A Year in Baseball Cards: 1987. The Sets, the Players, and the Most Valuable Cards Today
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87 was when I got started as a kid! Topps was what I collected and the wood grain is one of my favorites today! Maybe that's why I became a carpenter 😂
I was born 13 years after this set came out but I fell in love with it as the packs are so cheap to open. My chase card in this set is the don mattingly as he is my favourite player of this era and is now the bench coach for my hometown Toronto blue jays. Love the vids!
These definitely are the cards I'm buying now. And just raw, it's nice, and one day I'll have em displayed and someone over will say NO WAY! I used to have at least some of these card's. And I'll be like pick one you want ☺️
Great video of the cards I remember in high school. Would have been funny to show POP Report on the top 5 list. Funny memory from this set is when McGwire signed my 87 topps and creased it through the fence to give it back to me. I was so mad. Ha ha.
Hay Chris just want you and everyone else to. I have got a lot of stuff off of hoody’s and they are great. Everything has been on point. Hope y’all can continue to business together
Hey Chris - worth noting that the 87 Topps wood grain was a tribute / throwback to the 62 Topps wood grain on its 25th anniversary.
Oh interesting... I did not actually know that!
I'm not really interested in junk wax era cards, but, as always, Chris Sewall makes any subject interesting.
In 1987 you went one of two ways, Baseball cards or Camaro mullet.
I like to think those of us who went cards got it right.
Nice video. Like the format of this. Hopefully you will do more years.
I love 1987 baseball cards, Chris. It was the year I began to collect heavily. I've always been a Giants fan and Will Clark was my favorite player. Of his 3 1987 RC's, the Fleer was the most valuable. In fact, it was the most valuable 1987 RC of anyone for a while. By the time I knew it existed, my 10 year old self couldn't afford it so I settled for the other 2. I had several Topps and a couple Donruss.
I got back into the hobby in the early 2010's. After a little research I found i could buy 1987 Fleer (30$) & Donruss (18$) wax boxes from BBCE. I also bought sealed factory sets (Fleer glossy and update glossy for 30$ & Donruss $15) on Ebay. I also bought PSA 10 Fleer Bonds & Clark RCs for around 10 bucks each! None of that stuff has much monetary value even now, but its still some of my most cherished cards.
1987, was the year as a 16 year old, that I became "serious " about collecting. Armed with my 1st job at Happy Joe's Pizza, making $3.15 an hour, I was able to really start buying some cards.
1st order of business: find a baseball card ad in the back of Sport Magazine offering complete sets, even factory sets, of all the brands! Bought 1 of each. ✔
2nd buy as many packs as possible. ✔
3rd get full boxes and keep them for 35 years then cash in...
No check mark on cashing in unfortunately. Lol
I was serious but I loved every dang moment of it!
I started collecting in 1987 and could only get my hands on the Topps cards for some reason. I eventually started player collecting Will Clark in 1989 and was pumped to finally get his 1987 Fleer rookie as a present. I kept it for a long time in the same top loader it came with, which had $32 price written on it in blue Sharpie.
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Could you imagine how much Don Mattingly would have improved if he would’ve just trimmed those sideburns?
Love these vids...learn so much
Fun walk down memory lane. Definitely remember going after Will Clark rookies.
While junk wax means low prices-it’s pretty neat to get cards of arguably the baseball GOAT (Bonds) for just a few bucks. As a collector, and if you don’t care if others have the same card, it’s a very affordable piece of history. Certainly the same can’t be said for Jordan and Brady.
Great video. Too bad you didn't get to go over the OpeeChee and LEAF Values because those have really started to break through and be the highest. Wanted to ask also about what your feelings are about the 1987 Barry Bonds Fleer Hottest Stars Box set Rookie Card and the 1987 Mark Mcgwire Fleer Sluggers vs. Pitchers box set Rookie Card! I think the sets they were from were made in enough numbers to not be considered oddball and yet there is so little attention paid to them. I think they are really good looking cards too.
1987 was probably the height of the hobby, in my not-so-humble opinion. Still just the three main sets. When Score came along the next year (with an ugly set that looks like no effort went into it), that’s the beginning of the circumstances that drove me out of the hobby. I am a completist, so I needed one of every base set. Once there were too many sets to make that attainable or fun, I bailed out altogether. I returned two years ago with a very narrow focus of Tigers and Lions team sets and a 1971 Topps build that will take a while.
The golden era ⚾
80 % of boys were collecting in the late 80’s. Today I don’t think it’s even 30 % with how high the price are .
