The Chrome Club

A @CrackinWax #CrackinWaxMailDay features fancier Stadium Club cards. 

 

For the second year in a row, Topps offered up a premium version of their popular Stadium Club line, in a predictable Chrome fashion. You can pretty much slap some Chrome on anything these days and double up the price. (Is it already Chrome? Then Sapphire it!) I bought into a half-case break from Crackin' Wax and ended up with most of the team set, which is nice.

Like last year, the set also doubles as an update of the basic Stadium Club set, with an additional 100 cards added to the checklist. Like most of the "update" sets this season, they tend to feature rookies who debuted in 2020 as well as a few players that changed teams before the season started. Seth Elledge debuted in 2020 with a dozen appearances and had a nearly identical 2021 season.

Justin Williams made his Cardinal debut in 2020, though it was brief. He was called upon to play a bit more in 2021 but struggled mightily from the plate.

Johan Oviedo is the third of the trio of rookies that found their way to the "update" portion of the set. He made several starts in 2020 and again filled in as a starter this past season.

We also get an updated photo of Nolan Arenado, replacing the spring training version.

Like the basic Stadium Club set, there are also 1991-style variations in the Chrome set.

The nice thing about these is that they are all refractors.

My lone insert was one of the coveted Beam Team inserts. These also look pretty nice when given the Chrome refractor treatment.