It’s hard to make the claim thatany1990 Fleer baseball cards are really “most valuable” from a monetary standpoint. And, even among the overproduced cards from the first year in a decade noted for, well, ove
Eric Bracke opened his first pack of cards during the summer of 1983 and has not stopped since, dabbling along the way in a few other sports. His writing career started in 2012 when he started The Snorting Bull Baseball Card Blog.
(Check out our full series of posts on thehistory of Donruss baseball cards.) 1983 DonrussTony GwynnRookie Card (#598) A lot of what we said in our piece about1983 Fleerwill apply here, including this blurb about Gwynn, but in case you haven’t read that post … The Gwynn rookie card...
They all came around by the end of the year, though, and Jackson landed quasi-career-capper cards (right team, incomplete stats) in Donruss Opening Day, Fleer Update, and Topps Traded. And, even though Fleer gave Reggie a full-blown career-capper in 1988, this 1987 Topps Traded dandy ...
When 1981 Topps baseball cards hit store shelves that spring, they were playing in a brave and scary new world. To wit, for the first time since1955, Topps was not the only game in town — both Fleer and Donruss issued baseball cards in 1981 after Fleer’s landmark antitrust victory ...
It may be hard to imagine now if you weren’t involved with the hobby at the time, but 1989 Pro Set football cards were a historic issue. Prior to that time, Topps had been the only gridiron game in town (unless you count the team-action Fleer issues) for nearly a quarter century,...
1989 Fleer Joe Girardi(#644) Betcha didn’t expect to see Rolando Roomes on our list of most valuable 1989 Fleer baseball cards, huh? Well, here’s the story, Skippy … Before Joe Girardi became a good manager for the Florida Marlins, a maybe-great manager for the New York Yankees, an...
No wonder this gem sits pretty on our list of most valuable 1980 Topps baseball cards. I mean, how often do you see two players reach the 3000-hit plateau in the same season? Hardly ever, right? Well, actually … Honus WagnerandNap Lajoiedid it in 1914. ...