So good meeting you in Philly! You took a picture with my children at my booth, I had the 51 mantle. One of my goals at the show when I heard you were coming was to meet up with you. I appreciate the time and your channel. My 1st pack of cards was 1989 topps. But the king of cards on my block was the 1987 Jose Canseco. No one even cared about the 1986 because it didn't have a trophy on it! So it wasn't a real rookie,lol! That card was the envy of every kid on my block. I can still remember the feeling I felt when someone would show me one.
I bought so many packs of 1987 cards, mainly Topps. I remember being fascinated by Pete Incaviglia's card, and how he never played in the minors. I thought he was a can't miss...
My favorite set from that year was the Donruss Opening Day set. I got that for Christmas as a kid. Did not get the Bonds error card with Johnny Ray as the photo.
I still have so much love for this particular year and these sets. I was 12 at the time and this was my peak collecting point back then. I now own a lot of these in high grades. So much nostalgia associated with this video. Thanks for it!
I bought a lot of 87 Topps growing up, but my LCS never had any Fleer. They did sell Donruss (marked up a bit). I recall 87 Fleer really exploded in Beckett pricing around 88 - 89. The Bonds, Clark, Sierra and other RCs were on fire!
I’m 44 and about a year ago bought an 87 topps box to rip and I could still remember about every players name without looking probably nothing more etched in my head hahah.
Chris, I really enjoyed this recap of 1987. That for me was my first year back after almost 12 years away from the hobby. I first collected in 1970 to about 1975. With this video, you remind me of facts I once knew. Had I known then what I know now, I would have bought more Tiffany sets. I do own a 1987 Fleer glossy set which is in a binder. Thanks for making this video. Dan
1987 across all brands had some of the best, most iconic designs! My personal favorite was Donruss... the design has really held up well, the bold black and gray, especially with the awesome Rated Rookie logo.
86-87 was when i started collecting cards.... 86 Football and 87 Baseball.... loved the Green field looking border for 86 Topps Football and the wood Baseball bat grain for 87 Topps Baseball .... Still my favorite sets just because they look cool imo and like i said its the yrs i started collecting. I was 7 yr old. sold most of my toys to buy cards. I was becoming a man, in my mind 🤣🤣 great times
Where's the Donruss Opening Day Barry Bonds error card depicting Johnny Ray? How's that not among the most valuable? Or the Canon & David Berg hot dogs Greg Maddux cards for that matter?
I remember the 1987 sets as much for the last cards it had as for the first cards - 1987 had the last cards of Tom Seaver, Pete Rose, and Reggie Jackson (as well as near-last cards of Steve Carlton, and Mike Schmidt) who already seemed like ancient legends to a 7 year old in 1990.
1987 is about the time I stopped collecting (the first time) as I was entering high school. I would re-enter the hobby after graduating in 1990. As I was moving out of my mom's house right after high school, my younger brother's friends were there and asked if I had any baseball cards. I opened a box up and let them sift through it. They were all "OMG" "HOLY CRAP" and asked if I knew what I had. I knew about my Rickey Henderson RC but didn't know of the Bird/ Irving/ Magic. The cards I had weren't mint by any means but they let me know I had enough to buy a new CD player for my car..lol Unfortunately I had my collection in a storage unit and was broken into and stolen. If it wasn't for those two kids letting me know about those cards I may have never gotten back into the hobby though..
These definitely are the cards I'm buying now. And just raw, it's nice, and one day I'll have em displayed and someone over will say NO WAY! I used to have at least some of these card's. And I'll be like pick one you want ☺️
Great video of the cards I remember in high school. Would have been funny to show POP Report on the top 5 list. Funny memory from this set is when McGwire signed my 87 topps and creased it through the fence to give it back to me. I was so mad. Ha ha.
This was my first year of collecting and these sets are burned into my brain. My dad, sister, and I would open up a box and then see who could put the best all-star team together and argue by position who had the best players (all star cards were always deemed a little less than the main player card) :)
First year collecting! Lawn mowing money for Opeechee wood grain wax packs. Mostly was concerned with completing the Blue Jays team set. Great vid Chris!
