Buzz Break: 1987 Topps baseball cards (rack packs)

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The packs: 1987 Topps baseball (two racks)
Where to buy: Check junk bins ... hit BlowoutCards.com for newer MLB cards

Keep reading for a breakdown and gallery for what was in this one.

Cards per pack: 49
Base set completion: 96 of 792 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Dwight Gooden, Bert Blyleven, Harold Baines, Rickey Henderson, Don Mattingly, George Brett, Reggie Jackson, Steve Garvey, Joe Carter, Howard Johnson, Andy Van Slyke, Ruben Sierra

Rookie Cards (9) – Rafael Palmeiro, Mike Greenwell, Chuck Finley, Dave Leiper, Allan Anderson, John Cangelosi, Chuck Cary, Ed Olwine, Bobby Thigpen (most aren't of note ... but they are RCs)

Insert/short-prints cards: 2
Topps All-Star Glossy (2) – Dave Winfield, Lou Whitaker

Autographs/Memorabilia: None.

What's Buzz-worthy: My last pair of these was, ultimately, a pair of average (at best) packs with a small Hall of Famer presence on near-worthless subset/team cards and then a couple of RCs that just don't stack up in pretty much any way as significant today. That happens ... and it will continue to happen and I bet that 2023 flagship could share in that trend 36 years from now. (It happens.) All in all, this is just a cheap #TBT break and yet at about $1.40 a pack these two were arguably still too much. This can happen in a set with nearly 800 cards and decades later. ... These 36-year-old packs aren't rare -- stuff was made by the truckload for months -- but it's still good for what it is -- or as a reminder that the card world has changed a lot since then. Back then Topps basically put out one main set a year and then an update to it and various smaller boxed sets here and there for the year. That meant plenty of these got made between wax packs, rack packs, cello packs, jumbo packs, vending boxes and factory sets. You can pretty much still find it in all of those formats unopened. Sometimes they're worth the cheap rip for the heck of it. This time? Nope.

Product Grade: A- (wood borders remain unique and list of RCs/Hall of Famers in this is stacked) 
Lot Grade: C- (average results here ... at best)
Fun Grade: C-

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