August 6, 2015: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/6/2015
Take yourself back to the dawn of the modern age of baseball cards and this extraordinary lot will cover the entire giddy decade of the 1980’s and into the early 1990’s. It’s all here, the Topps, Fleer, Score and Donruss regular-issue sets, the various Updates, Rookies and Traded auxiliary offerings and even a couple of football and basketball sets from the same era just to make sure you were paying attention. That’s pretty cool, as is the realization that with the vast majority being factory and even factory-sealed issues, you talking about a condition range that starts with Near-Mint and goes upward from there. For somebody wanting to fill in that glorious, frenetic decade when the world of baseball cards got spasmodically expanded to absolutely unheard of proportions, this massive array of pristine, mostly untouched cards does the trick handsomely. A complete listing follows, with set number totals and some of the key cards or rookies noted for many of the issues.
Topps Baseball: Complete regular-issue sets from 1981 (726 - Ozzie Smith), 1982 (792 – Ripken), 1983 (792 – Boggs, Sandberg and Gwynn), 1984 (792 - Mattingly), 1985 (792 – McGwire), 1986 (792), 1987 (792), 1988 (792), 1989 Factory Set (792) and 1990 Factory Set (792); Topps Traded sets from 1981 (132), 1982 (132 – Ripken), 1983 (132 – Strawberry), 1985 (132), 1986 (132 – Bonds and Bo Jackson), 1987 (132 – Maddux), 1988 (132), and 1989 (132 – Griffey Jr.).
Fleer Baseball: Complete regular-issue sets from 1981 (660), 1982 (660 – Ripken), 1983 (660 – Boggs, Gwynn and Sandberg), 1984 (660 – Mattingly), 1985 (660), 1986 (660 – Canseco), 1987 Factory Set (660 – Bonds), 1988 Factory (660), 1989 Factory (660 – Griffey Jr.), and 1990 Factory (660); Update sets from 1985 (132), 1986 (132), 1987 (132 – Maddux), 1987 Glossy Tin (132 – Maddux), 1988 (132 – Alomar and Biggio) and 1989 (132).
Donruss Baseball: Complete regular-issue sets from 1981 (605), 1982 Factory (660 – Ripken), 1983 (660 – Sandberg, Gwynn and Boggs), 1984 (660 – Mattingly), 1985 (660 – Clemens), 1986 Factory (660 – Canseco), 1987 Factory (660 – Maddux), 1988 Factory (660) and 1989 Factory (660 – Griffey Jr.); Rookies set from 1986 (56 – Bonds), 1987 (56 – Maddux), 1988 (56 – Alomar) and 1989 (56); and 1989 Traded Set (56 – Griffey Jr.).
Upper Deck Baseball: Complete regular-issue sets from 1989 Factory Sealed (800 – Griffey Jr.), 1990 Factory Sealed (800), 1991 Factory Sealed (800 – Chipper Jones), 1992 Factory Sealed (800) and 1993 Factory Sealed (840 – Jeter); and 1991 Final Edition Factory-Sealed Set (100 - Rodriguez).
Score Baseball: Complete regular-issue sets from 1989 Factory Sealed (660) and 1990 (704); and Rookie & Traded Sets from 1988 (110 – Alomar and Biggio) and 1989 (110 – Griffey Jr.).
Football and Basketball: 1987 Topps Football (396), 1988 Topps Football (396), 1991 Upper Deck Factory-Sealed Set (700) and 1991 JOGO CFL Factory-Sealed Set (220); and 1991 Upper Deck Basketball Factory-Sealed Set (500).
Huge Hoard of Pristine Topps, Fleer, Donruss, Score and Upper Deck Sets from 1981-93 (30,529)
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