1987 was my first year collecting cards. The 2 hottest rookie cards I remember at the time were the 1987 Fleer Will Clark and Fleer Kevin Seitzer who had a great rookie season with the Royals.
I really got into collecting in the early 90's so I mostly bought junk wax boxes. I do remember getting a complete set of 1987 Topps for my birthday. I think my dad paid $40 for it back then. Lol
This was the first year I got into baseball cards. I was all over this. Funny, I don't really recall the Donruss Rookies set. And of course, I don't think any of us kids had any idea about the Tiffany cards - otherwise, I certainly would have wanted some. Awesome nostalgic vid!
I still buy that McGwire topps card whenever I see it, assuming it is only a few buck. I've seen people try to sell them for as much as 10 dollars raw, which is crazy to me. Such a cool card and cool set.
Hay Chris just want you and everyone else to. I have got a lot of stuff off of hoody’s and they are great. Everything has been on point. Hope y’all can continue to business together
Love this video. My favorite years to collect as a kid. Do you ever buy a box from the Junk Era to re-live memories when you were a kid. I opened a 87 Topps box early this year.
First year I started collecting cards. Nolan Ryan was and still is my favorite player to collect. There will never be another Ryan Express. Love your videos informative and a trip down memory lane. The first set I owned was 89 fleer. I remember going to Walmart when the sets released and there was an entire pallet of the Fleer sets sitting almost right in the entrance to the store.
1987, was the year as a 16 year old, that I became "serious " about collecting. Armed with my 1st job at Happy Joe's Pizza, making $3.15 an hour, I was able to really start buying some cards. 1st order of business: find a baseball card ad in the back of Sport Magazine offering complete sets, even factory sets, of all the brands! Bought 1 of each. ✔ 2nd buy as many packs as possible. ✔ 3rd get full boxes and keep them for 35 years then cash in... No check mark on cashing in unfortunately. Lol I was serious but I loved every dang moment of it!
I hope Don Mattingly gets into MLB hall of fame, he was the best batter, first baseman for several years before injuries, and then his 87 card gets a boost
Great video. The 1987 Fleer Will Clark was my favorite card all time growing up. Actually just picked up a glossy PSA 10 of it recently and it still looks awesome. So many HOF caliber players in these sets. Great era to collect on a budget and to learn about this era of the game.
I believe OPC stop making a separate set when Topps got back into hockey cards in the mid-80’s. In the mid to central 80’s Topps didn’t produce hockey cards at all.
Wondering why some players have a card in both the regular set and the rookie set for Donruss. I thought the point of the rookie set was to have cards for players that debuted during the season but were not in the regular set. Why put out a second rookie card?
@@benjaminlyng8269 Indeed. Try explaining to a modern collector that people would be happily paying $8-10 for a Fleer Kevin Seitzer Rookie Card, or that at a point Bobby Bonilla sold for more than Barry Bonds.
@@timothybenson3568 and rolled out the "Future Stars" to combat Donruss Rated Rookies & Fleer Dual Top Prospects cards. Interesting of course, since Topps had been doing the multi-rookie feature cards until 1982.
I was born 13 years after this set came out but I fell in love with it as the packs are so cheap to open. My chase card in this set is the don mattingly as he is my favourite player of this era and is now the bench coach for my hometown Toronto blue jays. Love the vids!
I was 12 in 1987 and at the peak of my collecting. Had a whole closet filled with commons from opening packs. I now have not even one card from that year. Might splurge on a Tiffany card for nostalgia one day. Thanks Chris!!
87 was a great year for cards. So many young star players. The 87 Topps Bo Jackson is one of my favorites. I like that they made so many of these cards, because you can still pick them up for a bargain price.
