Mattingly+rookie+cant-find-these-cards-anywhere+New York Hype = explosion. Older entries below are some awesome unopened lots from years gone by. Buy from many sellers and get your cards all in one shipment! Different card numbers, sometimes a different photo. Cards are identical in design to the 1987 regular Donruss issue except that the Opening Day cards have a maroon border instead of a black border. After an underwhelming debut in 1981 and a maybe even more underwhelming sophomore effort in 1982, Fleer needed to do something big in 1983 if they wanted to keep up with Donruss (ha!) Someone is gonna have a lot of fun, in other words, and maybe feel just a little younger in the process. Free shipping for many products! Theyre those funky looking red and green cards, laid out horizontally and featuring a player headshot on one end with the rest of the front covered in scratch-off dots that allow you to play a game. That is, if you were serious about this thing. (Thats a very early-1990s thing to say look it up.). The late 1980s and early 1990s were fun but times in the hobby. To learn more refer to our As the decades have passed, the value of our baseball cards have ebbed and flowed, but something else has happened something amazing. If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s (and probably the 1990s) as a baseball card collector, you know the feeling well. Money, however, made the hobby not only profitable but also more serious, more instrumental, and therefore more manly. External Links | Anyway, this eBay lot gives you a pretty good shot at all these guys and plenty more its a complete unopened box. - Errors / Variations Apparently, thats how Topps felt in 1984. Fuzzy up the photos just a bit because the sharpness of the 1983s was too much for the human eye to withstand. Rookie cards, autographs and more. And this lot offers up a bunch of that all in one convenient package. <p>The 1987 Donruss Opening Day set is comprised of 273 cards measuring 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" each. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Box Set Will Clark #96 PSA 9 MINT Rookie RC Grade: PSA 9 Buy: $31.30 eBay (comc_consignment) 1987 Donruss Opening Day Logo Kansas City Royals #268 Buy: $1.00 eBay (jodysvintagebaseball) 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY #163B BARRY BONDS WHITE JERSEY Buy: $8.95 eBay (dannywgregory) 4d 12h left +$12.99 shipping Sponsored 1987 Donruss Baseball Complete Set #1-660 Bonds McGwire Maddux Rookies AG180 Anyway, how cool would it be to have a big ol cutout of Ken Griffey Jr.s head suction-cupped inside your locker? But its happy because the blue boxes themselves are shining through a crack in the case cardboard, and they look pretty gorgeous still. Is there anything better than sitting down with a box of fresh wax packs with dreams of uncovering your next big baseball card find? This website uses technologies such as cookies to provide you a better user experience. - Comments NOTE: Many features on the COMC.com web site require Javascript and cookies. You could see three players on the front and three players stats on the back. - Videos Or maybe it was the folks at Mrs. Butterworths. I was blown away with the quality. For more recent exchange rates, please use the. The box and packs are nice display pieces in themselves, and they showcase three of the sets All-Star/Hall of Fame denizens in Jim Rice, George Brett, and Fernando Valenzuela. Let me know if you enjoy this sort of post so I know whether I should continue with new updates. Its the stuff from which collections and lifetime cardboard connections are made! You know, make the inset headshot square instead of round, fill it in with a garish color, add big block letters down the left-hand side. In any case, this lot falls three packs short of a full box, but you do get the display box. I mean, right there on the front panels are sparkling cards of Lee Lacy, Gary Lavelle, and Randy Moffitt. Grading . User Agreement. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Giants Team Logo Checklist #25 PSA 10 Pop 1 Logo 1/1, 1987 Donruss Opening Day baseball card factory set. In the summer of 1984, Don Mattingly came out of nowhere to win the American League batting title, snatching it away from New York Yankees teammate Dave Winfield. When you went to the store with your mom and tried to score some baseball cards but ended up with these instead, it was muy disappointing. Man, those were good days. Only the gum stick knows for sure. on Baseball Fever. You ever create something thats just so good, so unbelievably groundbreaking that all you want to do is find a way to broadcast it to the world? When Fleer finally won the right to produce baseball cards in 1980 after decades of struggle, they wanted to make sure collectors knew they were here to stay. Even more luckily, I convinced my parents to float me a loan for all the burnt orange packs I could find. If you love oddball baseball cards, the 1980s were the decade for you. Inside the packs were goodies like the Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card, the