The highlights of the checklist are really the rookie card of Jones and the big-name cards of veterans. By 1993, Jackson was back on the baseball field and made a decent comeback to appear in 85 games for Chicago while helping them to the playoffs. While they still fell short this set had great photography and design and was clearly one of Topps better sets in the Junk wax era. Fronts included full color images of players with white borders while backs had the typical statistic-laden layout found on Topps other sets. Sadly, 1991 was the year that Jackson's professional sports career completely derailed after injuring his hip during a playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals in January that year. Mike Mussina and Ivan Rodriguez are a couple of more standouts. I was told graded its 10k. One Million Dollars, the pack advertisement continued. Of course, The Big Hurt was uber consistent at the plate (nine seasons of 30-plus dingers) and has proven to be similarly dependable in the card market. Couple that with the wartime conditions under which most of these cards first saw the light of day and that they had to make a long trip home to find their way into American collections, and its little wonder these cards are hard to come by in top condition. You might also enjoy our Ultimate Guide treatment of 1990 Topps baseball cards, right here. ) Anson Whaley is a contributor to Sports Collectors Daily and has been an avid pre-war and vintage card collector for more than 20 years. Regular cards also cost $1000 if it's in mint condition. 1991 Topps Traded card list & price guide. Through 1989, when they produced 25,000 Tiffany sets, Topps actually released print run numbers publicly. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. 1985 Topps Tiffany Nolan Ryan baseball card #760 PSA 10 Value: $1,079 1985 Topps Tiffany Nolan Ryan baseball card #760 graded PSA 10 Check prices on eBay Within ten years, Gum Inc. grasped 60% of the gum production in the US market. The top card in the set is easily the rookie card of Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. I have some Topps baseball cards (1988-1991).How do I get the value of these cards? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Loved Beckett back then and Im gonna check it out again. Given the amount of excitement Bonds was clearly bringing to the game, why did Topps choose to showcase such an explosive player in this manner? PFEW as I did sell every card to one guy who appreciates them and will take care of them, and yes, much more than $1000. Sanders made sure to rework his contract in the offseason to be available for MLB playoff games in the future and the move certainly paid off in a big way for the Braves. All rights reserved. The photography and premium look and feel of the cards have held up quite well to this day. There were only around 6,500 of the Desert Shield versions produced for each player making them very limited and on top of that, you can imagine how few survived war-time conditions in top condition. While some collectors continued to dismiss Topps amid its latest release Leptich also accused the company of putting out inferior products in prior years others noticed what many collectors wouldnt realize until years after the fact: 1991 Topps is a classic. From 1984 through 1991, Topps gave collectors what we wanted sort of. 1991 Frank Thomas Rare Error Back Donruss White Sox Baseball Card 5. Then, theres the Chipper Jones card, with graded examples usually running close to $1,000 or more. But compared to other cards in the junk wax era, the somewhat rare moniker probably fits. It requires a lot of work, especially if you want to collect the more nuanced and questionable varieties.. As regal as 1991 Topps Baseball is in retrospect, why would kids collect something that looked like their fathers set when so many younger products were calling to them? 9 Roger Clemens #530 One of the most memorable cards in the '91 Topps set, this horizontal stunner shows Clemens posing in front of Fenway Park's famed scoreboard. I was 13 when this came out and it was the last year I really went nuts buying cards. Rickey Henderson headed into the 1991 season looking to somehow keep the momentum going from the career year he had the year before. The most valuable glossies are pretty much who you would expect Chipper, Nolan, Maddux, Ripken, Griffey, Big Hurt etc. Other memorable portraits are packaged vertically, such as the overhead Benny Santiago shot and the striking from-the-ground-up Wade Boggs photo. It will be blast checking the cards out now for favorites, rookies, errors and all the memories. Topps did a great job with its All-Star card design for its 1991 set. We dont know how big a role nostalgia plays with this one, but it still regularly sells north of $40. You do see sets for sale on occasion (more on that in a bit), but it doesnt happen all that often and usually requires not only a collector with some patience, but one with a little bit of money to spend. 