Top 101 Junk Wax Baseball Cards To Collect! - Ep. 3.27

We're listing the 101 best junk wax baseball cards to collect. Can you think of the two players who have eight cards apiece on this list? Happy Hobby I'm David. Build a better sports car collection using a real world budget. That's what we talk about on this YouTube channel channel on our podcast, the Happy Hobby Sports Cards podcast on our newsletter, which is where this was posted. This is an article from our buddy Scott Hedrick, one of their one of our Happy Hobby Chrome members over at the Happy Hobby Sports card newsletter@ghanis.substack.com you can check this list out there. There's some links out to ebay for some of these cards to check out the top 100 junk wax baseball cards to collect. Now it's not individuals to collect, it's the cards themselves. So one player is going to have individual, multiple individual cards, right? So the we all love junk wax whether we admit it or not. Junk wax has a special memory to a lot of us. Junk mat Junk wax might be a curse word to some, you know, some superstar investors or some maybe younger folks that don't really have appreciation for it. But to others it's a phrase that recalls wonderful childhood memories of rock hard gum and 25 cent wax packs and these 101 cardboard masterpieces that we're about to share. So as I mentioned, Scott Hedrick shared this article. Now Scott's a junk wax extraordinaire, I like to call them. So as I'm reading this, I'm actually going to be reading the intro and stuff kind of as him because he's not here to read it. So I'm going to read as him. But he chose the 101 best baseball cards from the 1980s and 90s for the budget minded sports card collector. As yourself helps helps the chase Right now some of these are kind of expensive and some of them are super cheap, but they're not. Well, we'll get into this. So here's Scott Hedrick's voice when our esteemed friend Mr. God no, I won't read in in that kind of way. That's not how his voice sounds. I'm, I'm almost positive. Here's Scott. He says when our esteemed friend Mr. Godness mentioned that he was putting together some top 101 lists, which I am by the way. So stay tuned for those because we're going to be doing more stuff like this. Amongst them was the top 101J Junk Wax Baseball cards. He says he felt compelled to offer his services in compiling the list, you see, Scott says, I consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur. In fact, the main reason I got back into the cherished hobby of my youth in 2009 is when he got back in was specifically to pull all of those awesome Junk Wax rookie cards out of packs. Something special about pulling cards out of packs. You can buy the card, which is cool too, but there is something special about getting the pack and pulling the cards, he says. Especially baseball and especially those that were out of reach for me at the time. He said mowing a couple lawns per week did not allow a kid near enough bread to get all the candy and soda that he wanted and the red hot Don Mattingly rookie card du jour. To this end, he says, I've been ripping assorted junk wax basically the majority of my weekends ever since 2009. He's not lying. He's got quite the stock of Junk wax. That's pretty awesome. Many will not totally agree with my list, but I try to do my best to arrange this list in order of importance from my recollections as a child of the Beckett era, he calls it. Which makes sense. That time period right around when Beckett magazine came out and was the bible for sports card collectors, he says. Here's some notes before the list. You might notice a couple of infamous cards missing from this list like the 1990 tops Frank Thomas, no name on front and Finest Refractors come to mind. Tops Finest Refractors because they're too expensive. But I tried to provide a complete list of cards that were still within reach for the happy hobbyist with a little budgeting. Anyway, he says I outright did not include Opici Topps, Tiffany Fleer Glossy or Score glossy cards on the list. Some choices are just as about just as much about the importance of the set in the context of the Junk Wax era as it is for the actual player. You'll see that you'll know there's a few in here like that baseball cards from the years that I personally consider to be from the junk wax era. 1980, 1981 to 1995. That's what we are categorizing as the Junk Wax era. Some people use different years, use different time periods. This is what we're using, that 15 season 15 year old span. Ghana's linked a couple handfuls of cards to ebay. So these are affiliate links that will support the newsletter. So if you do end up buying some cards off of those links, thank you very much. I appreciate it. If you don't I appreciate you watching and