What was new in 1981, three baseball card sets to choose from courtesy of Topps, Fleer, and Donruss, had grown old. The year was 1988 and the game-changing Upper Deck set had yet to arrive on the ...

Look up Junk Wax Era in the baseball card encyclopedia and you're bound to find a picture of the 1988 Topps set. With print quantities seemingly in the billions, only a single Hall of Fame rookie card ...

For the better part of a decade, the Hobby was dominated by three major baseball card sets. By decade's end, all would take a backseat to Upper Deck. But for one single year in between, the best ...