I'd be surprised if 30% of today's kids even know that baseball exists, let alone a baseball card.
Boys don’t follow baseball nearly as much today, probably less than 10% collect cards
I believe OPC stop making a separate set when Topps got back into hockey cards in the mid-80’s. In the mid to central 80’s Topps didn’t produce hockey cards at all.
O-Pee-Chee made separate hockey sets into the 90s, often a slightly larger set.
Topps didn't produce a hockey set for the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
Hmm, I always thought that the All-Star Rookie Cups were for the player's that were on their first ("rookie") MLB All-Star team. Thanks for pointing that out, Chris. Great video all around 🏆
I would argue that these 1987 cards are McGwire's true rookie cards. The 1985 is more of a prospect card...still a great card to have but not a true rookie.
Thanks! The '87 Donruss set has always been my favorite '87 set. Fleer looks cheap and since I cannot stand wood-grain (except baseball bats!!) anything, '87 Topps has always been a solid 👎. My dispising the '87 set has continuously done nothing but grow with the multiple reproduction set design throughout the years. Appreciate the work put in by the research department "team". Have a great one and LETS GO!!!! USA, beat the Dutch today.
oh man story with the Maddux 87 donruss, would have been about 1998 McGwire was super hot and Maddux was also, making the 87 wax packs like $3 per pack. I was mostly dabbling since I had not been collecting since oh 1989/90.. and so I was having fun buying the cheap 88 wax pack box of cards I started off with .. mostly chasing McGwire's... but I bought one lone pack of 87 donruss, and the shop was full of these lame old hard core guy collectors, not the cool ones that like to talk about the hobby, but the ones that just look like they're ready to rip you off at any moment in a shady trade. the shop worker was a jerk, rude and full of himself. but one of the only places to find cards. So I bought the pack and they wanted me to open it, laughing at me for only buying one pack saying, no chance of getting much for only one pack ... I pulled out Greg Maddux and they all went silent ... it was great ;) I still have that card, off centered about 70/30 but otherwise nice but the memories connected to showing up those jerks Ahhh
Any idea why the Maddux the rookies version is not the most valuable of his cards while the Bo Jackson the rookies is his most valuable version?
Its because of the pop count which is sort of random in this case. A lot fewer PSA 10 copies exist of the Bo.
BO
1987 is the year I started collecting baseball cards. I was 12 years old.
Great Vid honorable mention to Cleveland Indians Cory Snyder 1987 topps
I think I can speak for most of us who collected back then. We all had 80-90% of the cards pictured in this entire video. Good times.
Great video. The 1987 Fleer Will Clark was my favorite card all time growing up. Actually just picked up a glossy PSA 10 of it recently and it still looks awesome. So many HOF caliber players in these sets. Great era to collect on a budget and to learn about this era of the game.
12 year old me paid $35 for that Will Clark card in 1990. That was a huge deal at the time…
ha - started dealin' early!
Chris, I don’t recall how much Fleer packs cost but I think they were priced higher than topps and I always thought of Fleer as a high-end premium product, and Donruss a more middle of the line, with Topps being the low end.
Looking back now, thinking Fleer was a premium product was laughable. I spent so much money on 1987 packs, wish I had just bought a few OK condition Mickey Mantles from the 1960s.
Where's the Donruss Opening Day Barry Bonds error card depicting Johnny Ray? How's that not among the most valuable? Or the Canon & David Berg hot dogs Greg Maddux cards for that matter?
How many boxes did they print if there is endless quantity in 2022?!? 35 years later--'52 Topps was 35 years old in '87.
Bo knows this was a good video
Exactly!
I bought so many packs of 1987 cards, mainly Topps. I remember being fascinated by Pete Incaviglia's card, and how he never played in the minors. I thought he was a can't miss...
I’m 44 and about a year ago bought an 87 topps box to rip and I could still remember about every players name without looking probably nothing more etched in my head hahah.
Same!
1987 Topps was one of 2 sets I completed by buying packs from the corner store ('86 Topps was the other). Spent the weekend at my aunt's house and the store only had Donruss, so I bought a bunch of those as well. This was during (or soon after) Don Mattingly's 8-game home run streak so I was hunting his card. To my surprise, I score one with the 2nd pack I opened :) I treasured that card.
You covered the rookies well also during this time if you pulled a mattingly it was huge that craze was amazing. Mattingly fever.
Thanks for leaving out the Tiffany runs, since they are scarce and not always available yo the average guy.
1987 was an amazing year for cards. So many rookies peaking at different times.
