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What were the over-production years for Baseball Cards?

What is the "dead" period for Baseball Cards? The years that were overproduced in the 80s/90s?
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  • AlbertdiditAlbertdidit Posts: 560 ✭✭✭
    Probably the worst of it and peak of overproduction was late 80's to early 90's
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,127 ✭✭✭
    it's all relative really. Absolutely the entire 80's but you can go back as far as 1968 to find massive overproduction for current demand.
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would say mid to late 80's right up to today. My reasoning for including today's product is that there is probably 1 or 2 cards per box that have any value at all, the rest are so worthless many people throw them away after pulling the "chase" card.

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  • epatmythesepatmythes Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭
    1987 to present
  • The worst years are 1980 - 1994. 1988-1992 was probably the worst of the worst.

    I would avoid anything newer than 1979.

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭✭
    Donruss is still making 1988 cards

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  • topps production really started to pick up in 1974...1974 was really the first year that people started putting away cases and vending boxes, etc...
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  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭
    From what I see of people who bring stuff into the store and sell....

    1987-1992

    Overprinted garbage....cheap card stock on most
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    1978 was another year where they really ramped up production.
    Good for you.
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    1952 but no one seemed interested so alot of it ended up taking a swim......
  • ClockworkAngelClockworkAngel Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Donruss is still making 1988 cards

    IMF >>



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    Yah, that particular set more than any other seemed to be the worst. You couldn't go into a target, 7-11, or gas station without seeing that smiling Dale Murphy box
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  • ClockworkAngelClockworkAngel Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭
    I've never understood why Topps, or the other manufacturers won't release production info on stuff 30 years old. What's the harm? It would be real interesting how much they produced from year to year.

    I've always heard about the 1984 Donruss being this really scarce year and low production run, but it sure seems like I see a lot less 84 Fleer than 84 Donruss....I'd bet that it would come out there were much less Fleer produced
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  • jmmiller777jmmiller777 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭
    I'll say 1986-1994. It is amazing how much of the older 60's stuff is still available. When I see this and then think about those over production years; I wonder how much of this stuff there really is. Is it a 100 or a 1,000 to one comparison?
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  • MinorLeaguerMinorLeaguer Posts: 497 ✭✭✭
    I would stipulate that it is a dead period for major producers like Topps, Fleer and Donruss except for a few tiffany/glossy or special issues like Desert Storm, or test issues like Aqueous. There are many reasonably produced products from 1980 to 1992 but you couldn't typically buy them at every corner. To me now its the thrill of the chase to try and reel in some of these gems. ebay does wonders for this. Standard Catalog really opened my eyes. Some Minor League, police and team issued sets come to mind as well as cards issued only in a certain country or province too. Searching via Beckett.com and using the pop reports from PSA helped find that they exist as well.
  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    From 1948 until 1994 I collected everything listed for Topps in the SCD Standard Catalog . In 1995 the number of sets/items listed for Topps baseball went from 8 to 18 and I surrendered. After 94 I just got the regulars sets, any update, and since 2001 the Heritage sets.

    I also collect Fleer baseball, 1923 and 1959 to 2007. SCD had 10 Fleer set/product listings in 1993 and it went to 23 in 1994.
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  • << <i>The worst years are 1980 - 1994. 1988-1992 was probably the worst of the worst.

    I would avoid anything newer than 1979. >>


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  • << <i>topps production really started to pick up in 1974...1974 was really the first year that people started putting away cases and vending boxes, etc... >>



    what do you think changed in peoples minds that prompted people to start putting away cases and vending boxes way back in 1974?
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭
    I would say the general consensus for the over-production era is 1987 to 1993.
  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    Makes sense, beginning in 1993 and 1994 all the manufactures started proliferating their product lines with less reliance on base sets
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  • << <i>Makes sense, beginning in 1993 and 1994 all the manufactures started proliferating their product lines with less reliance on base sets >>



    Sounds like cards are back to square one. Instead of putting cards in packs of tobacco to increase sales, they are putting cards in packs of cards to increase sales.
  • Well for 1989 Donruss, I know they only made 500 sets, 500 of each card. This is fact. And I got 499 of the Jose Canseco's. So I got that going for me. Wonder who the lucky person in the world is that has the 500th.

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  • mikliamiklia Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭
    not me. I loaded up for 700 of the Hensley Muelens DP. good thing there were 1000 of those though, otherwise grown men would still be fighting in the streets over them.

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭
    The only Sets I have interest in from the 80s is 84 Donruss and 89 Upperdeck.
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  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    I have the 700 Luis Medina cards that you are all missing from the 89 set.....al.
  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    Some Topps off beat sets from the 80s are tough to build and fairly expensive, for example 82 Blackless, 84 Encased, 85 Minis and 88 Cloth

    The Topps 1989 Heads up set ( as opposed to the 1990 set) is also pretty tough...and pretty lame
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  • MinorLeaguerMinorLeaguer Posts: 497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The only Sets I have interest in from the 80s is 84 Donruss and 89 Upperdeck. >>



    Then please sell me your 1980 Soo (Sault Ste. Marie) Greyhounds Junior Hockey Set with XRC's of Ron Francis and John Vanbiesbrouck as I have been waiting quite patiently for one to pop up on the bay.
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