Top 5 Topps RC's of 1987-1992 (No steroids)

[jrchoholic83]

What are your top 5 Topps RC's of 1987-1992.

The list cannot include anyone that has been linked to or admitted to taking steroids. This excludes Pudge, Bagwell, Jaun Gonzalez, etc.

Here are mine:

1. Greg Maddux 87 Topps Traded
2. Ken Griffey Jr. 89 Topps Traded
3. Randy Johnson 89 Topps (his 89 Traded issue came out later, it's not his RC)
4. Chipper Jones 91 Topps
5. Frank Thomas 90 Topps
Honorable Mention - Barry Larkin 87 Topps

What do you think?

 

[sberry]

I like your list but here are some I like.....Sean

Sorry I have a big list


1987 Topps #123 John Kruk Rc!
1987 Topps #170 Bo Jackson Rc!
1988 Topps #372 Matt Williams Rc!
1988 Topps #779 Tom Glavine Rc!
1989 Topps #49 Craig Biggio Rc!
1989 Topps #382 John Smoltz Rc!
1990 Topps #757 Larry Walker Rc!
1991 Topps #333 Chipper Jones Rc!
1991 Topps Traded #4T Jeff Bagwell Rc!
1991 Topps Traded #101T Ivan Rodriguez Rc!
1992 Topps Traded #39T Nomar Garciaparra USA Rc!

 

[tribefan]

1991 Bowman 68 - Jim Thome

If we are looking at top 5 only, Chipper gets bumped!

 

[sberry]

How do you bump a guy with stats like this? Well he is class act and 1st ballot HOFer either way.



Career statistics
(through August 23, 2012)



Batting average
.304



Hits
2,705



Runs
1,608



Doubles
546



Home runs
467

Runs batted in
1,615



Atlanta Braves (1993–present)

8× All-Star (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2011, 2012)
2× Silver Slugger Award (1999, 2000)
World Series champion (1995)
NL MVP (1999)
NL Batting Champion (2008)
4× NL Player of the Week
Atlanta Braves career bases on balls record

 

[jrchoholic83]

Thome and Glavine were tough to leave off the top 5, but it's crowded.

Thome 600 HR, and Glavine 300 W.

 

[u2me57]

jrchoholic83- Great list, but Thome gets the nod for 1991 with his Bowman RC. After all, Thome got the better of Chipper in a well chronicled minor league game fight. Their great friends now and laugh about that fight.

Gary

 

[GotMelky]

I like Thome as well, but the list is for top 5 Topps Rookie cards. I like the original five minus the Big Unit - I put Glavine there in his place.

 

[jrchoholic83]

I like your list but here are some I like.....Sean

Sorry I have a big list


1987 Topps #123 John Kruk Rc!
1987 Topps #170 Bo Jackson Rc!
1988 Topps #372 Matt Williams Rc!
1988 Topps #779 Tom Glavine Rc!
1989 Topps #49 Craig Biggio Rc!
1989 Topps #382 John Smoltz Rc!
1990 Topps #757 Larry Walker Rc!
1991 Topps #333 Chipper Jones Rc!
1991 Topps Traded #4T Jeff Bagwell Rc!
1991 Topps Traded #101T Ivan Rodriguez Rc!
1992 Topps Traded #39T Nomar Garciaparra USA Rc!

Great additions, but I don't think any of them crack the top five (Glavine is close). Pudge, and Bagwell are suspected steroid users. I would put good money down that Garciaparra did them as well, so those 3 are disqualified.

 

[katester44]

Not sure who you bump, but:

1992 Bowman #302 Mariano Rivera

Not sure if you qualify Bowman as Topps, since I believe it was a Topps product?

 

[jrchoholic83]

Not sure who you bump, but:

1992 Bowman #302 Mariano Rivera

Not sure if you qualify Bowman as Topps, since I believe it was a Topps product?

I hate the Yankees, but that is a great addition! Good call! And yes, I am including Bowman.

 

[JamesNevans]

How could anyone forget Griffey Jr? 1989 Topps Traded #41T.

 

[jrchoholic83]

How could anyone forget Griffey Jr? 1989 Topps Traded #41T.

He's #2 on my original post. You can never forget Junior.

 

[baberuth#3]

There was a thing about this in a Beckett magazine a while back except it was top 60 Topps cards of all time. Excluding steroid users, #5 was 1989 Griffey Jr., #53 was 1987 Greg Maddux, #54 was 1989 Randy Johnson. I think you guys have them pretty well covered. Jason Varitek is another but he is not as high caliber as the others listed.

 

[BoomerSooner]

How about the '92 Bowman Piazza?

 

[jrchoholic83]

How about the '92 Bowman Piazza?

He has been loosely linked to steroids. In my opinion he did them, and I'm a Mets fan.