Best looking Topps baseball cards 60-80s :rackpack!: (1 Viewer)

comfortably numb · Oct 29, 2015

Nathan R. Jessep · Oct 29, 2015

great poll :thumbup:

I answered the 80's and 90's without looking, except for a couple of the late 90's designs that I wasn't familiar with

comfortably numb · Oct 29, 2015

Nathan R. Jessep said:
great poll

I answered the 80's and 90's without looking, except for a couple of the late 90's designs that I wasn't familiar with

WHOO HOOO

someone responded!

Was starting to get worried.

If i get 2 more posts maybe I will make one for Fleer and Donruss

arrow1 · Oct 29, 2015

The 80's had some terrible looking cards.

Bogart · Oct 29, 2015

1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

bakes · Oct 29, 2015

Had to go with 1969 as I have that Mantle card.

Warsteinner · Oct 29, 2015

arrow1 said:
The 80's had some terrible looking cards.

Agreed, but I do have a soft spot for those 1983s.

pantagrapher · Oct 29, 2015

Bogart said:
1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

You basically said exactly what I was gonna say. I was a casual collector starting in about 85, but those 1987 cards are when I started buying packs whenever I could. Probably matters that this was also right around the huge rise of Beckett, which turned out to be a complete scam.

jon_mx · Oct 29, 2015

Pretty sure this belongs in the Collectable Baseball Card Sub-forum.

The Noid · Oct 29, 2015

Worked in a card store through high school and college, then owned my own store for a few years after college. Got out of the business in 2000, so these are all indelibly burned in my brain. No links needed.

bakes · Oct 29, 2015

This poll seriously brings back fun memories of going through packs of baseball and football cards on the concrete front patio of the house, sorting by team, and for some reason writing "Dum Dum" above the name on a Bill Nelson football card. To this day I still call him Bill "Dum Dum" Nelson whenever the name comes up for some odd reason.

And I think I had about a dozen of this guy.

pantagrapher · Oct 29, 2015

I remember when the All-Star Rookie destination was a sign that a player was destined for stardom.

Bogart · Oct 29, 2015

The Noid said:
Worked in a card store through high school and college, then owned my own store for a few years after college. Got out of the business in 2000, so these are all indelibly burned in my brain. No links needed.

Worked in a card store through high school as well, 1992 and 1993. Best job I ever had. Pizza place next door would bring me huge fountain root beers and slices all day long, and I just opened packs of 1990 Score and Upper Deck looking for rookies.

My demise was trying to be a big time trader. Guy came in with some old cards. Mantle, Aaron, Harmon, Yogi, Ted Williams. Owners were out, so I decided to do the deal. We offered 50 percent cash or 65 percent trade against Beckett prices. I graded his cards much higher than I should have, and he left with a ton of mint Canseco rookies, McGwire rookies and Nolan Ryan special cards. Took three weeks salary to pay back what those cards were worth. I was given the old cards after it was all said and done. Still have them today as a reminder that I'm not always as smart as I think I am.

Today those cards are worth more than the overproduced cards I traded the guy. Took 20+ years, but I won the trade.

NREC34 · Oct 29, 2015

1980 for the 80's for me. Still remember having that Rickey Henderson card and how good it looked.

Nathan R. Jessep · Oct 29, 2015

NREC34 said:
1980 for the 80's for me. Still remember having that Rickey Henderson card and how good it looked.

Still got mine. Looks awesome in the plastic screwdown case. :thumbup:

Buttonhook · Oct 29, 2015

Lots of great memories from the late 70s and early 80s for me.

I used to open so many packs I would have a coating of white stuff on my hands that wore off in the packs from the bubble gum.

My grandfather told me an interesting story... He said back when he was a kid (Great Depression) they used to buy a stick of gum and it would come with a baseball card... They would throw the cards against the wall and the first kid who could get his card to lean on the wall took all the cards. But to be good at the game you had to fold the cards. :wall:

jfranco77 · Oct 29, 2015

I always liked those 84 cards, and 80 was good too. Even 82 wasn't bad. Honestly except for 81 I liked most of the 80s.

Limp Ditka · Oct 29, 2015

1965, but that might just be the booze talking

comfortably numb · Oct 29, 2015

The only good part about cards bring essentially worthless due to overproduction or the grading system is I can go buy all those cards on ebay I could never afford when I was a kid.

Picked up all the Strawberry and Gooden rookies for like $12.

If you knew someone who saw the 84 donruss Mattingly rookie..that kid was a local legend in my hood.

No I can probably snag 1 on ebay for 12 bucks.

Officer Pete Malloy · Oct 29, 2015

The only card I own. Actually true.

Bogart · Oct 29, 2015

Nathan R. Jessep said:
NREC34 said:

1980 for the 80's for me. Still remember having that Rickey Henderson card and how good it looked.

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Still got mine. Looks awesome in the plastic screwdown case.

