1980 Topps Pepsi-Cola All-Stars Baseball Card Set

Category:

Baseball

Set Name:

Topps Pepsi-Cola All-Stars

Set Year:

1980

Total Cards in Set:

22

Set Description:

Started 10/1/17 In 1980 Topps and Mike Schechter Associates (MSA) produced three prototype sheets for consideration by Pepsi executives regarding a possible promotion. The sheets were fully printed, front and back, which is highly unusual for proof cards and typically only happens when the parties are serious about making a deal. When the deal fell through, only two sheets were returned to Topps. The other sheet somehow found its way into the hobby and was cut into singles and sold off starting in the mid-1980's. Per our consignor, this is the exact card cut from that lone sheet, which was reported in hobby publications beginning in 1983. Reportedly, the other two Guidry fully printed proof cards were cut from the returned sheets and destroyed (as noted in the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards). This may have been due to the fact that the negative used to produce the image was flipped, resulting in a "reverse negative" image. Topps began selling incomplete (and usually blank backed) progressive proofs of many of the cards from the set in the mid-2000's through the Topps Vault on Ebay. Topps Vault also auctioned an uncut sheet with all twenty-two cards at the 2011 National Sports Collectors Convention, but we have been unable to determine if the sheet was blank backed or fully printed on the reverse. It is our suspicion that is was blank backed, but we cannot be sure.

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