Even now, 35 years later, opening a pack of 1987 Topps feels like home. The wood-grain borders welcome you with open arms, like the memory of wedging yourself into the corner of the comfortable but ...

There was a time when the list of essential 1987 Topps cards was a mile long! Among the rookie cards in the set were Wally Joyner, Bo Jackson, Bobby Bonilla, Ruben Sierra, Mike Greenwell, Barry Bonds, ...

Richard Tyner slid the pack of 1987 Topps Major League Baseball "the Real one" cards over his counter for $1. The pack contained "17 Bubble Gum Cards" and "1 Stick Bubble Gum." It was the rookie year ...

Last summer, Mark Arduini was unemployed and struggling to motivate himself to fill out job applications. So he went to a local card shop, bought a box of 24 unopened packs of 1987 Topps and bribed ...

Earlier this week, I asked my Twitter family to help me choose the worst sets of the Junk Wax Era, which I’m loosely defining as 1987-1993. It was a fun project, with lots of great input from my ...

Conor Donahue says 1987 was the first year he remembers going to the store by himself to buy a 40 cent pack of Topps baseball cards. Donahue, now an adult and the vice president of publicity for the ...

Anthony Bryant Belker was born on November 8th, 2022, five days after the Cubs won their third World Series in six years. His parents, and thus he too, were at Game Five at Wrigley, and saw freshly ...

Topps throughout the years always tried to be appealing. Whether it was the basic white boarders, or the wood look of the 1987 cards, Topps constantly changed their design. The 1990 Topps baseball ...

The 1986 Topps set is a 'tweener as far as 1980s baseball cards go. Nestled between two seasons, 1985 and 1987, that brought collectors some of the decade's most pursued rookie cards, the biggest and ...