The Henderson Rookie was my Holy Grail. My two favorite players of all time were Henderson and Nolan Ryan. I knew I would never have enough cash for the Ryan rookie. I have his cards from 1970 to 1980, but never his rookie. But the Rickey Rookie, that was always just out of my grasp.

Buttonhook · Oct 29, 2015

I remember sorting through cards for hours and I used to do it with my 2-year old sister. Never had a problem with her until the one day she decided to fold my prized rookie Earl Campbell card right down the middle. I remember tears rolling down my face as I forced that creased and folded ####in card back into it's card cover.

But worse than that was the one night I slept walked in the middle of the night and peed in my closet... all over my baseball and football cards. :ph34r:

17seconds · Oct 29, 2015

Love those 1960 cards. I have about 30 of them.

comfortably numb · Oct 29, 2015

pantagrapher said:
Bogart said:

1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

Click to expand...

You basically said exactly what I was gonna say. I was a casual collector starting in about 85, but those 1987 cards are when I started buying packs whenever I could. Probably matters that this was also right around the huge rise of Beckett, which turned out to be a complete scam.

Yep.

87 for me as well.

Not even cause its the best looking but my 1st love.

Packs were cheap enough.

I could get each card.

I actually bought 3 boxes on ebay a few years ago just to open up packs.

Was so cool pulling the Bo Jackson or that feeling when you would go through the cards really slowly and and see Mcgwires back side or Cansecos rookie cup.

Oh the adrenaline....

Thunderlips · Oct 29, 2015

1996, 1980, 1978, 1967

A lot of the years (particularly the 90s and 80s) tried to emulate the rudimentary graphics, colors and fonts that were used during those times. To me, 96,80,78 and 67 are pretty timeless.

Now, if I want to pick years that best represented the eras.....I'd probably go.

1990, 1982, 1975 and 1962.

Fariq · Oct 29, 2015

1993

1982

1972

1960

Those were my choices.

comfortably numb · Oct 29, 2015

Lol...I can't believe I actually thought I had a retirement nest egg on my hands at one time...

Gawain · Oct 29, 2015

I remember thinking this card would go to $100 and my UD rookies would be 1K by now.

JohnnyU · Oct 29, 2015

I think the 1963 Topps cards are the best looking cards in history, regardless of manufacturer. I also like the 1952 Topps and the 1984 Donruss.

Zegras11 · Oct 29, 2015

Still have my 1969 Mickey Mantle.

sbonomo · Oct 29, 2015

I picked 1986 because that is when i started collecting: probably about the worst time - I have a bunch of cool old cards - I am sure that are worthless but cannot let them go for some reason. I have an entire book of mid to late 80's Jordans, i have a signed Mike Schmidt rookie, Jerry Rice rookie, Montana second year, Ott and Roenick rookie, etc. I remember trading half my collection for the Griffy and Bo Jackson rookie. The dog ate them that night. good times!

Pipes · Oct 29, 2015

Great poll. Brings back a ton of memories from my childhood in the late 70's and 80's. I love the cards from 1975 with the multicolored borders.

Das Boot · Oct 29, 2015

Yep, lots of great memories. My buying years as a kid were from 1967-1975.

I had a tough time choosing between the 1972 and 1975 designs for my 70's vote... they both define the era perfectly.

For fans of the 1972 cards, Topps had a 25 card subset of them in the 2013 Chrome set... they are pretty awesome, I bought both a chrome set of them and a refractor set.

Here's what they look like: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-Topps-Chrome-1972-Topps-Inserts-6-Card-Lot-McCutchen-Derek-Jeter-Darvish-/121731970920?hash=item1c57ca7768%3Ag%3ALkcAAOSwDNdVz1S1&nma=true&si=eSNx0CBT3KuL0SSVqNCsKQ9vuS8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Tiger Fan · Oct 29, 2015

I had no idea that there was only one rated rookie for every position. Mind blown.

Fariq · Oct 29, 2015

comfortably numb said:
Nathan R. Jessep said:

great poll

I answered the 80's and 90's without looking, except for a couple of the late 90's designs that I wasn't familiar with

Click to expand...

WHOO HOOO

someone responded!

Was starting to get worried.

If i get 2 more posts maybe I will make one for Fleer and Donruss

I enjoyed the backs of the classic Fleer cards from the 1980s.

Ted Stickles · Oct 30, 2015

comfortably numb said:
pantagrapher said:

Bogart said:

1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

Click to expand...

You basically said exactly what I was gonna say. I was a casual collector starting in about 85, but those 1987 cards are when I started buying packs whenever I could. Probably matters that this was also right around the huge rise of Beckett, which turned out to be a complete scam.

Click to expand...

Yep.

87 for me as well.

Not even cause its the best looking but my 1st love.

Packs were cheap enough.

I could get each card.

I actually bought 3 boxes on ebay a few years ago just to open up packs.

Was so cool pulling the Bo Jackson or that feeling when you would go through the cards really slowly and and see Mcgwires back side or Cansecos rookie cup.

