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These use the familiar design of the All-Star Commemorative Set cards inserted in rack packs from the вЂ™80s. This one is even more loaded, with Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Howard Johnson, and Matt Harvey featured here. IвЂ™m glad to see more John Olerud Mets cards, but I could do without this one. On top of that, the deckle edge die-cut pattern around black and white photographs with blue facsimile signatures creates one of the ugliest looks in all of sports cards. The whole mini thing is so overdone at this point that, short of bringing back a Topps Leaders product, I would prefer to see all of these minis retired permanently. Unfortunately, three of those are of the mini deckle variety. 2014 flips that around with only 3 SPs and a whopping 10 inserts.

In 20, the Archives Mets team set has been heavy on SPs and light on inserts. As in previous years, the SPs do not have parallels, which is a bit disappointing considering that most of the key RCs are SPs in 2014 Archives. New for 2014 and following in the silver trend seen in several other Topps products this year is a silver rainbow foil parallel numbered to 99. I still prefer the gold foil used in the 2012 Archives parallel, but I appear to be in the minority. Like last year, all 200 base cards have a gold rainbow foil parallel numbered to 199. The only things setting the SPs apart now are the card numbers and insertion ratios. Also like the base cards, the SPs use the same pseudo-vintage card stock as the base set. With no alternate designs, many retired players appear in designs from outside their playing years, which was previously only seen in base cards. Zack Wheeler is the lone Met in the 1980 design and Mookie Wilson and John Olerud have 1986 covered. One other change to this yearвЂ™s Archives SPs is the appearance of active players among the 50 SPs.

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Series 1 and Heritage get a pass, Gypsy Queen is pushing it, but Bowman and Archives are simply unacceptable. Really, Topps? You didnвЂ™t get even a single picture of Granderson in spring training? By the end of May, there is no excuse to be using lame photoshop jobs for a player signed last year. The Wilmer Flores photo adds another to the list of Mets shown in Los Mets jerseysВ in 2014 Topps products. In terms of photography, most of these look like spring training photos, which look great on these designs. One disappointment is that only the 19 designs are featured, but the SPs take care of the rest. Sadly, thereвЂ™s not much star power on this team, so this is about the best that could be expected. Travis dвЂ™Arnaud and Wilmer Flores are the default Mets Rookies in everything this year, Tom Seaver and David Wright are franchise players, and Matt Harvey and Curtis Granderson are somewhere in the mix for additional filler. Six Mets made the cut in the 200-card Archives base set. I really donвЂ™t get what Topps was thinking with these choices. Even the Fan Favorite Autographs only added the base designs from 2013 Archives. Unlike previous years though, the short prints did not feature any additional designs and were instead limited to these four.

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1989, also featured in the die-cut minis in 2014 Topps Series 1 and Series 2, is a reasonable choice considering its 25th anniversary, shared with the movie Major League. Too soon? And then thereвЂ™s 1986вЂ¦ If thereвЂ™s an вЂ™80s Topps design to skip, thatвЂ™s the one. 1980 is also a solid design, but it was one of the featured designs in 2012 Archives.

1973 is a classic design that looks great with todayвЂ™s printing technology. The years selected for this go-around are a bit odd. Like last year, 2014 Archives uses a more vintage card stock than the 2012 version. In the end though, 2014 saw the smallest autograph checklist ever in Archives and the least variety in card designs, with parallels attempting to make up the difference. 2013 brought a few key changes to Archives, some of which were kept in 2014вЂ™s iteration along with a lot of significant additions. Two years ago, Topps brought back the Archives brand for the fourth time (following 1982, 1993-1995, and 2001-2005), once again changing the formulation to fit the modern collecting landscape.

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