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Year Team Sport Notes Ref 1987: Minnesota Twins: Baseball: World Series Champions (first team depicted on box) [6]1988: Washington Redskins: Football: Super Bowl XXII
The 1982 Topps Factory Set is rare due to J.C. Penney's failure to sell them. J.C. Penney factory sets were available in 1982 in a color box and 1983 (SKU 672–1203), 1984 (SKU 672–1641), and 1985 (SKU 672–2029) in brown boxes. From 1986 to 1992, Topps factory sets came in two designs, Retail (or Christmas) and Hobby dealer.
This list of items as of August 20, 2021 is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1]This list includes only the highest price paid for a given card and does not include separate entries for individual copies of the same card or multiple sales prices for the same copy of a card.
The first American football cards were included in cigarette packages in the late 1800s. [1] In 1888 Yale player Henry W. Beecher was included as the only football player in a set of 50 cards distributed in packs of "Old Judge" and "Gypsy Queen" cigarettes by Goodwin & Company., [2] becoming the first American football card ever. [1]
Wax packs of this set also contained Lou Gehrig puzzle pieces. Donruss released this set at a later date in the U.S. [21] Donruss logo used from 1986 to 1995. Donruss' 1986 baseball card sets didn't deviate much from 1985. The standard 660-card set featured Hank Aaron puzzle pieces inserted into wax packs. Again, Donruss issued cards on the ...
In 2015, Balukjian opened a pack of unopened baseball cards from 1986 and decided to track down all of the players inside. [1] [2] His journey became the memoir The Wax Pack (2020), [3] which went on to become a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
The player biographies were by far the most extensive of any major baseball card set of its time. The 1991 and 1992 sets at 900 (1991) 910 (1992) cards were among the largest card sets of that time. The first Score football set in 1989 made even bigger waves for collectors of NFL trading cards.
These cards were randomly inserted into packs of various 1999 Upper Deck card product lines released in late 1998. [7] These cards were part of Upper Deck's "Pieces of History" promotion. Upper Deck extended the concept to bats of all of the members of baseball's 500 Home Run Club. [8] The set included the 19 members of the elite 500 Home Run Club.