Top 100 Jose Canseco Baseball Cards – 2002 Topps Rookies & Traded Farewell Buyback Autograph 1/1 

While I was going through my cards, I ran across this beauty: A Topps Archives Signature Series 1/1 made from a 2002 Topps Rookies & Traded Farewell Jose Canseco bat card.

First off, just the bat card itself might be the coolest base bat card, ever. The gold jersey, the moustache, the star shaped bat piece. All of it is super awesome (and cheap, too! Several can be had on eBay right now for $10-20.)

But here’s where it gets interesting ….

As I was looking this up on baseballcardpedia, apparently this is NOT a set that Topps released – it is a one-off card that was created specifically to commemorate Jose Canseco’s retirement! (He retired a few months before this was produced.) There are literally no other 2002 Topps Farewell cards that have been made … just Jose!

As a Canseco fan, I think that’s the coolest thing ever, and to have the only autographed buyback of it makes it that much cooler to me.  

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