4. No matter what form of packaging a collector purchased, the promotion appeared, exclaiming the chance to pull any card from Topps vast inventory from the previous 40 years. #163 He had incredible range and could get rid of the ball with lighting speed making him one of the best defensive shortstops the game has ever seen. I found about 100 packs of these 91 Topps 40th anniversary in my dads house after he passed. Check Tiffany prices on eBay (affiliate link), Check Tiffany prices on Amazon (affiliate link). Premium: So in 1991, Topps experimented with that by creating its Stadium Club brand a glossy, upscale Topps branded product. However, the 1991 Stadium Club set will always be remembered as a game-changer for Topps with its unique place in hobby history. This Championship Ticket parallel, which is limited to just 100 copies, has sold for as high as $3.8 million. Others reported pulling a lone 70s checklist for their opening labor. 25) 1990 Topps Sammy Sosa Rookie Card (#692) Sammy Sosa entered 1990 with designs on a starting job for the first time in his big league career, thanks to a midseason trade in 1989 from the Rangers to the White Sox. Amazingly, during his twenty years in Major League Baseball with the San Diego Padres, Gwynn hit below .300 just once. 28 Most Valuable 1991 Donruss Baseball Cards In The World: Price List 1. Sources vary on the exact distribution but that is the figure most commonly cited. Card #311 Mickey Mantle is one of the Topps baseball cards with the highest value on the market. That led collectors everywhere to "chase the Mick" in hopes of landing one of the most coveted cards of all time: the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle. The card featured above is a 1987 Topps Future Stars baseball card featuring Bo Jackson. You can email him at [emailprotected] or find him on Twitter @PreWarCards. 1991 Chipper Jones Topps Desert Shield RC #333 Buy on eBay As far as rookie cards go, Jeff Bagwell is still the only key rookie in the checklist. But, for a guy with a .338 career batting average and eight batting titles to his name, he and the rest of baseball had been used to a much higher standard of batting wizardry. 1991 Topps was, to be honest, nothing remarkable to my kid self while products like Upper Deck, Leaf and Stadium Club were demanding allowance dollars.. The picture of the legendary pitchers body uncoiled after what we can presume is another heater whizzing past a helpless hitter. 1991 Topps Baseball saw the company celebrate its 40th anniversary. The multiple borders in the design allow multiple 3-D effects chosen seemingly at the whim of the Topps artists. 1991 Donruss Original Ken Griffey Jr Error Card 3. Let's take a look at the top 45 most valuable junk wax-era baseball cards below. Pitchers with 300 Wins and Their Baseball Cards! 2. Topps relied on a sales gimmick, tied to its anniversary, to entice collectors to the old standby, while still dressed in the familiar, old, gray cardboard. foil shields that are bigger and brighter than others when compared side-by-side (the real ones are generally the smaller ones), pointy shield bottoms on the Desert Shield emblem (real ones are more rounded), blobby, non-distinct coconuts (theyre clear on real copies), palm leaves that touch shield borders (real ones dont), obscured stars on the flag (more like simple points on some fakes). For 1991, PSA has graded about 16,000 base cards and about a third that number of their Tiffany counterparts. Let's be clear:most of the cards from this set do not have any value these days. Inserted one per jumbo cello pack of 100 cards. Bagwell was in the Minors at the time and showing decent promise, but the Red Sox were in win-now mode and trying to hold off the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL East race, so management green-lighted the trade. 1. Track your collection for free. Ungraded & graded values for all '91 Topps Archives 1953 Reprint Baseball Cards. Add in the RCs of Bagwell and Pudge again, too, in Traded form. It also sounds familiar if youre a fan of classic sets from the hobbys history 1953 Bowman, 1957 Topps, 1967 Topps. Long red box 40th anniversary. You can, after all, routinely find thousands of them on eBay. 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I have 6 of those cards, and two of them in mint condition, and the other 4 near mint.