Terrible Cards, Terrible Sets
Photos and descriptions of baseball cards from boring, overproduced sets, primarily between 1987 and 1992. Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Score, Upper Deck, and more.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
1989 Topps Baseball Featuring Card #493 Todd Benzinger
Just look at the fantastic left/right centering on that card! Did they cut this from the sheet with a dull pair of scissors? Even Todd Benzinger deserved better than this overproduced set and ridiculous crop.
1987 Topps Featuring Card #589 Steve Crawford
Did Topps give its 1987 cards a "wood-paneling effect" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1962 set? Cheap, overproduced crap that initially looked like it would have one of the best rookie classes ever only to have steroids accusations and underachievement and injuries and any number of other things turn this into a junk set along with of course the overproduction on every level from factory sets to wax packs. Here is Steve Crawford, a common if there ever was one.
1988 Score Baseball Featuring Card #157 Gary Ward
1988 Score base cards are garbage to begin with, and this lousy condition Gary Ward card is an example of true card collecting junk at its absolute most un-collectible. Not recommended for the suicide-prone.
1990 Topps Baseball Featuring Card #611 Walt Terrell
1990 Topps cards were junk to begin with, and commons such as Walt Terrell are worthless despite the presence of the Yankee uniform.
1991 Upper Deck Baseball Featuring Card #204 Alvaro Espinoza
This wouldn't be a bad looking card if not for the inclusion of Alvaro Epsinoza, whose glasses practically dominate the shot and whose 1990 average of .224 had been a 58-point drop from .282 in 1989. Upper Deck had increased production in 1990 as compared to 1989 and seemed increase it yet again in 1991 as compared to 1990. There was a lot of early interest in the Michael Jordan baseball card but even that card failed to hold its value very well.
1988 Topps Baseball Featuring Card #716 Lenn Sakata
Lenn Sakata in a Yankees uniform? Believe me, I was as taken aback as you probably are when I learned of this startling development. Even less startling: Sakata had only 9 RBI over the previous 2 seasons COMBINED, a number topped by several players in a SINGLE GAME over the history of baseball including Jim Bottomley, Mark Whiten, and Tony Lazzeri who are the single game record holders in the 2 major leagues with 12 RBI in a single game for Whiten & Bottomley and 11 RBI in a single game for Lazzeri.
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