1998 Topps Cubs Checklist

Number of Cards

503 cards in the 1998 Topps collection included 18 Cubs players.

Size of Cards

The size of the cards are standard-size 2 ½ x 3 ½

Basic Features

1998 Topps cards have a gold border with action-color player images featured on the card fronts and a nameplate at the bottom of the card that has foil with the player's name in large block letters while player bios and stats are printed on the backs. This set is just like the 1998 Stadium Club.

Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire competed for the home run championship in 1998. With a record of 89-73, the Cubs equaled the Giants for the wild card and won their one-game playoff at Wrigley Field. Any fan will remember this season fondly because it was exciting and had many memorable moments.

Minted in Cooperstown is the only parallel collection for 1998 Topps Baseball. On the front of each card, a bronze foil plaque was stamped on-site at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Parallel include:

• Minted in Cooperstown

Subsets include:

• Season Highlights (#265-269, 474-478)
• Interleague Play (#270-274, 479-483)
• World Series (#277-283)
• Draft Picks (#245-249, 489-495)
• Prospects (#250-264, 484-488)
• Expansion (#496-501)
• Roberto Clemente Tribute (#21)
• The Prospects cards are have 3 players, while Draft Picks cards again have 2

Inserts include:

• Baby Boomers (15 cards)
• Clout 9 (9 cards)
• Etch-a-Sketch (8 cards)
• Flashback (10 cards)
• Focal Point (15 cards)
• Hallbound (15 cards)
• Milestones (10 cards)
• Rookie Class (10 cards)

Chicago Cubs 1998 Topps Checklist

Number	Player
23	Steve Trachsel
37	Doug Glanville
78	Terry Adams
92	Scott Servais
108	Kevin Orie
127	Kevin Foster
168	Mark Grace
234	Jose Hernandez
245	J.Garland/G.Goetz
256	Wood/Pavano/Meche
259	Bens/T.Smith RC/C.Dunc RC
307	Sammy Sosa
314	Lance Johnson
393	Jeremi Gonzalez
403	Mark Clark
424	Manny Alexander
437	Rod Beck
453	Kevin Tapani

1876 White Stockings National League’s first pennant

The Chicago team finished the season with a 52-14 record.  They clinched the National League’s first pennant with a 7-6 victory over the Hartford Dark Blues on September 26, 1876.

• C       Deacon White 
  
• 1B     Cal McVey 
  
• 2B     Ross Barnes 
  
• 3B     Cap Anson 
  
• SS     John Peters 
  
• OF     Paul Hines 
  
• OF     John Glenn 
  
• OF     Bob Addy 
  
• P       Albert Spalding   

Hard to believe Spalding pitched 61 of the 66 games played. This 1876 poster of the White Stockings players names and faces are quite rare. Unfortunately, there are no cards from this time period.

1876 Champs photo

 

 

Post card of the champs

 

 

Not much is known about the park they played in but 23rd Street Grounds were built after the great Chicago fire.  No known photographs or sketches of the park in detail even exist. All that is known is that it was a wooden park with a traditional diamond on the playing field. The top poster of the team has a drawing of a ball field and could be the first base side or the 23rd Street Grounds. 

 

22cd and State Today 

1906 Fan Craze Cubs first Championship

The current Cubs name started in 1903 and a few years later the mighty northsiders won their first pennant. With a record of 116–36, a full 20 games ahead of the second-place New York Giants. The team's .763 winning percentage, with two ties in their 154-game season, is the highest in modern MLB history.The 1906 Series was the first to be played between two teams from the same city. The teams split the first four games than the The Sox won the last 2 and won the series.

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The 1906 NL Baseball card set created and distributed by Cincinnati’s Fan Craze Co. Featuring 53 of the top players of the National League. The set looked like a deck of playing cards measuring 2-1/2” by 3-1/2” with rounded edges. Each card features the player’s portrait and includes the player’s name beneath as well as his team. The small, boxed game came with a game board and instructions. Game cards include baseball plays, such as “Strike”, printed above the pictures.

The Board game above used small pins. Designated WG-3 in the American Card Catalog. American League players make up the blue-backed cards whereas the red-backed cards feature National Leaguers

Chicago Cubs Checklist

Player

Mordecai Brown

Frank Chance

Johnny Kling

Carl Lundgren

Ed Reulbach

Jimmy Sheckard

Bob Wicker

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1904 Game Board