The 1986 Topps Traded Baseball set - a faded crown jewel?
Collecting the 1987 Fleer Basketball Card Set
Set Notes
What happens when a 132-card set is loaded with great second-year players, but lacks star rookie cards of it's own? PSA's Kevin Glew has some thoughts on playing second fiddle.
Curator of Collections, Card Cyber Museum
Playing second fiddle isn't easy.
Excerpt
Just ask John Oates. One half of a hugely successful music duo, he's been overshadowed by his taller and more charismatic bandmate, Daryl Hall, for more than 30 years.
What does this have to do with sports cards? Well, the 1986-87 Fleer Basketball set is the Daryl Hall of hoops issues and the 1987-88 Fleer set is the John Oates.
Like Hall, the 1986-87 set – with its who's who of basketball rookies – still commands considerable attention. The 1987-88 offering, on the other hand, remains in the background, out of the limelight.
Rookies
- (15) Michael Cage
- (18) Terry Catledge
- (25) Brad Daugherty
- (27) Johnny Dawkins
- (33) Dale Ellis
- (42) A.C. Green
- (48) Derek Harper
- (60) Jerome Kersey
- (63) Cliff Levingston
- (75) Nate McMillan
- (83) John Paxson
- (85) Chuck Person
- (88) Ed Pinckney
- (89) Terry Porter
- (97) Detlef Schrempf
- (109) Otis Thorpe
- (113) Trent Tucker
- (117) Darrell Walker
- (122) John Williams
- (123) John Williams
- (125) David Wingate
- (131) Danny Young
More set notes
Only three baseball players, but some very significant non-baseball cards mark this set.
The 1988 U.S. Olympic baseball team joins rookies and traded veterans.
Focusing on more than 150 years worth of America's most famous movers and shakers.
This set consists of 792 standard-size cards. Cards were primarily issued in 17-card wax packs, 50-card rack packs and factory sets. Card fronts feature wood grain borders encasing a color photo (reminiscent of Topps classic 1962 baseball set). Subsets include Record Breakers (1-7), Turn Back The Clock (311-315), All-Star selections (595-616), and Team Leaders (scattered throughout the set). The manager cards contain a team checklist on back.
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