i recently introduced my mini collection focusing on my favorite cards from each year that i've been a collector. the basic gist is that i wanted to create a space for the cards that i most appreciated having in my collection in the year that they were released. these were cards that i acquired in the year that they were issued, and that i considered to be my favorites at the time. i have disallowed (most) cards that are already in other mini collections in order to avoid having a mini collection consisting of more steve garvey, double plays, and dodger stadium cards.
1990 may have been the year that i've purchased the fewest cards. i know for certain that i bought a box of topps from a card shop in santa barbara. i also received a complete score set from my dad that year, which he purchased because local boy robin ventura was included in the set, as well as the topps traded set. i didn't even take the shrink wrap off of the score set. other than that, i would be surprised if i bought more than a dozen packs that year. as such, the cards i considered to be my favorites that year came from a limited stockpile.
griffey is just over a year older than i am. i followed his exploits during his rookie year of 1989, although i didn't pick up any of his cards other than the topps traded rookie which came in the set that i annually received from my dad. i had purchased a "s" mariners hat in the spring of 1988, and figured i now looked pretty smart to have done so before griffey debuted. anyway, i was happy to see his rookie card in one of the packs i opened. it wasn't until sometime later that i realized that donruss, fleer, and something called upper deck had all issued cards of him in their 1989 flagship sets, meaning that his first non-xrc topps card was really a second year card by all standards. still, i was happy to have this card of the kid in my collection.
favorite dodger card: topps sandy koufax
like i said up top, i didn't see a lot of cards in 1990. the dodger cards were pretty uninspiring, aside from tommy lasorda's card which is also in my dodger stadium mini-collection and therefore ineligible for this collection according to the whimsical enforcement of my rules. however, seeing a 1965 topps card included in the set, and having it be sandy koufax's, was a positive.
up next, 2012. stay tuned!
Off the top of my head... I'll go with the B&W Score card of Candlestick Park followed by the B&W Bo.
ReplyDeletei remember seeing the bo card back then, but i've never owned one. it was a big deal at the time.
DeleteI think 1990 Topps was what cemented my card collecting. After starting in 1987, 1988 and 1989 Topps were kind of dull to me, but when I opened up 1990, all those colors showed the possibilities of what a card could look like. It's silly now, but back then I think it was much more impressive.
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