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Remembering 1988 Topps Baseball

1988 Topps Blog

Got this link from the new Tuffstuff (or whatever it is called now). The blogger takes a fresh look at each card in the set. I also have fond memories of this set. I was in Jr high when this set came out. We thought the local dealer was such a ripoff artist because he would buy the McGwire, Burks, Mattingly and Nokes cards for one dollar per card and then sell them for three bucks each. Good times!
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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I liked the following...anagrams for the 1988 Topps set...


    This is just for fun. These are some anagrams of players featured on cards 1 to 100. Feel free to post the answers in the comments.

    1 A damaged van
    2 A drunken axle
    3 A hung martyr
    4 A shy renewal
    5 A tongue icicle
    6 Angry benders
    7 Barb nose
    8 Blondish area
    9 Chief clunky
    10 Chubby core
    11 Cleaner dolls
    12 Clone mergers
    13 Drama tools
    14 Eerier snail
    15 Enlarge zones
    16 Fazed dinners
    17 Gyrates tip
    18 Help rabidly
    19 Hernial craps
    20 Hit maker
    21 Honest dramas
    22 Hurl daemon
    23 Husbandry
    24 Huskier boob
    25 I will mismatch
    26 Inborn snood
    27 Inky handsaw
    28 Jeer actor
    29 Lewd nigglers (please do not misread this one.)
    30 Licked codfish
    31 Main kinetic
    32 Making more
    33 Mean klutzes
    34 Nerviest elk
    35 Pedantry
    36 Random skunk
    37 Real tile
    38 Red robe
    39 Redhead
    40 Redo more
    41 Regard reply
    42 Residency honker
    43 Retro eons
    44 Rumpled hay
    45 Screened skyline
    46 Ski governs
    47 Snaky pardoners
    48 Their twine
    49 Tricky honor
    50 Tyrannized men
    51 Unlock writers

    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭
    Can't even use the crap for firewood. Toxic fumes will kill you. Total crap forever. chaz
  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭
    I was 11 when it came out and it was the first wax box of anything I ever purchased. Because I kept a lot of my cards displayed I kept it unopened on my shelf for a while to make my room seem even more like a card store. I eventually ripped it, though.
  • ymareaymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭
    I have 1 complete Topps baseball set for each year beginning in 1970, except for 1988. This is the only set of which I have 2. My first son was born in 1988, so I figured I would begin collecting an extra set each year so he would have one for each year of his life...should he decide to collect. Well, my 2nd son was born the very next year and the novelty had worn off. I figured that if they want cards, let 'em get them by themselves just like I did.image As it turned out, both sons grew up to play sports and are very active, but neither has the slightest interest in card collecting.
    Brett
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I graduated High School in '88 and I dont remember any interest in '88 Topps cards- Im glad I didnt have any interest come to think of it..
  • Some of my favorite cards. Anyone have a spare wax box they wanna send me for the heck of it? image
    Atlanta Braves, Charlotte Hornets, Shawn Kemp, Dale Murphy, and Bobby Engram.
  • i really dislike the 88 topps design, such a letdown after the woodgrain 87's. plus the rookies SUCKED lol.
  • I kinda like these two...

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  • Just think, in 2037, THOSE will be the Topps Heritage Deisgns!! image
    Atlanta Braves, Charlotte Hornets, Shawn Kemp, Dale Murphy, and Bobby Engram.
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    A much better design than the 89 Topps, IMO.
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