As an eight year old during the summer of 1985, I would go to my local drug store (which has since turned into a liquor store) and I would scour the spinning rack of comic books and pick out a few. This was when the price of a regular comic book was just seventy-five cents. If it was an annual, it could have gone as high as $2.
After my excursion into the land of mostly Marvel and DC, I would head over to the candy aisles. Yes, I said aisles. There were three glorious aisles of candy and candy related items. I would pick out something guaranteed to put me on a sugar high, then it one of those aisles were sports cards. A pack of baseball cards were either thirty-five or forty cents for a regular pack and fifty or sixty cents for a cello pack. I don't recall the year that they went up to forty cents. It was somewhere in the mid-80s. I just remember that they were forty cents in 1987.
I also collected the Topps stickers, Topps rub ons, Topps Super. Basically any weird baseball related merchandise, I was a sucker for at that time. The weirdest set I remember buying was Topps 3-D.
I had absolutely no clue as to how to store these cards. They were rigid, bumpy and oversized. They were truly bizarre, but I enjoyed opening each pack. As a kid I was puzzled with this set. As an adult, I'm still puzzled by this set.
The White Sox have one card in this set.
30 - Tom Seaver
I'm showing the front and back images for this card, so you might get the full effect of this misshapen cad. Not only did the White Sox have a card in this set, but it is a Hall of Fame player, who is best remembered on another team, but it happens to coincide with the year he won his 300th game. It's just a mess of circumstances that make this an even stranger release.
This is definitely a unique set that never made it past a trial release. It's a beautiful and clumsy set. The rose tinted glasses of nostalgia are especially on for this one. This card has more attachment to the memories that it conjures rather than the card itself. I guess that could be a true test of this set. It's awkward, but makes me think of wonderful days in my past. I suppose that's all you can ask out of a card.
Good job, Topps 3-D. You've made me think of G.I. Joe and Spider-Ham comics. Looking for the discontinued Summit cookie bar (it ceased production in 1984, but I had no idea) in the candy aisles. Riding my bike to the drug store and taking the secret way past two parks. For me, this could be one of the ultimate nostalgia cards.
