update=copyright.getFullYear(); And, well, deckled. - Checklist And, like with just about everything else surrounding the hobby, Topps was the king of 1980s oddball issues. Better grab yourTums. As in, that lot is one pack shy of three boxes. Maybe the folks at Topps had the same experience sometime around 1980. Which card from this set is your favorite? Rookie cards, autographs and more. The 1980 Burger King cards in this lot (affiliate link) shouldnt cause quite as much confusion, though. And thats why this eBay lot is so jaw-dropping. 202M views 1 year ago GEM MINT 10 COLLECTORS WORLD 163 views 1 year ago Top 20 Most Valuable Barry. eBay Auction Event: 2023 Super Bowl Kickoff, eBay Auction Event: 2023 NHL All-Star Game. I believe I bought about $10 worth.maybe 300 cards. Then you have Gorman Thomas, whose whole demeanor screamed beer league but who slugged like Dave Kingman for the Milwaukee Brewers, including the 1982 Harveys Wallbangers team. Shop COMC's extensive selection of 1987 donruss opening day - box set [base] baseball cards. The set was distributed exclusively as a factory set and came packaged in a specially designed box. There were several hobby retailers who sold complete sets, but you could also buy them in individual paper packages containing three buttons each. If you like your baseball cards dreamy, man, this is the issue for you! - Inserts and Related Sets Today, though, how can you not get all warm and giddy at the prospect of nine American League cards and nine National League cards and a stick of gum inside a four-decade-old wrapper??? Total Cards: 272. There in the first panel is Don Money. Thin cardstock, terrible photography, more errors than a Dick Stuart highlight reel, slightly self-indulgent card backs. Comments | Thanks for sharing some fun memories! 1987 DONRUSS BASEBALL #205 BO JACKSON OPENING DAY PSA 9 MINT #205 [eBay] $39.99. 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. - Contributors Even now, 35 years later and after enough scandal and strife to choke a horse, Petes RC is a hobby staple. red and yellow Donruss wax packs on store shelves in the spring of 1982. 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. $0.99 1 bids Notes about 1987 Donruss Opening Day 1987 Donruss Opening Day is a 272-card set that features the complete 1987 opening day starting lineups for all 26 Major League teams. It didnt even matter that the cards werent all that great. And then, theres Wayne Gross, who hit a lot of home runs for the post-Dynasty Oakland As and always looked very 70s-y. 1985 Topps Rack Packs are not, technically speaking, This lot offers up twenty (20) 1985 Rack Packs with stars on front(. Also, a better Hall of Fame candidate than Jack Morris. This eBay lot lets you capture all that Super kitsch with three unopened boxes of 1984 Topps Supers, minus one pack. lonely, competitive, unfulfilling, and alienating." 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #205, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #163.1, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #96, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #133, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #228, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #226, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #191, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #21, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #99, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #272, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #93, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #40, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #155, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #128, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #143, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #146, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #38, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #261, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #221, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #241, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #250, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #270, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #269, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #160, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #31, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #210, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #106, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #222, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #253, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #266, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #257, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #256, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #151, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #73, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #232, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #79, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #206, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #22, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #197, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #80, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #24, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #2, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #251, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #229, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #227, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #220, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #105, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #102, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #68, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #55, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #41, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #36, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #18, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #9, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #6, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #3, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #185, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #176, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #139, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #137, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #114, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #181, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #67, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #194, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #33, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #147, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #178, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #268, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #190, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #263, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #161, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #171, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #267, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #264, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #260, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #254, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #211, CGC and CSG Grading is now available on COMC! And the box itself is a great display piece. Id get a vending case, pull all the Mark McGwire rookies or Vince Coleman rookies or Bill Doran rookies or first Padres Steve Garvey cards, and then sell the excess for beaucoup bucks. Cowabunga! Here in 2019, of course, Bert Blyleven is a Hall of Famer and these cards are 41 years old. And in case youve forgotten or dont want to read my original post on the subject, let me clarify: its an unholy sight to which no Cincinnati Reds fan hell, no Philadelphia Phillies fan should have ever been subjected. On the heels of their gorgeous 1983 set, Topps decided that the best thing to do was tweak the thing a bit. 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). Now THIS box is almost certain to contain either the Darryl Strawberry rookie or the Don Mattingly rookie, or both (though you can never be sure thanks to funky 1980s card collation). Grading Original . Even I, as jaded and homerish as I am, can admit the 1985 Donruss Pete Rose Expos card doesnt look all that bad from an aesthetic point of view. favorite? They dont fit well with other cards from a size perspective, theyre not beautiful, and you hardly ever hear anyone clamoring for them. Especially especially when the PSA Population Report shows ups that fewer than 50 of any particular card from said test issue has ever been submitted for grading? CaliforniaSportsCards.com has a lineup of baseball products that has no weaknesses. Another funny thing in 1987, not everyone was sure Ryan would make the Hall of Fame despite all the strikeouts. Sure, the cards inside are the same old cardboard youve always spruced up with your markers (youre the one! I didnt matter that the cereal tasted like Yodas refrigerator or that it coated your insides like blown-in insulation or that it caked in your teeth like Dog Chow in a German shepherd. Whichever something inspired someone to marry the two Topps and Mrs. Butterworths, that is. Or maybe the Willie Stargell rookie? Something went wrong. Rating: 6.4 (30 votes) Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than U.S. dollars and are approximate conversions to U.S. dollars based upon Bloomberg's conversion rates. Change Log | I mean, theyre black-and-white, sure, but big. And in between is Bert Blyleven, who you know as a sort of good pitcher for the faraway Texas Rangers. Still, how cool is it to see these unopened cello packs that have somehow remained sealed since they came off the grill four decades ago? Still, its pretty cool to see an unopened box of these things, like this lot offers up 37 years old and as fresh as the day they drove off the showroom floor. - Sell Sheets / Ads #441-660 / Opening Day. My memory of the 1984 Donruss cardsKmart had rack packs thrown in a bin. In one 1975 Topps cello pack, graded PSA 9, you get both Hernandez and Schmidt. It used to be that you had to do something pretty special, like hit three home runs in one World Series game, before you could have your own baseball-themed candy bar. Like in this eBay lot (affiliate link), which features four packs of the 1984 Ralston-Purina baseball cards, or this companion lot (affiliate link) that offers another four packs. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Set - Mattingly, Bonds, Bo Jackson Rookie Pre-Owned $14.99 jason.chandler.13 (5,564) 99.1% or Best Offer +$9.99 shipping Sponsored 1987 Donruss Baseball Opening Day Factory Sealed Set Pos. 2022-05-30. 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