The 1980's...

[curch]

oh wow, this is an awesome thread. Just last year I went back and purchased the following sets. 84 Donruss and Fleer, 86 Donruss, 89 Score football, 90 Leaf and 92 Bowman baseball, football and hockey. Ok, so not all were from the 80's but some of my favorite cards were in those sets back when I was younger and just starting to collect. Couldn't afford them then, so it was fun to get them now. Oh yeah, and I was also able to pick up a Jordan Rookie for next to nothing. Not in the greatest shape, but still fun to have.

Joe

[JasonL]

Originally Posted by curch

oh wow, this is an awesome thread. Just last year I went back and purchased the following sets. 84 Donruss and Fleer, 86 Donruss, 89 Score football, 90 Leaf and 92 Bowman baseball, football and hockey. Ok, so not all were from the 80's but some of my favorite cards were in those sets back when I was younger and just starting to collect. Couldn't afford them then, so it was fun to get them now. Oh yeah, and I was also able to pick up a Jordan Rookie for next to nothing. Not in the greatest shape, but still fun to have.

Joe

please share a scan!
It is fun to go back and buy a few things that you couldn't afford to do back then, isn't it?
My latest example was re-discovering the 1986 Fleer Star Stickers, and buying 3 unopened boxes for like $12-15 each and going nuts opening packs!
My sons loved it too, even though they only knew to look for Ozzie Smith and Kirby Puckett.

[FUBAR]

I have a few Jordan rookies.... Bryan Jordan unfortunately!

[curch]

I think he was in the 80's....or early 90's. Its all good.

[Irwin Fletcher]

It's funny how a bunch of these ultra-hyped rookies of the '80s kind of flamed out and then ended up having pretty good careers. Rob mentioned Andy Benes. I remember, as other posters have mentioned, the incredible hype machines for Mark Grace, Todd Zeile, and Gregg Jefferies in 1988. They all seemed to not live up to the hype, but in retrospect were pretty good, especially Grace, who had an excellent career. Someone told me he had the most hits in the 1990s and he finished with almost 2450 hits. Zeile had over 2000 career hits and Jefferies had two excellent seasons with the Cardinals (two top 20 MVP finishes).

But I guess when it comes to hyped rookies in the late 1980s, for every Mark Grace, there were 10 Ricky Jordans.

[curch]

Players from this decade like Canseco, McGwire, Strawberry, Clemens, Jefferies, Dykstra, Fernando, etc will always stick in our minds for many different reasons. Just a good/strange time.