Wednesday, March 18, 2009

1992 Topps Mcdonald's Baseball's Best

I'm still trying to lose the weight I gained in 1992 from collecting these cards. If I remember correctly you got 5 cards in a cellophane wrapper with a food purchase. The cards were made by Topps. I managed to get the whole set (and many duplicates) except for George Brett (#6), before the promotion ended. 15 years later (in 2007) I completed the set by buying a complete set on eBay. In 1992, Topps was just starting to experiment with gold foil. The cards feature gold foil for the player's name and just above the Baseball's Best logo it says "Limited Edition" in gold foil. According to my 2007 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards these were available in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I got mine in Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area. Here's the checklist.

#1 Cecil Fielder
#2 Benito Santiago
#3 Rickey Henderson
#4 Roberto Alomar
#5 Ryne Sandberg
#6 George Brett
#7 Terry Pendleton
#8 Ken Griffey, Jr.#9 Bobby Bonilla
#10 Roger Clemens
#11 Ozzie Smith
#12 Barry Bonds
#13 Cal Ripken, Jr.
#14 Ron Gant
#15 Carlton Fisk
#16 Steve Avery
#17 Robin Yount
#18 Will Clark
#19 Kerby Puckett
#20 Jim Abbott
#21 Barry Larkin
#22 Jose Canseco
#23 Howard Johnson
#24 Nolan Ryan
#25 Frank Thomas
#26 Danny Tartabull (I have 5 of these!)
#27 Julio Franco
#28 David Justice
#29 Joe Carter
#30 Dale Murphy (the only Phillie in the set)
#31 Andre Dawson
#32 Dwight Gooden
#33 Bo Jackson (with the White Sox)
#34 Jeff Bagwell (the only Astro) The rookie cards and a gold foil Rookie Card in the upper left corner)
#35 Chuck Knoblauch
#36 Derek Bell
#37 Jim Thome
#38 Royce Clayton
#39 Ryan Klesko
#40 Chito Martinez
#41 Ivan Rodriguez
#42 Todd Hundley
#43 Eric Karros
#44 Todd Van Poppel

2 comments:

Dubbs said...

That card of Bags is great. Hell, a dirty diaper wearing those old Astros uniforms would be great. But I'll take the young Bags.

Anonymous said...

what if i have the Rickey Henderson just like those there what would that be worth my email onmyown415@gmail.com