Decline of Topps?

[HRBAKER]

"Base" product has been non-compelling for years. I usually will buy a box or two of the Heritage set just to satisfy my urge to open something. Also gives me some vintage looking cards to get signed at the ballpark and Spring Training.

[ALR-bishop]

Jeff--quit corrupting everything

[HRBAKER]

Al - it's merely one man's POV

[ALR-bishop]

....at least it is good man/guy

[dabigyankeeman]

Topps is just lazy the last few years in card design. Nothing interesting like in the 1950's and 1960's.

Also, so lazy, they call a card an All Star card just because they stick a teenie All Star logo on it. Whatever happened to designing the All Star cards with a different neat design to them like they did years ago? This goes for all special cards like record breakers or world series cards, etc.

Plus, can they make the print any smaller when they add a line to the front of the card to say something different?

Un-inspired design and lazy lazy lazy special cards lately. No good to give Topps a monopoly. Oh well, this has forced other companies to do some different things, like create a bunch of cut autographs of old players on cards, now those i like!!

I will say though, i never cared about the numbering system, never looked at who was numbered what number. Dont understand why this is so important. I would like to see all players from the same team numbered together if they are gonna do anything special with numbers.