listening and reading. Anyways. All right, so the 101 greatest junk wax baseball cards to collect. Now I'm gonna go through the whole 101 card list. I'm not going to talk about every card and on some I'm just gonna this random thoughts, random notes that I have about them. But at the end I'm going to share which ones. There's two players on this list that have eight cards among the top 101 that Scott picked. So see if you can think of now before we get going. Who are those two players? Can you think of them? Here's a hint. They're baseball players and their rookie cards came in that 1981-1995 span. So that should be. That's enough. You should be able to do the the work to figure this out. So let's go ahead and start. Number one, 1989 upper deck. Number one, Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie card. You probably already guessed that ahead of time. It's an iconic card outside of the 52 Mickey mantle as far as baseball cards concerned. The the Griffey Jr. The upper deck Griffey Jr. Star rookie card. That's in a category by itself. Those two cards are the most iconic baseball cards. Maybe throw in the T206 onus Wagner, but really these two cards and especially the Griffey card is a generational card whereas like Mickey Mantle also generational card. Just a different generation. I guess the Wagner too, that's a different generation altogether for those guys aren't even around. But so the Griffey that's number one on the list. Number two, that was very interesting already. Already controversial. I say number two, 1984 Donruss. Number 248 Don Mattingly rookie card. Now again, Scott mentioned that he's listing these in order of his importance. The order of importance from his recollections as a kid when he was collecting back then. So the Mattingly rookie Don Russ Mattingly rookie big deal. He. He remembers that was a big deal. The third one is pretty cool. Now Mattingly is interesting because here's the guy. He's the face of the Yankees for the entire 80s France 80s decade. Pretty much early on they had Madding, you know, Dave Winfield and that World Series early on stages. But Mattingly is pretty much. Here's a random thing we can talk about too. Bo Jackson almost on that Mattingly team. The Yankees drafted Bo Jackson and John Elway. They both could have possibly had they stayed in baseball had Bo Jackson signed with the Yankees. Out of high school, it could have been Mattingly, Elway and Bo Jackson. That's. That's something. I digress. Number three, 1986 Don Russ again. Number 39, Jose Canseco. Rookie card. You gotta love Jose Canseco. The guy's a character. He's insane. We love him. He's nuts. Do you remember he was even on some reality shows and I want to say in the late 2000s on VH1. So surreal life. That's what it was, the surreal life. I think he was on that. He's a character. He's kind of nutty. Yeah, I dig him. Turns out everybody hated him, but it was only because he was telling the truth. Everybody else was taking. Well, not everybody else. Most. Most other player. Many other players were taking steroids too. And he was just, hey, if I'm going to get banned, he's. He's going to call out some other players too, if he's going to, you know, get blackballed. And that's what he did. Speaking of steroids, a number four, 1985 tops. Number 401, Mark McGuire. His Team USA Olympic rookie card. This is a big deal for me. That was one of the first set, the first complete set that was ever purchased or that I ever had was this set. My stepfather bought it for me coming back from a trip from Buffalo, New York to visit his family. It was pretty big deal, that Mark McGuire card. Pretty awesome. That whole 1985 set. Well, we'll get into. There's some more coming up. Spoiler alert, we'll get into those. But that Mark McGuire, Team USA, what a great card. The first year that they were doing Team USA cards, he had the weird trucker hat with, you know, 7 inch USA letters on top, big goofy smile. Yeah, it's a great card. You gotta love it. So that's a nice one. That's number four on the list. We're gonna go faster. Don't worry. This isn't gonna be a 94 minute podcast. Just relax. Number five, 1982 Cal Ripken Jr. But it's the Topps traded version nine. Number 98T, the traded version. Now, if you look at my YouTube channel, you can find nine amazing facts about the 1982 tops. Cal Ripken Jr. And in that video, I talk about this card specifically because it's much. There's much fewer of these out there. It's a much more highly. What's the word? Sought after rookie car. Because there are fewer ones out there. Lower pop report, higher price, but it's man, it's just a, it's a really cool looking card because it's just Cal Ripken Jr just the iron Horse, man. The iron man sitting there in his batting stance. It's a great looking