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| 8.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Weight:
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Classic series will live on foreverMar 13, 2010
By Opening Day Cards
When I think of the 80's, 3 things come to mind:
1. John Hughes movies
2. Mustaches
3. 1987 Topps Baseball Cards
This series of baseball cards is widely accepted as the bridge of baseball card collecting that ushered in a new wave of fans. I believe this set transformed the hobby from a small cult club to a much wider audience that blew the doors off of sports cards forever. And there is only one explanation for this: WOOD GRAIN BACKGROUND.
Is there a classier way to frame a scrawny (comparable to today's juiced beefcakes), mustachioed man in polyester pinstripes? No. The answer is no. Wood grain is the ideal frame. And that is why people started flocking to baseball cards in numbers that totally ballooned the baseball card industry.
From the day this series hit the shelves, baseball cards grew astronomically. New companies began offering cards. Existing companies (like Topps and Donruss and Fleer) began offering more sets, and within those sets they began offering insert sets. The options soon became endless. Where the average collector used to be able to procure 2-3 Andre Dawsons or Pete Incaviglias in one year, they are now able to acquire no less than 30 unique Evan Longorias or David Ortizs in the wide array of 2010 baseball cards.
If you are now on board that this was a historically significant set, you must be wondering what beyond wood grain backgrounds helped propel these baseball cards into the baseball card hall of fame. I can think of a few things. First, these packs come with a stick of bubble gum. How do I know that? Because not only did I used to enjoy the cardboard-like bubble gum when I was a kid, but I recently bought a box of these gems and I plan on eating the 23 year old gum on my web show, (...). And I plan on it being the same experience 20 years later. The gum was always hard as a rock. It always cracked into tiny pieces before you could start doing something that could be called "chewing gum." And it was always amazing.
The second reason I can think of to explain the awesomeness of 1987 Topps baseball cards is an actual legitimate reason. There were just so many amazing players in this set. Barry Bonds rookie card is in this set. As are Jose Canseco and Roger Clemens (not rookie, but he is another known steroid user). And many real hall of famers, like Wade Boggs, George Brett, Robin Yount, Carlton Fisk, Tony Gwynn, Ricky Henderson, Eddie Murray, Paul Molitor, Kirby Puckett, Jim Rice, Cal Ripken Jr., Nolan Ryan, Ryne Sandberg, Mike Schmidt, Ozzie Smith, and Dave Winfield just to name, well, more than a few.
If you were alive in the 80's, or even if you weren't and you just appreciate baseball, this set is for you. And this box of 1987 Topps is full of 36 wax packs busting at the seams with amazing baseball players, framed tastefully in wood grain background, lightly powdered and smelling of 23 year old bubble gum.
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