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Anyone remember these?
When I was a kid, especially in 1987, I knew just about every pattern/sequence for a significant player/rookie.
In other words, Tim Leary nearly always came before a Mattingly card so if you saw a Leary on top of a cello or a rak, odds were that the next card was Mattingly. I bought so many 1987 Topps that I learned the players who came well before Tim Leary (and others) which aided me on stockpiling certain rookie and stars.
So today as Im unsorting a massive 55,000 card lot I just bought from another store, I came upon what looked like a nearly "untouched" vending box full of cards which were moved into a plain white box.
As I flipped through them, I noticed all the patterns I remembered as a kid were still intact with many I totally forgot about. Leary before Mattingly, Ken Landreaux before Bo, Floyd Bannister before Clark, Vern Ruhle before Pete Inc., Gary Lucas before Eric The Red and so on.
I was so giddy about it I started jotting them down in front of a friend who just rolled his eyes as I explained. Ah the memories.
When I was a kid, especially in 1987, I knew just about every pattern/sequence for a significant player/rookie.
In other words, Tim Leary nearly always came before a Mattingly card so if you saw a Leary on top of a cello or a rak, odds were that the next card was Mattingly. I bought so many 1987 Topps that I learned the players who came well before Tim Leary (and others) which aided me on stockpiling certain rookie and stars.
So today as Im unsorting a massive 55,000 card lot I just bought from another store, I came upon what looked like a nearly "untouched" vending box full of cards which were moved into a plain white box.
As I flipped through them, I noticed all the patterns I remembered as a kid were still intact with many I totally forgot about. Leary before Mattingly, Ken Landreaux before Bo, Floyd Bannister before Clark, Vern Ruhle before Pete Inc., Gary Lucas before Eric The Red and so on.
I was so giddy about it I started jotting them down in front of a friend who just rolled his eyes as I explained. Ah the memories.
