Card Identification Forum

So going through a bunch of stuff I received recently and I came across this..

The sticker is from the 1988 Topps Stickers set..

I have the George Bell with the Trammell back as listed in the checklist. This one, as far as I can tell, is not listed.. Is this a variation that hasn't been recorded, or..? 

Is this a variation that hasn't been recorded

Sure looks like it. 

Not sure about the baseball set. I mostly collect NY Jets football. I have found as many as 14 different versions(same front, different back) of some of the stickers. That I have in my collection, and I'm constantly on the lookout for more.

Unless something has changed, we're trying to simplify the sticker sets on here (especially those with players on the backs that normally got tossed after the sticker was removed).

I forget which year we already did, but the idea is to have the stickers as the base set and the backs as an insert set.

If you wish to track your variations, you can do a detailed add for either one, and put in the description which back (or sticker) is on the one(s) you own.

I wasn't aware of this, but whole heartedly agree with this approach.  Seeing 4 of the same front with backs that also appear multiple times in the set just leads to too many variations to sort through when trying to review a set. 

I know that's the way it was done for the 1988 Topps FOOTBALL Stickers: http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/48418/1988-Topps-Stickers

which have the same basic set format as the baseball.  

GC