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The Topps 1986 Baseball Card set is THE greatest set produced in the past 30 years. Certainly not because of the rather crisp card design, but due to the sheer number of players in this set who have gone on to be elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. I am rather impressed with the number of future HOF players that the 1986 Topps baseball card set contains. | |
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| The 1986 set contains 792 cards. They were sold at retail as wax packs, rack packs, and factory sets. Wax Packs sold for 35 cents per pack (15-cards plus a stick of gum in a wax-coated wrapper that didn't allow you to see any of the cards). A box of wax packs contained 36 packs of cards (540 cards total). A case contains 20 boxes (10,800 cards). Of note, the wax pack boxes had a limited edition of 16 baseball cards printed on the bottom of the box (inside and out). There were 4 different sets making up the 16 cards. Set 1 included (A) Jorge Bell, (B) Wade Boggs, (C) George Brett, and (D) Vince Coleman. Set 2 included (E) Carlton Fisk, (F) Dwight Gooden, (G) Pedro Guerrero, and (H) Ron Guidry. Set 3 included (I) Reggie Jackson, (J) Don Mattingly, (K) Oddibe McDowell, and (L) Willie McGee. Set 4 included (M) Dale Murphy, (N) Pete Rose, (O) Bret Saberhagen, and (P) Fernando Valenzuela. They looked like their regular Topps cards except the pictures were different and the cards were lettered instead of numbered. Rack Packs (49-card packs divided into 3 sections of 16 cards each, plus 1 special commemorative all-star game card, and wrapped in clear plastic allowing you to see six of the cards --- the top and bottom card in each of the three sections). Rack packs are my favorite baseball card packaging. You can get excited about the cards you are buying even before you open the pack. There were 24 rack packs to a box (1,176 cards) and 6 boxes to a case (7,056 cards). Vending boxes were also available. Each vending box contains 500 crisp cards with no bubble gum stains. There are 24 vending boxes in a case (12,000 cards). Of note, each vending box is filled with a run. As best as I can tell there were 5 runs. Therefore, you will need to buy at least 5 vending boxes to get at least one of each card. Each vending box contains between 3 and 5 copies of each card. Topps also issued a supplemental set of 132 cards in 1986, called the Topps Traded set. Rookies included: Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Jose Canseco, Will Clark, Andres Galarraga, Bo Jackson, Wally Joyner, John Kruk, Kevin Mitchell, and Jim Leyland (Managerial Debut). |
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1986 Topps Traded Baseball Cards Information on the 1986 Topps Traded Baseball Card supplemental set. |
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Shoebox Legends An Interesting Hockey and Baseball Card Blog |
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eBay Auctions for Packs of 1986 Topps Baseball Cards |
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Baseball Cards 1986 Topps Baseball Card Checklist and Price List |
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Trading Card Database 1986 Topps Baseball Card Database |
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Keyman Collectables Printable 1986 Topps Baseball Card Checklist |
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