1987 Topps was the first pack of cards I ever bought. To this day it’s my favorite set of all time. The Bo Jackson in that set is hands down my favorite card ever. Love the design, love everything about that set.
87 was when I got started as a kid! Topps was what I collected and the wood grain is one of my favorites today! Maybe that's why I became a carpenter 😂
Chris, I don’t recall how much Fleer packs cost but I think they were priced higher than topps and I always thought of Fleer as a high-end premium product, and Donruss a more middle of the line, with Topps being the low end. Looking back now, thinking Fleer was a premium product was laughable. I spent so much money on 1987 packs, wish I had just bought a few OK condition Mickey Mantles from the 1960s.
I still have an unopened box.. I bet I’ve had it for 30 years.. still not worth much more no than when I bought it!! But it’s fun to glance at every now and again!! Thanks Chris well done video!!
1987 Topps was one of 2 sets I completed by buying packs from the corner store ('86 Topps was the other). Spent the weekend at my aunt's house and the store only had Donruss, so I bought a bunch of those as well. This was during (or soon after) Don Mattingly's 8-game home run streak so I was hunting his card. To my surprise, I score one with the 2nd pack I opened :) I treasured that card.
Fun video I went crazy in 87 and would try to have full 9 pocket sheets full of each of the rookies (9 of each player ) Mike Greenwell seemed most promising. But his numbers fell off a cliff after a few years. Don’t know why. I was also high on Dale Sveum, Roger Mason, Kevin Mitchell, Will Clark, and Pete Incavilia
I remember open pack after pack of this stuff. It was plentiful and cheap. I still have a lot of it boxed up somewhere.I also have an oddball set of Donruss that came in a box with like 50 stars in it.
I love 1987 baseball cards, Chris. It was the year I began to collect heavily. I've always been a Giants fan and Will Clark was my favorite player. Of his 3 1987 RC's, the Fleer was the most valuable. In fact, it was the most valuable 1987 RC of anyone for a while. By the time I knew it existed, my 10 year old self couldn't afford it so I settled for the other 2. I had several Topps and a couple Donruss. I got back into the hobby in the early 2010's. After a little research I found i could buy 1987 Fleer (30$) & Donruss (18$) wax boxes from BBCE. I also bought sealed factory sets (Fleer glossy and update glossy for 30$ & Donruss $15) on Ebay. I also bought PSA 10 Fleer Bonds & Clark RCs for around 10 bucks each! None of that stuff has much monetary value even now, but its still some of my most cherished cards.
I started collecting in 1987 and could only get my hands on the Topps cards for some reason. I eventually started player collecting Will Clark in 1989 and was pumped to finally get his 1987 Fleer rookie as a present. I kept it for a long time in the same top loader it came with, which had $32 price written on it in blue Sharpie.
This was my formative year. All my allowance went right to CVS for packs of Topps. I was a Topps kid but had friends who did only Donruss or Fleer. There were definite "camps" that way. My favorite to get were the All Star cards with the red white and blue star graphic under the name. Clemens all star was my chase card.
1987 is the year I started collecting baseball cards. I was 12 years old.
These are so fun. 1985 would be a great year to cover next.
12 year old me paid $35 for that Will Clark card in 1990. That was a huge deal at the time…
ha - started dealin' early!
Love these vids...learn so much
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Could you imagine how much Don Mattingly would have improved if he would’ve just trimmed those sideburns?
So good meeting you in Philly! You took a picture with my children at my booth, I had the 51 mantle. One of my goals at the show when I heard you were coming was to meet up with you. I appreciate the time and your channel.
My 1st pack of cards was 1989 topps.
But the king of cards on my block was the 1987 Jose Canseco. No one even cared about the 1986 because it didn't have a trophy on it! So it wasn't a real rookie,lol! That card was the envy of every kid on my block. I can still remember the feeling I felt when someone would show me one.
Awesome meeting you and your boys as well!
I bought so many packs of 1987 cards, mainly Topps. I remember being fascinated by Pete Incaviglia's card, and how he never played in the minors. I thought he was a can't miss...
