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Whats your favorite year from Topps in the 1980's

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  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1980 & 1988

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  • kerryvillekerryville Posts: 341 ✭✭✭
    I love the 1982 set just beautiful.
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  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    Nostalgically speaking, probably 1988 but today I would go with the 83. Having 2 pictures on the front was an amazing thing back then (aside from 1963). Besides, great set and plenty of Hall Of Famers in this one.
  • bbuckner22bbuckner22 Posts: 1,028 ✭
    1983, but 1982 is a close second
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    '83 Topps features 2 of my all-time favorite rookies, Sandberg & Gwynn, and I love the design.
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    1982 Topps...I once had the series memorized , I could look at any rack and tell you if a Ripken were inside...
    he was a 75 cent card back then...
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  • firstbase23firstbase23 Posts: 461 ✭✭✭
    1983
  • SethroSethro Posts: 671 ✭✭
    Nostalgically: 1980
    Aesthetically: 1986

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  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    I think Topps failed to produce a good issue in the 80's
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1983
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  • EAsportsEAsports Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭
    You should add the regular base set image for 1985, IMO.

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    To answer your question, I'd choose 1987 or 1985.

    1981 has to be one of Topps' five worst designs of all time.

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  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
    There is no Topps set design from the '80s that I really love, but if I had to pick a favorite I'd go with 1983.
    Second place: 1987.

    Worst: 1988 (although '88 is not one-tenth as ugly as 1990 Topps, IMO. 1990 Topps is the single ugliest baseball card set that I am aware of.)
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  • hammeredhammered Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭
    1987 no question for me
  • RobbyRobby Posts: 674 ✭✭✭
    1987 was the first set me and my son did together ................so I am biased towards choosing that year ! Close second .........1983
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  • zendudezendude Posts: 210 ✭✭✭

    1983. Honestly, none of the 80's sets are very impressive to me.
  • tmgrnzx9rtmgrnzx9r Posts: 546 ✭✭✭
    1983 for me as it was the first year I started collecting cards and havent stopped collecting since!!!!
  • Big80sBig80s Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You should add the regular base set image for 1985, IMO.

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    I've got a very special place in my heart for 1985 Topps. It was the first pack of baseball cards I bought as a kid, and every card in the set brings back a fun memory for me.
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  • msassinmsassin Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭
    1982 - first year I collected (1986 is a close 2nd as it was the first year I started putting a set together & learned that cards has some value to them).
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1985 Topps. Those were the first cards I ever collected and pulling a Dwight Gooden was like hitting the lottery. We traveled all over Orlando to find packs at the best prices.

  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    1982 - first year I collected.

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  • RynoandBoRynoandBo Posts: 393 ✭✭
    1985 Topps

    In 1985 I was 10 years old and was given permission to ride my bike to the local 7-11. Ryno was fresh off a NL MVP award. Bought quite a few 85 Topps packs that summer. I taped all of the Cubs players to my bedroom wall. Good times.

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  • LodiBrewFanLodiBrewFan Posts: 564 ✭
    I love the 82 Topps Carlton Fisk In Action card. The first cards I ever bought was from 1980. 1985 is the year I really started collecting for real. 1987 is the year I bought the most of.


    My favorite now is the 1983. Really like the design.
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  • SmuggoSmuggo Posts: 425 ✭


    << <i>I think Topps failed to produce a good issue in the 80's >>



    Agree
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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭
    1980 is my vote.


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  • ToneDToneD Posts: 281 ✭✭✭
    1983 for me...Like others, it was the first year I started collecting and the set that got me hooked. I can still remember bugging my mom to take me to the local 7-11 where I bought a ton of 83 Topps and Fleer packs. Good times.
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  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭
    85 will always have a little piece of me.

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  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭
    I love the '80 design the best. So clean and reminiscent of "vintage" Topps.

    P.S. The 1985 McGwire doesn't really represent '85 Topps as intended by this thread.
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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭
    Wow, no love for 86? That one is easily my favorite. Just doesn't have any big rookie card to pump it up.
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    86 Topps.


