1991 Stadium Club Charter Member

Description

As part of the launch of the new Stadium Club brand, Topps created a collector's club of the same name. This 50-card multi-sport set was sent to charter members in the Topps Stadium Club. The sports represented in the set are baseball (1-32), football (33-41), and hockey (42-50). The cards have the same design as the 1991 Stadium Club Baseball base set, but with the words "Charter Member" printed in gold foil lettering immediately below the stripes. The back design features a newspaper-like masthead (The Stadium Club Herald) complete with a headline announcing a major event in the player's season with copy below providing more information about the event. The cards are unnumbered and arranged below alphabetically within sports.

Topps apparently made two printings of this set, which are most easily identifiable by the small asterisks on the bottom left of the card backs. The first printing cards have one asterisk, the second printing cards have two.

In addition to the 50-card set, Charter Member sets also included a baseball card-sized Nolan Ryan bronze ingot, a key chain, and a personalized membership card. Some of the early ignots were produced in a size slightly larger than 2 1/2" X 3 1/2". It is believed that very early members of the Stadium Club received this over-sized Ryan Ingot. A third version of the Ryan ingot is known to exist: this one has a 24K logo on it. It is believed that the 24K version may have been sold exclusively on the Home Shopping Network.

Distribution

Factory set exclusive.

Checklist

1 Sandy Alomar, Jr.

2 George Brett

3 Barry Bonds

4 Ellis Burks

5 Eric Davis

6 Delino DeShields

7 Doug Drabek

8 Cecil Fielder

9 Carlton Fisk

10 Ken Griffey, Jr./Ken Griffey, Sr.

11 Billy Hatcher

12 Andy Hawkins

13 Rickey Henderson MVP

14 Rickey Henderson SB Leader

15 Randy Johnson

16 Dave Justice

17 Mark Langston/Mike Witt

18 Kevin Maas

19 Ramon Martinez

20 Willie McGee

21 Terry Mulholland

22 Jose Offerman

23 Melido Perez

24 Nolan Ryan No-Hitter

25 Nolan Ryan 300th Career Win

26 Ryne Sandberg

27 Dave Stewart

28 Dave Stieb

29 Bobby Thigpen

30 Fernando Valenzuela

31 Frank Viola

32 Bob Welch

33 Ottis Anderson Super Bowl MVP

34 Ottis Anderson 10,000 Yds.

35 Randall Cunningham

36 Warren Moon

37 Barry Sanders

38 Pete Stoyanovich

39 Lawrence Taylor

40 Derrick Thomas

41 Richmond Webb

42 Ed Belfour Vezina

43 Ed Belfour Top Goalie

44 Ray Bourque

45 Paul Coffey

46 Wayne Gretzky No. 2000

47 Wayne Gretzky The 700 Club

48 Brett Hull Hart

49 Brett Hull 50-50 Club

50 Mario Lemieux

NNO Nolan Ryan Bronze Ingot

NNO Nolan Ryan Large Bronze Ingot

NNO Nolan Ryan 24K Bronze Ingot