The 1986 Topps set is a 'tweener as far as 1980s baseball cards go. Nestled between two seasons, 1985 and 1987, that brought collectors some of the decade's most pursued rookie cards, the biggest and ...

NEW YORK — Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about. The 39-year-old ...

In the 1980s it seemed like there was a Topps card for everything. Still, even with the baseball card hobby exploding in popularity and rookie cards taking center stage, Topps didn't quite bat 1.000 ...

For many young kids, at least when I was growing up, collecting baseball cards was as much a part of being a baseball fan as playing hooky to attend a game or tuning into Baseball Tonight. With the ...