Revision as of 20:00, 5 October 2015

Description

1981 Coca-Cola is a series of eleven, 12-card, regionally-distributed team sets produced by Topps. Each team is represented by eleven players with a twelfth unnumbered card advertising a mail-in offer good for an uncut sheet of the entire 132-card set.

A card of Carlton Fisk as a Boston Red Sox was produced but pulled from production as he had signed with the White Sox. A number of cards from the New York Yankees were also produced, but also pulled as they had dropped Coca-Cola as a sponsor. Both Yankees and Fisk cards do exist, but are extremely rare.

The design is identical to that of the 1981 Topps set, but with a Coca-Cola logo in the corner.

Distribution

Regionally, in Coca-Cola products.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Astros	12	-	?
Cardinals	12	-	?
Cubs	12	-	?
Mets	12	-	?
Phillies	12	-	?
Pirates	12	-	?
Red Sox	12	-	?
Reds	12	-	?
Royals	12	-	?
Tigers	12	-	?
White Sox	12	-	?
Yankees	?	-	?

Checklist

Astros

1 Alan Ashby
2 Cesar Cedeno
3 Jose Cruz
4 Art Howe
5 Rafael Landestoy
6 Joe Niekro
7 Terry Puhl
8 J.R. Richard
9 Nolan Ryan
10 Joe Sambito
11 Don Sutton
NNO Astros Ad Card

Cardinals

1 Bob Forsch
2 George Hendrick
3 Keith Hernandez
4 Tom Herr
5 Sixto Lezcano
6 Ken Oberkfell
7 Darrell Porter
8 Tony Scott
9 Lary Sorensen
10 Bruce Sutter
11 Garry Templeton
NNO Cardinals Ad Card

Cubs

1 Tim Blackwell
2 Bill Buckner
3 Ivan DeJesus
4 Leon Durham
5 Steve Henderson
6 Mike Krukow
7 Ken Reitz
8 Rick Reuschel
9 Scot Thompson
10 Dick Tidrow
11 Mike Tyson
NNO Cubs Ad Card

Mets

1 Neil Allen
2 Doug Flynn
3 Dave Kingman
4 Randy Jones
5 Pat Zachry
6 Lee Mazzilli
7 Rusty Staub
8 Craig Swan
9 Frank Taveras
10 Alex Trevino
11 Joel Youngblood
NNO Mets Ad Card

Phillies

1 Bob Boone
2 Larry Bowa
3 Steve Carlton
4 Greg Luzinski
5 Garry Maddox
6 Bake McBride
7 Tug McGraw
8 Pete Rose
9 Mike Schmidt
10 Lonnie Smith
11 Manny Trillo
NNO Phillies Ad Card

Pirates

1 Jim Bibby
2 John Candelaria
3 Mike Easler
4 Tim Foli
5 Phil Garner
6 Bill Madlock
7 Omar Moreno
8 Ed Ott
9 Dave Parker
10 Willie Stargell
11 Kent Tekulve
NNO Pirates Ad Card

Red Sox

1 Tom Burgmeier
2 Dennis Eckersley
3 Dwight Evans
4 Bob Stanley
5 Glenn Hoffman
6 Carney Lansford
7 Frank Tanana
8 Tony Perez
9 Jim Rice
10 Dave Stapleton
11 Carl Yastrzemski
NNO Red Sox Ad Card AD
1 Carlton Fisk (Not issued)

Reds

1 Johnny Bench
2 Dave Collins
3 Dave Concepcion
4 Dan Driessen
5 George Foster
6 Ken Griffey, Sr.
7 Tom Hume
8 Ray Knight
9 Ron Oester
10 Tom Seaver
11 Mario Soto
NNO Reds Ad Card

Royals

1 Willie Aikens
2 George Brett
3 Larry Gura
4 Dennis Leonard
5 Hal McRae
6 Amos Otis
7 Dan Quisenberry
8 U.L. Washington
9 John Wathan
10 Frank White
11 Willie Wilson
NNO Royals Ad Card

Tigers

1 Champ Summers
2 Al Cowens
3 Rich Hebner
4 Steve Kemp
5 Aurelio Lopez
6 Jack Morris
7 Lance Parrish
8 John Wockenfuss
9 Alan Trammell
10 Lou Whitaker
11 Kirk Gibson
NNO Tigers Ad Card

White Sox

1 Britt Burns
2 Todd Cruz
3 Rich Dotson
4 Jim Essian
5 Ed Farmer
6 Lamar Johnson
7 Ron LeFlore
8 Chet Lemon
9 Bob Molinaro
10 Jim Morrison
11 Wayne Nordhagen
NNO White Sox Ad Card

Yankees

For some reason, Yankees cards were not issued and are rare.

Reggie Jackson

Rich Gossage

Rick Cerone

Ron Guidry PROOF

Tommy John PROOF

Craig Nettles PROOF

Bucky Dent PROOF

Willie Randolph PROOF

Ruppert Jones PROOF

Bob Watson PROOF

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+SELECT num,player,info FROM cards WHERE (year = 1981) AND (setname = 'Coke Team Sets') AND (team = 'Red Sox');
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