Old Beckett "Hot Lists?"

ReggieCleveland

Anyone know if there's an online resource to view what the Hot Lists were in old Beckett price guides? I searched Beckett's website but didn't find anything. I'd really like to take a trip down memory lane and see what the hot lists looked like 20+ years ago.

begsu1013

jerome fn walton.

Ironmanfan

Todd Van Poppel

IMF

LarkinCollector

Danny Tartabull

I can't find anything online other than the Friday Hot Lists on Beckett's website that started last year.

Dboneesq

Joe Charboneau

Eric Anthony

and these three Yankees:

Hensley Meulens
Kevin Maas
Brien Taylor

saucywombat

20 years would be 1994, so Tim Salmon, Alex Rodriguez was the hot RC, Griffey, Thomas, Piazza, Nolan Ryan? - Ripken was probably gathering steam.

The Expos were very good in strike shortened 1994 - Gwynn was exceptional finished over .390, I think Matt Williams was on pace for 61 or something like that.

Stone193

I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.





If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging.

mtcards

The hot lists were always humorous in that some of the names were featured in both the hot and cold lists and then some of the names on the hot list were unsellable if you stapled a dollar bill to it

LarkinCollector

<< <i>I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.

If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging. >>


I'm confused whether Strawberry is hot or cold

wrestlingcardking

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<< <i>I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.

If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging. >>


I'm confused whether Strawberry is hot or cold >>



I think that Strawberry was warm!

DanBessette

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<< <i>I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.

If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging. >>


I'm confused whether Strawberry is hot or cold >>



I think that Strawberry was warm! >>



I bet he was toasted.

JustinsShoebox

<< <i>I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.



If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging. >>



I still have this one. This and the October 1995, Issue 127 was my favorite.

Justin

ReggieCleveland

That's awesome, thanks Mike!

Anyone know when they started doing this? And does anyone know when they started making the list card-specific?

begsu1013

<< <i>That's awesome, thanks Mike!

Anyone know when they started doing this? And does anyone know when they started making the list card-specific? >>




setting the over/under at '89

miwlvrn

Remember when one of the biggest names on the Hot List was Ken Hodge Jr.?

dtkk49a

I scan the Hot Lists pages in the Beckett Sports Card Monthly and keep them on my phone. I can then look over the lists wherever I am.

hyperchipper09

Frank Thomas ruled the hot list for something like 2 years or more didn't he?

BLUEJAYWAY

<< <i>I went back 20 years ago - I'm a pack rat - somewhere I probably have a stack - I know I have a boatload of Tuff Stuffs.





If anyone wants earlier? I'll have to do some digging. >>

Wheres Mickey Mantle,he's absent from the Hot List.

cecropiamoth

I went down into the basement and the oldest Beckett I had was August 1987. Bo Jackson on the front cover with his 1987 Donruss Rated Rookie. Cool photo of McGwire/Canseco on the back cover.

Back then this was called 'Weather Report'.

Hot:

1. Eric Davis (2)
2. Don Mattingly (1)
3. Wade Boggs (3)
4. Wally Joyner (4)
5. Bo Jackson (5)
6. Cory Snyder (6)
7. Jose Canseco (7)
8. Kirby Puckett (9)
9. Bret Saberhagen (18)
10. Beckett Monthly (10)
11. Pete Incaviglia (11)
12. Mark McGwire (NR)
13. Roger Clemens (8)
14. Rickey Henderson (12)
15. Darryl Strawberry (13)
16. Andre Dawson (NR)
17. '87 Fleer (19)
18. Dwight Gooden (17)
19. Mike Schmidt (14)
20. Danny Tartabull (32)

The Hot list is numbered to 40, but I'll stop at 20.

Cold:

C1. Dwight Gooden (C1)
C2. New York Mets (C5)
C3. Pete Rose (C2)
C4. Roger Clemens (C10)
C5. Reggie Jackson (C6)
C6. Jose Canseco (C8)
C7. Ron Kittle (C4)
C8. "Oil Can" Boyd (C9)
C9. Steve Carlton (C7)
C10. Bruce Sutter (C11)

The Cold list is numbered to 20, but I'll stop at 10.

Jeff

ReggieCleveland

Thanks Jeff, appreciate the time you took.

Crazy that McGwire was so low in August of 87.

cecropiamoth

If I recall correctly the the newest month's magazine came out around the 15th of the previous month, so the August 1987 would have been in the cardshops around July 15. I think they built those lists from Reader Write Ins so maybe they had compiled data through the end of June. He would have been halfway through his rookie year en route to 49 bombs. So there was some lag time between on field play and the Hot List.

Jeff

cecropiamoth

That was also the year of Andre Dawson who made in appearance in the top 20, coming from not ranked. He was also on his way to 49 HRs, NL MVP after signing that blank contract in spring training to play in Chicago. I remember watching a lot of Cubs games during summer vacation in the afternoons on WGN. No lights were in place there yet at the time.

Jeff

Frozencaribou

The early Beckett's, say in 1985 or 1986, Beckett printed the hot/cold lists verbatim in their readers write section from multiple people every month. Hot: Strawberry, Gooden, dealers who sell cards below Beckett high prices... Cold: Ron Kittle, Bob Horner, New York Yankees. Yes, people and teams were popular choices in the early days.

billwaltonsbeard

Cool thread.

Yes, I remember living and dying with that Hot/Cold list every month. At local card shows, you could easily sell cards for higher than Beckett price if the card/player was on the hot list.

As much as I've used ebay for buying and selling over the years, I still really miss those days a lot.

TheMick6

I also miss the days when Beckett mattered. I worked in my local card shop in Glen Burnie Maryland called Straight Away Center sorting cards on the weekend. I couldn't wait for the current Beckett to hit the stands. That place was always busy and people would talk baseball and football all day. That's what I miss about the "card boom" era.

Stone193

I found one from April of '94 before the season started - mainly because I thought it would be fun to remember how MJ tried to make it as a ML'er.



And the Hot/notHot list:



Remember how that MJ SP was going for like 20 bucks back then?