card. However, it's not his true rookie card. It's his true first solo card, which is awesome. And tops traded at that point. Those were sold in box sets, I believe. So you had to buy the set to get to that card. Number six, 1986, tops traded. Now the Tops traded. There's a bunch of Tops traded in here, by the way. 86 tops traded number 11, T. Barry Bonds. You'll note that through 1981 to 1995, the junk wax era kind of coincides a little bit with the steroid era, which makes sense, right? And that I think, honestly, I think that's partially what why the junk wax era gets a little bit of a bad rap. Because a lot of these players that would have, had they not gotten involved with steroids and allegations and things that are preventing them from probably possibly getting into the baseball hall of Fame, their cards would be worth much more despite being overproduced. Look at our number one example, Ken Griffey Jr. The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. Card is through the roof. Even though there are over a hundred thousand of those cards graded at psa, it's the most graded card PSA has. They've graded that card more than any other card in baseball and sports history. Sports card history. So it's not just about the overproduction that's killing the junk wax card value. It's the players themselves and the steroid allegations and the hall of Fame, inability to get into the hall of Fame, all that stuff. So tops traded 86. Barry Bonds, great example of that. It's a great card to get. It's. He's the all time home run king. You gotta have that card. You don't have to be buddies with the guy. You don't have to agree with the fact that he's, you know, wants. He. He's a controversial player to say the least, but it's a great card to have. Speaking of traded, speaking of tops, speaking of 1989, Ken Griffey Jr. This is his second card on this list on the top 10. Much less it's number seven, Ken Griffey Jr. With the little tops flag at the bottom of the 89. The design, it's a pretty cool looking card. 19, this is number eight. Now we're moving on to 1980, 93. Upper deck sp number 279, Derek Jeter. His rookie card. Now this is an expensive card. It's a. It's got that foil front. So condition sensitive, certainly. And there's not a ton of these that were produced. So one, while it's the junk wax era, this card, not junk wax. This card very much so. Limited production. So it's in the junk wax era. Certainly not considered junk wax. Now moving to number nine, 1983, tops. 482 Tony Gwynn rookie card. That's great looking card, boys. Take getting out of the batter's box. Just a beautiful card. The colors around the border for me is something that stands out too. Awesome looking card, number nine, 1983, tops. Oh, sorry, I just did that one. Number 10, 1989, Fleer. Number 616, Billy Ripken. The F face error card. Yeah, that's. That's a famous card and it's a. One of the. The. What do you call it? The iconic 1980s junk wax cards. The old Billy Ripken. So that's interesting that there's both Ripken brothers on this list, right? Are there any brothers on this list? I don't think so. I think that's the only brothers. Hey, I wanted to call a timeout here for one minute. I have a quick question for you. Do you ever find yourself wondering what are the best baseball rookie cards from, I don't know, 1987? Or what are the best football rookie cards from 1972, too? Well, I've got you covered. Head over to davidgannas.com where you'll find lists of the best rookie cards from every year for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey cards. And each page is like a time machine, except instead of awkward yearbook photos, you're going to get the greatest rookie cards, all neatly listed by year. And every card has a convenient list link right to ebay. So if you want to find a forgotten gem for your collection, just click to find a great deal. Also, those links are affiliate links, which means you'll be supporting this podcast and helping me justify my own cardboard obsession. It's a win win, really, if you think about it. So whether you're chasing hall of Famers or you just want to see who rocked the rookie scene in your birth year, check out david ganas.com your collection and your favorite podcast host will thank you. Number 11. Now we're moving into the next set. Number 11, 1984 FLIR update Number U27, Roger Clemens and XRC, his extended rookie card here, 84 Fleer update Roger Clemens. Roger the Rocket didn't make the top 10. Old Roger number 12, 1986 tops. Traded Bo Jackson, number 50T. Same exact look as the Barry Bonds card. This was Bo Jackson's first sports card. Now he might have had some, maybe a Auburn, something like a, you know, minor, you know, random oneoff thing, but this was his first sports card. And, and