Are you ready for these numbers?
Here's my most recent Listia pickup, and it's super ordinary looking on the face of it. I completely missed it, but in 2019 (at least) Topps extended their idea of card back variations containing advanced stats for players throughout the entire set.
Rather than choosing a handful of cards to create variations for, we get a serial numbered card with different stat categories for each card in the set. Well... maybe. I don't see how this would work for team cards, checklists, or even rookie cards unless they actually have these same stat categories for minor league numbers or did something totally different than usual with the backs. After a brief check of available card images on TCDB, I wasn't able to find any images for RC cards or other non-single player cards with typical backs.
All of this makes me wonder what the print runs were for the earlier stat back variations. I think I only have a couple of those.
Although there are times I rant about the number of parallels and variations Topps creates... at least this one encourages collectors to check out the back of their cards.
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