Great video. 🙏🏻
Great Vid honorable mention to Cleveland Indians Cory Snyder 1987 topps
I love all of the 87 sets; it was just my second year of collecting, but I was into it big time by then.
Hey Chris - worth noting that the 87 Topps wood grain was a tribute / throwback to the 62 Topps wood grain on its 25th anniversary.
Oh interesting... I did not actually know that!
Hard to believe they are so cheap raw.
My favorite set from that year was the Donruss Opening Day set. I got that for Christmas as a kid. Did not get the Bonds error card with Johnny Ray as the photo.
I still have so much love for this particular year and these sets. I was 12 at the time and this was my peak collecting point back then. I now own a lot of these in high grades. So much nostalgia associated with this video. Thanks for it!
I started collecting back in 1990s, I think I have all them cards. LOL :) Sounds fun. Might have to pull them out and take a look.
I bought a lot of 87 Topps growing up, but my LCS never had any Fleer. They did sell Donruss (marked up a bit). I recall 87 Fleer really exploded in Beckett pricing around 88 - 89. The Bonds, Clark, Sierra and other RCs were on fire!
I’m 44 and about a year ago bought an 87 topps box to rip and I could still remember about every players name without looking probably nothing more etched in my head hahah.
Same!
Chris, I really enjoyed this recap of 1987. That for me was my first year back after almost 12 years away from the hobby. I first collected in 1970 to about 1975. With this video, you remind me of facts I once knew. Had I known then what I know now, I would have bought more Tiffany sets. I do own a 1987 Fleer glossy set which is in a binder. Thanks for making this video. Dan
1987 would have likely been the least year I bought and ripped a pack as a kid, about the time I got a car.
1987 across all brands had some of the best, most iconic designs! My personal favorite was Donruss... the design has really held up well, the bold black and gray, especially with the awesome Rated Rookie logo.
Topps 87 love it. Barry Bonds and Barry Larkin. Love them both
86-87 was when i started collecting cards.... 86 Football and 87 Baseball.... loved the Green field looking border for 86 Topps Football and the wood Baseball bat grain for 87 Topps Baseball .... Still my favorite sets just because they look cool imo and like i said its the yrs i started collecting. I was 7 yr old. sold most of my toys to buy cards. I was becoming a man, in my mind 🤣🤣 great times
I cracked a case of vending picture cards of 1987 Topps. I got about 25 Bonds and enough commons to build a house.
Great info 🥎✌️
Great Job!
I still buy these sets and cards. I love them
Awesome job. Informative and entertaining. Keep up your good work.
Love your content buddy but super upset that 80s baseball was in the house and you didn’t get wild
Yeah, I felt ripped off as I was about to eat my vegetables!
Where's the Donruss Opening Day Barry Bonds error card depicting Johnny Ray? How's that not among the most valuable? Or the Canon & David Berg hot dogs Greg Maddux cards for that matter?
Good idea for a video. I'm currently working on a 87 Tiffany set. Those cards are so beautiful. Keep the great videos coming Chris!
I remember the 1987 sets as much for the last cards it had as for the first cards - 1987 had the last cards of Tom Seaver, Pete Rose, and Reggie Jackson (as well as near-last cards of Steve Carlton, and Mike Schmidt) who already seemed like ancient legends to a 7 year old in 1990.
nice to see that inflation didnt affect 1987 topps packs at all as theyre still worth 40 cents each.
1987 is about the time I stopped collecting (the first time) as I was entering high school. I would re-enter the hobby after graduating in 1990. As I was moving out of my mom's house right after high school, my younger brother's friends were there and asked if I had any baseball cards. I opened a box up and let them sift through it. They were all "OMG" "HOLY CRAP" and asked if I knew what I had. I knew about my Rickey Henderson RC but didn't know of the Bird/ Irving/ Magic. The cards I had weren't mint by any means but they let me know I had enough to buy a new CD player for my car..lol
Unfortunately I had my collection in a storage unit and was broken into and stolen. If it wasn't for those two kids letting me know about those cards I may have never gotten back into the hobby though..
