1989 Topps Stickers Baseball Forum

I thought we had this set the way it needed to be and now I see people screwed up the Team links.

Just to be clear on this set and the other late-80's Topps and O-Pee-Chee sticker sets:

Sticker Name = ONLY THE FRONT PLAYER(S)
Sticker Team = ONLY THE FRONT TEAM(S)

Sticker backs get mentioned in Note2 and player/team are linked a different way. DO NOT PUT THESE IN THE MAIN NAME OR TEAM.
 

and now I see 1988 got messed up too. Thanks.

Yup, I worked on some of these sticker sets at one time, linking all of the necessary players and teams.  A lot of time and effort put in only to have someone who always thinks he knows better come along and mess things up. Another reason in the books

In this instance, with so many variations, would it be prudent to lock the set. Anyone submitting an IR to unlock it has to give a good reason why.

That is the plan - as soon as we have everything back to the way it needs to be.

Good news is it looks like we're back to where we need to be on the 1988 and 1989 sets. The lock is sounding good

I'm gonna ask calmly ... Who messed with the team links again?!

Locking the set up again because people keep messing with it.

Is it possible with the current configuration of the database to have the two separate sets linked together while still keeping them separate sets?

For example: I have Orel Hershiser (#65) with the Tony Gwynn (#50) back, currently I believe I have to put the two items in separately in their respective sets.

However if I put in the Hershiser/Gwynn variation in the sticker set, doesn't that automatically mean I have the Gwynn card in the SuperStar backs set, and shouldn't that card automatically end up in the Super Star backs set?

Or is that a mechanical funcation that is above the current capabilities of this database?

I think they aren't giving much of a choice but to lock a bunch of these, So members won't make it harder on you guys who do so much already.

John, not really. The superstar backs set is now for those who are collecting just the backs (after the stickers have been peeled off).

You weren't around yet (this was about 3 to 4 years ago) for the verbal tug-of-war over these sets. There were (and probably still are) some members who wanted a set for only the stickers and a set of only the backs, and it would be up to you to put them together or take them apart (collection-wise here, not physically). Many others, including Admin, was against that idea, and through several rounds of ideas from me to Admin, we came up with the setup we now have.

So in your situation, You have one of the sticker combos (65 sticker with 50 back). If it's not listed, we'll add it to the sticker set.

This acknowledges that the stickers cannot be in existence without a back, the backs can be in existence without the stickers, and it also acknowledges that there is a difference between a Mattingly sticker with Julio Franco or Gary Gaetti on the back and a Mattingly sticker with Ryne Sandberg or Mike Schmidt on the back.