Can’t think of a better year for cards or the hobby. None of the kids today care about sports cards like we did. I feel like they are missing out.
@@benjaminlyng8269 Indeed. Try explaining to a modern collector that people would be happily paying $8-10 for a Fleer Kevin Seitzer Rookie Card, or that at a point Bobby Bonilla sold for more than Barry Bonds.
Topps had gone several years since last using the Rookie cup and it was so cool seeing them on cards for the first time for me.
@@timothybenson3568 and rolled out the "Future Stars" to combat Donruss Rated Rookies & Fleer Dual Top Prospects cards. Interesting of course, since Topps had been doing the multi-rookie feature cards until 1982.
I second this comment
So good meeting you in Philly! You took a picture with my children at my booth, I had the 51 mantle. One of my goals at the show when I heard you were coming was to meet up with you. I appreciate the time and your channel.
My 1st pack of cards was 1989 topps.
But the king of cards on my block was the 1987 Jose Canseco. No one even cared about the 1986 because it didn't have a trophy on it! So it wasn't a real rookie,lol! That card was the envy of every kid on my block. I can still remember the feeling I felt when someone would show me one.
Awesome meeting you and your boys as well!
nice to see that inflation didnt affect 1987 topps packs at all as theyre still worth 40 cents each.
These are so fun. 1985 would be a great year to cover next.
They are still printing 1987 Topps to this day 😂😂😂
As a kid, my personal favorite baseball sets were 1987 and 1994 Topps. 94 was the first year I started buying packs of cards, so that set holds a special nostalgic place in my heart; the card stock was great, and I loved the Topps Gold and Black Gold parallels. 87 was still readily available, too, and the wood grain background just screamed vintage baseball to me.
Love the content, and while the “High Rollers” and “Regular Rollers” videos are the bread and butter, I really like the reviews and information about these yearly sets.
Used to spend my allowance on 87 topps
This was such a great video. You should make this a series and do 1986 next! (Then 85...). Thank you
Love your content buddy but super upset that 80s baseball was in the house and you didn’t get wild
Yeah, I felt ripped off as I was about to eat my vegetables!
Inky used to strike out 180 times a year before it was cool to do it.
I remember that in 1989, the 1987 Topps and Donruss packs sold for about $4 each. That was a fortune to an 11 year old.
Fun video
I went crazy in 87 and would try to have full 9 pocket sheets full of each of the rookies (9 of each player )
Mike Greenwell seemed most promising. But his numbers fell off a cliff after a few years. Don’t know why.
I was also high on Dale Sveum, Roger Mason, Kevin Mitchell, Will Clark, and Pete Incavilia
I started collecting back in 1990s, I think I have all them cards. LOL :) Sounds fun. Might have to pull them out and take a look.
This was my formative year. All my allowance went right to CVS for packs of Topps. I was a Topps kid but had friends who did only Donruss or Fleer. There were definite "camps" that way. My favorite to get were the All Star cards with the red white and blue star graphic under the name. Clemens all star was my chase card.
For my 8th birthday (I'm 41 now) I had an uncle that kind of went all-out and got me a bunch of packs of '87 Donruss, a binder with those plastic pages (I forget if there's a term for them), and a Beckett price guide. I remember my Grandma being there and saying how it was silly to be into collecting worthless cardboard. It didn't bother me though because I was just a kid and was collecting them for fun. And back then, even having a card that was worth a dollar was cool. I had a sport card shop about 300 ft. from my front door of house I grew up in, so nothing was going to stop me. It was turning into my hobby quickly. I remember going through the packs of '87 Donruss my uncle gave me and pulling out the McGwire RC. I went and looked it up in the Beckett and showed my grandma, according to the magazine, it was worth $8. She gasped a little bit and said "Let me see that." I could tell she was still skeptical. She could tell I still really didn't care. Later on for other holidays she broke and finally started giving me worthless cardboard for gifts. (Grandmas always break. That's why we love them so much.) Fast forward some 30+ years to this boom we had recently. I went to visit grandma and had to tell her about the spike in value of cards. She said she sees it on the news all time and she about shit her britches when I told her about one particular card I paid $150 for that spiked to nearly $8,000. I could hardly believe it either to be honest. She was no longer a skeptic. I think it was her seeing it on the news that finally got her to believe. That was a fun moment for us that sparked from a moment created long ago.
