Reds Tickets Honor Topps Cards

Cincinnati Reds season ticket holders got a little dose of the baseball card hobby when their season tickets arrived this month.

The team’s ticket design focuses on classic Reds cards through the years, with players who made their mark on the team in one way or another being honored with their Topps card on the face.

The images include Chuck Harmon’s 1954 card, which adorns the ticket that will be used as the Reds play in the Civil Rights Game at Great American Ballpark on May 15.  Harmon was the Reds’ first African-American player.

One ticket shows off Ted Kluzewski’s 1957 Topps card, another the ’59 Frank Robinson (his MVP season) and another shows off the ’77 Topps Johnny Bench.  Modern era Reds are featured as well, with the ‘card’ usually associated with that particular player’s greatest season or specific accomplishment.

The list of cards featured, in order, includes:

2010 Francisco Cordero

1957 Ted Kluszewski

1986 Mario Soto

1965 Joe Nuxhall

2007 Brandon Phillips

1972 Tony Perez

1977 Johnny Bench

1959 Frank Robinson

2008 Johnny Cueto

1980 Joe Morgan

1986 Tom Browning

2010 Joey Votto

1989 Barry Larkin

2010 Scott Rolen

1965 Jim O’Toole

1969 Lee May

2008 Homer Bailey

1961 Gus Bell

1964 Jim Maloney

1954 Chuck Harmon*

2010 Bronson Arroyo

1986 Eric Davis

1967 Chico Cardenas

2009 Jay Bruce

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