2006 Topps Baseball Forum

This was my 5th consecutive year back in the hobby after a 10-year hiatus between 1991-2001 after my initial five year collecting period from 1987-1991.  Up until this set, Topps had stopped including a card #7, which messed up my 9-pocket page binder counting system (i.e. 9,18,27,36,...90...180...270, etc.), and forced me to explore my own creative ways to organize my complete sets besides simply using the card-number order.  Topps finally included the missing card #7 in the 2006 Topps set, and had went back and reissued every missing card #7 the previous year for the 1997-2005 Topps sets.  It's not like everything was back to normal though because there was also this issue with the Alex Gordon #297 that resulted in his card being removed from the set.  Being a completist at the time, and knowing that I'd never pay the asking price for card #297, I sold decided to sell off my 2006 Topps set along with all my 21st Century cards to focus soley on vintage.  That philosophy later changed back around 2013 when I found myself not being able to recognize modern card set designs and players in the game.  I eventually went back and repurchased all of my missing 21st Century sets as well as all of the newer sets.  As a filler for the missing A.Gordon #297, I used the 2010 Topps #CMT55 reprint card.  To this day, the 2006 Topps set remains an important part of my current collection.  It's also very reminiscent of one of my favorite sets from the '70s: 1972 Topps.

I don't have much to say about this set, in particular. Although, the lettering is really tough to read, as the picture of the card on this thread indicates. Can't say I loved this set. 

But I was intrigued/somewhat taken aback by all the trouble the lack of #7 caused you. All my sets are in binders. I happen to keep them organized by teams, but if they were in numerical order, I'd either put in a filler notecard for #7, or ignore the situation. 

Maybe I'm a "realistic completist." I have not and will not go back to get the replacement sevens. And I'm not buying the Gordon, either. But I consider all those sets complete. In fact, I may have been the person to get this site to list this set as having 659 cards, because the Gordon really shouldn't be included. I guess I'm a completist enough that it bugged me to see that I had 99.8% of the set. 

Anyway, I've enjoyed this series of posts. Thanks. 

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I like this set.  a friend of mine sent me a laser copy of alex gordon to put in the place it belongs..

I just completed last year