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Great article in beckett...

AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
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not a big buyer or fan of beckett magazine, but they had a huge spread on 'forgotten cards of the 80s' (brings back some big memories). The cards they chose:

1981 fleer joe charboneau
1981 donruss tim raines
1981 topps fernando
1982 fleer john littlefield error
1982 topps jorge bell
1983 fleer ron kittle
1983 topps traded strawberry
1984 donruss ron darling
1984 fleer update doc gooden
1984 fleer update pete rose
1985 donruss eric davis
1985 donruss tom seaver
1986 donruss the rookies wally joyner
1986 topps traded bo jackson
1986 fleer baseball's best will clark
1987 fleer kevin seitzer
1988 fleer gregg jeffries
1989 fleer billy ripken bat error
1989 upper deck dale murphy reverse negative
1989 upper deck jerome walton


other mentions:

1981 fleer 'C'raig nettles
1982 donruss steve sax
1984 donruss kevin mcreynolds
1984 fleer update bret saberhagen
1985 donruss danny tartabull
1985 fleer glenn davis
1985 fleer update vince coleman
1985 topps corey snyder
1986 fleer benito santiago
1987 donruss mike greenwell
1987 topps traded matt nokes
1988 score rookie/traded chris sabo
1988 topps al leiter error (steve george)
1988 topps traded jim abbott
1989 topps monty fariss
1989 upper deck dwight smith

Pretty fun read..

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  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    Even considering the amount of cards out there, I am sure most would agree that most cards from the '80s are easily forgetable.
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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,471 ✭✭✭✭
    Something else forgotten in the 80's: Beckett Price Guide

    Loves me some shiny!
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭
    Just this weekend I was looking through a box of 1981 cards to make sure there was nothing else worthy of grading. I stopped when I got to a Joe Charbaneau... just like it was summer of '81 again... and then I rembered it was worthless and thumbed on.... However, 10 minutes later I went back to Joe C. It's worthy of a 9 or 10 so for $5 I am going to send it in and get it graded. It was a fun time back then hoarding Joe C rookies! Of course, living in LA I also hoarded Fernando rookies! Great memories!
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Robin Ventura 88 TT
    Kevin Mitchell 86 TT
    Jody Davis 82 T
    Pedro Guerrero 80 T
    Joe Carter 84 D
    Howard Johnson 83 F
    Cecil Fielder 86 T & D
    Frank Viola 83 T
    Kevin Elster 88 T
    Shawon Dunston 85 T
    Gregg Olson 89 D

    They missed a lot of good ones.

    Lee



  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    I am sure they could have included tons, but feel they hit most of the significant ones.

    But one I haven't seen mentioned yet is the Canseco issues.

    I think at one time they were what, $150?

  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    yeah, that 86 D was definitely $100+ when he had his 40/40 season. What about Hershiser's RCs after he had that shutout streak?

    Lee
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    great cards.. brings back memories.. my first "money" card was a 85 Fleer Eric Davis.. i was 11 years old and my dad got it for me in 1987 in a shoebox full of 85fleer cards at a yard sale and i think the eric davis booked at $18 bucks.. heh..
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Remember there was a time, if memory serves me right, that the 87 Topps McGwire was worth more than the 85 issue, people were calling that one his rookie card. Please correct me if I am wrong on this.

    Stingray
  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    Yes, there was a lot of debate about the McGwire cards. 1985 was his Olympic card so it was viewed as not quite a legitimate RC, merely a curiosity. I wasn't reading Beckett, or even collecting, at the time, but I somehow remember hearing about it. I think I picked up a Beckett in a mall in 1987 and saw how my childhood collection had exploded in value and I went out and bought 10 packs of Topps. I still have those cards, but most of my childhood cards were gone by then. Beckett might have confused matters by using the XRC notation, though. Sounds like something they'd do.
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  • FabfrankFabfrank Posts: 2,312
    It's hard to forget these cards when one is still sitting on 100 card blocks of some of these playersimage
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  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    A lot of those cards were forgotten on purpose. They carry painful memories for those who stocked up. image
  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭


    << <i>A lot of those cards were forgotten on purpose. They carry painful memories for those who stocked up. image >>



    Exactly right on. While I don't have a 100-count stack of any of those cards, I do have a stack of about 10-20 on most of them. I do remember paying $4.75 each for (7) 1987 Mike Greenwell cards. With many here sitting on multiple-count stacks of all of the cards in the 1980s, it is no wonder why we talk about these cards as (relatively) worthless. They were fun to get and collect (esp. when I worked in a store in the late 1980s) but now I really, really, really wish I had not spent so much money (or any money for that matter) on 1980s cards and instead bought vintage when they were a fraction of the value now.
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