General Forum

Funny part is that the collective thought put into this thread is infinitely more mind-power than went into the original decision to take a sheet of backs and lay a sheet of stickers on the front.  I guarantee Topps didn't have a list of combinations that were generated by doing so. 

Yes!! This is the worst idea I have ever seen.     What were they thinking for being a set???

What is the base set?     There are 326 diff players on the front.    As far as the backs go there are 67 diff players.   

So does 1/161 have 67 diff backs or just a few.  How can we tell?    As far as the fronts goes there are around only 200 cards of which approx 70 are single players.

Yes I think the back should be showed as their number not the a  b  c 

How about 

1 / 161 (B) 14 - McGwire / Davis / Sandberg - A's / Reds / Cubs 
1 / 161 (B) 18 - McGwire / Davis / Clark - A's / Reds / Giants 
1 / 161 (B) 23 - McGwire / Davis / Mattingly - A's / Reds / Yankees 

the (B) stands for Back  Then if #15 is find it will fall into place when added

If someone wants a set of the backs they can look at the B numbers and which front they want on their set.

All listed as one set.  Set builders will have to figure out want they see as a set.  (which back to them is the base back)

This has been around for a long time.  Hope some one can figure it out.

budler:

Adding the number of the back into the card number has 2 issues:

1. The number field isn't big enough to handle that format
2. And even if it could, now every number is unique, and it removes "variations"

I think Admin and I have been through every combination of how to do this. :)