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Toronto Blue Jays
Shows every card for the Toronto Blue Jays in the regular Topps Baseball Card set from 1977 to 1988
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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September 17, 2023
This is one of a series of books released in 1989. There is one for each of the 26 teams in Major League Baseball at that time. This is one of the two slimmest books in the set, along with the book for the Seattle Mariners. Since they were the two newest teams that makes sense. This is a year by year book, with a summary of how the team did each year and then two or three pages showing the Topps baseball cards for the team. The cards are from both the regular set and the traded set, if there was one. As one can imagine this is actually a handy book for the person who specializes in one team as they can see the cards. The only problem is that only the front of the card is pictured and one cannot tell from that if the card is from the regular or traded set. The years covered here are 1977 to 1988, though there is no summary for the the 1988 season. At the back some historical information the Topps sets from 1951 to 1988 as well as pitching and batting records for all the players who were ever members of the Blue Jays.
One note of trivia. Here in Canada O-Pee-Chee was the company that issued the baseball cards. Usually the selected cards from the Topps set and then simply printed them, with changes to indicate the cards were issued by O-Pee-Chee and not Topps, usually being a change to the company logo on the front and the copywrite information on the back. The player pictures were the backs of the cards were otherwise the same. However this was not the case this year. Topps only printed a handful of cards for Blue Jays players this year. That was probably because they didn't have pictures that they could airbrush new uniforms onto for all the players on the team. Since the cards came out either at the same time as Spring Training or shortly thereafter there was no time to get photos taken and the cards prepared. O-Pee-Chee however released its cards later in the season and thus were able to get new cards prepared. As result in many cases the O-Pee-Chee card of a player was different from his Topps one. As well as the cards were coming out later they were able to get cards done for some players that Topps didn't have in their set. As an example of this, Topps had one card showing the Jays manager and four of the coaches. O-Pee-Chee had two cards, one for the manager and one for the coaches.
So, if you are a Toronto Blues fan, a baseball memorabilia collector or someone with an interest in either baseball itself or more specifically baseball cards I dare say this is a volume that would make a nice addition to your library. Happy reading. By the way, the only card I can definitely say is from a traded set is the 1981 Danny Ainge card. It was the first card in that particular set, only because the traded sets are in alphabetical order.
One note of trivia. Here in Canada O-Pee-Chee was the company that issued the baseball cards. Usually the selected cards from the Topps set and then simply printed them, with changes to indicate the cards were issued by O-Pee-Chee and not Topps, usually being a change to the company logo on the front and the copywrite information on the back. The player pictures were the backs of the cards were otherwise the same. However this was not the case this year. Topps only printed a handful of cards for Blue Jays players this year. That was probably because they didn't have pictures that they could airbrush new uniforms onto for all the players on the team. Since the cards came out either at the same time as Spring Training or shortly thereafter there was no time to get photos taken and the cards prepared. O-Pee-Chee however released its cards later in the season and thus were able to get new cards prepared. As result in many cases the O-Pee-Chee card of a player was different from his Topps one. As well as the cards were coming out later they were able to get cards done for some players that Topps didn't have in their set. As an example of this, Topps had one card showing the Jays manager and four of the coaches. O-Pee-Chee had two cards, one for the manager and one for the coaches.
So, if you are a Toronto Blues fan, a baseball memorabilia collector or someone with an interest in either baseball itself or more specifically baseball cards I dare say this is a volume that would make a nice addition to your library. Happy reading. By the way, the only card I can definitely say is from a traded set is the 1981 Danny Ainge card. It was the first card in that particular set, only because the traded sets are in alphabetical order.
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