All Praise 1980 Topps

[jp1216]

You never forget your first - 1980 Topps Baseball! (Football and Hockey - hello Gretzky). Ricky to Phil Simms to the Great One. So many packs, so much fun!

[Eric72]

My favorite "modern" set. I was seven (almost eight) when Topps released it. It was the year when I began to really collect baseball cards.

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Well, this thread made me go dig through my 1980 Topps cards...and you're right, this really is a good set. The pictures and design are great.

Speaking of great pictures, as I was going through the cards, I stopped to appreciate the Tim Foli card. Who is Tim Foli you ask? I have no idea. But take a look at this...between Tim's expression, the action, Youngblood's awkward arm angle in the slide (???), Tim's autograph penmanship, and those old time Pirate uniforms, this makes for a GREAT card:

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[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Every time I see a thread like this it makes me think I could be happy only collecting cards from this decade. I don't really consider myself an error/variation collector, but I gravitate toward that with cards from the 80s. There's just so much affordable, neat stuff out there from this decade of my youth. Somehow, I currently don't own any '80 Topps. Not sure how, but I have a feeling I'll correct that.

[Bigdaddy]

Every time I see a thread like this.....it makes me want to put the set together. I've got a bunch of these laying around, may just need to take the plunge.

As a teenager, my collecting took a nosedive in 1980 after taking off in '77, gaining momentum in '78 and winding down in '79. Somehow though I've got a stash of 1980s. Those really are some nice photos. And I like the All-Star banner.

[dodgerfanjohn]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

Every time I see a thread like this.....it makes me want to put the set together. I've got a bunch of these laying around, may just need to take the plunge.

As a teenager, my collecting took a nosedive in 1980 after taking off in '77, gaining momentum in '78 and winding down in '79. Somehow though I've got a stash of 1980s. Those really are some nice photos. And I like the All-Star banner.

I had collected as a kid and young adult 1980-1996 and then dropped it until Heritage came out in 2001, collected another couple years until 2005 and then dropped it again until 2012 when I had a life threatening illness and was not able to work or only able to work part time. I had factory sets from 1984 on, but during this time I went back and assembled sets from 1978-1983. Not very expensive and I already had all the key cards. Vending was still cheap in 2012, relative to now, so that’s where I started, upgrading the old cards that needed it(most of them lol).

I eventually wound up with a set run from 1976 to present, and intend to eventually go backwards building sets. The 1980 set was particularly fun and a definite reliving of my childhood.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by thatkidfromjerrymaguire

Well, this thread made me go dig through my 1980 Topps cards...and you're right, this really is a good set. The pictures and design are great.

Speaking of great pictures, as I was going through the cards, I stopped to appreciate the Tim Foli card. Who is Tim Foli you ask? I have no idea. But take a look at this...between Tim's expression, the action, Youngblood's awkward arm angle in the slide (???), Tim's autograph penmanship, and those old time Pirate uniforms, this makes for a GREAT card:

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Tim Foli was a decent infielder who could play 2b-3b-ss and hit around .250. Kind of guy who'd get sacrifices and HPB if he could, not cause trouble, etc.

[mrmopar]

There are just some cards that define a certain year for me. The 80 Ryan is one of those. Awesome action shot & AS banner seal the deal. Same can be said for the 79 Rose and Carew cards, 78 Reggie, Doug Ault, Lenny Randle and a few more. The 70s (and 80 Topps) had some of the best looking cards ever made.

[dodgerfanjohn]

Originally Posted by Eric72

My favorite "modern" set. I was seven (almost eight) when Topps released it. It was the year when I began to really collect baseball cards.

Me too!

Turned 8 in July 1980. My grandfather had been a semi pro ball player in the early 1930’s and really turned me onto collecting baseball cards. Once a week my mom would go over to my grandparents house and he would pick me up from school and go to Thrifty’s for an ice cream cone and a few packs of cards. I was hooked. It didn’t hurt that I lived in Los Angeles and Fernando mania was in full effect the next season.

I think at one point I had 7 Henderson’s, of course none in great shape because I was 8 and my brother was 5. I still have two of them and lucked into a vending box about ten years ago for $125 that produced a Henderson that I sent to PSA and got an 8 on.

Mostly my extras from when I was a kid now in my Dodgers binder:

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I was always ticked off at pulling FIVE Johnny Oates and only one Steve Garvey. Id later learn that Garvey and others were single print. Anyway, my one Garvey. You can imagine what happened to the Hendersons.

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