Topps cards with player on wrong team

[brewing]

I noticed this 1980 Topps Dock Ellis which shows him as a member of the Mets. Ellis went to the Pirates in Sept 1979 and appeared in a few games with them.

So he should be a Pirate in the 1980 set. Are there others like this?

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...llisdo01.shtml

[ALR-bishop]

A lot of the Topps Traded or Update sets have depicted players on their new teams compared to the card in the base set

This one got corrected before publication :-}

[paul]

I guess Topps finalized the front of the Dock Ellis card even before the previous season ended. I remember there being another card like that. Maybe the 1980 Richie Zisk? Regardless, it was pretty lame of Topps to be so lazy.

[paul]

OK. It wasn't Richie Zisk, but there is another one out there.

[Republicaninmass]

Didnt the 1980 cards come out Sept of 79?

I always thought it was the fall of the prior year

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

Didnt the 1980 cards come out Sept of 79?

I always thought it was the fall of the prior year

It took till the 21st century -- maybe 2003 or 4 for the next year Topps cards to come out in the fall. Circa 1980 you had to wait till March for the release for the most part IIRC.

Rich

[mortimer brewster]

Originally Posted by paul

I guess Topps finalized the front of the Dock Ellis card even before the previous season ended. I remember there being another card like that. Maybe the 1980 Richie Zisk? Regardless, it was pretty lame of Topps to be so lazy.

Topps was very lazy. The text on the backs of the 1980 cards gave season highlights for the 1978 season for nearly all of the players. It's like 1979 did not exist. Competition from other companies was welcome in 1981.