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Cecil Fielder comes to mind when digging through the old commons box. Don't get me wrong. I like to get hits when opening boxes. In fact the last three years or Topps Heritage I have done well. So I would love to get an auto in every box, but usually it's a materials card.
That's really unlikely. Better chance that Bohm turns out to be Utley and gets to the HoF bubble.
Fielder is an HoVG player. His 86 rc fetches a couple bucks, so more than a common, but less than Kirby Puckett.
I get that, but I’m just saying you never know who’s going to hit and who will flame out.
Gregg Jeffries was the first one I remember. But really seemed to ramp up in 84/85 as the Mattingly Donruss rookie and the Gooden’s update cards really drove the market. With the influx of big rookies in 85 with Puckett, Clemens, Davis, hershiser and others. I think McGwire was an afterthought at the moment because he wasn’t in the bigs yet. But 1988 Fleer, Donruss and to an extent Score Jeffries were scorching hot. I don’t think god himself could have lived up to the hype he produced. And overall he had a decent career but…
Fair points. I wasn't collecting at that point, so missed out on the Jeffries hype. As I look back, thinking about Canseco. Griffey, Jr. The '91 Stadium Club Dome Set. The 1953 Archives set.
The earliest I remember widespread speculation on RCs was in 1984 with Mattingly and Strawberry. A friend of mine and I used to run all over the place in Lebanon, Pa searching Topps racks and cellos for those two players. It got to be where we knew the top and bottom 4 or 5 cards to get a RC of either of those two guys. The next year the same was true for Dwight Gooden. Once 86 and 87 rolled around there were tons of prospects most of them did not make it big (Joyner, Mitchell, Bonilla and on and on)
What jersey would that patch be from?