These definitely are the cards I'm buying now. And just raw, it's nice, and one day I'll have em displayed and someone over will say NO WAY! I used to have at least some of these card's. And I'll be like pick one you want ☺️
Great video of the cards I remember in high school. Would have been funny to show POP Report on the top 5 list. Funny memory from this set is when McGwire signed my 87 topps and creased it through the fence to give it back to me. I was so mad. Ha ha.
Love the 1987 Topps.. Thats where my hobby begun.. It will always be my roots to the hobby.. Check out SGC 10 Mark McGwire from the Topps set..
This was my first year of collecting and these sets are burned into my brain. My dad, sister, and I would open up a box and then see who could put the best all-star team together and argue by position who had the best players (all star cards were always deemed a little less than the main player card) :)
I still have most of the topps and donruss versions of those cards. Doubt theyll get psa 10s after 40 years in a binder
First year collecting! Lawn mowing money for Opeechee wood grain wax packs. Mostly was concerned with completing the Blue Jays team set. Great vid Chris!
Thanks for leaving out the Tiffany runs, since they are scarce and not always available yo the average guy.
Great video as always.
1987 was my first year collecting cards. The 2 hottest rookie cards I remember at the time were the 1987 Fleer Will Clark and Fleer Kevin Seitzer who had a great rookie season with the Royals.
Seitzer, he may be the next George Brett!
Used to spend my allowance on 87 topps
I really got into collecting in the early 90's so I mostly bought junk wax boxes. I do remember getting a complete set of 1987 Topps for my birthday. I think my dad paid $40 for it back then. Lol
Inky used to strike out 180 times a year before it was cool to do it.
The 1985 MLB draft was one of the most talented draft classes of all time of any sport.
This was the first year I got into baseball cards. I was all over this. Funny, I don't really recall the Donruss Rookies set. And of course, I don't think any of us kids had any idea about the Tiffany cards - otherwise, I certainly would have wanted some. Awesome nostalgic vid!
At the time I had never heard anyone mention Tiffany, except for the singer.
@@walterdudedonny exactly!!! 😂
I still buy that McGwire topps card whenever I see it, assuming it is only a few buck. I've seen people try to sell them for as much as 10 dollars raw, which is crazy to me. Such a cool card and cool set.
Hay Chris just want you and everyone else to. I have got a lot of stuff off of hoody’s and they are great. Everything has been on point. Hope y’all can continue to business together
80 % of boys were collecting in the late 80’s. Today I don’t think it’s even 30 % with how high the price are .
I'd be surprised if 30% of today's kids even know that baseball exists, let alone a baseball card.
Boys don’t follow baseball nearly as much today, probably less than 10% collect cards
More vids like these please
They are still printing 1987 Topps to this day 😂😂😂
Nice video. Like the format of this. Hopefully you will do more years.
This is a great idea for a show. The hottest rookie I remember in '87 was 87 Topps Wally Joyner
Ahhhhhh update sets, Tiffany sets and most importantly... Rack packs... The good ol' days
I remember that in 1989, the 1987 Topps and Donruss packs sold for about $4 each. That was a fortune to an 11 year old.
Love this video. My favorite years to collect as a kid. Do you ever buy a box from the Junk Era to re-live memories when you were a kid. I opened a 87 Topps box early this year.
I do all the time. Still go thru packs and remember a player or card I haven't seen in years. The good Ole days
How many boxes did they print if there is endless quantity in 2022?!? 35 years later--'52 Topps was 35 years old in '87.
In Canada the raw cards of Maddux and Jackson are closer to $10 & $5 respectfively
In 1987 you went one of two ways, Baseball cards or Camaro mullet.
I like to think those of us who went cards got it right.
