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I had a thought to try to drum up some general conversation. I used a randomizer and selected 33-114 to represent the card years 1933-2014. It came up 84, so here it is…1984.
Let's talk about 1984 from a hobby/card perspective. I know this is the baseball forum, but I'm sure we have plenty of people who collect multiple sports and non-sports items. Don't feel tied down to just baseball. Reference a card magazine, talk about an issue that was special to you, link a site or share some scans. I'd prefer people show things they own if at all possible, when sharing scans, rather than just stealing a scan of a 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly. Anything goes though. Let's see what kind of random participation we can get going and if it works, we can try other years as well.
I'll start us out.
I turned 15 years old in July of 1984. I was an avid card collector at the time. This would be the first year that finding certain new cards became very difficult for me though. I had been buying the big 3 sets each year through the mail, but continued to buy packs of the new stuff at local retail outlets and on that rare occasion, a trip to Pacific Trading Cards in Edmonds, WA. This year though, Donruss and Fleer to a lesser extent, would be impossible to find! The companies were testing out a large variety of new products, so aside from the regular sets, there were MANY other possibilities for collectors to try and chase. Boxed sets, metal cards, stamps, stickers, minis, jumbos, pins, pencils, etc.
In the arena of sports, I had temporarily shifted my allegiance over to the Padres from the Dodgers after long time Dodger Steve Garvey signed with San Diego after the 1982 season. The Padres certainly didn't have the winning history that the Dodgers did (LA had just won their first WS in quite some time in 1981 after a long string of losses throughout the 70s). However, 1984 would be different. Padres Owner & the man behind the massive growth of McDonalds, Ray Kroc, died in January 1984 and the team wanted to realize his biggest dream, to bring the city a world championship. Maybe it was just meant to be, but the Padres did end up in the World Series that year and Steve Garvey certainly played a major role in that. His clutch HR in the NLCS was probably the turning point that propelled San Diego into the series. Sadly for Padre fans, the Tigers would crush them in the series. This home run is still probably the single most exciting sporting event that I witnessed live (on TV, but i was watching live) and that had a close meaning to me personally, as a fan of Garvey and the team at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTS2ZU4HzA
This appears to be the only card item I have scanned at the moment. This is a variation to the 1984 Donruss Champions card set. These were postcard sized cards, similar to the Donruss Action All-Stars issue that was introduced the prior year. Never really that popular, this oversized set was also apparently printed in massive quantities, as it is extremely easy to find. I still know very little about the grey backed copy I have. I bought it on ebay years ago. It may have been a test run, as the regular issue cards have the white backs. It seems to have been rolled up at one point, with some light surface creasing. I remember the seller selling others at the time, but this is the only one I bought. I have not really search for others since.
There it is, my quick memory of 1984. Let's see some more...
Let's talk about 1984 from a hobby/card perspective. I know this is the baseball forum, but I'm sure we have plenty of people who collect multiple sports and non-sports items. Don't feel tied down to just baseball. Reference a card magazine, talk about an issue that was special to you, link a site or share some scans. I'd prefer people show things they own if at all possible, when sharing scans, rather than just stealing a scan of a 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly. Anything goes though. Let's see what kind of random participation we can get going and if it works, we can try other years as well.
I'll start us out.
I turned 15 years old in July of 1984. I was an avid card collector at the time. This would be the first year that finding certain new cards became very difficult for me though. I had been buying the big 3 sets each year through the mail, but continued to buy packs of the new stuff at local retail outlets and on that rare occasion, a trip to Pacific Trading Cards in Edmonds, WA. This year though, Donruss and Fleer to a lesser extent, would be impossible to find! The companies were testing out a large variety of new products, so aside from the regular sets, there were MANY other possibilities for collectors to try and chase. Boxed sets, metal cards, stamps, stickers, minis, jumbos, pins, pencils, etc.
In the arena of sports, I had temporarily shifted my allegiance over to the Padres from the Dodgers after long time Dodger Steve Garvey signed with San Diego after the 1982 season. The Padres certainly didn't have the winning history that the Dodgers did (LA had just won their first WS in quite some time in 1981 after a long string of losses throughout the 70s). However, 1984 would be different. Padres Owner & the man behind the massive growth of McDonalds, Ray Kroc, died in January 1984 and the team wanted to realize his biggest dream, to bring the city a world championship. Maybe it was just meant to be, but the Padres did end up in the World Series that year and Steve Garvey certainly played a major role in that. His clutch HR in the NLCS was probably the turning point that propelled San Diego into the series. Sadly for Padre fans, the Tigers would crush them in the series. This home run is still probably the single most exciting sporting event that I witnessed live (on TV, but i was watching live) and that had a close meaning to me personally, as a fan of Garvey and the team at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTS2ZU4HzA
This appears to be the only card item I have scanned at the moment. This is a variation to the 1984 Donruss Champions card set. These were postcard sized cards, similar to the Donruss Action All-Stars issue that was introduced the prior year. Never really that popular, this oversized set was also apparently printed in massive quantities, as it is extremely easy to find. I still know very little about the grey backed copy I have. I bought it on ebay years ago. It may have been a test run, as the regular issue cards have the white backs. It seems to have been rolled up at one point, with some light surface creasing. I remember the seller selling others at the time, but this is the only one I bought. I have not really search for others since.
There it is, my quick memory of 1984. Let's see some more...