it was baseball, even though it was drafted for football first. Oh, actually I think he was. He was drafted baseball first. Yeah, as I mentioned, the Yankees tried to draft him, but he signed with the Royals. And then once the Buccaneers, my Buccaneers ruined his college eligibility by having him visit Tampa, flying him from Auburn to Tampa for a, a visit. They ruined his eligibility. And that made Bo Jackson so mad because he couldn't finish out playing his baseball career at Auburn that he said, I'm never going to sign with the Bucs. I'm not going to play football. I'm going to go play with the Royals who drafted him the previous year. And that's what he did. So this is his first sports card. Famously, the Bucks held on to his rights and they're idiots and just dumb. And the next year the Raiders took a, I think it was a fourth round flyer that Bo Jackson would join him. How was no one else thinking? Maybe I can convince Bo Jackson into playing football again and drafting them with a higher pick. I don't understand that. At any rate, bo Jackson, number 12. Number 13, 1984. FLIR update U93, Kirby Puckett number 14. 1982 tops 21 Cal Ripken rookie card. Now this is the three panel rookie card that we talked about. The, this was the last three panel rookie card for like 15 seasons for TOPS. This is the last time they, they did the three panel rookie card happened to be Ripkens. Go check out the nine amazing facts thing about that. This Cal Ripken rookie card because it's pretty cool. There's a lot of cool stuff in there. Number 15, 1984 tops. Don Mattingly. Number 8. Now this is the, this is the Mattingly card for me. When I was growing up, I was a tops guy. I bought some Don Russ, some flip, but I was a tops guy. I was all about tops. So all about collecting those guys. If I went to a store and they didn't have tops, then I'd get some Don Russ, then I'd get some flir. I just kind of begrudgingly would get those. But it was all about tops for me growing up. Number 16, 1983 tops. Traded 108T. Daryl Strawberry's first card, number 17, 1983, tops. Ryan Sandberg, number 83. Speaking of 1983, tops, number 18, Wade Boggs, number 498. His rookie card. So Gwen Samberg, Boggs, in that order, is how our buddy Scott Hedrick ranked those cards, which is interesting and I agree with them completely. But it is interesting that Wade Boggs doesn't get more love a beloved Boston player and I guess he did go to the Yankees and they probably weren't happy about that. He played for my Tampa Bay Devil Rays at the time and famously his 3,000th hit was with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays was a home run of all things. One of the very few people to ever hit a home run as his 3,000th hit. Maybe the only person. I don't know. I'll check that stat. Check number 19, 1986 tops. Traded number 20, T. Jose Canseco rookie card. Let's see, Moving on. Number 20, Fleer. 1987. Fleer 604. Barry Bonds again FLIR rookie card, 1987, number 21. Now this was a good one because now we're getting into the 90s again. Now we did have the SP1 earlier, but this is 1990. Leaf number 57, Frank Thomas rookie card. Huge deal. When I was. I was a young adult at that point. I was, let's see, to 20 years old, 19 years old. Frank Thomas rookie car was a big deal in that leaf set. Sammy Sosa became a big deal too, but he was actually kind of became a bigger deal later. If you remember, Sammy Sosa was. He was with the Rangers, he was with the White Sox and then eventually went to the Cubs. But the Frank Thomas was a hit from the jump. Number 22, 1993. This is an interesting one. Tops Stadium Club Murphy, number 117, Derek Jeter Rookie card. I gotta admit, I had no idea what this was. I had to go look it up. This is 1993. Top stadium clubs Jack Murphy Stadium tribute set. Tribute set or parallel set or something. I don't know what you call it, but it was for the Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego. They were doing all sorts of stuff way back in the day, folks. So I don't know what to tell you. Derek Jeter's rookie card, number 23, 1989. Another Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie card this time. Don Russ, number 33. Number 24. 1984 Fleer 131. Don Mattingly, number 25, 1982 Fleer 176. Cal Ripken Jr. Let's see now, number 26 is interesting. 