Best design-Topps baseball card from the 80's (1 Viewer)

[comfortably numb]

If this is not FFA worthy, Mods feel free to move

Not looking for best set, with best rookies or scarcity level.

Rather, the card that you think has the best design.

Feel free to vote on best design, then discuss best set, rookies etc...

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

 

[LHUCKS]

voted '84

'89 was awful

 

[NoCheese]

Love the early 80's. Strongly dislike the '87 style.

 

[culdeus]

87 was the high water mark for beisbol cards. All downhill from there.

 

[zamboni]

Also like the early '80s ones. Come to think of it, the '70s were even better with all the multi-colors.

 

[comfortably numb]

Also like the early '80s ones. Come to think of it, the '70s were even better with all the multi-colors.

I'll do the 70's as well in a few...

 

[belljr]

I have a complete set of I think 84 and 85 topps.

 

[Darth Cheney]

I like 83.

 

[Knocks]

87 was the high water mark for beisbol cards. All downhill from there.

Id say 85 was the high mark for value. Lots of rookies in that class. Cases bought for just over 100 from Topps were being sold for 750 and more by collectors. '86 tumbled deeply while the market corrected itself, maybe they overproduced. I bought a few cases of '86's hoping to get the return the '85's got. No such luck.

 

[Darth Cheney]

80 is also nice and clean.

 

[The Shizzle]

Always liked the wood grain on the 87's.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

That 1980 set is the one that I starting collecting with, that is the best

I remember getting 4 packs for a $1 at the local drug store. And my dad would always want that horrible gum that came in the pack.

 

[Big_Russel]

I had to go with '83.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Always liked the wood grain on the 87's.

I did too. It was a throwback to the 1962 style on the 25th anniversary.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I have a soft spot for the wood-bordered '87 cards.

 

[Assani Fisher]

I have to agree with everyone else and say 87 and 83 are the best. Imo 86 is by far the worst of the bunch.

 

[Honus]

'86 - easy to read.

 

[pantagrapher]

'87 is my favorite. '88 was the worst, in part because my expectations were so high.

 

[Hov34]

80 for me. I liked the fake autograph when I was a kid.

 

[Cameron Frye]

i started collecting in '86, so i have fond memories of those big block letters. i have a full set of the '87 wood border ones, and i remember always wishing i had a fleer set instead because they were worth so much more.

 

[Peter_Griffin]

It's a toss up between 1980 and 1987 but I'd give the nod to 1980 since those were the ones I was buying for a quarter a pack with any change I could find.

 

[Pipes]

1980, 1984 & 1983 are my top 3.

I think the overall design went down later on in the decade. I'm a little surprised by the 1987 love...not a fan of the wood grain.

Great idea btw.

 

[The Noid]

I knew which to vote for and didn't even need to look at the pics to remember what each year looked like

 

[Mark Davis]

My favorites were 1981 and 1985. I can remember my dad buying me an occasional rack pack of the 1981's when I was a kid. Those were the first cards I ever had. The 1985's were the first I bought when I truly got into cards.

 

[Enforcer]

I loathed the black borders on the 86 set. Impossible to find decent looking edges because of it. I voted 87 wood border.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I loathed the black borders on the 86 set. Impossible to find decent looking edges because of it.

Now imagine the borders were white.

 

[wadegarrett]

another vote for '87

 

[whoknew]

The 87 card is the equivalent of the wood-paneled station wagon. How is that winning?

 

[Sam Quentin]

What an awful awful decade for designs

1987 is really bad. I went 1985.

 

[wilked]

87 really bad, 83 nice though

 

[shuke]

87 really bad, 83 nice though

This sums it up nicely. 83 by far the best, not even close in this decade of horrible cards.While 62 is one of my favorites, the horrible 87 ripoffs were laughable.

 

[JoeSteeler]

'87 is terrible! '83 the best by far.

 

[The Ref]

Easy - 87 and not even close.

 

[Spartans Rule]

I like the action/mug shot combo idea they had in 83 and 84, but 84 is just hideous. Yankees in big purple block letters?

83 was a much better execution of the idea so I went with that.

 

[ScottNorwood]

I still remember my first pack of 87 Topps, that included an Andy Allanson rookie card with the "Topps All Star Rookie" trophy in the lower left hand corner. The majestic trophy juxtaposed against the classic wood trim had me convinced that this kid was a future hall of famer.

 

[Standing Hampton]

That 1980 set is the one that I starting collecting with, that is the best I remember getting 4 packs for a $1 at the local drug store. And my dad would always want that horrible gum that came in the pack.

 

[Statorama]

I like 83.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

pretty

 

[The Sniper]

'87 didn't even need to look. Good topic.

 

[regularguy]

I still remember my first pack of 87 Topps, that included an Andy Allanson rookie card with the "Topps All Star Rookie" trophy in the lower left hand corner. The majestic trophy juxtaposed against the classic wood trim had me convinced that this kid was a future hall of famer.

 

[comfortably numb]

Seems like people either love or hate 87

 

[bentley]

I voted '82 because I was a huge Charlie Hough fan.

 

[Moe Green]

I always liked the '86 cards, even though they ain't worth ####.