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Wednesday, January, 31, 2024
Updating for 2024 – Hall of Famers in Topps Traded
Next, time to to update for the 4 new inductees in 2022 and 2023. There’s only 2 years to update for this one.
Adrian Beltre’s first years were during a timeframe where Topps was not making the Traded/Update set, and Joe Mauer was included in the 2002 Draft Pick subset for the base set. So neither of them were in any Update sets before 2004 (which is where this blog has currently stalled!)
Both Todd Helton and Jim Leyland, however, have one card in Topps Traded for the early part of their careers.
Jim Leyland – this year’s Eras Committee electee is in the 1986 Topps Traded set for when he was first hired by the Pirates.
Todd Helton – elected via the Baseball Writers’ in his 7th try. He has a card in Topps Traded after participating in the 1993 USA Collegiate National Team. He was one of their best (arguably their best) hitters, slugging .516 with a .352 batting average. He also pitched for 1-2/3 innings, giving up 3 runs. Link here.
Asterisks are where one of these guys were added:
1981 Topps Traded – 10 HOF
Bert Blyleven, Rollie Fingers, Carlton Fisk, Joe Morgan, Gaylord Perry, Bruce Sutter, Don Sutton, Dave Winfield, Tim Raines, Ted Simmons
1982 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Reggie Jackson, Ferguson Jenkins, Perry, Cal Ripken, Ozzie Smith
1983 Topps Traded – 3 HOF
Morgan, Tony Perez, Tom Seaver
1984 Topps Traded – 7 HOF
Dennis Eckersley, Goose Gossage, Morgan, Phil Niekro, Perez, Seaver, Yogi Berra (mgr)
1985 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Gary Carter, Rickey Henderson, Sutter, Sutton, Earl Weaver (mgr)
1986 Topps Traded – 5 HOF***
Niekro, Seaver, Simmons, Dick Williams (mgr), Jim Leyland (mgr)
1987 Topps Traded – 6 HOF
Steve Carlton, Andre Dawson, Eckersley, R. Jackson, Greg Maddux, Fred McGriff
1988 Topps Traded – 4 HOF
Roberto Alomar, Gossage, Lee Smith, Frank Robinson (mgr)
1989 Topps Traded – 6 HOF
Blyleven, Ken Griffey Jr., Henderson, Randy Johnson, Eddie Murray, Nolan Ryan
1990 Topps Traded – 5 HOF
Carter, L. Smith, Winfield, Red Schoendienst (mgr), Bobby Cox (mgr)
1991 Topps Traded – 7 HOF
Alomar, Jeff Bagwell, Carter, McGriff, Jack Morris, Raines, Ivan Rodriguez,
1992 Topps Traded – 4 HOF
Carter, Morris, Murray, Winfield
1993 Topps Traded – 7 HOF****
Wade Boggs, Dawson, Todd Helton, McGriff, Paul Molitor, Mike Piazza, Winfield
1994 Topps Traded – 6 HOF
Henderson, Pedro Martinez, Morris, Murray, Ryne Sandberg, L. Smith
1995 Topps Traded – 18 HOF
Andre Dawson, Mariano Rivera, L. Smith, Larry Walker, Boggs (subset), Tony Gwynn (subset), McGriff (subset), Kirby Puckett (subset), Ripken (subset), Frank Thomas (subset), O. Smith (subset), Johnson (subset), Craig Biggio (subset), Griffey Jr. (subset), Piazza (subset), Bagwell (subset), Rodriguez (subset), Chipper Jones (subset)
1999 Topps Traded – 0 HOF
2000 Topps Traded – 0 HOF
2001 Topps Traded – 20 HOF
Henderson, Alomar, Carter, Eckersley, Fisk, Griffey Jr., R. Jackson, Juan Marichal, Maddux, McGriff, Morgan, Morris, Piazza, Raines, Ripken, Ryan, Seaver, O. Smith, L. Smith, Winfield (other than Rickey – the rest are from the reprint subset)
2002 Topps Traded – 9 HOF
Henderson, Raines, Scott Rolen, Frank Robinson (mgr), Ryan (subset), R. Jackson (subset), Boggs (subset), Alomar (subset), Griffey Jr. (subset)
2003 Topps Traded – 6 HOF
Alomar, Henderson, McGriff, David Ortiz, Ivan Rodriguez, Jim Thome
2004 Topps Traded – 2 HOF
Maddux, Walker