1987, Don Russ, opening day. Number 163, Barry Bonds rookie card. Now this is an error, this card. I had to look it up because I knew there was an error, but I couldn't remember what the deal was. So there's the error version and there's the corrected version. The correct version has Barry Bonds on the front. Makes sense. It's Barry Bonds cart. The error version has Pirates. I think it's an outfielder, shortstop. Johnny Ray pictured on the front. And that's 1987 Donruss opening day. Number 163 with Johnny Ray on the front. Buried Bonds on the name plate. That one's a little expensive. That one's a little pricier because there weren't many of those that ended up getting produced. They fixed it and then it's got Barry Bonds on the front. Number 27, 1985 tops. 181 Roger Clemens rookie card. This is again that 1985 set. Just, oh, hey, another one. Number 28, 1985 tops. Kirby Puckett rookie card. Excellent. Number 29, 1986 Fleer. Jose Canseco rookie card. Number 30 is 1987 Donruss. Mark McGuire, number 46. Let's see. Number 31. Now we're at the 31st. Top 100 card. Top 101 card. 1987 Flir Bo Jackson rookie card. That's a great one. Number 32, 1984, Don Russ. Daryl Strawberry rookie card. Number 33, 1990 Leaf. Sammy Sosa rookie card. I mentioned that earlier, man, such a great card. I have a 10 that's. I mean, they're super cheap. They're. They're a billion of them made. But. And Sammy Sosa, he kind of flew off the rails. He's got the steroid allegations. He's got the cork bat. He just kind of, you know, the whole going in front of the, the congress or commission for steroids and, and acting like he can't speak English and just a. Just a bad look. Bad luck. Overall, number 34, Ken Griffith Jr. Again, 1989 Fleer rookie card. Number 548. Number 35, 1993, tops 98, Derek Jeter rookie card. Now this is my favorite Derek Jeter rookie card because I own it. It's funny how that works out whenever you own the card. That's. That's your favorite version of that player's rookie card. So this is his 99, 1992 draft pick look card, which is just also an iconic look. I love that. Card still pretty cheap. You can get those pretty cheap. That's a great one. Number 36, FLIR. Number 360, Tony Gwynn. Oh, did I do. Oh, it's FLIR. That's why it's different. So FLIR 360, Tony Gwynn. Rookie card. Number 37, 1981 tops. Fernando Valenzuela, Fernando Mania. That's a great one. Number 302. And again, that's the third three panel one. Yes. Yeah, that's the three panel one with Mike Socia on there. Also number 38, 1984 Fleer Update U43. It's Dwight Gooden's rookie card. Number 39 and number 40, Ryan Sandberg and Wade Boggs. 1983 Fleer rookie cards ranked the same as in Tops, Gwynn Sandberg box, but this time it's with flir. Hey, I thought I'd jump in here real quick. 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Like got it, have it, need it, all that stuff. This is your have tab. This is where you put all your best cards, the grades, all that good stuff. Any notes? You can build your dream want list here. What cards are you wanting? Put them in here. Stop wondering, do I already own this card? What do I look for at the next show? What do I want to get? So make sure you check it out. Go to ghanis.substack.com and subscribe and you'll get an email where you can download the free Happy Hobby Collection checklist. Number 41, 1986 FLIR update Barry Bonds XRC. That's the the rookies. Oh no, sorry. That's the FLIR update U14, Barry Bonds XRC. Number 42 though is Don Russ. The rookies number 11, Barry Bonds XRC. Let's see. Number 43, 1989 score. Traded Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie card. That's number 100 T so score now what was their first possibly only. Nope, nope. There's another one score. Can you think of who the other one is? Who the other scorecard is? That's a famous one. 1982. This is number 44. 82 Don Russ. Cal Ripken Jr. Rookie card. Number 45 Don Russ. Tony Gwynn rookie card. I think you know what's coming here. 1985 Fleer Roger Clemens rookie card. That's number 46. Number 47, 85 Flir Kirby Puckett. Number 48. 1987 tops. Barry Bonds rookie card. That's the wood grain finish. Barry Bonds rookie card. Beautiful card. It's full swing. Very nice looking card and his Pirates uniform. Number 49, 1986 Don Russ. The rookies Bo Jackson XRC Number 50. 1983 Don Russ. Number 277, Ryan Sandberg. And then right behind him once again, Wade Boggs. So again Gwen Sandberg. Boggs, don Russ. Number 52, 1990 tops. Number 14, Frank Thomas rookie card. Now this is the famous no name on front but this one's the one with name on front with Frank Thomas. It's a classic, it's a iconic card. It's a great looking card. The tops design, if you remember has the super crazy colors all around it. Supposed to look like a comic book panel. So if you look at that card and that card's design, it's a comic book panel. Makes all the difference in the world. When you look at it now you can appreciate. Oh, this is a nice looking set. This is a nice looking design. Number 53, 1990 score. Number 697, Bo Jackson. Baseball, football. This is the famous landscape one black and white. It's a Nike poster. And there you go. That's a pretty awesome one. You can't be tight. It's got the shoulder pads on and the bat around his shoulders. Great