mat Latos
68 Adam Dunn
69 Josh Reddick
70 Yoenis Cespedes
71 Hunter Pence
72 Cole Hamels
73 Yu Darvish
74 Johnny Cueto
75 Miguel Cabrera
76 Jean Segura
77 Anthony Rizzo
78 Tyler Skaggs
79 Ian Kennedy
80 Jered Weaver
81 Zack Greinke
82 Chris Sale
83 Craig Kimbrel
84 Jason Heyward
85 Evan Longoria
86 Ryan Howard
87 Giancarlo Stanton
88 Adrian Gonzalez
89 Cliff Lee
90 Carlos Beltran
91 Josh Beckett
92 Justin Verlander
93 Billy Butler
94 Colby Rasmus
95 Brett Wallace
96 Starling Marte
97 Troy Tulowitzki
98 Hanley Ramirez
99 James Shields
100 Stephen Strasburg
AUTOGRAPH CARDS
TRA-AA Alexi Amarista
TRA-AC Andrew Carignan
TRA-AE Alcides Escobar
TRA-AG Anthony Gose
TRA-AGO Alex Gordon
TRA-AJ Adam Jones
TRA-BM Brian McCann
TRA-BP Brad Peacock
TRA-BU B.J. Upton
TRA-CA Chris Archer
TRA-CP Carlos Pena
TRA-DH Drew Hutchison
TRA-DN Derek Norris
TRA-DS Drew Storen
TRA-ES Eduardo Sanchez
TRA-FH Felix Hernandez
TRA-JA J.P. Arencibia
TRA-JB Jose Bautista
TRA-JN Jeff Niemann
TRA-JOV Josh Vitters
TRA-JP Jarrod Parker
TRA-JS Joe Saunders
TRA-JSA Jerry Sands
TRA-JSE Jean Segura
TRA-JV Jordany Valdespin
TRA-KS Kyle Seager
TRA-MCA Miguel Cabrera
TRA-MF Mike Fiers
TRA-MO Mike Olt
TRA-MP Michael Pineda
TRA-MT Mark Trumbo
TRA-MTR Mike Trout
TRA-RW Rickie Weeks
TRA-SC Steve Cishek
TRA-SD Scott Diamond
TRA-SV Shane Victorino
TRA-TB Trevor Bauer
TRA-TC Tyler Colvin
TRA-TS Tyler Skaggs
TRA-WIM Will Middlebrooks
TRA-WP Wily Peralta
TRA-YCE Yoenis Cespedes
TRA-YDA Yu Darvish
These look sweet!
I’ll pass, thanks.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that it’s a bad product per se.
What is happening is they are selling a kind of “super pack” with a guaranteed auto.
This is a product that likely would do well in the shops.
The problem is, there is no stated limit of production. Heritage was 1000 sets.
No idea if any of the autos are harder to get than others.
I noticed there is no Harper, who’s auto really helped fuel the Topps Heritage set sales.
The autos are STICKER, which I personally do not care for.
Almost every auto on that list is available out there for under $10.
I DO like the design and might very well have put a base set together, except for some
insane reason I don’t see any rookies in this set. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here.
What Topps SHOULD have done is issue this to the Hobby shops to sell at $25/pack
and included guys that could have RC logo, but don’t yet, or at least have some prospect cards.
I do see Machado in the checklist, so there’s at least one RC logo card, but a set like this would probably be better suited to be RC-heavy. Also, not a big fan of sticker autos, especially in retro sets.
Manny Machado and Mike Olt seemed to be the only rookies I noticed. It’s a cool idea at a very good price, but the base checklist is pretty weak. I also agree with the other poster who commented on the auto checklist, most of those are south of $10 autos.
I’d just like to get the 2-3 $10 off codes I am owed by Topps from the Golden Giveaway promotion that I never got! Maybe I would’ve used one on this.
I hope someday Topps will create a ShopTopps.com exclusive product for one of their Bowman brands.
@ Keith S. I too was in Golden Giveaway limbo for quite some time. I recently sent them a friendly reminder email with my account info and in less than a week I got all three of them. I will be using one of them for this product for sure.
Nice cards, but $20 for just 11 cards? I’d rather pay more, maybe $50 or so, for a larger amount of cards. Could be worse, but cmon Topps!
Seeing these cards makes me think I would like to see a baseball card of a player signing autographs. And then that card itself would be an autograph card. Full circle.
Hey, why not? They’re sticker autos anyway, so take a pic of the player signing the stickers, put it on a card & then put the auto sticker on it! Maybe even add an “event worn” memorabilia piece from the shirt he was wearing while signing the ‘graphs …
$20 seems a little high especially when that does not include more for shipping. i see this blowing up on topps, then a nice price drop will maybe happen
Or, maybe it will just sell out like the last two online-exclusives.
This product looks okay but price makes me very worried. There are some pretty big names in the checklist and for that price that means bigger names are harder to pull or there are a lot of them. On the border of like/dislike but for $20, might as well try.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THERE WILL BE A SERIES 2 …3 ….UPDATE
SHOCKED NO ANGEL PAGAN AUTOS ..THEY MUST BE OUT OF HIS STICKERS
They said they go on sale 2-12-13. Went to website at 4 AM CST SOLD OUT. I guess the big Ebay sellers got them all.
Too bad for the little guy like me.
Funny, if I go back and read the comments from the Heritage online exclusive the comments would be eerily familiar. Maybe by a lot of the same people. After that product sold out they were selling on ebay for even more than what Topps sold them for without the autograph.
This will sell out and see the same results on ebay.
Also, Topps confirmed to me via a Twitter response that the colored parallels will be for base cards too. Pulling a black or red Trout, Harper, etc will surely be a nice hit.
$20, I’m in.
Heya Chris, I just want to say I really enjoy your blog posts. Even though I’m not a fan of the pricey rare cards, your blog posts keep me up-to-date in the card industry. You are my primary source for news.
Ted,didn’t release till this morning,you can still get them.
WOW!! SOLD OUT IN JUST A COUPLE HOURS!!! Glad I got my 25 boxes!!!
This is sold out,as of 2:30pm today.
they just opened up selling as of 3:45pm EST – go back to who topps and get ’em
Yeah, I agree with Jason. People were all upset with the Heritage High Number set, but I was pretty happy with that one .. this Turkey Red deal probably won’t be a turkey once all is said and done. :)
well, i sure was wrong about this product. sold out fast
The only turkey I like is the edible kind.
Tried to buy a box this morning….sold out…..maybe the 25 limit was to high or I was to slow. Any chance they will open it up again?
20 bucks for 11 cards and one autograph? talk about pissing your money away.