1992 Topps #941 Rafael Ramirez

Rafael Ramirez played in the Major Leagues from 1980 to 1992. He was a good fielder, and made the NL All-Star team in 1984.
His got called up to the Majors in 1980 with the Atlanta Braves. He was with them through the end of the 1987 season, and spend the final 5 years of his career with the Houston Astros.
Rafael got his first Topps card in the 1981 Topps set on a combo rookie card with Tommy Harper and Ed Miller. He then got solo cards in the 1982-1991 Topps sets, as well as a 1988 Topps Traded card. That means that Ramirez is only missing cards in the 1992 and 1993 Topps sets. As it turns out, I have completed Rafael's career Topps run, since I have done this 1992 Topps custom and his 1993 Topps sunset card.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #940 Dave LaPoint

Dave LaPoint pitched for 12 seasons in the Majors. He came up in 1980 with the Milwaukee Brewers. He spent 1981 through 1984 with the St. Louis Cardinals, winning a World Series Championship with them in 1982. He was with the San Francisco Giants in 1985, the Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres for 1986, and then was off to the Chicago White Sox. He spent 1987 and half of 1988 with them. He got traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in August, and spent the rest of '88 with them. He played the 1989 and 1990 seasons with the New York Yankees, and played the final season of his MLB career, 1991, with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Dave appeared on a number of Topps cards throughout his career. He missed getting cards in the 1981 and 1982 Topps sets, getting his rookie card in the 1983 set. He was in the 1984 and 1985 regular Topps sets, and got a 1985 Topps Traded card. He got a 1986 Topps and Topps Traded card, and was in the 1987 regular set. He had regular 1988 Topps and 1989 Topps cards, then got a 1989 Topps Traded card. His last 2 Topps cards were from the 1990 and 1991 main sets. He is missing cards in the 1981, 1982, and 1992 Topps sets, and from the 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988, and 1991 Topps Traded sets.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #939 Checklist #7

Well, we've finally made it to the first checklist in the set. Pretty impressive. The regular Topps set contained 792 cards and 6 checklists. Mine goes all the way up to 1367 cards for a total of 575 more cards, and added an additional 4 checklists to give it 10 for the total set. Not much to say here, but this card gets you through the first checklist, and you can zoom in and see some of the upcoming cards in the set.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #938 Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper only played one year in the Majors, in 1991 for the Houston Astros. He got 4 Hits in 16 At-Bats, for a .250 Batting Average. He had 1 Double and 2 RBIs.
Gary appeared in a few major baseball card sets, including 1992 Donruss, 1992 Pinnacle (Idols), 1992 Score, and 1992 Topps Debut. Interestingly, he didn't appear on a base Pinnacle card, but got into the Idols subset.
This 1992 Topps custom covers Gary's missing Topps cards, unless you decide to get technical. If you give him a 1991 Topps Traded card, as well as a 1995 Topps Traded card (since he appeared as a replacement player for the Montreal Expos in '95 Spring Training), then he is still missing 2 cards. I will probably add the '95 Topps card at some point, and if I get a craving to work on some Topps Traded checklists, I will add Gary's card to the 1991 page.
That covers the latest 1992 Topps custom. Stay tuned for more.
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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #937 Roy Smith

Roy Smith pitched in the Major Leagues from 1984 to 1991. He played with the Cleveland Indians in 1984 and 1985, he played for the Minnesota Twins from 1985 to 1990, and spend his final year in MLB with the Baltimore Orioles in 1991. He was on the 1987 Minnesota Twins World Championshp team. After retiring, he worked as a scout, assistant general manager, and vice president for scouting and player development.
Roy got his first Topps card in the 1985 Topps set. He got into the 1986 set, but went missing from the 1988 and 1989 sets. His last 2 Topps cards came in the 1990 and 1991 Topps sets, leaving him a missing 1992 Topps sunset card, which I made.  He technically also needs a 1986 Topps Traded and 1991 Topps Traded card with the missing 1987 and 1988 regular Topps cards to complete his career Topps run.
It's been a while since I updated this site, but I hope to keep doing a monthly 1992 Topps card, and maybe eventually finish in 2073.
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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #936 Stan Royer

Stan Royer played in the Major Leagues from 1991 to 1994. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics as the 16th pick in the 1988 MLB draft. He got swapped to the St. Louis Cardinals in the Willie McGee deal in 1990, and made his MLB debut with them in 1991. He played for the Cards in 1992 and 1993, and split 1994 with the Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox.