looking card. Just a classic. Number 54. That's a non rookie card which is pretty awesome. There's not a lot of non rookie cards on this list. That's one of them though. Pretty awesome. Number 54, 1987 tops Mark McGuire. Number 366. Again, the wood grain followed by Bo Jackson and the wood grain with the future stars with The Bo Jackson, 1987 tops. The first year tops did the future stars with that rainbow arced banner number 56. We got bo Jackson doing football over here. How about number 561991 Upper Deck SP1 Michael Jordan Baseball card awesome. Again it's Jordans are starting to climb up in price but that's again that's a nice card to get. You can look on the G sub stack.com look at the happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter. Find at the top cards that make us happy. You can read stories on most of the many I say most many of these cards like the Bo Jackson Future stars, the Michael Jordan SP1, the Mark McGuire Team USA card. It has a whole write up about that one specific card and it's a lot of fun to read. Number 571992 Bowman 461 Mike Piazza rookie card Mike Piazza hey number 58. 1985 Donruss Roger Clemens rookie card number 60 or sorry number 59 Don Russ Kirby Puckett. 1985 Don Russ Kirby Kirby Puckett number 601994 Upper Deck SP Alex Rodriguez rookie card classic number 61. 1987 Don Russ 361 Barry Bonds rookie card number 621987 Don Russ Bo Jackson number 63. 1993 Bowman Derek Jeter rookie card. Another Jeter here. Number 64. 1992 Bowman Mariano Rivera. Huh? The Jeter's teammate right behind him. That's a 1992 Bowman. Number 65. 1989 Upper Deck Star rookie Randy Johnson number 25 rookie card number 661992 Fleer rookie sensations number one, Frank Thomas. Now for me this was a landmark card. I remember buying jumbo pack after jumbo pack after jumbo pack of Fleer. 1992 Fleer. When these were came out you had to go to the hobby shop, you had to go to the local card shop and buy these packs. You couldn't just get them at the store. These were special packs. I think there was one rookie sensation per card. These were big deals. Now looking back at the time, they were just big deals because those are the cards to get. They're really cool, very condition sensitive blue border. But they were the year after the rookie card already came out. So Frank Thomas was a rookie sensation previously and this is a 1992 card. So it was interesting that they were like let's come up with a way that non rookie cards, the sophomore cards can be super awesome. Topps had the Rookie Cup, Donruss had rated rookies which was actually their usually their rookie cards. Those are more of a prospect kind of card. And then the Fleer rookie Sensations was brilliant, but it kind of died out eventually because I think people were like, why are we buying second year? Why are we trying to catch these second year cards? But that card, rookie sensation Frank Thomas was a big deal for this guy. Number six seven. 1991, Don Russ. Elite. Number one, Barry Bonds. Number 68. 1987 Don Russ. Greg Maddox. Number 36. Number 69. 1989, Bowman. Ken Griffey Jr. Remember the little. The longer. It's a little. It's a card, it's a little bit longer. Still fits in the top loader. But it was supposed to be like the old Bowman cards. This is Bowman rebranded re came back, Topps owned Bowman, bought him in 1956, put them out of business and they owned that brand. Well, they brought it back, what, 45 years later, and then they tried to redo the same size as those Bowman cards. And collectors were like, you know, we really hate that because those stick out. If I don't have it on top loader, it sticks out above all my other cards and just gets, you know, everything that bumps up against it. Horrible. But that's a good one. 1989, Bowman, Ken Griffey Jr. Number 220. You can buy that cheap still. Number 70, 1989 FLIR. Randy Johnson. 381. Rookie card. Number 71. 1989, upper deck. Number 357, Dale Murphy. Reverse negative error. He's supposed to look like this, but he look, he's flipped over. He's flipped around. Flipped around. You can barely tell. You can tell. Number 72, 1993, upper deck, Derek Jeter. Number 449. Derek Jeter's rookie card with upper deck. Wasn't a great design, wasn't a great set, but that's a Great card. Number 73, 86 tops. Traded Will Clark. Will the Thrill Clark. Number 74. 1993 Pinnacle. Derek Jeter. Rookie card. Number 457. Kind of. He's holding the guy's glove up. He's catching a ball, feeling the fly. Number 75. 