Love this story!!! I was a Grandma's boy also. She was tbe only one in my family that actually had faith in me and my collecting. She passed Way 10 yrs ago. i would love to see the joy on her face during the spike. .y father would buy them for me and kinda got me started so i don't thing he was to skeptical but i do think my Grandma really had faith in that i knrw what i was doing or atleast giving me positive feedback but i. still trying to convince my mom to this day even after she sees what i have given for a card and made off of it.. She 64 am 43 and if she sees me getting cards in mail or whatever the case maybe, she still asks me if i am ever going to grow up and stop stockpiling pictures of grown men on cardboard 🤣🤣 .... Nope mom not anytime soon lol
1987 is about the time I stopped collecting (the first time) as I was entering high school. I would re-enter the hobby after graduating in 1990. As I was moving out of my mom's house right after high school, my younger brother's friends were there and asked if I had any baseball cards. I opened a box up and let them sift through it. They were all "OMG" "HOLY CRAP" and asked if I knew what I had. I knew about my Rickey Henderson RC but didn't know of the Bird/ Irving/ Magic. The cards I had weren't mint by any means but they let me know I had enough to buy a new CD player for my car..lol
Unfortunately I had my collection in a storage unit and was broken into and stolen. If it wasn't for those two kids letting me know about those cards I may have never gotten back into the hobby though..
I bought a lot of 87 Topps growing up, but my LCS never had any Fleer. They did sell Donruss (marked up a bit). I recall 87 Fleer really exploded in Beckett pricing around 88 - 89. The Bonds, Clark, Sierra and other RCs were on fire!
The biggest difference between buying packs in 1987 and today...is the price. Hobby breakers driving up the cost, for boxes.
Love the 1987 Topps.. Thats where my hobby begun.. It will always be my roots to the hobby.. Check out SGC 10 Mark McGwire from the Topps set..
I really got into collecting in the early 90's so I mostly bought junk wax boxes. I do remember getting a complete set of 1987 Topps for my birthday. I think my dad paid $40 for it back then. Lol
Chris, I really enjoyed this recap of 1987. That for me was my first year back after almost 12 years away from the hobby. I first collected in 1970 to about 1975. With this video, you remind me of facts I once knew. Had I known then what I know now, I would have bought more Tiffany sets. I do own a 1987 Fleer glossy set which is in a binder. Thanks for making this video. Dan
86-87 was when i started collecting cards.... 86 Football and 87 Baseball.... loved the Green field looking border for 86 Topps Football and the wood Baseball bat grain for 87 Topps Baseball .... Still my favorite sets just because they look cool imo and like i said its the yrs i started collecting. I was 7 yr old. sold most of my toys to buy cards. I was becoming a man, in my mind 🤣🤣 great times
I still buy that McGwire topps card whenever I see it, assuming it is only a few buck. I've seen people try to sell them for as much as 10 dollars raw, which is crazy to me. Such a cool card and cool set.
1987 across all brands had some of the best, most iconic designs! My personal favorite was Donruss... the design has really held up well, the bold black and gray, especially with the awesome Rated Rookie logo.
I cracked a case of vending picture cards of 1987 Topps. I got about 25 Bonds and enough commons to build a house.
Good idea for a video. I'm currently working on a 87 Tiffany set. Those cards are so beautiful. Keep the great videos coming Chris!
Ahhhhhh update sets, Tiffany sets and most importantly... Rack packs... The good ol' days
I remember the 1987 sets as much for the last cards it had as for the first cards - 1987 had the last cards of Tom Seaver, Pete Rose, and Reggie Jackson (as well as near-last cards of Steve Carlton, and Mike Schmidt) who already seemed like ancient legends to a 7 year old in 1990.
I remember as an 11 year old buying my first 87 Topps pack and pulling Nolan Ryan. Love 87 Topps baseball still to this day. That began my intro into the Ryan Express. He was my idol growing up. Also, underrated to me is Fred McGriff Update 87 Fleer even though it's not a rookie it's his first Fleer card. 87 also had the iconic Classic Green Bo Jackson card even though it's unlicensed it's underated imo. That card is very hard to find in a PSA 10.
First year collecting! Lawn mowing money for Opeechee wood grain wax packs. Mostly was concerned with completing the Blue Jays team set. Great vid Chris!
Topps 87 love it. Barry Bonds and Barry Larkin. Love them both
Awesome job. Informative and entertaining. Keep up your good work.
Not only was Greg Maddux one of the best pitchers ever he had 18 Golden Glove Awards. A record I think will last forever.
This is a great idea for a show. The hottest rookie I remember in '87 was 87 Topps Wally Joyner
I know people liked '87 topps but I thought this was one of the ugliest years in baseball cards for all of the manufacturers. Bo over Barry was a surprise.