Oh the adrenaline....

Winner, winner.

The '87 Topps coincide with my entry into baseball card collecting. Loved going to the grocery store with my mom who would buy my brother and me a few $0.25 packs at the register if we behaved.

For a couple of years there I would only want and ask for a box of baseball cards from family and friends for my birthday or Christmas present. The dozens of baseball card boxes received during those that three-year period was a great time in my childhood. Opening every pack was like a unwrapping another Christmas present.

Pulling one of these out of the pack felt like I had won the lottery...

https://bapple2286.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/boggs-87t.jpg

http://keymancollectibles.com/baseballcards/images/wpeE6.jpg

http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/1967/117200.jpg

https://bapple2286.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/eric-davis-13.jpg

https://shlabotnikreport.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/1987-topps-don-mattingly.jpg

http://granpap.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/9/1/26912279/s270414132428123712_p6_i1_w750.jpeg

This card is my favorite of all-time...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-beYtVhgCmUQ/VRBY7Hbo2XI/AAAAAAAAa3k/yy6Mz_oEfpI/s1600/1987_topps_420_will_clark.jpg :tebow:

Dickie Dunn · Oct 30, 2015

1976 is the beginning of my card collecting days, so I still occasionally surf eBay looking for those (football and hockey, as well). Those sets always will have a soft spot for me.

I stopped buying regularly in the mid-80s, partly because of college and also because I could see it starting to be impossible to keep up with the industry. I remember us kids loved having three different sets of cards to collect beginning in 1981, but in hindsight it was the beginning of the end.

Dickie Dunn · Oct 30, 2015

comfortably numb said:
1976

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f8/cf/c6/f8cfc6b6dedb4111a6998abfef3ffbe3.jpg

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but this card above is fake. His rookie card was in the 1977 set.

ZenMaster · Oct 30, 2015

I've always liked the '81s with the hat in the lower left.

Looking at these really brings back some memories. I used to get a box every year for my birthday and I still have a bunch of sets in boxes and books.

I used to do card shows with my dad for a little extra money. I still remember buying a Billy Ripken F-Face card. I think it was $50 LOL. One year I sent out a lot of cards to various players for autographs from the team address in the Beckett price guide. I still have all of the ones I got back, and Barry Larkin even added extra postage because the rates changed from when I sent the card and when he sent it back.

I really miss those days.

Otis · Oct 30, 2015

Bogart said:
1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

Same for me. Always looking for that Al Leiter error card....

doowain · Oct 30, 2015

Nathan R. Jessep said:
great poll

I answered the 80's and 90's without looking, except for a couple of the late 90's designs that I wasn't familiar with

Same here. 87 and 91. Remember getting that Chipper card in a pack at a random gas station on the way to the lake with my family. I was 9 years old. Considering you don't remember much from that age, that's somethin'.

'87 was for the Larkin rookie card (Cincy homer).

ETA: Only up to maybe 93 do I recognize those cards. I'm guessing it's because I became an Upper Deck guy.

Thunderlips · Oct 30, 2015

Tiger Fan said:
I had no idea that there was only one rated rookie for every position. Mind blown.

I never realized until recently that Topps used to number the cards by the quality of the player on the card.

doowain · Oct 30, 2015

Anyone else still remember the rush you felt getting the new Beckett each month and going through and pricing all of your cards....then fist pumping when you saw the price bolded with the up arrow next to it?

NREC34 · Oct 30, 2015

doowain said:
Anyone else still remember the rush you felt getting the new Beckett each month and going through and pricing all of your cards....then fist pumping when you saw the price bolded with the up arrow next to it?

Yeah, it was like the stock market for little kids.

comfortably numb · Oct 30, 2015

doowain said:
Anyone else still remember the rush you felt getting the new Beckett each month and going through and pricing all of your cards....then fist pumping when you saw the price bolded with the up arrow next to it?

Yep, now were old and g

Otis said:
Bogart said:

1987 will always be my favorite. First year I was super serious about collecting and just remember the wood bat borders covering my bedroom floor as I sorted for hours and checking prices in Beckett.

Click to expand...

Same for me. Always looking for that Al Leiter error card....

Mark Leiter?

Godsbrother · Oct 30, 2015

Always liked the 1955 Bowman cards:

http://media2.cardboardconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1955-Bowman-Willie-Mays.jpg

comfortably numb · Oct 30, 2015

Random useless crap I never forget...and I wasn't even a Yankee fan

Mattingly 87 Topps card was #500

comfortably numb · Oct 30, 2015

Anyone know what the cheapest packs are nowadays?

Wouldn't mind getting my kids a box of cards and having them sort through packs looking for their favorite Met but didn't want to have to take a 2nd mortgage to do so

MattFancy · Oct 30, 2015

I have a Topps card from every year Cal Ripken played

Bogart · Oct 30, 2015

This thread makes me want to hit eBay this morning. Maybe finally get that Henderson Rookie and that Griffey Jr UD Rookie.

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