tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post114493036825972047..comments2024-03-20T04:07:19.586-04:00Comments on The Baseball Card Blog: Card Critic’s Countdown to the Best Set of the 1980sjosh Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10212453263195870177noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1150027444787611872006-06-11T08:04:00.000-04:002006-06-11T08:04:00.000-04:0087 Topps = best ever. 85 Donruss were ok too87 Topps = best ever. 85 Donruss were ok tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1146611882418207702006-05-02T19:18:00.000-04:002006-05-02T19:18:00.000-04:00i have a don mattingly, dwight gooden darryl straw...i have a don mattingly, dwight gooden darryl strawberry and other 1986, 1987 topps card and was wondering if anyone would wanna buy<BR/><BR/>Email: minidog692@aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145334563075661292006-04-18T00:29:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:29:00.000-04:0087 Topps hands down. They lay the wood on every ot...87 Topps hands down. They lay the wood on every other set. Get it?<BR/><BR/>89 Upper Deck and the most overrated card of all time Ken Griffey Jr. is a close second.<BR/><BR/>86 Topps with the big fat lettering is third.<BR/><BR/>I was out of TP last week and my 88 and 89 Topps filled in nicely.<BR/><BR/>My brother once traded a Cal Ripken 82 Topps rookie for a friggin Upper Deck traded set. This is the same goofball who bought a Dwight Smith rookie for $7.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145291651602989352006-04-17T12:34:00.000-04:002006-04-17T12:34:00.000-04:00My vote for best set... 85 Donruss. Great rookies...My vote for best set... 85 Donruss. <BR/><BR/>Great rookies, liked the look, and it had the Seaver error which drove us crazy at the time. <BR/><BR/>83 Topps is up there too, as is 84 Fleer.The Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573551553863558468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145230465080082322006-04-16T19:34:00.000-04:002006-04-16T19:34:00.000-04:00Nice to see you giving the Sportflics set some pro...Nice to see you giving the Sportflics set some props, but how can you say they all looked the same? The '86 and '87 sets were just plain... by '89, they had morphed into a sportflic-ing sort of version of the other major sets, but they were horrible... awful color combinations like the <A HREF="http://users2.ev1.net/~mingster/cards/score/1989sf.htm" REL="nofollow">red and purple concentric borders</A> and a no line-by-line career stats on the back... <BR/><BR/>but the <A HREF="http://users2.ev1.net/~mingster/cards/score/1988sf.htm" REL="nofollow">1988 sportflics set</A>... now there was one to treasure... clean borders, names in a nice large font on the front, I always liked the uniform number on the front too... the sportflics cards, by their nature, were pretty durable too... they didn't have the impact of 85 topps, 89 upper deck or even 88 score, but I'd say they're genuinely worthy of a spot in the top ten...Captain Easychordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14366568790950469332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145206516009295312006-04-16T12:55:00.000-04:002006-04-16T12:55:00.000-04:00Gotta come down to '87 Topps and '89 UD. I'm part...Gotta come down to '87 Topps and '89 UD. I'm partial to the '89 Fleer, if only because of Billy Ripken's card.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646208494278237336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145167247113537512006-04-16T02:00:00.000-04:002006-04-16T02:00:00.000-04:00how many card tops were bent up because you put th...how many card tops were bent up because you put the bowman cards in the sleeves anyway, thinking if you put them at the bottom, they'd still be ok?<BR/><BR/>you're 100% right on that call. no bob davidson there!Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145151975627368282006-04-15T21:46:00.000-04:002006-04-15T21:46:00.000-04:0087 Topps holds a special place in my heart. That w...87 Topps holds a special place in my heart. That was when I first started collecting. I must have bought 200 rack packs and never completed the set. I remember sorting through pack after pack in Woolworth looking for the best combination of stars on the front and back of each. I probably completed the All-Star set 20 times over. Plus a ton of those Mini-Leaders. A dozen or so skinny Barry Bonds. But the one card that I always wanted and could never get was Gary Carter. One of my favorite players and it was the only card showing a catcher in full gear. (Andy Allanson was in full gear but didn't have his mask on. Charlie Moore was throwing and his mask shifted away from his face. I must have had 30 of each of them but no Carter until I broke down and bought a team set.) That was very important to me at the time as I wanted to be a catcher.