finally topps gives us true final tributes

yay for topps.  after years of putting recently retired stars on checklists and/or highlight cards, topps came through in 2014 with some honest to goodness final tribute cards.  of course, they also put mariano rivera and todd helton on highlight cards, but still…

here's rivera's final tribute

with his complete career stats on the back

and here's todd helton's

with his career stats

80 fewer hits than one steven patrick garvey, by the way.

i didn't bother to check if topps made a card for lance berkman in series 1, but they did issue one for another player whose retirement announcement was made after the cards were printed - the dodgers' own michael young

and so, here are his final career stats

after missing out on a dodger card in 2013 update, i'm glad to have young get one in 2014 series 1.  even though young is retired now, it beats a photoshopped chone figgins card, that's for sure.