Topps Living Set

[eldavojohn]

I mean it's obvious Nettles should be a Yankee but a Twins fan can dream ... great player to know for immaculate grids, btw.

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #723 - Graig Nettles - PR: 2018
Graig Nettles is the New York Yankees 41st franchise and team member featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #724 - Henry Davis - PR: 1768
Henry Davis is the Pittsburgh Pirates 22nd franchise and team member, and 230th rookie featured.

[astrotrevor]

Nice selections but a lot of team duplication of late. It seems every week of late is a combo of Yankees, Reds, As, Pirates, Giants.

[astrotrevor]

The only Red I'd want to see (today) would be Pete Rose. Hopefully he gets a LS card early before too many other Topps releases.

[astrotrevor]

ok...I'm warming up to the full action subject cards. Great compliment to the Campanella!

[Natsfan32]

Love the Warren Spahn. Probably my favorite card in the set (along with Campanella)

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #725 - Warren Spahn - PR: 2430
Warren Spahn is the Atlanta Braves 32nd franchise member, Milwaukee Braves 2nd team member, 87th Hall of Fame member, and 10th member of Topps 1953 featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #726 - Brett Baty - PR: 1489
Brett Baty is the New York Mets 26th franchise and team member featured.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by astrotrevor

ok...I'm warming up to the full action subject cards. Great compliment to the Campanella!

Angel's art style really compliments the action poses, just as Jared excels with the portraits. Provides some interesting contrast to the set that enhances the overall product.

[kidfan9]

I’m not gonna lie, I really love the action images! Hopefully we see many more like it going forward! These should be popular for the prints. I believe WS is now the third player featured this way along with Campy and Carter?

[dream34]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

Angel's art style really compliments the action poses, just as Jared excels with the portraits. Provides some interesting contrast to the set that enhances the overall product.

100% Agree with this. Jared's Portraits are just amazing At the same time, some of Angel's work (Star Wars!) are amazing when he's able to capture full length. Here's hoping they give us a sweet SS/2B turning a double play one day

[astrotrevor]

Originally Posted by kidfan9

I’m not gonna lie, I really love the action images! Hopefully we see many more like it going forward! These should be popular for the prints. I believe WS is now the third player featured this way along with Campy and Carter?

Can't forget about Bartolo!

[mfw13]

Gorgeous Warren Spahn card.....

[kidfan9]

Originally Posted by astrotrevor

Can't forget about Bartolo!

I don’t put Colon in the same category as the other three.

[astrotrevor]

#706 & #707. Both from different weeks but make for one of the nicer back to back pairings in the set.

[astroshane]

Originally Posted by kidfan9

I don’t put Colon in the same category as the other three.

No love for bartolo? He was the original full frame card wasn’t he?

[astrotrevor]

Dustin Fowler was the first non portrait. I’d group his card with the others as well.

[davidantx]

That's a great looking Sphan!

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by astrotrevor

Dustin Fowler was the first non portrait. I’d group his card with the others as well.

He's the last card I was thinking of, too.

I think those are the only five non-portrait cards.

[Joliet Jake]

[Joliet Jake]

Seto's cards are still impressive, but you can really see the bump in quality when the artist has to focus on only one card per week. Asking her to do three cards per week for 84 weeks was too much. The quality of her artwork saw a marked improvement when she dropped to two cards per week, and even more so when Jared joined the project.

I'm grateful for her contributions and tireless work ethic for the nearly 5 years and 480 cards she created. I only wish her workload was managed properly from the beginning.

[TUAlum96]

It's now been 67 cards since our last Royals player. I, of course, have suggestions. To get very specific, though, what I'd like to see is Bret Saberhagen (preferably young Sabes from around 1985), with artwork by Jared, including an easter egg having something to do with Ford trucks or the Saberhagen Shuffle. (Both being a reference to his hilariously awful KC-area Ford dealerships commercial in the wake of his '85 WS MVP, which Jimmy Fallon briefly brought back into the light during the Royals 2015 WS run. It can be viewed in all its glory at https://youtu.be/QyVnOBdKw64?si=ElJfccsfsG8qoht_ )

That's not too much to ask, right?

[astroshane]

With all the talk about Del La Cruz with 25 steals and on pace for 99 how about a Vince Colman and Lou Brock Card?

There have only been 8 seasons with 100 stolen bases in the modern era and Colman has 3 of 8. The others, Henderson (3), Wills. Since we already have 2 of the 4 let's get the other two. Brock is inevitable as he's a Hall of Famer but let's get Vince Colman in the set.

[Fsegaud]

Originally Posted by astroshane

With all the talk about Del La Cruz with 25 steals and on pace for 99 how about a Vince Colman and Lou Brock Card?

There have only been 8 seasons with 100 stolen bases in the modern era and Colman has 3 of 8. The others, Henderson (3), Wills. Since we already have 2 of the 4 let's get the other two. Brock is inevitable as he's a Hall of Famer but let's get Vince Colman in the set.

Coleman eventually needs to have a card...need E.T. too...Willie McGee...ohhhh, the easter eggs for McGee! A bicycle, right???

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #727 - Jared Triolo - PR: 1395
Jared Triolo is the Pittsburgh Pirates 23rd franchise and team member, and 231st rookie featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #728 - Eric Davis - PR: 1737
Eric Davis is the Cincinnati Reds 27th franchise and team member featured.

[Joliet Jake]

I'm surprised to see two Pirates rookies in the last three weeks, and four Pirates overall in the last 10 weeks. Pittsburgh fans must be loving this.

Great to see Davis finally included. I know more than one Cincinnati fan has been clamoring for him.

Franchise wise, there are only five still in the teens with regard to cards released.

• Arizona Diamondbacks - 18
• Colorado Rockies - 14
• Kansas City Royals - 17
• Miami Marlins - 19
• Milwaukee Brewers - 17

I'm not surprised to see three of the last four expansion teams in the bottom five of card releases, but I would definitely like to see more Royals and Brewers added to the set.