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30C SPORTS dd THE SUN SUNDAY. MAY 26. 1991 MEMORABILIA Topps' Stadium Club cards premium with a difference Card of the Week signed and numbered lithographs are available for $160 each from Bill Goff Inc. Feldman's other prints include "Baltimore Memorial Matinee" and "Forbes Field Forever." For information, call (800) 321 -GOFF or write: Bill Goff P.O. Box 508 New York.

N.Y. 10028-0005. Upcoming events: Saturday, baseball card show, Arbutu Fir Hall. playful Show in a hammock. These are reminiscent of Score's black and white subsets, but the Stadium Club cards are not a subset.

Most cards have action pictures, but there are some Interesting portrait treatments Ken Griffey Jr. by the bat rack. Prank Viola in sunglasses. "We wanted to have certain cards that were different," says Boyle. The backs are a departure from Topps' regular issues, too.

Each contains a small reproduction of the player's first Topps card and BARS (Baseball Analysis and Reporting System) statistics hitters' batting averages in nine strike-zone locations and pitchers' frequency of pitch selections. The background simulates an aerial view of a dirt infield you can see third and the pitcher's mound and the miniature card is placed over a baseball. This infieldbaseball background motif is repeated in the checklists. Baltimore Orioles in Series I are Collectors notebook able Topps set of pedestrian photographs, flimsy cardboard, gray backs, the usual lifetime statistics. These cards are made of glossy-finish high-quality paper (the gloss is so high and the cards so slippery that they go sliding around during sorting).

They are borderless, increasing the photo area by 25 percent. The photographs are stunning, and not Just in comparison to old Topps. The photos are cropped closer, the reproduction is crisper, and the pictures are a lot more Interstlng than what collectors have come to expect from Topps. Four players (Orel Hershiser, Nolan Ryan, Eric Show and Dave Stewart) are shown out of uniform. Ryan and Stewart are pitching in tuxedos.

Hershiser's and Show's cards are horizontal portraits, a pensive Hershiser in black sweater, a 33y Ruth Sadler If inquiries to card dealers are an indication of interest, collectors can't wait for Topps' Stadium Club cards, which Topps hopes to have in deal- rs' hands next month. Topps' first foray into the premi-iim-card market is a 300-card baseball set (Series 1 of two), with 297 player cards and three checklist cards. 1 Availability will be a problem. The cards will only be sold in poly-wrapped packs of 12 (suggested re-lail price of and stocks will te allocated. "We're probably not going to be able to meet the demand," says Topps spokesman Timm Boyle.

rWe're trying to spread it around the country. "It's a production issue. We've got so many other things we're going to produce Series II Stadium Club, Bowman, football, hockey." This is not your average, predict- We wanted to have certain cards that were different!) TIMM BOYLE, Topps spokesman Jeff Ballard, Dave Johnson, Ben McDonald. Randy Milligan. Gregg Olson, Joe Orsulak, Bill Ripken, David Segui and Mark Williamson.

One error Marylanders will notice: Topps put hyphens la Havre de Grace, Ripken's birthplace. The Orioles' first commemorative card set is available at Crown stations for $1.99 with qualifying fillup. It was a Memorial Stadium giveaway May 18. William Feldman's 12th baseball-park print is called "Yankee Stadium Classic" and depicts Mickey Mantle's home run off Sal Maglie in the fifth game of the 1956 World Series. Six hundred rt aCS 5200 Southwestern 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m., 788-8378. Sunday, baseball card show. Plkeevllle Hilton, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. 243-1705 or 528-1624.

Sunday, baseball card show, Towson Quality Inn, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 7-8, baseball card snow. Holiday Inn Tlmonlum, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

(June 7), 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (June 8), 254-2729. June 7-8. baseball card snow, Towson Marketplace, 10 a.m.

to 9 p.m. (June 7), noon to 5 p.m. (June 8), 837-0870 or 837-7632. June 8, baseball card show, CM. Wright High School, Bel Air.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 879-7529. June 8, baseball card show, Towson Sheraton, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 922-8366. June 18, baseball card show.

Comfort Inn-Airport, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 922-6366. June 23, baseball card show, Security Holiday Inn, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 922-6366. July 14, baseball card show, Qlen Bumle Elks Hall, Severn, 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m., 922-6366. July 14. baseball card show, Towson Quality Inn, 10 a.m. to 5 pm. Topps' Stadium Club line makes it debut next month with 300 Series I baseball cards.

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