If youre reading this, chances are pretty good you spent at least part of your childhood as I did ripping open (or carefully unflapping) wax packs of baseball cards. 3
Its also sad because the case itself is so beat up. (Not sure why I didnt make the set because I once tied for the Major League lead among all fans for fewest games attended in person.). 1987 Donruss Opening Day. And in between is Bert Blyleven, who you know as a sort of good pitcher for the faraway Texas Rangers. There were three kinds of collectors in the early spring of 1987 those who had access to 1987 Fleer baseball cards, those who had access to 1987 Donruss baseball cards, and (mostly) those who had access to neither 1987 Fleer nor 1987 Donruss baseball cards. - Gallery
Thanks for sharing some fun memories! Report this item opens in a new window or tab. View cart for details. So its always fun and nostalgic when a 1982 Donruss wax pack makes an appearance, as in this eBay lot. In all, there were 133 pins/buttons issued, so youd need to buy at least two boxes to get the full set (which you could also buy all at once from dealers, then and now). All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. So, while this 1984 Topps rack pack with a Mattingly rookie on top doesnt hold quite the hobby sway that a Donruss version would, its still an awesome artifact from one of the great runs in hobby history. Especially especially when the PSA Population Report shows ups that fewer than 50 of any particular card from said test issue has ever been submitted for grading? Rose slashed his way past Ty Cobb and his 4191 hits on September 11, 1985, and the hobby loved him for it before, at that moment, and afterward. Measuring standard card size and packaged with gum for 25 cents, Star Stickers were like another whole parallel (125 cards) but one that you could stick on stuff. Its where its at! If youve been around the hobby for awhile, youve undoubtedly run across 1981 Topps Scratch-Offs. Round, enameled, bright colored borders, full color photos, baseballs biggest stars these babies are great! And, finally, Rob Picciolo wasnt small at all, but his name is really close to piccolo, which is like a small flute. And, really, what else could you call a near life-size rendering of the great Al Holland? But its happy because the blue boxes themselves are shining through a crack in the case cardboard, and they look pretty gorgeous still. The 1987 Donruss Opening Day set is comprised of 273 cards measuring 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" each. COMC.com is doing business for CheckOutMyLLCand is utilizing patented technology. Heads Up Baseball Stars. Its probably seen a hard life, or its just aged, like I have. Checklist |
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So they took 30 of their favorite 1984 cards, blew them up to 5 x 7, plopped them into plastic wax packs and called them super. Wax listingshere.). That has to be good right? Except I always got distracted by Donruss and Fleer and Topps Stickers and Action All-Stars and Fun Foods. - Packaging
Nothing compelling enough to pull you away from your Godzilla action figure, though, so you toss the cards in the pile of Christmas Crap (TM). update=copyright.getFullYear();
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And when they were all done, Topps darn near fell into the pond and drowned while looking at their own reflection in the neighborhood cardboard pond. BO JACKSON RC 1987 Donruss Opening Day ROOKIE 205 PSA 9 MINT royals LOW POP WOW #205 [eBay] $43.99. Cards are identical in design to the 1987 regular Donruss issue except that the Opening Day cards have a maroon . These scratch-offs came in three-player panels, and you could play a baseball game by scratching off the dots like a lottery ticket for Little Leaguers. Yet money, in turn, made the hobby less akin to child's play and more like work: Lot 13: 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY SET UNOPENED Sold: Log in to view Auctions By Moldenhauer October 24, 2021 LAPORTE, IN, US View more details More About this Item Item Overview Description THIS LOT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING UNOPENED DONRUSS OPENING DAY SET, DOES THIS SET HAVE THE RARE JOHNNY RAY BARRY BONDS ROOKIE CARD? I mean, who knows how close we came to never having the chance to pull the San Diego Chicken card that might lie inside? 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Kevin Mitchell makes one appearance, as do Nolan Ryan, John Kruk, and Jose Canseco. I mean, just look at those gorgeous Topps rack packs, with Tom Seaver showing and Rick Sutcliffe showing and Fergie Jenkins showing and. Because that year, if you bought specially marked containers of Mrs. Butterworths syrup, you also got three 1980 Topps baseball cards PLUS ALL TIME RECORDS all packed in a handy cellophane package. The perception, at least, was that Fleer and Donruss cards were printed on superior cardstock and existed in much fewer quantities than their Topps counterparts. Not only did you get a new Fleer set and a new Donruss set, both with enough errors to keep your English teacher in haughty bliss all the way through high school, but you got extras. Will you find the Rose rookie here in this one-cent wax pack up for auction on eBay right now? . But theres one package left a smallish rectangular one that could be a watch or maybe maybe something better? 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1987 Donruss Opening Day is a 272-card set that features the complete 1987 opening day starting lineups for all 26 Major League teams. Estimated PSA 10 Gem Mint Value: $45. Let me know what you think, and Ill adjust as we go. You ever create something thats just so good, so unbelievably groundbreaking that all you want to do is find a way to broadcast it to the world?
