BRAND: Topps
SET: Topps
NUMBER: 648
SUBSET: Future Stars
TEAM: San Diego Padres
This was an accident. I did not intend to have two posts in a row dealing with this card, but that is how this worked out I guess. As I mentioned previously, I had the variation with Alomar's cap touching the Future Star logo early on. It was just yesterday that I added the variation to my collection. This was my very first Alomar rookie card. Topps was usually pretty hit-or-miss with the Future Stars logo. I have some well-chronicled misses in my Red Sox collection (looking at you, Pat Dodson). But one can certainly understand the reasoning with Alomar. He was, after all, coming off of a season in which he won the Minor League Player of the Year, a feat he would repeat in 1989. And for the most part, Topps was correct with this one. Alomar would be a star, but he could have been much bigger if not for a seemingly endless series of nagging injuries.
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