And again and again and again until I had retired at age 15. It used to be that you had to do something pretty special, like hit three home runs in one World Series game, before you could have your own baseball-themed candy bar. The good news is, its got your name on it. The headline for this 1979 Topps baseball rack pack says, GO 4 OZZIE SMITH RC.. Inside the packs were goodies like the Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card, the Steve Sax rookie card, the Shooty Babittrookie card. Kevin Mitchell makes one appearance, as do Nolan Ryan, John Kruk, and Jose Canseco. And besides, this eBay lot offers up two of the Pete Rose cards on the front of 1985 Donruss rack packs. Mattingly was a fan favorite and helped lead the Yankees to several successful seasons in the 1980s. If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s (and probably the 1990s) as a baseball card collector, you know the feeling well. April 2023; January 2023; December 2022; November 2022; As the older generation of baseball writers move on, allowing room for those who love analytics and arent as hardened against PED use, well probably see plenty of the steroid stars on this list get enshrined. Oh, and they have fuzzy perforated edges. The rookie card class was pretty weak, for another (thought Cecil Fielder beefed it up when he came back from Japan in 1990). Someday, somehow, we all know Bonds will get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While hitters are generally more valuable than pitchers in fantasy play, pitchers are even less desirable in collecting. Imagine its Christmas morning in 1978, and the living room is littered with wrapping paper and baubles and toys that will be forgotten about before you head back to school in January. I believe I bought about $10 worth.maybe 300 cards. Like, say, some 1974 Topps Deckle Edge cards. So they took 30 of their favorite 1984 cards, blew them up to 5 x 7, plopped them into plastic wax packs and called them super. The only question here is would you eat this stuff? But Maddux won four Cy Young Awards and dominated the 90s, more than half of which came when offenses were exploding. So, yeah, lots like this one four unopened boxes of 1987 Donruss wax packs make my old man heart go pitter-patter and leaves me with drool pooled at my feet. And, oh yeah if you dont like the stars showing on this lot, the seller has two other 1985 Topps Rack Pack lots to choose from here and here (affiliate links). The odds are against you on all those fronts considering theres just one card in the pack, but it sure is fun to wonder, isnt it? Who? And thats where this eBay lot comes in a 36-count box of those three-packs. 13 Junk Wax Era Baseball Cards Worth Buying in 2023 - Gold But Topps issued a parallel, limited edition Desert Shield set in addition to the regular set of 792 cards, and this special gold-foil-stamped set was sent to soldiers serving in Operation Desert Shield. Theres a consensus about one in particular a 1993 SP Derek Jeter rookie card. Topps tried out another version of their picture-in-picture design not on par with 1983 but not terrible. One recently sold for more than $6.6 million, becoming the most expensive trading card ever . The card is part of the 1993 SP (Special) set, which Upper Deck produced.