Teams | Errors / Variations | 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Set - Mattingly, Bonds, Bo Jackson Rookie Pre-Owned $14.99 jason.chandler.13 (5,564) 99.1% or Best Offer +$9.99 shipping Sponsored 1987 Donruss Baseball Opening Day Factory Sealed Set Pos. The set consisted of 272 baseball cards and each card from the 1987 Donruss Opening Day baseball card set is listed below. Inside the packs were goodies like the Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card, the Steve Sax rookie card, the Shooty Babittrookie card. Or maybe it was the folks at Mrs. Butterworths. 2022-05-30. . (Over the next little while, Im going to be unfurling a set of experimental types of posts to see if they strike any cardboard chords. Their creation was almost too beautiful for words! Videos | The front of each card bears a posed or in-action color photo framed by a black-and-gold border. Topps capitalized on that popularity the next year by issuing a whopping nine Rose cards in their base set the normal Rose at #1, a Record Breaker at #206, a manager/Cincinnati Reds team card at #741, and six retrospective cards (#2-7) that showed miniature versions of Petes previous 24 base Topps cards. Whichever something inspired someone to marry the two Topps and Mrs. Butterworths, that is. And thats what this eBay lot is about more Junk Wax product than just about any other listing out there. eBay Auction Event: 2022 Cards for the Holidays. Older entries below are some awesome unopened lots from years gone by. . And, finally, Rob Picciolo wasnt small at all, but his name is really close to piccolo, which is like a small flute. Maybe inspiring the imagination with their funky shapes. Who? (Thats a very early-1990s thing to say look it up.). So, yeah, lots like this one four unopened boxes of 1987 Donruss wax packs make my old man heart go pitter-patter and leaves me with drool pooled at my feet. Quite a rally from the brink of obscurity! And, of course, providing a nice, pillowy picture frame for the 1986 Topps Minis League Leaders set. #441-660 / Opening Day. The set was distributed exclusively as a factory set and came packaged in a specially designed box. Back to home page Return to top. In this case (no, just a box, actually), we a box 24 full packs of 1990 Topps! Its a great cross-section of a spiraling hobby that could have lost its soul but looks pretty good all these years later. But theres one package left a smallish rectangular one that could be a watch or maybe maybe something better? ), Danny Cox, and Gary Pettis. Apparently, thats how Topps felt in 1984. 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In his run-up to the record, all of Roses cards jumped up in demand and value, and he was arguably the hottest of all non-rookie players all across the land. - Author John Bloom in A House of Cards (1997), 1987 Donruss Opening Day (#148 Benito Santiago), 1987 Donruss Opening Day| Bold = HOF | Research by Baseball Almanac. So, in one fell swoop, you get moisture for your cakes, vintage cardboard, and coverage for the front of your rotation and the back of your bullpen. red and yellow Donruss wax packs on store shelves in the spring of 1982. Pricing | - Checklist 1984 unopened Lot: 1132 - 6 Sealed 1988 Fleer Baseball All Stars Ltd Ed . ), but they look somehow brighter sitting there under plastic, all new and stuff. There in the first panel is Don Money. And when they were all done, Topps darn near fell into the pond and drowned while looking at their own reflection in the neighborhood cardboard pond. With just one card per pack but 36 packs in a box, you *should* stand a good chance of getting one of everything with this lot. User Agreement. Thats what Fun Foods was counting on when they issued their set of 133 Major League buttons in 1984. The 1987 Donruss Baseball set consists of 660 cards, each measuring 2-1/2" by 3-1/2". Card of the Day Galleries Games Recently Added Recently Collected Rip a Pack Site Awards Tagged Things To Do Top Members Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. $50.87 1987 DONRUSS BASEBALL #205 BO JACKSON OPENING DAY PSA 9 MINT $54.99 Free shipping 1987 Donruss Opening Day Barry Bonds 06326436 PSA 8 San Francisco Giants #1. So, not only did they issue a 1981 base set that was fairly OK plus showcased one of the greatest error cards of all time (C. Nettles), they also blessed us with their first Star Stickers set. OK, so this is not really *wax* in the strict sense, but wax is really a state of mind right? Too bad for them Topps stepped on the gas an issued one of the greatest, sunniest sets of all time. These scratch-offs came in three-player panels, and you could play a baseball game by scratching off the dots like a lottery ticket for Little Leaguers. You can enable both via your browser's preference settings. "Collectors often decried how money had . Today, though, how can you not get all warm and giddy at the prospect of nine American League cards and nine National League cards and a stick of gum inside a four-decade-old wrapper??? Rating: 6.4 (29 votes) Click here to Rate. Topps tried out another version of their picture-in-picture design not on par with 1983 but not terrible. Which card is the most valuable? eBay Auction Event: 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend! I mean, just look at those gorgeous Topps rack packs, with Tom Seaver showing and Rick Sutcliffe showing and Fergie Jenkins showing and. Collecting baseball cards in 1984 was a pretty heady experience. Could the in-between hold a Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, or Ryne Sandberg rookie card? View cart for details. Wax listingshere.). 