1992 FLIR update U92, Mike Piazza. Hey, thanks for sticking around so far because this has gone beyond longer than I expected. Number 76, FLIR update 19. Sorry. Number 76 is 1987 FLIR. Barry Larkin. Rookie card. Great one. Number 77, 1999 TOPS. Randy Johnson, the big unit again. Number 78, 1985 TOPS. Eric Davis. People forget about Eric Davis. He was a huge deal. Famously, Marge shot made him play through injury, I think it was, and just kind of ruined his career, especially In Cincinnati, I think on a riverfront stadium, horrible turf. I forget what it was, but ruined his career. But. But Eric Davis. I remember as a kid my dad loving Eric Davis because he thought he was going to be the first or one of the first 40, 40 guys. He swore that. He's like, man, this guy's got all. He's going to be awesome. And he his spring training was Cincinnati was with Plant City in Florida. So we would go and watch reds games. Number 79 1989, 1988 tops traded Jim Abbott Team USA rookie card. Remember Jim Abbott lost. He was born with one arm. Had one arm. So there's a book called Imperfect which is which was gifted to me by my buddy Phil over at I love baseball cards. Check out his YouTube channel. It's pretty awesome. Pretty awesome book as well. Number 80, 1985 tops oral Hershiser rookie card. So it goes McGuire, Roger Clemens, Kirby Puckett and then Oral hersheiser for the 1985 top set. If you're, if you're checking out the rankings for that set specifically number 81, 1993 select Derek Jeter rookie card. Number 821989 Donruss. Number 42 Randy Johnson rookie card. Number 831987 FLIR update Greg Maddox U68 number 84 Ivan Rodriguez. 1991 FLIR Ultra update. One of the very few. I believe it's the only FLIR Ultra card on this list. It's a FLIR Ultra update for Avon Rodriguez Pudge. Number 851993 tops finest number 107, Nolan Ryan. One of the only. It is the only, the only Nolan Ryan mentioned on this list. Very cool. Number 90. Number 86 1990, 1993 Score Derek Jeter Rookie card Number 871989 Score Randy Johnson Rookie card Number 881987 Tops Traded Greg Maddox Rookie card Classic Number 891981 Tops Rookie Ricky Henderson non rookie card. Now remember, this is his second year card and it's a great one. 1981 tops. Ricky Henderson very colorful card too. Number 901994 upper deck Michael Jordan rookie card. Now this was not his sp, so it's still. It's his true rookie cards for baseball at least. Number 19. Let's move on to number 91. We're in the final stretch here. Number 91, 1987 FLIR update Mark McGuire U76 number 92, 90. 1991 tops. Number 333, Chipper Jones rookie card. That's a classic one. That's only really one of the only ones from 1991 tops set. That really was awesome. Number 93 is the 1981 Don Russ. Tim Rains rookie card again, one of the very few from that set. That was awesome. Number 94. 1988 FLIR update John Smoltz rookie card XRC U74 number 95. 1988 score traded. This is 103 Craig. 103T Craig Bijio another Houston Astros player. Number 90 96. 1992 Bowman again. I think this is the third Bowman we got on here. Manny Ramirez Rookie car number 532. Number 97. 1991 Top Stadium Club. Jeff Bagwell rookie card. Another Good Astro, number 388. Now we move on to number 98. The final four, 1981 Flir Harold Baines rookie card 1999 was 1991 Bowman. Jim Tome rookie card. Number 1001988 tops number 779, Tom Glavin rookie card. And then finally number 101, 1988 score. Number 645, Greg Jefferies. He's got multiple G's, multiple F's. A lot going on there. Greg Jeffries, 1988 score number 645. He rounds out the list. So what do you think of that list? Is there some that you. You're wondering, hey, where's. Where was this card? This should have been in there. I want to know. Shoot me an email at ghaniscards Gmail drop gmail.com Drop a comment in the YouTube channel video. If you're reading this on a newsletter, drop a comment in there. By the way, if you're listening to this or you're watching the video, go to this newsletter post and you can see all of the cards ranked right there. And it's pretty awesome. It's nice list. Scott did a bang up job on this. So now let's talk about who had the most. Jose Canseco had three. Don Mattingly had four. Mark McGuire had four. Cal Ripken Jr. Had four. Who had six? Two players had six. Ken Griffey Jr. Had six. How about Bo Jackson? Six. So who were the two players, two baseball players that had eight cards on this top 101. Did you figure it out? It was your boy Barry Bonds and Derek Jeter, those two guys. So we could really kind of say those two guys are the poster children for 1980s Bonds Junk Wax and 1990s Jeter. Junk Wax. Bonds and Jeter 8 a piece on this list. Thank you for listening, thank you for watching and thank you, Scott Hedrick for putting this together. Bang up job. Fantastic. I want to know, drop some comments. What were your favorites from back in the day? How many of these cards did you have on your list? I don't have too many. I don't know if I have that many in this collection. Maybe 20. Maybe 20. 15 to 20. I want to know what you got. Let me know. Whatever you do, make sure you have a happy hotel.