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145142697297117882006-04-15T19:11:00.000-04:002006-04-15T19:11:00.000-04:00I think it was '90 donruss that had the red (confe...I think it was '90 donruss that had the red (confetti) background with the white lettering. Man, I have thousands of those. Donruss really wasn't the same after '87 (at least as long as I collected, which was until about '92). The '86 topps are okay, and I agree about the big lettering - my complaints about that set were the lousy photography on many of the cards, and the fact that they got dinged up really easily.<BR/><BR/>By the way - Ben, love love love the site. I hadn't thought about my tens of thousands of cards in a long time before I stumbled on the site a couple months ago. Very excited to see the rest of the list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145141703293230812006-04-15T18:55:00.000-04:002006-04-15T18:55:00.000-04:00i know this one's coming up pretty soon, and i'm t...i know this one's coming up pretty soon, and i'm the only one in the world that probably likes the cards...but 86 topps is the stuff for me. i love those big team color letters on the top of the card with black background, that gives me my jollies.<BR/><BR/>If this were my show I'd run it up till about 94 or 95, when collecting really jumped the shark. 92 donruss was like 88 donruss rehashed. which donruss were the red background with white script lettering? another atrocity. i dont know why i bought their damn cards. probably because i was 11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145134150491127142006-04-15T16:49:00.000-04:002006-04-15T16:49:00.000-04:00Perhaps i'm a bit biased toward the '84 topps and ...Perhaps i'm a bit biased toward the '84 topps and fleer sets, because those were the first two i really collected in earnest, but i love the design of those two. '83 topps was great as well. <BR/><BR/>I remember really liking the '87 topps set, but I'm not sure now whether that faux wood paneling and baloon lettering is awesome, or horrible.<BR/><BR/>As for '89 Upper Deck, a great set, but also marked the point where buying packs started to get way too expensive for a kid with no income. Plus, what's the fun of pulling a Griffey rookie if there isn't the added obstacle of hoping it's one without a wax or gum stain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145130394527997282006-04-15T15:46:00.000-04:002006-04-15T15:46:00.000-04:00Me thinks this one's '89 Upper Deck's to lose. Th...Me thinks this one's '89 Upper Deck's to lose. The set pretty much changed the industry by itself and ushered in a new standard in cards and collecting.<BR/><BR/>Hyperbole mode OFF.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145076886501687042006-04-15T00:54:00.000-04:002006-04-15T00:54:00.000-04:00den sez: #1 for style 1987 fleer, #1 for substance...den sez: #1 for style 1987 fleer, #1 for substance 1983, 85 topps. and btw, rubber bands are for barbarians with no regard for valuable carboard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145051094710322372006-04-14T17:44:00.000-04:002006-04-14T17:44:00.000-04:00Those '89 Bowman cards were SO BAD. I am glad to s...Those '89 Bowman cards were SO BAD. I am glad to see them get last place. So glad.<BR/><BR/>Is it possible, though, that in a few decades, they're going to end up being worth more than other cards from the era? I always found that those ridiculous things were more susceptible to damage/bent corners/total destruction than other cards on account of their size...especially if you used rubber bands, put them in regular sized pages, or what have you. Stupid '89 Bowmans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145046242926743262006-04-14T16:24:00.000-04:002006-04-14T16:24:00.000-04:00If 87 Topps doesn't win I'm gonna riot.If 87 Topps doesn't win I'm gonna riot.NickLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15505861510483807050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20684429.post-1145032537038826692006-04-14T12:35:00.000-04:002006-04-14T12:35:00.000-04:00This is good. I like this line of blogging. I ag...This is good. I like this line of blogging. <BR/><BR/>I agree on 89 Bowman. Though I bought a bg load of those cards, I had to buy special shets to keep them in. That was annoying. I would alos say that the appearance of this Bowman set really pushed the whole baseball card set world out of whack. This was a sign that it was getting out of hand. <BR/><BR/>One other thing about 89 Donruss. Usually you could count on Donruss to make one major error on a card to make things interesting, like in 85 with the Seaver error. I don't remember there being any error cards in 88 Donruss. That makes it boring. <BR/><BR/>82 Fleer... one thing I always enjoyed about early Fleer sets is that since the company was based in Philadelphia, they got as many photographs of players when they visited Philadelphia as they could. This meant that Veterans Stadium and their rainbow seats were featured in at least 30% of the cards. That alone knocks the set quality way down.The Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573551553863558468noreply@blogger.com