Back In Time?

How did Andrew McCutchen, a player born in 1986 end up on a baseball card resembling a 1978 design wearing a Giants uniform he wore in 2018?

Is there some kind of Flex Compacitor funny play going on?

A Delorian was seen cruising McCovey Cove 

I have had this Cutch 22 card (a serially numbered card to Cutch's jersey number) sitting around unscanned for half a year.  It is from an online exclusive set Topps produced mid summer 2018.

Topps used their On Demand (similar to Topps Now) to produce a set of cards.  Details for the set can be found here.  It was at the height of Sho-Time when everyone wanted a Shohei Otani autograph and base cards were all selling for double digit figures.

The set included 30 base cards (guaranteed complete base set), 2 parallel cards, and 3 inserts.  Of the inserts were
Famous Flashback (set that features retired players accomplishments)

4 x player rookie card (4 rookies at each position) designed in the same model as the famous Trammel, Molitor rookie cards of same year

Then and Now (a player of 1978 with a current rookie player) in the same design from the 1978 Then and Now subset.

In addition 1 in every 2 packs would feature a sticker autograph.

With a print run of 2,040 sets produced there was a lot of neat parallels to chase down.

Cutch only appeared for the red /10 autograph set which I will show off in a future post.

If you are a fan of the 1978 design or last year's stacked rookie class you might want to see if you can find some cards from this limited release.