I love the 1979 design. Liked it as a kid, love it as an adult.
1) George Brett - This might be my favorite card from my youth. Easily top 5. He's ready for action, I love it. And of course, the most important part, the All-Star designation.
2) Bump Wills (Ranger variation) - The first error/variation card I became aware of. I remember my friends and I getting the Bump Wills card with the Blue Jays team and still in a Rangers uni and also looking at the box scores and seeing he was still with the Rangers. Then later in the summer at the toy store as I was going through the racks and what is this?!?!? Bump Wills with the Rangers?!?!? They changed it?!?!? I thought that was so cool that they corrected it
3) Freddie Patek - He got cheated out of the All-Star designation. That year my friends and I went crazy looking at all the AL SS trying to find who the All-Star was. Burleson? No Dent? No Yount? Smalley? Still no. I'm not sure that we ever realized they just didn't have one. How disappointing. Poor Freddie Patek.
4) Jim Palmer - Another quasi-action shot. Ready for action and an All-Star
5) Jim Rice - I really liked Rice when I was a kid. That 3-year stretch from 1977-1979 he was the biggest slugger in the game. Of course, another All-Star card.
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