Steve Sax rookie card, the Shooty Babittrookie card. This website uses technologies such as cookies to provide you a better user experience. - Gallery The next time youre lamenting how todays safety-first regulations and advertising are robbing us of everything fun, come back to this eBay listing (affiliate link) and remind yourself the joy-robbing started no later than the mid-1980s. We were just coming off a year (1983) in which Topps issued one of their all-time classic sets and when Donruss, and especially Fleer, started to get their acts together after two years of misfires. Theres not much to say about todays Wow! Your input, assistance, suggestions, and / or corrections are sincerely And they usually turn up one or two or ten at a time, often in terrible shape and frequently separated from their brethren. The hobby was never the same, for better or for worse. sets in which the "number" on the back is not numerical in nature. But one thing 1986 Topps did have going for it was Pete Rose like, all over the place. - External Links The perception, at least, was that Fleer and Donruss cards were printed on superior cardstock and existed in much fewer quantities than their Topps counterparts. And, among the 66 luminous luminaries who were Major League Leaders, youll find high-luminosity guys like Mike Smithson, Walt Terrell (Hoosier! You scoured the pages of Baseball Cards and Sports Collectors Digest waiting for word of any new releases, and then you planned your life around getting your hands on some. Shop COMC's extensive selection of 1987 donruss opening day - box set [base] baseball cards. Also, note that these listings contain affiliate links, which means if you click over to eBay or Amazon and buy something, Ill receive a small commission at no extra charge to you. Its probably seen a hard life, or its just aged, like I have. These scratch-offs came in three-player panels, and you could play a baseball game by scratching off the dots like a lottery ticket for Little Leaguers. And, oh yeah if you dont like the stars showing on this lot, the seller has two other 1985 Topps Rack Pack lots to choose from here and here (affiliate links). the 1987 Donruss Opening Day set (or just come and discuss baseball memorabilia with us) On the back, you have the small-man All-Stars. So, while this 1984 Topps rack pack with a Mattingly rookie on top doesnt hold quite the hobby sway that a Donruss version would, its still an awesome artifact from one of the great runs in hobby history. 1985 Topps Rack Packs are not, technically speaking, This lot offers up twenty (20) 1985 Rack Packs with stars on front(. 2022-05-30. Donruss went to the Topps archives and basically dusted off the 1957 design, updated it with some wavy lines for the 1980s, added a Don Mattingly rookie card that would blow up the hobby as we knew it, reduced print runs, and called it a day. If you made it through the lean hobby years of the Topps monopoly, man, were you rewarded in 1981! So, not only did they issue a 1981 base set that was fairly OK plus showcased one of the greatest error cards of all time (C. Nettles), they also blessed us with their first Star Stickers set. Total Cards: 272. Click here for the details, Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [BGS8.5NMMT+], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [PSA8NMMT], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [PSA6EXMT], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [CSG7.5NearMint+], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [PSA7NM], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [EXtoNM], Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [GoodtoVGEX]. Dwight Gooden, Roger Clemens, Eric Davis, Bret Saberhagen, Alvin Davis, Danny Tartabull, Jose Rijo. Granted, most of those dudes fell short of Hall of Fame standards, but theyre still standards among 1980s rookie cards. My memory of the 1984 Donruss cardsKmart had rack packs thrown in a bin. Yep, before The Kid ever took the Kingdome field, Mike Cramer and the Pacific Trading Card Company treated the hobby to the *drumroll* Ken Griffey Jr. . Add in the Future Hall of Famers and All-Stars inserts, and you had a solid set that verged on scorchingat various times. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball - Trading Card Database Baseball Sets 1987 Overview 1987 Donruss Opening Day Total Cards: 272 Rating: 6.4 (29 votes) Click here to Rate Notes: Distributed as a factory set (#1-272) Tweet The good news is, its got your name on it. Let me tell you you would if you were 12 years old in 1984 and had the chance to add another set to your burgeoning collection via several thousand calories worth of Cookie Crisp. The headline for this 1979 Topps baseball rack pack says, GO 4 OZZIE SMITH RC.. Thanks for sharing some fun memories! And if thats true, Ill bet dollars to Dave Dravecky cards your collecting career overlapped with the period of 1976-1993, at least to some extent. . We were pretty sure, though, that all these young hitters would end up in Cooperstown. 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