[ALR-bishop]

Up until 1994 I collected any item listed for Topps baseball in the SCD Standard Catalog. That included the 1989 and 1990 Batting Leaders sets. Both sets involved 22 cards that were inserted one each in K Mart blister packs of 100 Topps cards from those two years.

I initially was trying to put together the sets a card at a time but is was slow going finding them. Then I saw an auction for 44 full KMart blister packs in which all 44 Batting Leaders were visible in the middle column of the blister pack. So, to complete the sets I bought them all. Since I already had completed the 89 & 90 Topps sets, all 44 blister packs with an extra 4400 Tops cards sit intact in a niche of my Card Room . Compulsive collecting to an extreme