Yesterday we did a visual checklist for the color swap variations found in 2012 Topps Heritage Baseball. Today we cover the other type of swap cards, the image swap
cards. It should be noted that this type of variation did not occur anywhere in
the 1963 Topps Baseball Set. There
are 25 total cards that got the image swap treatment. There are no stated odds
for pulling these cards and they are not numbered so there is no way of knowing
exactly how many of these exist.
These are extremely easy to spot as you can see from this first example.
On the left is the regular base card #44 of Justin
Verlander. The card on the right
is the image swap variation SP. As
you can see the insert photo has been switched with the main player photo, and
vice versa. From this point on, we will only display the SP version.
52 - Dustin Pedroia, 56 - Cliff Lee, 91 - Roy Halladay
106 - Tim Lincecum, 183 - Mark Teixeira, 186 - Joe Mauer
193 - Starlin Castro, 197 - Ian Kennedy, 200 - Curtis
Granderson
246 - Felix Hernandez, 276 - Ryan Braun, 279 - Matt Kemp
289 - Mariano Rivera, 348 - Miguel Cabrera, 415 - Chris
Carpenter
453 - Troy Tulowitzki, 468 - Nelson Cruz, 476 - Prince
Fielder
481 - Justin Upton, 483 - Mike Stanton, 486 - Josh Hamilton
489 - Jose Bautista, 494 - Ryan Zimmerman, 497 - Jered
Weaver
Thank you for this informative post; I had no idea these were out there. If I stumble into one I'll gladly keep it, but I'm not going out of my way to find it. Novel idea, however...
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