If you asked me what are my favorite Topps baseball cards, the 1987 set would be right near the top.
A takeoff of the popular 1962 set, with similar wood-grained borders, this was an instrumental set in the explosive rise in the popularity of baseball cards in the late 1980s. It was also at the height of mass production, and the quality and color could sometimes vary from box to box, not to mention the occasional miscut cards you could get.
For the longest time, it was nothing to see unopened boxes sitting on tables at card shows for $5. But they have gone back up in price in the latest sports card craze the last couple of years. At the most recent shows I have attended, they were going for around $25 a box, and this past summer at The National in Atlantic City, I found them on the floor at that price as well.
“They are selling again,” one dealer told me. “I’ve brought them back out.”
In August of 2021, I pulled out a set I had hand-built back in the day and decided to start sending off cards through the mail (TTM) and see how many I could get
