1988 Topps Baseball Stickers

How about baseball stickers for quarter? Topps and Panini went head-to-head for first time in sticker department. I bought them along the book when I was a kid. Topps counter with superstar card on back of each sticker. There are 67 cards and up to three variations. I'm going to feature the stickers and the card.

4/223 - Vince Coleman/Gary Matthews; 64 - Tom Henke - first one feature Vincent Van-Go and Gary Sr. The back feature Tom Henke. The two other Superstar variations from this sticker? The late Kirby Puckett and Hall of Famer Jack Morris.

111/162 - Chris Brown/Dave Stewart; 30 - Fernando Valenzuela

264/286 - Frank Tanana/Donnie Hill; back: 67 - checklist

61 - Rick Sutcliffe; 43 - Tony Fernandez - Sutcliffe gets a solo shot

155 - Ricky Henderson; 42 - Paul Molitor - All-Star stickers are foil. Ricky Henderson sticker feature two Superstar variation. He's paired with now former Twins manager Paul Molitor. Hall of Famers in the front and back.

1988 Topps Stickers

1988 Topps Sticker Cards, our pack opening for the night.

These were sold as stickers with a Superstar Card attached to the back of each one.There were 5 stickercards to a pack for $.25 with 48 cello wrapped packs to a box.The stickercards consist of 66 different players and 1 checklist card. 313 different stickers were attached to the cards,but not all cards had the same sticker. There are 3 different sticker combinations for each card.Some stickers were the same size as the cards, 2 1/8" x 3". Others were half size with two smaller stickers mounted horizontally.The smaller stickers all had individual numbers. An identical set was sold in Canada under the O-Pee-Chee brand name. An album was also available for placement of the stickers.

Cards depicting National League players had a blue background.

#22 Gary Carter

Stickers depicting National League players also had blue border lines.

#123 Lance Parrish

Americam League stickers had red border lines.

#199 Dave Sveum

#27 Rick Sutcliffe

Stars in corners indicated 1987 Championship Series player.

# 15 Tom Brunansky

# 8 Mike Schmidt

# 179 Wally Joiner

# 4 Tom Herr

" Arrow " markings in corners indicate Highlights sticker. # 12 Juan Beniquez

# 237 Oddibe McDowell

Cards depicting American League players had a red background.

# 51 Rickey Henderson

Final sticker in this pack : #126 Andy Van Slyke

And, of course, what would a pack of cards in the '80's be without a piece of bubble gum !!