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 ...

1987 was the first year I truly started paying attention to baseball statistics. I didn’t really get to watch any baseball; while I experienced the 1986 Braves season and that year’s playoffs on TV, I ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jerry Beach covers New York sports and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in ...

It was on this day — June 20, 1987 — that I saw my first big league game in person. I was only 11, but I remember the game as vividly as any I've ever attended. I remember the date because we tend to ...

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 ...

PORT ANGELES — Freshman, Rat, Cookie and the rest of the gang will be recognized as part of the Aggies/Wilder Baseball Alumni Game at 3 p.m. Saturday at Civic Field. The 1987 Aggies Baseball team, the ...

Say you had a time machine. Say you set it to 1987. Say you met a baseball fan from that year named Kelly. What could you tell Kelly about baseball in 2017 that would most strain his or her belief?