Comments on: Operation Topps – 1987 Topps (pack 35)

By: arinna

arinna — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:37:34 +0000

Julio Franco was mainly a SS until 1987.

By: chemgod

chemgod — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:13:16 +0000

Wow! Did Damaso Garcia have a better season than Franco in 1985? Seems far fetched, but possibly. By the way I give the edge to Franco because 0.301 is a lot better than 0.269, where as the other stats are a wash.

By: arinna

arinna — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:14:17 +0000

jjekiss is correct. topps picks their own all stars every year. 1B, 2B, 3B, C, 3 outfielders and LH and RHP for each league.

By: jjekiss

jjekiss — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:45:06 +0000

I believe that Topps picks their own version of an All-Star team based on the idea that maybe someone had a better year than the actual person that was picked to be on the MLB All-Star team. Most of the time they are the same since Topps doesn’t have cards for all the players that make the All-Star team just a player at each position. Since there might be 5 outfielders on the real All-star team Topps just pick a couple to represent their own All-Star team. In the case for the 1986 year, the only AL second base All-Star was Lou Whitaker. In the end I think Topps picked Tony Bernazard(.301/17/73/17) for his numbers because at the end of the year they were a bit better than Lou Whitakers (.269/20/73/13.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:49:03 +0000

Interesting that you got so many doubles from the same pack. Looking back through my list from my first box of ’87 Topps, it looks like five was the most from any single pack.

I wonder, based on the production runs, if it would be possible to pull two identical packs from the same box? Or how many boxes you’d have to open before finding two identical packs.

Is card placement truly random, or are there just so many possible combinations of 792 cards that it seems completely random?