88 Topps Cards

We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the great classic baseball card sets, 1988 Topps. We're going through all 792 cards one by one, posting bits about what makes the card awesome and cool stats about the player or team featured on the card. We're also posting the 1988 Topps Traded set!

Friday, April 18, 2008

#369 Greg Harris

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Why this card is awesome: Because of that totally awesome face that Harris is making. It's nice how Topps highlighted his funny mouth b...
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#368 Gerald Young

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Why this card is awesome: Because as ridiculous as those uniforms were, I really dig the Astros cards from this set. This is another card t...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

#367 Tim Leary

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Why this card is awesome: Because of yet another shadow face. The background behind Leary is nice, though...blue sky, fluffy clouds, green ...
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#366 Chet Lemon

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Why this card is awesome: Because I never understood why Lemon was regarded so poorly. Look at the numbers on the back of this card. He...
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#365 Floyd Youmans

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Why this card is awesome: Because that Expo in the background (probably Vance Law) doesn't look ready to play, considering he's not...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

#364 Nick Esasky

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Why this card is awesome: Because, holy crap, Topps managed to get the entire front of Esasky's body completely engulfed in shadow in t...

#363 Willie Fraser

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Why this card is awesome: Because of the position of Fraser's fingers on his pitching hand. What type of pitch did he just throw? Cool...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

#362 Juan Castillo

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Why this card is awesome: Because this card is from several years before the Rockies existed, there is way too much purple on it. The purpl...

#361 Greg Maddux

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Why this card is awesome: Because it's easy to imagine what Topps what thinking when they gave him a crappy card number like #361. They...
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#360 Tony Gwynn

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Why this card is awesome: Because this card is a great shot of how Gwynn used to hold the bat. He did the opposite of choke up, rather putt...
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2005 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites #8 Don Mattingly

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My bad - I totally forgot to post this back when card #300 went up. Matt, the winner of the last giveaway, gets screwed because I only just ...
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#359 Tim Stoddard

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Why this card is awesome: Because some players look great in pinstripes....and then there's Tim Stoddard... Cool stat: Tim Stoddard wa...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

#358 Rey Quinones

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Why this card is awesome: Because of the cameraman visible in the background, in full headset glory. Oh, and that horrendous trade mentione...
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#357 Floyd Bannister

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Why this card is awesome: Because what a poor bastard Bannister was. Look at all the crappy teams he was on. Bannister is the father of cur...

#356 Luis Aguayo

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Why this card is awesome: Because of more dugout craziness. I see a couple of Phillies on the right, wearing their powder blue unis. But ju...
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#355 Roger McDowell

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Why this card is awesome: Because I like being able to clearly see the uniform number, in this case Jackie Robinson's #42. I think all ...
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2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites #32 Will Clark

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It's another Fan Favorites card, this time of Slick Willy.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

#354 Marc Sullivan

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Why this card is awesome: Because the light stancheon appears to be combing Sullivan's unkept hair sticking out over his ear. Cool stat...
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Closers

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All previous posts here are now fully tagged. The tags are all listed down on the lower right. So, for example, if you click on "closer...
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#353 Ed Olwine

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Why this card is awesome: Because how does someone born in Ohio get to live in Hyannis Port MA? Cool stat: Olwine allowed only 13 home run...
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