Best card in the 1983 Topps set?
 

Arguably my favorite 1980's Topps set.

Which is your favorite card?

I like the Ryne Sandberg rookie.

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For me it is the Wade Boggs rookie. He is the reason I started collecting and watching baseball.

Gwynn and Boggs.

the 1984's are like the bizzaro 1983 set...they are pretty close

As one of the sets I remember best for it's packaging (I grew up in Michigan, so I busted piles of those blue mylar sealed packs.), I think the card most stuck in my head was Ozzie Smith.

The rookies were fine, but I don't remember being excited for them when the set was new. However, this Ozzie shot was just as cool then as it is now.

Boggsy here.

Agree on the Ozzie Smith.

The Carew also has a nice look to it, with the cool headband shot in the portrait window.

Agreed, one of the greatest sets ever. The Darryl Strawberry traded set rookie card is one of my favorites.

The Tommy John as a member of the Yankees proof card is a good one too!

That Strawberry was was the first 'get rich' card when it came out to hold to pay for college for me. Later came Will Clark and Gregg Jeffries..

My personal favorite cards were the Super Veteran cards. I rememeber busting pack after pack until I found the Reggie & Nettles cards.

Mike

1983 Topps
 

Unfortunately I have see way too many people get scammed by people cutting up that $1 sheet and selling the individual cards as proofs or errors.

Seaver from the traded set. I opened regular packs and was really disappointed that Seaver was still shown as a Red. The traded set has 3 great Mets cards, Seaver, Strawberry rookie and Keith Hernandez first Mets card.

Definitely Boggs although him going over to the "Dark Side" hurt at the time..

After Lou Brock and Ozzie, my favorite Cardinal

Peripheral to the subject but still cool was the 1983 Topps Don Mattingly "what if" card found in copies of Baseball Cards Magazine in 1987. I think it was Bob Lemke who mocked them up (I believe he edited the magazine) and he would of course go on to make some of the coolest custom cards ever created.

This set has a lot of action shots, so they are not as special as if you were seeing them in a 70s set. I like these two

Smith with a Sandberg cameo as a bonus and Belanger appearing as a Dodger at the end of his career.

I'm sure I could find another gem or two if I really thought about it.

Amazing a guy like Belanger can be an allstar one time at 32.. and also be in 3 top 30 MVP consideration even though hitting .225 etc...would never happen today..

A full box of packs

T Gwynn.

Underrated set.

As a former Pudres fan from back then, gotta be Tony G. But he even complained about how big his butt looked in the pic. Still miss the guy. He was something else. :(

Belanger was part of the era where not much offense was expected out of short stop

The early 1980's changed that with Yount, Ripken, Trammell, etc. Dickie Thon was on his way to join that group when he got beaned,

Today --- most of the playoff teams (if not all) have big production out of SS:

Correa, Lindor, Didi G., Seager. etc.

It's a different world out there indeed. Ed Brinkman, Belanger etc would maybe be a 24th-25th man in today's baseball

I always wondered how they decided who got the Super Veteran cards in that issue. Most were slam dunks, but others like Sutter, Tekulve and LaRoche were head scratchers. Blyleven probably should have had one, and my man Fisk was frozen out as well.

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Such a beautiful set, I've always loved 83 Topps. That was the last season of Johnny Bench, Carl Yastrzemski and Gaylord Perry, so I'm partial to their cards. The Reggie Jackson wearinng the shades is a dang cool card.

Between the 3 big rookies Sandburg, Boggs and Gwynn, I'll take the Sandburg as it's the only one without a gratuitous @$$ shot. Hahahaha
Seriously though, the Strawberry from the Traded set was my favorite rookie card that year.