First year I started collecting cards. Nolan Ryan was and still is my favorite player to collect. There will never be another Ryan Express. Love your videos informative and a trip down memory lane. The first set I owned was 89 fleer. I remember going to Walmart when the sets released and there was an entire pallet of the Fleer sets sitting almost right in the entrance to the store.
1987, was the year as a 16 year old, that I became "serious " about collecting. Armed with my 1st job at Happy Joe's Pizza, making $3.15 an hour, I was able to really start buying some cards.
1st order of business: find a baseball card ad in the back of Sport Magazine offering complete sets, even factory sets, of all the brands! Bought 1 of each. ✔
2nd buy as many packs as possible. ✔
3rd get full boxes and keep them for 35 years then cash in...
No check mark on cashing in unfortunately. Lol
I was serious but I loved every dang moment of it!
I hope Don Mattingly gets into MLB hall of fame, he was the best batter, first baseman for several years before injuries, and then his 87 card gets a boost
I'm pretty sure at one point I was buying the 1987 set for 5 bucks!
Not only was Greg Maddux one of the best pitchers ever he had 18 Golden Glove Awards. A record I think will last forever.
Great video. The 1987 Fleer Will Clark was my favorite card all time growing up. Actually just picked up a glossy PSA 10 of it recently and it still looks awesome. So many HOF caliber players in these sets. Great era to collect on a budget and to learn about this era of the game.
I think I can speak for most of us who collected back then. We all had 80-90% of the cards pictured in this entire video. Good times.
I believe OPC stop making a separate set when Topps got back into hockey cards in the mid-80’s. In the mid to central 80’s Topps didn’t produce hockey cards at all.
O-Pee-Chee made separate hockey sets into the 90s, often a slightly larger set.
Topps didn't produce a hockey set for the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
Wondering why some players have a card in both the regular set and the rookie set for Donruss. I thought the point of the rookie set was to have cards for players that debuted during the season but were not in the regular set. Why put out a second rookie card?
The 2 M's. Mistakes and Money.
To make more money
Bo knows this was a good video
Exactly!
1987 was an amazing year for cards. So many rookies peaking at different times.
Can’t think of a better year for cards or the hobby. None of the kids today care about sports cards like we did. I feel like they are missing out.
@@benjaminlyng8269 Indeed. Try explaining to a modern collector that people would be happily paying $8-10 for a Fleer Kevin Seitzer Rookie Card, or that at a point Bobby Bonilla sold for more than Barry Bonds.
Topps had gone several years since last using the Rookie cup and it was so cool seeing them on cards for the first time for me.
@@timothybenson3568 and rolled out the "Future Stars" to combat Donruss Rated Rookies & Fleer Dual Top Prospects cards. Interesting of course, since Topps had been doing the multi-rookie feature cards until 1982.
I second this comment
This should become a series. It would help out a lot of people and become an excellent source to refer back to.
I was born 13 years after this set came out but I fell in love with it as the packs are so cheap to open. My chase card in this set is the don mattingly as he is my favourite player of this era and is now the bench coach for my hometown Toronto blue jays. Love the vids!
I was 12 in 1987 and at the peak of my collecting. Had a whole closet filled with commons from opening packs. I now have not even one card from that year. Might splurge on a Tiffany card for nostalgia one day. Thanks Chris!!
You covered the rookies well also during this time if you pulled a mattingly it was huge that craze was amazing. Mattingly fever.
I wish Topps would lighten up on all the retro design inserts. Let’s look forward more. Excellent share
The biggest difference between buying packs in 1987 and today...is the price. Hobby breakers driving up the cost, for boxes.
This was such a great video. You should make this a series and do 1986 next! (Then 85...). Thank you
1987 was the first year I bought packs ( 9 years old). That bo Jackson was what most were searching for even back then
Man that was such a fun time in my childhood.
The year I was born! And I was still buying wax boxes of it for around 10 bucks when I was twelve. Crazy how much of this stuff was printed
87 was a great year for cards. So many young star players. The 87 Topps Bo Jackson is one of my favorites. I like that they made so many of these cards, because you can still pick them up for a bargain price.
