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1987 Topps is noted for many things including it's (at the time) awesome rookie crop, great vintage design, and the start of true mass production.
This is definitely my favorite set of all time and and something I have very fond memories of collecting as a kid.
I literally cannot tell you how much money I spent or how many packs I bought this year because I loved the product so much.
It was the year when I went from "casual kid collector" to "I can set up at the show collector" because I had so many of every hot card.
Whether it's wax packs, Rak Paks, cello packs whatever I bought it all, including this monstrosity
In my book 1987 Topps was the year when the company " got with the program" and started to notice the changing market.
After a long hiatus, Topps brought back a newly designed future stars logo
and the rookie cup 
at a time when rookie cards were really booming and the hobby had just blown up.
Rookie cards ruled the roost in 1987 and Topps was pretty much on top of it.
Sure the actual rookie class of the previous year helped a ton
, but they were also ready for that season with young prospects like McGwire, something Topps usually avoided.
Not surprisingly in the Bronx, this was the card to get
and had a CCP price guide value of four bucks...FOUR BUCKS!!
Another favorite of mine growing up were finding error cards and even though 1987 Topps had only a few of them, this one (along with the Gooden) were hot because of missing ™ sign near the eagle.
But for some reason the most obvious error card was never corrected, and it was this one.
Topps corrected errors with missing trademarks and registration symbols, misplaced copyright lines etc, but for some reason never corrected this obvious reverse negative.
Generally speaking, it was rookie cards and star cards. There was nothing scarce in any way shape or form so any little thing with any sort of rarity caught fire and packs with stars and rookies showing got hot.
But it wouldn't be a "vintage" topps set without horrible airbrushing jobs
Because I bought so much of this product, I learned the patterns meaning I knew which cards generally came before and after hot cards.
So for instance since Mattingly was a four dollar card I learned that Tim Leary would generally always come before him and then I would just remember who the players before Mattingly and the players after Mattingly.
Knowing the patterns made looking at the cello packs and rack packs a lot easier to determine what was inside.
This was the number one reason how I was able to acquire such a huge amount of all the best cards without buying them separately.
So to sum it all up there is no product I have better memories of than 1987 Topps.
How about you guys do you have fond memories of this product?
This is definitely my favorite set of all time and and something I have very fond memories of collecting as a kid.
I literally cannot tell you how much money I spent or how many packs I bought this year because I loved the product so much.
It was the year when I went from "casual kid collector" to "I can set up at the show collector" because I had so many of every hot card.
Whether it's wax packs, Rak Paks, cello packs whatever I bought it all, including this monstrosity
In my book 1987 Topps was the year when the company " got with the program" and started to notice the changing market.
After a long hiatus, Topps brought back a newly designed future stars logo
and the rookie cup at a time when rookie cards were really booming and the hobby had just blown up.Rookie cards ruled the roost in 1987 and Topps was pretty much on top of it.
Sure the actual rookie class of the previous year helped a ton
, but they were also ready for that season with young prospects like McGwire, something Topps usually avoided.Not surprisingly in the Bronx, this was the card to get
and had a CCP price guide value of four bucks...FOUR BUCKS!!Another favorite of mine growing up were finding error cards and even though 1987 Topps had only a few of them, this one (along with the Gooden) were hot because of missing ™ sign near the eagle.
But for some reason the most obvious error card was never corrected, and it was this one.
Topps corrected errors with missing trademarks and registration symbols, misplaced copyright lines etc, but for some reason never corrected this obvious reverse negative.
Generally speaking, it was rookie cards and star cards. There was nothing scarce in any way shape or form so any little thing with any sort of rarity caught fire and packs with stars and rookies showing got hot.
But it wouldn't be a "vintage" topps set without horrible airbrushing jobs
Because I bought so much of this product, I learned the patterns meaning I knew which cards generally came before and after hot cards.
So for instance since Mattingly was a four dollar card I learned that Tim Leary would generally always come before him and then I would just remember who the players before Mattingly and the players after Mattingly.
Knowing the patterns made looking at the cello packs and rack packs a lot easier to determine what was inside.
This was the number one reason how I was able to acquire such a huge amount of all the best cards without buying them separately.
So to sum it all up there is no product I have better memories of than 1987 Topps.
How about you guys do you have fond memories of this product?