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball - Trading Card Database Baseball Sets 1987 Overview 1987 Donruss Opening Day Total Cards: 272 Rating: 6.4 (29 votes) Click here to Rate Notes: Distributed as a factory set (#1-272) Tweet On the heels of their gorgeous 1983 set, Topps decided that the best thing to do was tweak the thing a bit. So, while this 1984 Topps rack pack with a Mattingly rookie on top doesnt hold quite the hobby sway that a Donruss version would, its still an awesome artifact from one of the great runs in hobby history. Always the same design, basically, at least. If youre doing the math, that leaves about 75 other packs, and they all fall sorta in the same general vicinity of cardboard space-time as those Ive already mentioned. Anyway, this eBay lot gives you a pretty good shot at all these guys and plenty more its a complete unopened box. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Break! Or recessless schooldays? And in case youve forgotten or dont want to read my original post on the subject, let me clarify: its an unholy sight to which no Cincinnati Reds fan hell, no Philadelphia Phillies fan should have ever been subjected. - Videos Like in this eBay lot (affiliate link), which features four packs of the 1984 Ralston-Purina baseball cards, or this companion lot (affiliate link) that offers another four packs. Or maybe the Willie Stargell rookie? Report It. This is the holy grail of 1984 baseball boxes, of course, as it possibly contains the fabled 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly rookie card that changed the hobby forever. CaliforniaSportsCards.com has a lineup of baseball products that has no weaknesses. I remember those rack packs, and having my mom buy a couple for me when we were on vacation that summer. Same applies for not have numbers on them are listed in alphabetical order? You can buy them for pennies or less under circumstances like this. 1987 Donruss. Because, even though Fleer managed to finally break the Topps monopoly and pulled Donruss into the market with them, the onslaught of new cards did little to excite the senses or capture the poetry of the game. In all, there were 133 pins/buttons issued, so youd need to buy at least two boxes to get the full set (which you could also buy all at once from dealers, then and now). Send us an email with requests, or volunteer you time helping us make They dont fit well with other cards from a size perspective, theyre not beautiful, and you hardly ever hear anyone clamoring for them. And if thats true, Ill bet dollars to Dave Dravecky cards your collecting career overlapped with the period of 1976-1993, at least to some extent. The only question here is would you eat this stuff? Let me tell you you would if you were 12 years old in 1984 and had the chance to add another set to your burgeoning collection via several thousand calories worth of Cookie Crisp. By 1986, the hobby was fully engulfed in the flames of rookie card mania thanks to the exploits of young phenoms like Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Eric Davis, Don Mattingly, and that summer of 86, Jose Canseco and Wally Joyner. Lot 13: 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY SET UNOPENED Sold: Log in to view Auctions By Moldenhauer October 24, 2021 LAPORTE, IN, US View more details More About this Item Item Overview Description THIS LOT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING UNOPENED DONRUSS OPENING DAY SET, DOES THIS SET HAVE THE RARE JOHNNY RAY BARRY BONDS ROOKIE CARD? Copyright 2023 Trading Card Database LLC And, can you believe the opening bid is only $10 a box. Another oddball set from 1984, Topps Supers were exact replicas of the base card for each of the 30 players included in the set except huge. And this eBay lot? From big heads to real 3-D cards to just plain old big cards, Topps had it all. Total Cards: 272. Shop with Affiliates Complete Set (660) Notes about 1987 Donruss . You know how, when you see a stack of 1982 Fleer baseball cards, they look all dingy and old? Sure, the cards inside are the same old cardboard youve always spruced up with your markers (youre the one! If you made it through the lean hobby years of the Topps monopoly, man, were you rewarded in 1981! A team logo is placed atop each photo while the respective player's name and position are printed within the lower border area. Granted, most of those dudes fell short of Hall of Fame standards, but theyre still standards among 1980s rookie cards. The rookie card class was pretty weak, for another (thought Cecil Fielder beefed it up when he came back from Japan in 1990). About this item. 1987 Donruss Opening Day. 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