In Canada the raw cards of Maddux and Jackson are closer to $10 & $5 respectfively
I hope Don Mattingly gets into MLB hall of fame, he was the best batter, first baseman for several years before injuries, and then his 87 card gets a boost
1987 would have likely been the least year I bought and ripped a pack as a kid, about the time I got a car.
Hard to believe they are so cheap raw.
This was my first year of collecting and these sets are burned into my brain. My dad, sister, and I would open up a box and then see who could put the best all-star team together and argue by position who had the best players (all star cards were always deemed a little less than the main player card) :)
My favorite set from that year was the Donruss Opening Day set. I got that for Christmas as a kid. Did not get the Bonds error card with Johnny Ray as the photo.
This was the first year I got into baseball cards. I was all over this. Funny, I don't really recall the Donruss Rookies set. And of course, I don't think any of us kids had any idea about the Tiffany cards - otherwise, I certainly would have wanted some. Awesome nostalgic vid!
At the time I had never heard anyone mention Tiffany, except for the singer.
@@walterdudedonny exactly!!! 😂
I still have most of the topps and donruss versions of those cards. Doubt theyll get psa 10s after 40 years in a binder
I'm pretty sure at one point I was buying the 1987 set for 5 bucks!
I bought a lot of 100 Topps Larkin rookies. Even though he made the HOF I still didn't make any money. Still have a Fleer set in a binder, those are really nice looking cards, so many rookies in the 1987 set.
Great video, Chris! 1987 was the first year I started collecting cards, so those sets will always hold a special place in my heart. I probably have several hundred of the '87 Topps Will Clark card... he's a VERY under-rated player in my opinion (he actually has a higher WAR than Fred McGriff). Will's last season is one of the strongest of any career finales. I wish he had played a couple years more, which would have strengthened his HOF case.
I love all of the 87 sets; it was just my second year of collecting, but I was into it big time by then.
Love this video. My favorite years to collect as a kid. Do you ever buy a box from the Junk Era to re-live memories when you were a kid. I opened a 87 Topps box early this year.
I do all the time. Still go thru packs and remember a player or card I haven't seen in years. The good Ole days
More vids like these please
One thing I would like to see Chris, but it's not possible to do until like the mid 80s is to hear the rookies everyone was searching for that year, if you know them or could find them. I know during this era there were a lot of hot rookies that didn't really pan out.
First year I started collecting cards. Nolan Ryan was and still is my favorite player to collect. There will never be another Ryan Express. Love your videos informative and a trip down memory lane. The first set I owned was 89 fleer. I remember going to Walmart when the sets released and there was an entire pallet of the Fleer sets sitting almost right in the entrance to the store.
Great video. 🙏🏻
I was 10 when these sets came out and really the first sets I started collecting! Definitely the Bo Jackson was on of my favorite to chase! But also the McGwire and the Canseco were definitely big chasers also! The first set my parents ever got me for Christmas I think it cost between $100-$150 I’m not sure! I just went to Myrtle Beach in Oct. and bought one for $8 😂! Opened it the other night! All the key cards were off center but most of the set wasn’t it was sealed and taped it seemed unopened but I guess not! Odd the hood cards were all bad! But loved those days! I spent all my money I earned to buy these packs to rip open and loved every minute! Of course I was disappointed a lot but that’s opening packs! Thanks for the cool uploads, Chris!!
1987 was my first year collecting cards. The 2 hottest rookie cards I remember at the time were the 1987 Fleer Will Clark and Fleer Kevin Seitzer who had a great rookie season with the Royals.
Seitzer, he may be the next George Brett!
1987 was the peak of my collecting and this brought back so many memories. Great video Chris. Being Canadian I have the OPC and Leaf variants of these cards which makes them a fair bit more valuable. I recently sent in a Leaf Maddux and Bo as well as an Opc Bonds to SGC with mixed results. The Bo got an 8, the Bonds came back as just Authentic ( no clue why) and the Maddux got a 10. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and I would love to see a review of 1989 with upper deck joining the mix.
Man that was such a fun time in my childhood.
Loved this set and was really in my wheelhouse as a young collector. Much more innocent times.
I still buy these sets and cards. I love them
I’d be so curious to hear what kids these days think of the state of the hobby back in ‘87. Looking back, it was the caveman days of the hobby, but it was beautiful in its simplicity.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. ‘87 was my bar Mitzvah year :)
Maybe its just me but I always hated the 87 wood grain topps. My fave was 83 Topps.
I loved the 83 Topps too! It was, in my experience, the 1st time there were 2 photos of the player on the same card!