2014 Topps Update Baseball Forum

This is merely for educating, not trying to point out any individual's mistake.

Topps goofed in the update set, and what should have been card US-21 was US-117, making 2 US-117s, and no US-21.

We had in the Gold set, unfortunately, had a US-21 listed with the player's name that should have been 21 (Holaday). US-117 was listed as Lackey. Someone went in and changed the NAME / TEAM on 117 to be Holaday. This is not the correct method for doing this! So now our checklist has Holaday listed TWICE. Now, the problem is, people may have added card US-117 to their colections as they may have had the Lackey card, but when the user changed that info, their collections are now incorrect, while the person who made the change may have added their card (what would be assumed as "correctly").

This has made a mess of this set. I couldn't change the name back on the US-117 card, because we have no idea whether the collection info was added as Lackey or as Holaday.

I added a new US-117 - Lackey. If anyone has the Lackey card, I suggest you add it to your collection using that card. The card now numbered as US-117, but in the 21st spot (Holaday) , will get it's collection data moved to the US-117 - Holaday card. The 21st spot card will be deleted.

Please be careful when changing names and/or numbers on cards. Please think about the ramifications that change will have on any collection information. Thank you.

Am I correct in that this type of situation should have an error report made first before changing the card yourself?

Card numbering errors (or incorrect), i.e. when new sets are numbered by other checklists but actually are lettered...such as card 54 should actually be AR-TM...can be changed by just about everyone, right?

Ray, If it's simply that the checklist numbering was botched because Panini the manufacturer puts out a checklist that doesn't match the numbering they actually use on the cards, then, yes, simply change the card number to maqtch what's there.

In this specific case, there was already a Holaday card in the set. The Holaday card that was misnumbered US-21 is the entry that should have been changed to US-117. If the member making the changes had understood this was the correct method of handling this, there is no issue with someone handling it trhemselves.

If you don't know, or don't understand, just ask someone, or submit an error report.

Again, I bring this up so that we can all learn from the experience. We've all have made mistakes. (See Epix <blush>.) I'm not upset about it. I just don't want to see this happen again.