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Rating: 6.4 (29 votes) Click here to Rate. and Topps. And if its a bit rich for your blood, with its Buy-It-Now of nearly $700, you could opt for the companion lot offering four unopened wax packs from the same set (affiliate link). Shop COMC's extensive selection of 1987 donruss opening day - box set [base] baseball cards. Is there anything better than sitting down with a box of fresh wax packs with dreams of uncovering your next big baseball card find? Those memories are part of what draws me to lots like this one, a full 1987 Topps vending case. Share your knowledge of This innovative set of 272 standard-size cards features a card for each of the players in the starting line-ups of all the teams on Opening Day 1987. And again and again and again until I had retired at age 15. About this item. Thin cardstock, terrible photography, more errors than a Dick Stuart highlight reel, slightly self-indulgent card backs. Maybe inspiring the imagination with their funky shapes. You know, make the inset headshot square instead of round, fill it in with a garish color, add big block letters down the left-hand side. That is, if you were serious about this thing. Better grab yourTums. As a kid collector from the 1980s, this type of post does strike a chord with me! eBay Auction Event: 2023 Super Bowl Kickoff, eBay Auction Event: 2023 NHL All-Star Game. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Card Factory Unopened Set. 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY # 206 George Brett PSA 10 GEM MT # 55753381 ROYALS !!! Speaking of Bonds, his rookie card appears on two of these eight cello packs. Rating: 6.4 (30 votes)
Even now, 35 years later and after enough scandal and strife to choke a horse, Petes RC is a hobby staple. Shop COMC's extensive selection of 1987 donruss opening day baseball cards. 1987 Donruss Opening Day - Box Set [Base] #163.1 Barry Bonds (Barry Bonds Pictured) [BGS 8.5 NMMT+] $53.14. And, you know, busting all these packs would make you feel like a Kardboard King even if the cards arent worth the (thick) paper theyre printed on. Theyre those funky looking red and green cards, laid out horizontally and featuring a player headshot on one end with the rest of the front covered in scratch-off dots that allow you to play a game. OK, so this is not really *wax* in the strict sense, but wax is really a state of mind right? Even more luckily, I convinced my parents to float me a loan for all the burnt orange packs I could find. Report It. Or recessless schooldays? The early 1980s were a pretty dismal time for baseball cards or, more precisely, baseball card designs. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Box Set Will Clark #96 PSA 9 MINT Rookie RC Grade: PSA 9 Buy: $31.30 eBay (comc_consignment) 1987 Donruss Opening Day Logo Kansas City Royals #268 Buy: $1.00 eBay (jodysvintagebaseball) 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY #163B BARRY BONDS WHITE JERSEY Buy: $8.95 eBay (dannywgregory) Ungraded & graded values for all '87 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Cards. the largest free baseball card database on the Internet. And, among the 66 luminous luminaries who were Major League Leaders, youll find high-luminosity guys like Mike Smithson, Walt Terrell (Hoosier! Collecting baseball cards in 1984 was a pretty heady experience. In the in-between are goodies like six 1985 Topps baseball wax packs, three 1982 Donruss wax packs, two 1981 Topps baseball cello packs, and three 1989 Upper Deck baseball packs. You can enable both via your browser's preference settings. You scoured the pages of Baseball Cards and Sports Collectors Digest waiting for word of any new releases, and then you planned your life around getting your hands on some. Forum |
