What's your favorite junk wax?

[JasonL]

I agree on the Donruss All Stars, circa 1985.
And my fave version of the Fleer Star Stickers are the 1986, I think - (the burgundy bordered ones)

other than that, I loved the 1984-87 Fleer boxes...

[mintacular]

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

[4815162342]

For some reason I've always liked 1984 topps.

[teetwoohsix]

This one's for you Pat Got it from a local card shop in a "mystery box",,usually filled with junk,but he throws a couple of decent things in there too........

[HRBAKER]

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

[teetwoohsix]

And,that's his "Bat Out Of Hell" he's holding too

[ArizonaGoat]

1987 Topps - wood grain goodness! These cards are so ugly I don't know why I love them. I have a factory set + a 5k box full of them + a bunch of rak-paks and cell-paks with cool players on them.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Hey it's John Kruk before he looked like Meatloaf.

On BaseballReference.com they list him as being 170lbs.

I'm pretty sure he came out of the womb heavier then that.

Damn good "professional" hitter though.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by mintacular

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

HaHa!! They made sooooo many of the 88' and 89' Donruss. You can still pick up a case for almost nothing. I remember during a move in the late 1990's I ended up throwing out monster box after monster box of them.

Kept my stack of 100 Mike Campbell Rookies though.

[ArizonaGoat]

Originally Posted by mintacular

I love Kruk cards and some of the huge junk wax lots they sell...I bought a case load worth of '89 Donruss at a show at something like .25/pack and was planning on reselling it. When that didn't work, I decided to bust the packs out of boredome and loved every minute of it. Got a few nice Griffeys Shillings Johnsons Greg Vaughn (remember him?) Sheffields Smoltz etc. That was the heart of my childhood/teen collecting period and I always loved that card design and still do

I've been buying junk 80's-90's stuff a lot lately. I just bought a bunch of 89 Donruss boxes - I opened 2 of them so far and haven't gotten a single card from 300-400. lol, the mixer must have broke on that case.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

I agree on the Donruss All Stars, circa 1985.
And my fave version of the Fleer Star Stickers are the 1986, I think - (the burgundy bordered ones)

other than that, I loved the 1984-87 Fleer boxes...

I think I had grown out of the "sticker" phase by '86, but yeah..........the Fleers of that era, '83 to around '89, had always been my favorite regular issue. The designs just seemed to be cleaner.

[JasonL]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I think I had grown out of the "sticker" phase by '86, but yeah..........the Fleers of that era, '83 to around '89, had always been my favorite regular issue. The designs just seemed to be cleaner.

Yeah, you know, I never really bought the stickers at the time, either. But the 86 Star Stickers with the (Ron) Burgundy borders are my favorite. Particularly the Ozzie Smith. I have just about every one of Ozzie's cards, and it is 1986 Fleer Star sticker that is my all-time favorite of his issues!

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

Yeah, you know, I never really bought the stickers at the time, either. But the 86 Star Stickers with the (Ron) Burgundy borders are my favorite. Particularly the Ozzie Smith. I have just about every one of Ozzie's cards, and it is 1986 Fleer Star sticker that is my all-time favorite of his issues!

Fleer made tiny stickers one year to. 84' or 85' I think. I even liked those. They were on much thicker stock then the flimsy Topps stickers of the period.

Actually looking it up, they made them 83' through 85'. I don't even remember the 1983's or the 1985's. Just the browish bordered '84's. They seem to be a lot less common then the larger sized Star Sticker Cards.

[GrayGhost]

I support this thread. fun stuff.

[JasonL]

that I just picked up a box of my 1986 star stickers on the bay!
can't wait to open them!!!

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

that I just picked up a box of my 1986 star stickers on the bay!
can't wait to open them!!!

HaHa! Nice. Got my '81's in yesterday. Haven't succumbed to ripping them open yet. I kind of like the way they look in the Unopened boxes for now.............if that makes any sense.

Brought myself back down to earth and picked up one more B18 Blanket common to go towards my very slow pursuit of a player set.