Ad Cards

 Hello Friends!

While slightly lowering the population of 1989 Topps cards yesterday, I came across a few ad cards. Remember those? The cards that would sometimes take the place of actual cards to hawk other products Topps sells like T shirts?

I admit when I first started collecting, these and checklist cards felt like a rip off. Mind you, in those early days, anything but Blue Jays cards felt like a ripoff.. (Yeah, I was super narrow in focus until I got more interested) 

As I grew older and understood more about both baseball and cards, checklists weren't as annoying. Especially when they started to either put them on team cards, manager cards, or have a player on the card as well. Now, I'm honestly not sure if checklists are included anymore since there's resources like Trading Card Database to track the collection. 

So why am I bringing all this up? I know there are people out there that may collect stuff like this. Now, because it's 89, they most likely have everything. But you never know.. 

These two were from Stadium Club. One explained their stats system in place on the back of the card, and one being a membership form. I have one of the BARS and two of the Membership...

1989 Bowman had these cards in packs. They were sweepstakes cards and the fronts were based off Bowman cards from the original run of Bowman when it was a competitor of Topps. This fits nowhere in my collection. It is kind of a neat front, but yeah...

And now the 1989 Topps Company Store cards I have. Apparently there are two variations, grey back and white back. These are all white back. 

Of these I have one of each shown, 2 of the last one. 

So dear reader and set collectors... If you were making a Master Set for a year, which included every variation, would you also want the advertising cards? I think for me the set is basically the base and, if I'm able to find them, the box bottoms. 

Also, let me know if you want any of these..