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Steve Shasta, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was always kind of partial to '89 Topps.

S: Gary Sheffield Future Stars card, GOLD TEETH.
Also S, if in NYC: packs of these at Economy Candy for a buck.

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4453/untitled1js1.jpg

mattbot, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

big ups to my first:

http://www.buysellballcards.com/images/NOLAN%20RYAN%2078%20TOPPS.jpg

jergïns, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

78 topps. (does this make me old? i was 5)

jergïns, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I collected 90s Donruss cards:

http://www.insidesmusic.com/bryce/images/donruss91/donruss91.jpg

I think it was due to the fact that I started my collection with free ones from happy meals at mcdonalds or something? anyway, I had a couple decent ones. But I never got any of my good 92/93 blue jays as I hoped.

Eh, I was more of a hockey card type guy anyway (where o where did my lindros rookie card go...)

Will M., Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

God Donruss is hideous!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yep.

"Swoopy stripes! Neat!"
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/jose_deleon_autograph.jpg

"A tarkus could roll on this background!"
http://my.execpc.com/~pjsports/VINTAGEBASEBALL/1985%20donruss.jpg

"Let's go with the green horizontal blinds."
http://www.astroland.net/86donrussrookieskerfeld.jpg

"Baseball cards should have baseballs on them."
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/baseball_cards/samples/1987_Donruss.jpg

"Red pipes!"
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/shawn_abner_autograph.jpg

"A French Republican in Baltimore." (oh, wait)
http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/schillingdon.jpg

Andy K, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Abner LOL

Andy K, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

PEACH FUZZ

David R., Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, Upper Deck was BREAKING THE MOLD by doing stuff like this:

http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Beckett/Beckett%20Images/Beckett.Bio.01.gif

David R., Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

http://www.strictlymint.com/online_store/store/images/29163.jpg

David R., Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Von:

http://www.the700level.com/images/von_hayes2.jpg

David R., Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the UD Errors from that year, the Sheffield flip and the Billy Ripken FU.

Steve Shasta, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was a Dale Murphy flip?

David R., Friday, 18 May 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sheff's UD error was the position field "SS" on the face was flipped (assymetrical font).

Steve Shasta, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Other Ripken was FF, not FU.

Leee, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

hahah, sorry.

Steve Shasta, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Billy Ripken was Fleer, not UD.

Also also: there was a Dale Murphy error (a reversed negative) in the '89 UD. I am awesome.

Also also also:

http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/sheffieldud.jpg

David R., Friday, 18 May 2007 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sheff's UD error was the position field "SS" on the face was flipped (assymetrical font).

-- Steve Shasta, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:11 (4 hours ago)

???

Steve Shasta, Friday, 18 May 2007 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing in Beckett a Frank Thomas 1990 Topps card with some error -- I forget what -- that had it regularly listed around $1,500 back in the day.

Leee, Friday, 18 May 2007 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Man, does Schilling look like a pedo or what?

Belisarius, Friday, 18 May 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have this one. They fit something like 50 rookies on one card, and you can see Billy Joe Robidoux only at a 38.7 degree angle.

http://www.joesportsfan.com/jsfpics/columns/86sportflicsjose.jpg

Andy K, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

I can't see him at any angle.

G00blar, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

No, he's there.

Andy K, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

MIKE GREENWELL

David R., Friday, 18 May 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even read the name of the guy who I posted... fucknig Rance Mulliniks? Is that even a name?

The fact thaT I don't recognize it makes me realize, maybe I didn't watch the Jays in '91. Making me a bandwagon jumper. MY LIFE IS A LIE (actually I think it was because in '92 they introduced a blue jays comic for little kids that I loved... that got me into baseball)

Baseball seems to be sorely lacking these days in the "incite wonder in kids under 7" dep't.

Will M., Friday, 18 May 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

'85 Topps - best design of my lifetime

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 May 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

92 Bowman
86 Topps with the huge letters

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 20 May 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also partial to mid-late 80's Topps, but I'm biased because I was collecting them at the time.

Man, does Schilling look like a pedo or what?

He looks younger now than he does in that picture!

NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna know who thought this color blue was an appropriate border?

http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesplayers/vanslyke.jpg

zaxxon25, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

One of those sets you can determine by looking at the cards' sides.

'85 Topps - best design of my lifetime

I think so, too. They are attractive and look just like actual baseball cards.

Andy K, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

the schilling card is amazing - if it were in black and white it would be a dead ringer for one of those tobacco cards from 1891 or whatever

Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

except for that font

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

"I didn't even read the name of the guy who I posted... fucknig Rance Mulliniks? Is that even a name?

The fact thaT I don't recognize it makes me realize, maybe I didn't watch the Jays in '91."

He's one of the Colour guys for Rogers Sportsnet now! One of the reasons I watch games on mute.

francisF, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I collected '90 '91, mostly upper deck.
Does anyone have the multi-exposed Ken Griffey Jr. or Rickey Henderson card from back then? I remember those being my favourites, and the Holograms.

francisF, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Garth Iorg is a name, too.