    Good for you.
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, no love for 86? That one is easily my favorite. Just doesn't have any big rookie card to pump it up. >>



    Uhhh, with Ozzie Guillen, Cecil Fielder, Harold Reynolds, Lenny Dykstra, Vince Coleman and Darren Daulton rookie cards, what more can you ask for. image
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  • firedawg45firedawg45 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭
    1983 topps was voted the best set by beckett that year!
    # 2 Pete Rose Master Set , also
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  • DWestDWest Posts: 149
    Wow! Another creative and insightful Foo thread
  • JustinsShoeboxJustinsShoebox Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭
    My vote is for 1980, I have two of these complete in raw one of which I'm thinking of submitting. I pulled a handful of them to submit to gauge how they will do over all. Many people don't like the design, but I love this set. I love the colors from the Dawson, Parker, Carlton, and Ryan cards. My second favorite is 83.

    My least favorite set is 86, with 81 following close behind; 87-89 are not worth mentioning.

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    86 By far.Nothing even close.Nothing else in the 80s does anything for me.
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  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    I never understood why people love to comment on topics or peoples threads that they dont like?

    ohhh dwest, once again you succeed in posting something utterly useless to this board. Face it, your a Troll, Douchebag.

  • DWestDWest Posts: 149


    << <i>I never understood why people love to comment on topics or peoples threads that they dont like?

    ohhh dwest, once again you succeed in posting something utterly useless to this board. Face it, your a Troll, Douchebag. >>



    Same meaningless repeat threads you posted last time you were here and on other boards.
  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    Ive never been on any other board di*khead.

    Douchebag 101
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I never understood why people love to comment on topics or peoples threads that they dont like?

    ohhh dwest, once again you succeed in posting something utterly useless to this board. Face it, your a Troll, Douchebag. >>



    Same meaningless repeat threads you posted last time you were here and on other boards. >>



    What is wrong with this thread? It's fine. Stop being a douche.
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  • DWestDWest Posts: 149
    Can I go ahead and post a thread asking what everyone's favorite year was from the 60s, 70s and 90s?
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Can I go ahead and post a thread asking what everyone's favorite year was from the 60s, 70s and 90s? >>



    Go ahead. Or you can continue to go around into other threads and act like an a-hole. The choice is yours.
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  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    Can I go ahead and post a thread asking what everyone's favorite year was from the 60s, 70s and 90s?

    If it makes you happy, sure.
  • matthewbschultz83matthewbschultz83 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭
    Let's steer this thing back on the road....

    1989 for me. It's a nostalgic pick for sure. I was 5 and that was the first year I was introduced into baseball cards. I was aware of the Rangers, but not really who was good on the team. And this was my first Rangers card I got in a pack...

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    81 doesn't get much love, but I always liked it. Nice and colorful. Like 80 and 83 also.

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  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    1988 followed by 1980 at a close second
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  • JuggsJuggs Posts: 495 ✭
    83. Love the two pictures on the front and you can't go wrong with the RC's in that set.

    I still favor 1980 for nostalgic sake, because it was really the first year I collected baseball cards.
  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096


    << <i>Can I go ahead and post a thread asking what everyone's favorite year was from the 60s, 70s and 90s?

    If it makes you happy, sure. >>



    Do '90s first so I can b*tch about 1990 Topps again. Thanks in advance!!!
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  • jimmygjimmyg Posts: 139 ✭✭
    I'm a huge '81 Topps fan. It's not the corny design or poor photography, but the fact that I was five and my dad bought me my first pack that year.

    I've got the complete set now in solid Ex-Mt condition... though at least one of the cards still has my best friend's name marked on the back.
  • DavidPuddyDavidPuddy Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Let's steer this thing back on the road....

    1989 for me. It's a nostalgic pick for sure. I was 5 and that was the first year I was introduced into baseball cards. I was aware of the Rangers, but not really who was good on the team. And this was my first Rangers card I got in a pack...
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    Ha.
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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭


    << <i>Let's steer this thing back on the road....

    1989 for me. It's a nostalgic pick for sure. I was 5 and that was the first year I was introduced into baseball cards. I was aware of the Rangers, but not really who was good on the team. And this was my first Rangers card I got in a pack...

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    Some spare who wasn't even with the team in 1989. I carry one around in my wallet. It's obviously beat to hell. >>



    Great post.

    Last year i started carrying a copy of my all-time favorite card in my wallet. 1985 Topps #620
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  • Yankees001Yankees001 Posts: 1,496 ✭
    1981 and 1987

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