The 1987 Topps Baseball set is one of the most instantly recognizable designs of all-time because of its wood-grain borders. The wood grain borders encg a color photo featured on the card fronts is reminiscent of Topp's classic 1962 baseball set. It's a very clean and simple design. The box used for the player's photo has the top-left corner cut off where a team logo is located inside a circle. The bottom-right corner is similarly cut off giving the rectangular nameplate space to overlap. The checklist is also interesting. Card backs use a mostly yellow and blue theme. The top has the player name, position and card number in a strip. Below that is a large box with complete major and minor league stats as well as, space permitted, a short biography. A bottom strip has the player's vital information. This set consists of 792 standard-size cards. The manager cards contain a team checklist on back. The key Rookie Cards are Barry Bonds, Will Clark, Bo Jackson, Barry Larkin and Rafael Palmeiro. It also has the first pack-inserted Topps cards of sluggers Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco. Some consider the Bonds to be a rookie card, however he was also in the 1986 Topps Traded Baseball box set.

Set Grades Average Nm-Mt. The key Rookie Cards in this set are Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Will Clark, Bo Jackson, Wally Joyner, Barry Larkin, Rafael Palmiero, Ruben Sierra and Devon White. Subsets include Record Breakers (1-7), Turn Back the Clock (311-315), All-Star selections (595-616) and Team Leaders (scattered throughout the set). Cards were primarily issued in 17-card wax packs, 50-card rack packs and factory sets. This 1987 Topps complete set has been hand collated and consists of 792 standard-size cards.

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