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

NNO Astros Ad Card
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

Cardinals

NNO Cardinals Ad Card
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

Cubs

NNO Cubs Ad Card
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

Mets

NNO Mets Ad Card
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

Phillies

NNO Phillies Ad Card
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

Pirates

NNO Pirates Ad Card
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

Red Sox

NNO Red Sox Ad Card AD
1 Tom Burgmeier
1 Carlton Fisk (Not issued)
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

Reds

NNO Reds Ad Card
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

Royals

NNO Royals Ad Card
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

Tigers

NNO Tigers Ad Card
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

White Sox

NNO White Sox Ad Card
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

Yankees

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

1 Rich Gossage
2 Reggie Jackson
3 Rick Cerone

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