Official Trading Card of RBI Baseball

[TβG]

1986 Fleer - Navy border with team colored bubble for info on bottom

1986 Topps - Black top border with team color name on top

1987 Fleer - light blue border fading to white at bottom

1987 Topps - Woodgrain border

1988 Fleer - white border with blue and red horizontal stripes

1988 Topps - white border with team color inset border and team name in team color inset inside picture

[dvldog]

i was always torn between '87 Topps and '86 Topps.  i voted for '87 Topps though.

[Blyleven_No-No]

What a brilliant question, I can't believe how endless the RBI banter can be!

I will go with 86 Topps, it just has that "classic" quality to it that I associate with RBI Baseball.....well done Ted!

[defen]

I picked '87 Topps as well.  Still have my whole set somewhere...

[BeefMaster]

Gotta be the '87 Topps - I always loved those cards, and I don't have many of them since I didn't start collecting until a couple years later (I have lots of '88 Topps, because the gas station where I bought my cards had a ridiculous backlog of them).

The '86 cards are pre-RBI ('85 stats).  I disapprove of their inclusion.

[Blyleven_No-No]

the problem with the 87 Topps is that wood panel exterior, it just does not resonate with the classic qualities of RBI in my view

[fknmclane]

All wood grain, all day.

To me, this is the baseball card of my youth. I still have the entire set.  I was eight at the time.  Damn, that's a long time ago.

I always loved the little gold cup they put next to stud rookies. Gregg Jefferies was one of the guys, I think.

[ultimate7]

The '86 cards are pre-RBI ('85 stats).  I disapprove of their inclusion.

Correct, and All-Stars are from '87 which means it should be some set of 88 cards.  I'd have to see them to remember which is best, 88 Donruss isn't even on the list (what was the first year of Score cards?)

[BeefMaster]

I was thinking Score started in '89 or '90, but I vaguely recall finding an '88 one in one of those $6 packs of opened cards like you find at Wal-Mart.

[Bonny]

87 Topps no doubt.
The highest print run in the history of Baseball Cards.
I remember them bitches being every where. You can still get packs for under a buck.

[dvldog]

1988 - I am positive this was Score's first year.

[BeeJay]

I always loved the little gold cup they put next to stud rookies. Gregg Jefferies was one of the guys, I think.

lol, I'll always remember the Todd Worrell card like that.

[Bonny]

Whats funny about those sets on the Poll is that they are worth less now than when they came out.

[ultimate7]

I stopped collecting in like 1991, have many cards from 83-91 now worth very little

[TβG]

sorry there was only eight spots to choose from, hence no score or bowman or leaf or 88 donruss or whatever.  i was thinking everyone would pick topps anway, and i'm right so far.  

this is a tough topic for me to discuss because i stopped collecting cards after the 87 series came out.

i always though fleer sucked by the way, except for the sweet borders of the 83 set, all white border with a blue stripe along the bottom, very clean.

[dvldog]

my most memorable year was 1987.  mainly because it was the first time i considered myself a "serious collector."  7 years old at the time.

i believe my interest in those cards is what sparked my interest in RBI.  the more i collected, the more i learned the stats, and the more i wanted to play the nintendo game those guys were in.

i think i stopped collecting contemporary cards somewhere around 1996-98, and i always went back to that 1987 Topps series.  In my 20s, having some money, those cards seem a lot cheaper now, so I've picked up some boxes over the years... i also began collecting older cards, like 1940s and 1950s.  

ah, those were the days.

[GDavis]

[Bonny]

This spring I bought a box of series2 2001 Topps to finish my set. One of the packs I opened had a 1959 Mantle HR leader in it, $150 card.  Part of an insert program for Topps 50th birthday.

[BeefMaster]

Baseball cards may be part of the reason I like RBI 3 - most of my collecting was done in 1991, and RBI 3 has 1990 stats.  I knew those stats and players extremely well.

[TecmoGuy]

88 Topps.  Most worthless set ever. I have a lot of them.