Royer only has 1 Topps card, a 1993 Topps Coming Attraction card. He is missing cards in the 1992, 1994, and 1995 Topps sets. I have also added him to the '89 Topps set as part of the Draft Picks subset. This 1992 Topps custom takes care of his '92 card, and I have also made his 1994 Topps card while finishing that set a while back.

I may have actually saw Stan play in Spring Training of 1993. I was 10, and my dad took me to a Tigers-Cardinals game in Lakeland, FL where we lived. I don't remember who pitched or anything about who appeared in the game, but it was preseason, and many of the stars don't make road trips, so there was a decent chance that Stan appeared in the game at some point.

Things have been kind of crazy in my life lately, but perhaps, they are getting back to normal. I just got 200 9-page pockets, and will be putting in my loose cards of the last 4 important teams in the AL (Oakland, Seattle, Texas, and Toronto), then the loose Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay (Devil) Ray cards, then my Favorite Players (been waiting about a year to do so), then a few other special binder cards (Highlights, rookies, sunset cards, shiny cards), and maybe if there are enough pages left, the New York Yankees. You should be seeing some of this reflected in my other blog, as I will be updating my Favorite Player pages with pictures of all of the cards, as well as lists of what I have, to make trading easier. This may take a while, but stay tuned.

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-Jeremy

1992 Topps #935 Keith Comstock

Keith Comstock played in the Major Leagues from 1986-1991. He appeared first in 1986 with the Minnesota Twins, spent 1987 with the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres, 1988 with the Padres, before finishing up his career in 1990 and 1991 with the Seattle Mariners. 

He is only appeared on 2 Topps cards, his first being in the 1988 Topps set, and his last being in 1991. He is missing cards from the 1985, 1989, 1990, and 1992 Topps sets, with this card crossing off his sunset 1992 one. 

Keith is kind of a baseball card legend, as he is featured on 2 error cards (in his only 2 Topps cards ever made), and 1 goofy photo in a minor league issue.

His first error card was in the 1988 Topps set. It features the Padres name at the top of the card in white instead of blue. Here is the error card and the corrected one.

His 1991 Topps card comes with a correct Mariners version, and an error listing him with the Chicago Cubs. Here is the error and corrected version.

This is the minor league card I was talking about.

Ouch. 

In spite of all of these crazy cards, I always thought his 1991 Donruss card was weird. When I would go to my endocrynologist as a kid, every time they had to draw my blood in the lab, I wouldn't really care, because they would give me a 3-card '91 Donruss pack afterwards. I pulled the Comstock card out of one of the packs, and I just thought it was crazy how it looked like there were bumps on Comstock's glove just like a basketball instead of being smooth like all of the other gloves I had seen on cards. Take a look for yourself.

If all of those crazy facts weren't enough, while researching for the back of the customs '92 TOpps I made, I discovered that Keith played an inning in Right Field for the Giants in 1987. Add that to the many interesting things I have discovered while researching things for the 1992 Topps set.

I have finished the 1984 Topps set, am a team or two away from finishing the checklist for the 1981 Topps set, and am making progress on making cards in the '93 Topps set. With all that being done, I am thinking about adding another thing to my plate by creating a Twitter account, mainly for all of the Topps cards that never were, not just the 1992 set. I just don't want to mess up if I do create the account and do everything professionally and not appear like a noob. So, a few questions...
First, what should I post? A random card? Groups of cards? A card of the day? What would attract people to follow my account?
Second, I notice there are a number of baseball players who I have made customs of that own Twitter accounts. Should I try to add them as followers first, and them post customs of them and tag them? Should I just post, and see if I can get the players as followers if these customs spread by word of mouth?
Third, should I add all of the MLB team accounts? Would Topps kill me if I added them and they saw that I was making customs using their designs?
I'm probably forgetting a few other questions, but these were the main ones. I don't even know if anyone would want to follow a Topps Cards that Never Were Twitter page, but if there is enough interest, I could create one. #ToppsCardsthatNeverWere.

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-Jeremy