1991 Topps Baby-Sitters Club trading cards are one of the era’s more surprising sets. First off, children’s literature doesn’t make for a lot of products. There are exceptions, but it’s a small market until Hollywood comes knocking to turn said series into a run of blockbusters.
But is it really surprising? The series sold over 150 million books. Throughout the late ’80s and all of the 1990s, it was a book order and book fair staple. Simply put, The Baby-Sitters Club is a big part of millennial pop culture. So maybe a set shouldn’t be such a shocker.
1991 Topps Baby-Sitters Club Checklist Details
This is a small set with just 55 cards. Similar to Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages and Supergirl, they double as stickers.
Fronts draw from the massive archive of book covers. The realistic art style combined with corny sitcom situations is almost a genre unto itself. Friendship, fun, crushes and existential dread of look after other peoples’ kids are some of the themes that run throughout the cards.
Backs profile characters, offer up babysitting cards and even have games and recipes to help make one the best sitter in the neighborhood.
Released at a time when seemingly every trading card product had massive print runs, 1991 Topps Baby-Sitters Club is an outlier. Today, cards are extremely rare despite coming from a major manufacturer. Turns out young adult fiction wasn’t a big seller at the time. But one decade’s forgetten trading cards are today’s treasure. With rarity in play, cards carry significant values today, particularly boxes and packs.
1991 Topps Baby-Sitters Club Checklist
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Set size: 55 cards
Cards per pack: 5
Packs per box: 48
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Base Set Checklist
55 cards.
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1 Welcome to the Baby-Sitters Club
2 Claudia Kishi, Vice President
3 Mary Anne Spier, Secretary
4 Kristy Thomas, President
5 Dawn Schafer, Alternate Officer
6 Stacey McGill, Treasurer
7 Mallory Pike, Junior Officer
8 Jessica Ramsey, Junior Officer
9 #38 Kristy’s Mystery Admirer
10 #25 Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger
11 # 2 Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
12 #40 Jessi’s Wish
13 #28 Welcome Back Stacey!
14 #15 Little Miss Stoneybrook…and Dawn
15 #39 Poor Mallory!
16 Super Special #3 – Baby-Sitters’ Winter Vacation
17 #12 Claudia and the New Girl
18 #32 Kristy and the Secret of Susan
19 Super Special #5 – California Girls!
20 #37 Dawn and the Older Boy
21 #46 Mary Anne Misses Logan
22 #27 Jessi and the Superbrat
23 # 3 The Truth about Stacey
24 From the 1991 Calendar
25 #29 Mallory and the Mystery Diary
26 #47 Mallory On Strike
27 Super Special #1 – Baby-Sitters On Board!
28 #49 Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street
29 # 5 Dawn and the Impossible Three
30 #34 Mary Anne and Too Many Boys
31 #24 Kristy and the Mother’s Day Surprise
32 #10 Logan likes May Anne
33 Mystery #1 – Stacey and the Missing Ring
34 From the 1992 Calendar (A)
35 #26 Claudia and the Sad Good-Bye
36 #23 Dawn on the Coast
37 Super Special #6 – New York, New York!
38 #21 Mallory and the Trouble with Twins
39 #42 Jessi and the Dance School Phantom
40 #18 Stacey’s Mistake
41 From the 1990 Calendar
42 #44 Dawn and the Big Sleepover
43 Super Special #7 – Showbound!
44 #51 Stacey’s Ex-Best Friend
45 From the 1992 Calendar (B)
46 #16 Jessi’s Secret Language
47 #45 Kristy and the Baby Parade
48 #19 Claudia and the Bad Joke
49 #43 Stacey’s Emergency
50 #30 Mary Anne and the Great Romance
51 #40 Claudia and the Middle School Mystery
52 #22 Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter
53 #50 Dawn’s Big Date / Checklist Card Fronts
54 # 1 Kristy’s Great Idea / Checklist Card Backs
55 #17 Mary Anne and the Bad Luck Mystery
