#67T Billy Masse

IMPACT FACTOR 0/10: Masse played a bunch of years in the minors with the Yankees but never made it to the big leagues. He's been a manager for the last bunch of years for different organizations.

#66T Tino Martinez

IMPACT FACTOR 6/10: Martinez scores a 6, despite all of his best years and championships coming with the Yankees. Constantino was a major force on the 1995 Mariners, the first truly good team the franchise ever had, as well as their first playoff appearance. He was a key factor in the Mariners' ALDS victory over the Yankees that year. He was then traded (along with Jeff Nelson and Jim Mecir) to those same Yankees for Russ Davis and Sterling Hitchcock, two players who were somewhat helpful for the Mariners in the following period.

#65T Mark Marquess

IMPACT FACTOR N/A: Marquess was the coach of the Olympic team, and just as the card says below remains as the coach at Stanford today. He did play in the minor leagues but I'm not giving him a score since this is not a card of a future player.

#64T Kirt Manwaring

IMPACT FACTOR 4/10: Manwaring was a decent backup catcher for the Giants for a number of years. He didn't hit much, but he must have had something going for him because he stuck around for a long time.

#63T Scotti Madison

This is the very first card I've posted on this blog of a player I've never heard of before. How weird. Madison's real name is Charles Scott Madison. How he got the nickname of "Scotti" with an "i" is beyond me.

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Madison did virtually nothing in the majors for anybody.

#62T Mike Macfarlane

IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Macfarlane features here as a rookie, often overlooked from this set. He was a good player for the Royals mostly as a backup catcher. Especially when he got more playing time in 1991-1993, he had a lot of pop. I'm not even counting here his later return to the Royals as a free agent.

#61T Jeffrey Leonard

Some women I know would kill for those lips.

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Leonard didn't have much left when he joined Milwaukee in a trade for Earnie Riles. After one pretty poor half-season, he left as a free agent. He had a decent season the following year for Seattle and then called it a career after 1990.

#60T Vance Law

This card rocks due to the bonus shot of Shawon Dunston there on the right. The outfielder, judging by the angle of the photo, is probably the center fielder, who in 1988 was probably either Darrin Jackson or Dave Martinez.

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Law came and left the Cubs as a free agent, playing just two years for them. His 1988 was pretty good while his 1989 was subpar.

#59T Ray Knight

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Knight had one lackluster season with Detroit to close out his career. At least they gave up only Mark Thurmond to acquire him.

#58T Ron Kittle

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Kittle was a very effective power hitter on a part-time basis for the Indians for 1 year.

88 Topps Jumbo Pak

Want more 88 Topps? I ripped a Jumbo Pak over here at A Pack A Day.

#57T Roberto Kelly

IMPACT FACTOR 7/10: Kelly gets a surprisingly high impact factor for two reasons: any Yankees fan will tell you that in 1989 he was the best young player to come along to the Yankees in a long time, and he helped start the revitalization that led to 13 straight post-season berths starting in 1995. Also, the Yankees made a simply amazing trade, swapping him when his stock was at its peak and acquiring Paul O'Neill, who played 9 seasons with the Yankees and was a major contributor to their 4 World Series wins in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Kelly went on to have a solid major league career after New York although he was not the star many thought he would be.

#56T Darrin Jackson

Those are some dark and fuzzy people in the background. Insert your own joke here.

Jackson had a really strange career including:

• Getting 11 ABs in 1985 and 5 ABs in 1987 before finally qualifying as a rookie with 188 ABs in 1988.
• Despite playing 12 years and hitting 80 HR, he had nearly half of those HR in just 2 seasons (1991 with 21 and 1992 with 17.)
• He had an enormously bad OBP of .293 and a horrific K/BB ratio of 480/131.
  

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Jackson did fairly little in parts of 4 seasons with the Cubs, and then left town in a trade involving players all either past their prime or with no prime.

#55T Danny Jackson

IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Jackson came over in the Ted Power / Kurt Stillwell trade, having one excellent year (1988), one decent year (1990), and one crummy year (1989) for the Reds. He helped the Reds beat the Pirates in the 1990 NLCS but was ineffective in the World Series, deserving little credit for the Reds' championship. He departed as a free agent.

#54T Jeff Innis

IMPACT FACTOR 3/10: Innis was very effective for the Mets in 1991 and 1992 (as well as pitching well in limited innings in 1987-1990) and left as a free agent after 1993, although he never appeared in the majors with another team.

#53T Glenn Hubbard

This is a very nice card. Who knows what the sign in the background behind Old Mother Hubbard says?

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Hubbard signed with the A's as a free agent but couldn't hold down the second base job, eventually yielding to Tony Phillips.

#52T Jay Howell

Here's another card showing some scoreboard, like Matt Young's card.

IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Howell, acquired in the same trade that saw Matt Young, Alfredo Griffin, Bob Welch, Kevin Tapani, and Wally Whitehurst switch teams, was a very effective reliever for the Dodgers for five seasons before leaving as a free agent. He was not very helpful in the 1988 postseason, though, pitching only 3.1 innings and giving up 3 earned runs.

#51T Ricky Horton

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Horton came to the White Sox in that same Lance Johnson trade, a pretty good deal for Chicago. He pitched one fairly bad season for them before being traded to the Dodgers for Shawn Hillegas. Hillegas was at best decent for the ChiSox over parts of three seasons, and was then packaged in a trade that brought Cory Snyder. Snyder was abysmal for the White Sox before being traded for 2 guys who did almost nothing for the White Sox.

#50T Bob Horner

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Horner signed with the Cardinals after a year in Japan and was having a marginal season before an injury ended his year and career early.

#49T Tom Herr

What a terrible airbrush job! Holy smokes!

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Herr came to the Twins in exchange for Tom Brunansky, and after half a mediocre season was packaged with a couple of guys and sent to the Phillies for Shane Rawley. Rawley was fairly bad for the Twins in one season, his last in the big leagues.

#48T Dave Henderson

IMPACT FACTOR 6/10: Henderson signed with Oakland as a free agent and was their starting centerfielder for 4 years, including the 3 World Series years of 1988-1990. He had some big hits in the postseason.

#47T Ray Hayward

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Hayward started 12 games for the Rangers in 1988, pitching fairly below average, and then never saw any further major league action.

#46T Ron Hassey

IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Hassey caught lightning in a bottle by signing as a free agent with Oakland before the 1988 season and staying with them through 1990, making it to 3 straight World Series with them. He backed up Terry Steinbach each season.

#45T Bryan Harvery

IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Harvey was one of the better closers in the game in the late 80s and early 90s, and had two truly outstanding seasons in 1991 (with the Angels) and 1993 (with the Marlins.)

88 Fleer

See my post on A Pack A day here about a 1988 Fleer pack I ripped.

#44T Ty Griffin

IMPACT FACTOR 0/10: Griffin never made it to the big leagues, though he played in the minors as recently as 1995. He had a #1 draft pick card in the 1989 Topps set, too.

#43T Alfredo Griffin

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Griffin, a bad offensive player, had some of his worst offensive seasons among his 4 years with the Dodgers. They gave up Bob Welch and Matt Young to get Griffin and Orosco, who himself was terrible in the 1988 post-season. At least he's in the necklace club.