The golden era ⚾
1987 Topps was the first pack of cards I ever bought. To this day it’s my favorite set of all time. The Bo Jackson in that set is hands down my favorite card ever. Love the design, love everything about that set.
Yeah that Bo Jackson was the card to have back then.
87 was when I got started as a kid! Topps was what I collected and the wood grain is one of my favorites today! Maybe that's why I became a carpenter 😂
Chris, I don’t recall how much Fleer packs cost but I think they were priced higher than topps and I always thought of Fleer as a high-end premium product, and Donruss a more middle of the line, with Topps being the low end.
Looking back now, thinking Fleer was a premium product was laughable. I spent so much money on 1987 packs, wish I had just bought a few OK condition Mickey Mantles from the 1960s.
I still have an unopened box.. I bet I’ve had it for 30 years.. still not worth much more no than when I bought it!!
But it’s fun to glance at every now and again!! Thanks Chris well done video!!
Me too, of all 3 brands.
Time to Add Freddy McGriff to the '87 list!
1987 Topps was one of 2 sets I completed by buying packs from the corner store ('86 Topps was the other). Spent the weekend at my aunt's house and the store only had Donruss, so I bought a bunch of those as well. This was during (or soon after) Don Mattingly's 8-game home run streak so I was hunting his card. To my surprise, I score one with the 2nd pack I opened :) I treasured that card.
Maybe its just me but I always hated the 87 wood grain topps. My fave was 83 Topps.
I loved the 83 Topps too! It was, in my experience, the 1st time there were 2 photos of the player on the same card!
Fun video
I went crazy in 87 and would try to have full 9 pocket sheets full of each of the rookies (9 of each player )
Mike Greenwell seemed most promising. But his numbers fell off a cliff after a few years. Don’t know why.
I was also high on Dale Sveum, Roger Mason, Kevin Mitchell, Will Clark, and Pete Incavilia
I remember open pack after pack of this stuff. It was plentiful and cheap. I still have a lot of it boxed up somewhere.I also have an oddball set of Donruss that came in a box with like 50 stars in it.
Great year for cards. The Fleer W. Clark was a high chase card among my friends at the time.
What a thrill it was!
@@walterdudedonny I see what you did there!
Loved this set and was really in my wheelhouse as a young collector. Much more innocent times.
I love 1987 baseball cards, Chris. It was the year I began to collect heavily. I've always been a Giants fan and Will Clark was my favorite player. Of his 3 1987 RC's, the Fleer was the most valuable. In fact, it was the most valuable 1987 RC of anyone for a while. By the time I knew it existed, my 10 year old self couldn't afford it so I settled for the other 2. I had several Topps and a couple Donruss.
I got back into the hobby in the early 2010's. After a little research I found i could buy 1987 Fleer (30$) & Donruss (18$) wax boxes from BBCE. I also bought sealed factory sets (Fleer glossy and update glossy for 30$ & Donruss $15) on Ebay. I also bought PSA 10 Fleer Bonds & Clark RCs for around 10 bucks each! None of that stuff has much monetary value even now, but its still some of my most cherished cards.
I'm not really interested in junk wax era cards, but, as always, Chris Sewall makes any subject interesting.
I started collecting in 1987 and could only get my hands on the Topps cards for some reason. I eventually started player collecting Will Clark in 1989 and was pumped to finally get his 1987 Fleer rookie as a present. I kept it for a long time in the same top loader it came with, which had $32 price written on it in blue Sharpie.
This was my formative year. All my allowance went right to CVS for packs of Topps. I was a Topps kid but had friends who did only Donruss or Fleer. There were definite "camps" that way. My favorite to get were the All Star cards with the red white and blue star graphic under the name. Clemens all star was my chase card.
No love for Fred McGriff!?!
That was the year I got into collecting. So nostalgic. That Topps series my favorite