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My current card blog is Traded Sets . Click on "older posts" or the archive on the right to see posts from this blog.

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That's all, folks! We've reached the end of the line with this blog. Having gone through all 792 cards in the regular-issue set as well as all 132 cards in the traded set, we're done. We hit 1,0...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/farewell-from-88-topps-cards.html

#750 Bo Jackson is the best card of 1988 Topps, as voted on by you, the readers. The card won every poll quite easily. Nothing more to say about it, except thanks for all the voting!

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IMPACT FACTOR N/A: It's a bit anti-climactic, but the very last card of this blog is...a checklist. However, I'll note one interesting thing. This is the only card I can think of (although the...

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IMPACT FACTOR 4/10: Zimmer led the Cubs to a rare post-season appearance in 1989, although they got beaten in the NLCS by the Giants. Before then, they made the NLCS in 1984, which was their ...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/131t-don-zimmer.html

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Wood had just a couple cups of coffee with the Giants in the majors.

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/130t-ted-wood.html

IMPACT FACTOR 3/10: Wilson , picked up in the trade mention on the back of the card, was unproductive for half a season in Seattle, but they then traded him to Pittsburgh for Darnell Coles , w...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/129t-glenn-wilson.html

I didn't find any decent trades out there for parts of the Tiffany 1988 Topps Traded set. At this point, I'd settle for a batch of 1971 Topps cards if anybody is interested in that. Email me at 8...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/still-trying-to-trade.html

Here's the irony of this card: Those of you who aren't familiar with David Wells will look at the above photo and think, "Gee, that guy is a little chubby," while those of us who are familiar...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/128t-david-wells.html

IMPACT FACTOR 7/10: Welch came to the Athletics after many years with the Dodgers and did not disappoint. Although his W-L stats were inflated beyond what he deserved thanks to a great Oaklan...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/127t-bob-welch.html

IMPACT FACTOR 3/10: Weiss won the 1988 AL Rookie of the Year award, but was the best of a pretty weak pool of candidates . Although he was a capable shortstop, he was pretty poor on the offen...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/126t-walt-weiss.html

Wow, Wash has some serious bed-head in this photo. IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Washington played one partial season with the Indians toward the end of his playing career before beginning a successfu...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/125t-ron-washington.html

Here's one of the other top rookie cards in this traded set. Overall, the Olympic players in this set did quite well for themselves. IMPACT FACTOR 7/10: Ventura played 9 full seasons with t...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/124t-robin-ventura.html

Well, folks, it's been a long journey to get here. We had 33 cards nominated by the readers. From our initial round of polls, we narrowed that down to 16 entrants into the tournament. After regi...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/final-poll-best-card-of-1988-topps.html

IMPACT FACTOR 1/10: Upshaw played one year, the last of his career and only not with Toronto, with the Cleveland Indians. Upshaw is the cousin of the late Gene Upshaw, Hall of Fame NFL playe...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/123t-willie-upshaw.html

IMPACT FACTOR 2/10: Treadway was a league-average 2B for the Reds for one season in 1988 plus his cup of coffee in 1987.

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/122t-jeff-treadway.html

IMPACT FACTOR 3/10: Thon played just one year with the Padres, but he was about league average, which was pretty impressive considering that he was still recovering from the horrible beaning ...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/121t-dickie-thon.html

IMPACT FACTOR 4/10: Tettleton was good in three years with the Orioles. In his last year in Baltimore, 1990, he batted only .223 but managed an OPS+ of 116, damned impressive for a guy with s...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/120t-mickey-tettleton.html

Terry's just about in Jay Baller territory with that chest hair. I like cards like this that show handwritten name and number, though, as on his glove with "TERRY 37." IMPACT FACTOR 4/10: Ter...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/119t-scott-terry.html

Tabler's got his lunch under his cap. IMPACT FACTOR 4/10: Tabler was decent in parts of 3 years with Kansas City. They didn't get great value in trading away Bud Black, but when they traded ...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/118t-pat-tabler.html

I can't understand why Topps produced this card. They gave Swift a regular-issue 1986 card, as well as a regular-issue 1987 card. On both cards, he was with the Mariners. Then, despite not app...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/117t-bill-swift.html

78 Topps Cards is officially online with the first few posts already up. Read the welcome message here . Read about how to win cards here . And start reading the first post with cards here...

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IMPACT FACTOR 5/10: Stottlemyre , son of Mel and brother of Mel , was a fairly average pitcher over his 7 years with Toronto, pitching well in the 1992 playoffs and poorly in the 1993 playoff...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/116t-todd-stottlemyre.html

We're down to the final four! Vote on BOTH of the semifinal matchups in this post below. Voting lasts only until 9AM EST on Wednesday, so vote now. First off, we have #1 seed Bo Jackson (card #...

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Even after being traded to the Royals, Kurt still, well, sucked. (HA HA, SEE WHAT I DID THERE? 'still well sucked'?) IMPACT FACTOR 3/10: Stillwell was a decent shortstop for the Royals for 4...

http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/11/115t-kurt-stillwell.html