Year: 1988
Manufacturer: Topps
Set: Flagship
Card Number: 165
Card Type: Base
Continuing our march in Robin Yount's career we've hit the 1988 Topps set. Coming off the 1987 woody set, 1988 Topps is almost a let down. But the overall simple design is deceiving. At first glace the set is pretty plain, but Topps does feature a nice big photo. And look closer, the player is actually in front of the team name. Almost making the player jump out of the card. 1988 Topps gets a bad rap mainly because it's at the center of the Junk Wax era, which I can attest to with a 5000 count monster box full of these cards.
Topps also brings back is classic baseball graphic for the back of the card and the backs feature a very nice sized card number well placed for easy sorting and collation, which I did a lot of with this set. This far along in Robin's career we no longer have any room on the back for fancy trivia and write-ups, but we do have one small extra stat on the bottom of the card with game winning RBIs.
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