If you listened to some of the SNY broadcasts before the All-Star break, there was a lengthy discussion about how activities around the All Star game has changed over the years. As the booth put it, when they played baseball, you just had to go to the workout, the dinner, and the game. Now they have players running all over town.
As we also know, MLB likes to make money and push their products (which they are completely in their right to do so), by giving the players their BP uniforms on the field this year, etc.
Well apparently, Topps bought back a portion of the workout uniforms this year for their annual update series. Topps has three basic sets though out the season. Series 1 and 2 are made and planned during the offseason. Update comes out at the end of the season to highlight player debuts, unexpected additions to rosters, new events, etc. For the memorabilia cards (cards where Topps takes a game used uniform or bat and dices it up and puts it into cards) in the Update series, they diced up the player All Star BP uniforms from the workout:
(Photos from DA Card World)
I’m rather indifferent with this. I’m not a fan of dicing up jerseys and spreading them out, but I understand it develops a certain aesthetic value into the cards.
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