What's your favorite junk wax?

[4815162342]

For some reason I've always liked 1984 topps.

[teetwoohsix]

This one's for you Pat Got it from a local card shop in a "mystery box",,usually filled with junk,but he throws a couple of decent things in there too........

[HRBAKER]

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

[teetwoohsix]

And,that's his "Bat Out Of Hell" he's holding too

[ArizonaGoat]

1987 Topps - wood grain goodness! These cards are so ugly I don't know why I love them. I have a factory set + a 5k box full of them + a bunch of rak-paks and cell-paks with cool players on them.

[JasonL]

The Wood Grain Goodness of the 1987 Topps rivals the Toasted Oat Goodness and Whole Grain Goodness of this nation's favorite breakfast cereals!

I remember hauling home a box of rack-packs, and sitting down in front of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon that year and dissecting the packing patterns so that I could decipher what cards were in what packs.

Good Times.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

The Wood Grain Goodness of the 1987 Topps rivals the Toasted Oat Goodness and Whole Grain Goodness of this nation's favorite breakfast cereals!

I remember hauling home a box of rack-packs, and sitting down in front of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon that year and dissecting the packing patterns so that I could decipher what cards were in what packs.

Good Times.

Ah, the "packing patterns". Reminds me of buying supposed unopened boxes of 1984 topps rack packs at shows, only to discover the dealer had already searched the packs and pulled the Mattingly's already.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by ArizonaGoat

1987 Topps - wood grain goodness! These cards are so ugly I don't know why I love them. I have a factory set + a 5k box full of them + a bunch of rak-paks and cell-paks with cool players on them.

Man, I hated that set...............but I loved that Bo Jackson card. Bo was that rare athlete, like Jim Brown, Bob Gibson or Mickey Mantle..........that had the look to somehow make any card he was on, the nicest looking card in the set.

[D. Bergin]

Who can forget the 1985 Topps Rub Downs?

Well I certainly did, until I decided to pick up a box selling for less then the cost of shipping it.

I don't even know if I love these or hate these, but they were certainly more fun in an age when there weren't 300 different sets coming out in the same year. Too bad Easter is over. I could have decorated a bunch of eggs with them.




Not sure why anyone would grade one of these...........but here it is.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Bo was that rare athlete ... that had the look to somehow make any card he was on, the nicest looking card in the set.

The antithesis of that sentiment would be Craig McMurtry.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

On BaseballReference.com they list him as being 170lbs.

I'm pretty sure he came out of the womb heavier then that.

Damn good "professional" hitter though.