In my opinion, 1987 was the beginning over the massive overproduction. I know it started to ramp up all throughout the 80s, bu I believe 1987 was the year.
I remember as a teenager watching a story on 20/20 during the summer of 1986 when they talked about how the value of baseball cards had skyrocketed. They talked about rookies and how the big 2 rookies that summer (Joyner and Canseco) did not have cards in Topps and only Canseco had cards at all.
I remember they showed a guy with a specially built vault in his house that contained his T-206 Wagner.
So my best un-professional guess is 1987. Thats when the presses REALLY went crazy.
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