1992 Topps, Gary Sheffield

Card No. 695

Despite Hall of Fame credentials, Gary Sheffield still remains on the outside looking in as of press time....Author of 509 career homers and 1,676 RBIs over 22 seasons....While playing for the Mets, Gary joined the 500 Home Run Club with a game-tying blast at Citi Field, 4/17/09....Drafted sixth overall by Milwaukee in 1986....Spent the first four years of his career with the Brew Crew, producing just 21 long balls....Sheff's rookie card can be found in the '89 Topps set....Gary was swapped to the Padres in a multiplayer deal, 3/26/92.

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2020 Topps, Christian Yelich

Card No. 200

In 2020, for the second consecutive year, Topps gave former MVP Christian Yelich the horizontal treatment on his base card....I'm still not wild about the newest Topps design, but I like the look better in landscape orientation....Yelich earned the N.L.'s MVP award in '18 and also has three Silver Sluggers in his trophy case....This is his third Topps card as a Brewer....You can find his rookie card as a Marlin in the '13 Topps Update series...Entering 2020, Christian holds a lifetime .301 BA and 1,067 hits over seven big league seasons.

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1979 Topps, Jim Gantner

Card No. 154

The Jim Gantner section in the Topps library can be broken down into two distinct eras: Before Glasses (BG) and With Glasses (WG)....This one happens to be very early in the BG era, as it's Jim's first stand-alone Topps card....His first appearance in a Topps set occured in 1977 as part of a four-player "Rookie Infielders" card....In case you were wondering, the WG era began with Jim's '87 card....A Wisconsin native and lifetime Brewer, Gantner batted .284 in 208 ABs for Milwaukee during the '79 season.

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1997 Topps, Fernando Vina

Card No. 213

Second baseman Fernando Vina goes airborne to avoid the sliding Chris Hoiles in this great action shot from 1997 Topps....This is Vina's Topps rookie....For their '97 base cards, Topps gave red borders to A.L. players while the N.L. counterparts have green borders....This is back when the Brewers were an A.L. club, obviously....Fernando was originally drafted by the Mets in 1990, then traded to Milwaukee in December of '94....Slugged a grand slam off Jack McDowell, leading the Brewers to a 10-2 drubbing of the Indians, 4/18/97.

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2010 Topps, Prince Fielder

Card No. 1

In its nearly 70 years of producing baseball card sets, I can't recollect a more colorful or iconic Card No. 1 of a checklist than this beauty of the ever-affable Prince Fielder....Perhaps the greatest home plate celebration of all-time....This is the one-and-only horizontally-oriented base card of Fielder (not counting subset cards)....Prince's rookie card can be found in the 2006 Topps set....Established a career high and led the league with 114 walks in 2010.

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