Andy K, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

don't forget his brother dane!

j.q higgins, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

lol 70s/early 80s eyeglasses. I had most of these cards.
http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-glasses-in-history-of-baseball.html

velko, Thursday, 14 May 2009 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

dude is awesome
http://images.quickblogcast.com/2/6/2/7/4/156627-147262/SteveTrout81.jpg

velko, Thursday, 14 May 2009 03:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.quickblogcast.com/2/6/2/7/4/156627-147262/SteveTrout81.jpg

velko, Thursday, 14 May 2009 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

i'll always have a soft spot for '86 donruss. i feel they got the balance right.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:32 (seventeen years ago)

great last names = great shades?

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 14 May 2009 13:39 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

For his 100th day of school tomorrow, my son has to bring in 100 of something, so I went into one of our closets and grabbed a stack of '89 Scores featuring Tim Teufel, Nick Esasky, Dickie Thon, Dan Pasqua, etc.

Andy K, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

true cardboard gods

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

the 90s donruss are awesome

dyao, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

so i bought a few packs of 2010 cards today. one of them was a new line by Topps called Allen & Ginter. Visually very cool looking olde letter-press style design. included was a card for Ryan Kennelly (bench press world champ) and a mini card for, no joke, a camel.

my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 July 2010 06:59 (fifteen years ago)

I put this on order a few days ago:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1A8xN_srQrI/S6-qenYjf1I/AAAAAAAAB9g/x5vMAQWHu-w/s1600/Mint+Condition.JPG

I started buying cards the summer of '94, just as a) the strike triggered the unravelling of the entire industry, and b) the steroid era kicked in. For the trifecta, I especially loaded up on Juan Gonzalez and Albert Belle cards.

clemenza, Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:11 (fifteen years ago)

haha...i started collecting in 1984/1985. right before the boom, i guess? still remember how a kid i traded w/ at the time really thought he got one over on me by trading a hank aaron forst year bowman for a dwight gooden (which i had two of anyways). good times.

just came across my jose canseco rookie w/ the peach fuzz stache the other day. there was a time when that was worth over a $100. good grief.

j.q higgins, Sunday, 18 July 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Oh god Diamond Kings.

Leee, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.baseballcardvandals.com/

peepee, Sunday, 27 January 2013 23:12 (thirteen years ago)

some of these are brilliant...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/f449e40886bca38f5b2027ce83231b40/tumblr_mgqupm2oWk1rmoryfo1_r1_1280.jpg

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 27 January 2013 23:24 (thirteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/26e13ab8feb3907c73e3a56614426170/tumblr_mgdyqt4vu31rmoryfo1_r1_1280.jpg

lol

manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Monday, 28 January 2013 00:25 (thirteen years ago)

If you're willing to spend $225, these look amazing:

http://infinitecardset.blogspot.ca/p/cards-for-sale.html

clemenza, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:17 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

clearing room in the closet so that my beloved might move in meant having to thin out the ol' card collection that was sucking up too much space.

found a coupe of these guys while sorting through things:
http://img.comc.com/zoom-back/fad4e24a-04e9-4e9c-9fb9-896e5f6d3774.jpg

obviously, i'm holding onto those ones.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 17:43 (twelve years ago)

pre-upper-deck at least, baseball cards were really not designed by what you would call "graphic designers"

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)

Score '91 was the set that got me back into collecting. A nearby gas station was selling boxes for five or seven dollars. I bought a bunch of them trying to complete a set--I have four or five of those Chipper cards, plus lots of really, really valuable Juan Gonzalez and Albert Belle cards, two of the players from that beloved era who broke all of Babe Ruth's records and eventually went into the Hall of Fame.

clemenza, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:28 (twelve years ago)

where really, really valuable = $2.50

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:45 (twelve years ago)

'91 Score was the set i collected most after '90 Topps. (Chipper is worth a few bucks now, as is the Mussina) – I think I have maybe 3/4 of the complete set from the '91 Score series. not sure why I picked that set, tho. maybe price. it's pretty schizophrenic as far as collections go... the 4-different colours and rookie/mvp cards that do not resemble the set at all (and the flag card?!).

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 19:51 (twelve years ago)

holy shit - still going through the old cards and found a Jeter rookie i had no idea was mixed in with the riff raff!!

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 24 October 2013 02:20 (twelve years ago)

one of my favorite birthday presents as a kid was a box of '94 Flair (think that was Fleer's "deluxe" line). pretty gold lettering and crazy thick card stock.

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/WaxHeaven/1994Flair.jpg
http://badwax.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/pack1994-flair.jpg?w=560

circa1916, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:00 (twelve years ago)

Those first Flair sets ('93/94) were nice--think they contain the key Jeter/A-Rod rookie cards.

Thermo: the '90 Topps was the other set that gas station was trying to get rid of, so I bought three or four boxes of those, too. Last set with gum, I believe--I've got stained cards to prove it. Thomas and Sosa rookies.

clemenza, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:16 (twelve years ago)


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