1992 Stadium Club Baseball Forum

I notice on the 92 SC and 92 ST MC card backs there are variations in what I assume are the plate position marks for the printer. These variations are  not listed in card entries here on this site. Is there just no real interest in it or has it relly gone unnoticed?

First welcome to the Database. Next what is ST MC?

Can you provide a scan or photo of the marks you are talking about?

Just a guess but I think he meant  SC MC.   stadium club members choice

Yes, as NJDevils stated. Stadium Club and SC Members Choice both have it. The example from this particular ST #450 Robin Yount is where Is tumbled upon this variation. This example has a C before the © 1992 The Topps Company, Inc. in the lower right hand corner. The two cards I have have the letters C and D and I wonder if there are A & B variations.

The number 607 Members Choice example below has an E © 1992 The Topps Company, Inc. mark in the lower right corner and I have both an E and F variation. Are there A,B and C variants?

*edit for spelling and picture examples

Yes Welcome Aboard.

There are cards with different printing sheet letters listed. Can't give you an example right now, but wait, we have members that will jump all over this one.

FWIW, they're not 'plate position marks', but rather sheet codes.  They are valid variations that can be documented here, much to the chagrin of some members.  For typical Topps sets of the era (792 cards), they were printed on sheets of 132 cards (11x12), lettered A-F.  There are many instances, especially in non-sports sets, of 66 card sets being available with either * or ** possible on each card as the sheet code.  I assume those were for top/bottom half of the sheet.  1991 Topps had several cards with either E* or F* that had variations of E*F* (or A*/B*/A*B*, similar for CD), but it's rare to have more than two variations of the sheet codes possible for a single card.  1991 Bowman cards on the E sheet are the only ones I know of with more than two variation of the codes (E*-no space, E *-with space, and E**).

The tricky part is getting a complete list of all possible code variations so that the checklist only has to be updated once.

Interesting I have a Roger Clemens Members Choice card with the letter E and another with the letter F on the back.  Is there a difference in quanity?

Thanks and Trade On!