Oh, and Reggie Jackson, Robin Yount, Gwynn, and Boggs. In 1983, though Donruss and Fleer started to figure things out and issued their best sets to date. Teams in the same city share a checklist card. So, yeah, lots like this one four unopened boxes of 1987 Donruss wax packs make my old man heart go pitter-patter and leaves me with drool pooled at my feet. Lots of chances to perfect your no-tears tearing. The 1986 season was the season that put Roger Clemens on the map. Which card is the most valuable? Even I, as jaded and homerish as I am, can admit the 1985 Donruss Pete Rose Expos card doesnt look all that bad from an aesthetic point of view. So, not only did they issue a 1981 base set that was fairly OK plus showcased one of the greatest error cards of all time (C. Nettles), they also blessed us with their first Star Stickers set. The only question here is would you eat this stuff? Set Links - Overview - Checklist . And this eBay lot? Mattingly+rookie+cant-find-these-cards-anywhere+New York Hype = explosion. We were pretty sure, though, that all these young hitters would end up in Cooperstown. Imagine its Christmas morning in 1978, and the living room is littered with wrapping paper and baubles and toys that will be forgotten about before you head back to school in January. The set was distributed exclusively as a factory set and came packaged in a specially designed box. 5th ALL TIME in Ks, 1987 Donruss Opening Day set Box Leaf Empty, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #196 Buddy Bell Cincinnati Reds PSA 10 Gem Mint 9288156, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #136 Eddie Murray Orioles PSA 10 Gem Mint 15113875, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #232 Carlton Fisk White Sox PSA 10 Gem Mint 15113893, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #5 Devon White RC Angels PSA 10 Gem Mint 17627464, 1987 Donruss Opening Day baseball card factory set Barry Bonds Sealed, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #175 Pete Incaviglia Rangers PSA 10 Gem Mint 17627482, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Team Set, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #78 Bill Madlock LA Dodgers PSA 10 Gem Mint 21067891, RUBEN SIERRA Autographed Signed 1987 Donruss Opening Day card #172 Texas Rangers, 1987 Donruss #191 BARRY LARKIN Rookie OPENING DAY RC Cincinnati Reds HOF, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #136 Eddie Murray Orioles PSA 10 Gem Mint 21125618, Four 1987 Donruss Opening Day Rickey Henderson #248 #HOF, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #42 Ken Griffey Atlanta Braves PSA 10 Gem Mint 21067881. And then along came the 1980s, with its baseball card boom and the incessant hyping of every rookie from Paul Assenmacher to Paul Zuvella. Today, though, how can you not get all warm and giddy at the prospect of nine American League cards and nine National League cards and a stick of gum inside a four-decade-old wrapper??? Only the gum stick knows for sure. This lot also includes a bunch of loose BK cards, like some fries that fell out of the box, but that the server plopped in your bag, anyway. This eBay lot gives you 72 chances two full wax boxes for you to let 1981 Fleer Star Stickers get stuck on you. The card is nothing but a comic. ), See the full listing on eBay (affiliate link). On the front, you have Dave Goltz, who was a pretty good pitcher for awhile and also played Ralph the Doorman on The Jeffersons. Get exclusive, FREE weekly baseball card ramblings, straight to your inbox! When Fleer finally won the right to produce baseball cards in 1980 after decades of struggle, they wanted to make sure collectors knew they were here to stay. favorite? At the same time, collectors were having trouble filling their one-of-everything desires because 1984 Donruss was downright scarce and it was a really nice looking set for a change. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Complete Factory Unopened Set at the best online prices at eBay! The set consisted of 272 baseball cards and each card from the 1987 Donruss Opening Day baseball card set is listed below. 1987 DONRUSS OPENING DAY FACTORY SEALED SET BARRY BONDS ROOKIE RC RAY VARIATION? We use cookies to improve your experience. We have the stars and rookies from T206's to the present, and a large selection of commons thru 1980 to help with your collecting needs. eBay Auction Event: 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend! A card of Barry Bonds showing the picture of his Pirates teammate Johnny Ray was corrected very early in the press run, and supposedly less than two percent of the sets have the error. eBay Auction Event: 2023 Super Bowl Kickoff, eBay Auction Event: 2023 NHL All-Star Game. Granted, most of those dudes fell short of Hall of Fame standards, but theyre still standards among 1980s rookie cards. Or your TV, if you were feeling lucky in dealing with your dad. User Agreement. I mean, the 1987 Topps woodies were everywhere 1987 Donruss was scarce but seemed to exist in pockets. If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s (and probably the 1990s) as a baseball card collector, you know the feeling well. See, a single vending case contained 24 vending boxes, each with 500 brand new, perfect cards (probably not perfect, but thats how it seemed). But not quite, and they wanted to spread that word. Is there any way to tell which 1987 Donruss Opening Day sets were produced earlier in the run (i.e. Rookie cards, autographs and more. The photo is colorful and sharp, and the Montreal colors look good inside the love-it-or-hate-it black border. I know that we all know now that 1987 Donruss is not rare, but its still awesome to me. Its an age-old problem in this hobby you find a pile of unopened baseball card packs and you want to buy one and tear into it in the hopes that youll find something great like a Greg Gross rookie or Glenn Hubbards snake. On the heels of their gorgeous 1983 set, Topps decided that the best thing to do was tweak the thing a bit. Why, thats not anywhere close to $14.40! And this lot offers up a bunch of that all in one convenient package. There in the first panel is Don Money. And, for only $200 or so, you could relive the thrill of searching for them under wax wraps. Its freaking genius! Unless, of course, you have the willpower to keep it intact. 1987 Donruss Opening Day Baseball Team Sets **Pick Your Team**, 1987 Donruss Opening Day - DETROIT TIGERS Team Set, Leave feedback about your eBay search experience - opens in new window or tab. At the same time, Fleer and Donruss had overcome their early growing pains to leapfrog over Topps in terms of card quality and values. Note: Baseball cards which featured a player who did not appear in a regular season game during the most recently completed season, do not link to their major league statistics. Either was, the 1984 Topps set is chock full of classic cards, and you know it would be a blast to tear through this puppy. And thats why this eBay lot is so jaw-dropping. Depending on the year, that would have like quadrupled, tripled, or at least double my collection. For the first several years I collected, I harbored this dream about worlddomination and it all hinged on Topps vending cases. The 1980 Burger King cards in this lot (affiliate link) shouldnt cause quite as much confusion, though. $0.99 1 bids Notes about 1987 Donruss Opening Day NOTE: Many features on the COMC.com web site require Javascript and cookies. Apparently, thats how Topps felt in 1984. Freddie Patek was the size of an average Dachsund but was an All-Star shortstop for the Kansas City Royals and somehow hit 41 homers in the Major Leagues. Three wax packs inside of a cellophane rack pack. Like, say, some 1974 Topps Deckle Edge cards. Check Out Our eBay Store! - Contributors
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As in, that lot is one pack shy of three boxes. Thanks to the Internet and thanks especially to shopping websites like eBay and Amazon, we can find most of the cards we dreamed about as kids just about any time we want. http://baseballcardpedia.com/index.php?title=1987_Donruss_Opening_Day&oldid=57098, 163 Barry Bonds ERR (Photo is Johnny Ray). This page is dedicated to reliving those thrills of youth by bringing to light one incredible (in some way) unopened lot of baseball cards each day. Jose Cruz was actually six feet tall but felt Patek-ish because he crouched like a tiger. Donruss took a unique approach with this issue as each card feat . Different card numbers, sometimes a different photo. Look Ive already told you how I feel about Pete Rose in a Montreal Expos uniform. Whichever something inspired someone to marry the two Topps and Mrs. Butterworths, that is. If you made it through the lean hobby years of the Topps monopoly, man, were you rewarded in 1981! Not too bad, but not spectacular.
. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. Topps capitalized on that popularity the next year by issuing a whopping nine Rose cards in their base set the normal Rose at #1, a Record Breaker at #206, a manager/Cincinnati Reds team card at #741, and six retrospective cards (#2-7) that showed miniature versions of Petes previous 24 base Topps cards. In the third panel is Buddy Schultz. Quite a rally from the brink of obscurity! It didnt even matter that the cards werent all that great. Was it even save back then? But one thing 1986 Topps did have going for it was Pete Rose like, all over the place.
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