A Little Something About 1987 Topps

Before I start opening my rack packs I purchased, I thought I'd share a little about the 1987 Topps set. It includes 792 standard size cards (3.5 inches × 2.5 inches) and was released in one series. The player cards feature the team logo in the upper left hand corner with the player name in a rectangle box just off-center to the right at the bottom. The wood grain borders paid homage to the 1962 Topps design. 

Subsets included in the base set include '86 Record Breaker (RB, #1-#7), 1986 Team Leaders (TL, throughout set), All-Star Rookie (ASR, throughout set), Future Stars (FS, throughout set), Turn Back the Clock (TBC, #311-#315), All-Star/League Leader (AS, LL, #595-#616). The set also included manager cards with team checklist featured on the back. 

It also included a few insert sets, Glossy All-Stars (inserted 1 per rack pack), Glossy Rookies (inserted 1 per Jumbo pack), and Wax Box Cards (individual cards from the 2-card panels cut from the side of the wax pack boxes). 

Topps also produced a parallel set, Tiffany, which was distributed as a factory set with the cards having a glossy finish. It was reported there were 30,000 of these sets produced. 

There was also one mail-in set, 1987 All-Star Set Collector’s Edition (Glossy Send-Ins).

Stay tuned for the first rack pack!

The Project Begins

I love 1980's baseball cards, and one of my favorite years are the wood grain 1987 Topps. I've seen various blogs and Twitter accounts of collectors who highlight their collections and I thought I would try. For me, I had to start with 1987. About 10 days ago I bid on and won a rack pack box (24 packs) of 1987 Topps. So I'll be opening the packs one by one, resisting the urge to open them all at once in the process of putting together the complete 1987 Topps set. Along the way I'll highlight some of the more popular cards in the set and some of my favorite ones. 

Jason