1991 Topps variations

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by saucywombat

Noticed that some players have an essentially identical dark spot or hashmark on the the "4" in the the "40 Years of Baseball" Logo. Most players have a corrected version but some do not. Most with corrected versions are equally divided in quantity between mark and corrected versions.

An interesting aspect is that all of the players are on either the Tigers, Braves or Cardinals.

772 - Kent Mercker (Braves)
743 - Bryn Smith (Cardinals)
742 - Tommy Gregg (Braves)
693 - Francisco Cabrera (Braves)
684- Milt Cuyler (Tigers)
632 - Lloyd Moseby (Tigers)
566 - Craig Wilson (Cardinals)
533 - Odibe McDowell (Braves)
519 - Sparky Anderson (Tigers)
498 - Mark Salas (Tigers)
492 - Ernie Whitt (Braves)
383 - Pete Smith (Braves)
351 - Joe Torre (Cardinals)
185 - Joe Magrane (Cardinals)
160 - Vince Coleman (Cardinals)
88 - Bob Tewksbury (Cardinals)
75 - Jack Morris (Tigers)
41 - Ken Dayley (Cardinals)

Curious if any "corrected" versions come only from factory sets. Or if some were never corrected?

There's a group of cards similar to this group that has a mark over the Y in years in the 40th logo banner.

There are seven players that have this mark on all of their cards in the base set.
91 topps Glavine with mark over 40th banner.jpg
This is the list of players that have the mark

#26 Luis Sojo
#82 Tom Glavine
#267 Mark Knudson
#328 Walt Terrell
#365 Mike Schooler
#544 Alejandro Pena
#571 Pat Combs

one oddity in the group is #544 Pena. All of the other cards have the mark on their Desert Shield and Tiffany cards but Pena only has it on his Desert shield card the mark is not on his Tiffany card.




As far as I know it's only these seven subjects that have it on all of their cards. A similar mark can occasionally be found on some random players but it's only found on a small % and not all of their cards have it.

Here's a Marvell Wynne that has the mark on a few of his cards

91 Topps Wynne with mark over 40th banner.jpg