1989 Upper Deck Team Checklist, #681

Checklists were always so boooooring before Upper Deck came along and turned them into actual cards.  I’m really not sure why companies included them to begin with, though I guess I’m just young enough to not really know how card collecting used t…

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Finally, the good stuff!  Short lived as the “good stuff” may be, 1989 Upper Deck caused quite a stir in the industry.  It brought us tamper proof foil packs, counterfeit deterrent hologram stickers, and one of the most iconic cards of the pa…

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I told ya we were done with the blue, but I bet you weren’t anticipating the exact same thing except orange!Again, no real clue what set this card comes from, but I’m guessing… Opening Day.  I base this on the oddball Donruss look-a-like card fr…

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This is the last, hideous blue bordered Darryl Strawberry card that I have, and of course it’s from a set that I’m unable to identify.  The front looks like a normal issue ’88 Donruss:This picture was clearly taken just after the gates opened beca…

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Sticking with 1988 Donruss/Leaf is a card from what appears to be a separate “All-Star” set. Hmmm… You’d think I’d know a little more about my Darryl Strawberry cards, but the truth is that I obtained so many of these when I was younger that I just …

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Quick and easy post today of Strawberry’s 1988 Leaf card. No sense in going much in to detail since the card is largely unchanged from the American version, save for the French translations on the back and the “LEAF” logo on the front:I did stumble in…

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Close your eyes, kids, this post is gonna get ugly.For some reason, when I think of overproduced cards of the late ’80s and early ’90s, I think of 1988 Donruss. Maybe it’s because I have a billion of them laying around even though I don’t remember eve…

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First off, I want to give a truly sincere apology for not keeping up with posting to Darryl Strawberry Fields. I’ve been busy (as has everybody else in the world), and planned ahead with my other site, The Priceless Pursuit, but not so much this one. …

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The site’s not going anywhere, but I am. The wife and I just purchased our new home and have been absolutely slammed with packing, cleaning, painting, moving, and now unpacking. I’ve been a bit negligent when it comes to keeping this site updated, bu…

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OK, if you found your way here from the link I posted at The Priceless Pursuit, you can see that I’m double dipping on the posts today. Perhaps the two sites have different readers, and I’d hate for a gift like the one I recently received to go unreco…

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I swear, the older I get the faster time seems to slip away.My wife and I have had a lot going on in our lives lately, most importantly learning that our first child is going to be a boy – and no doubt a Darryl Strawberry fan, too! He’ll be our first,…

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Well, sort of.The Priceless Pursuit – my other site – is on twitter. If you like Darryl Strawberry, you probably grew up in the same era of baseball as I did, so you’ll like the broader card entries over there. Seriously, check it out.Keep updated on…

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We’re going from one of the most visually appealing Strawberry cards in my collection to something definitely not so visually appealing: 1988 Score.I’m sorry, but the green just doesn’t work for me. Why couldn’t Score have color coded this set with c…

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I think we’ll all be thankful that Strawberry’s hideous ’87 Donruss Diamond Kings painting won’t be the first thing visible at this site any more!Next up, 1988 Topps #710:Topps hit a grand slam with the aesthetics on the front of this card. I’m not a …

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It’s the end of a decade at Darryl Strawberry Fields. I suppose there may be a few oddball issues from ’87 left, but they’re at the back of album and I don’t feel like taking them out to check.Let’s say goodbye to 1987 with a bang. I can’t think of a…

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I’m only at the beginning of my Strawberry collection, and I’ve had a blast sharing the memories I have of all of these cards. Judging by the comments and emails I’ve received along the way, I can tell that Strawberry was a wildly popular player in hi…

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Time for the “serious” 1987 Donruss issue, and to demonstrate that this set was no “Opening Day” they went with one of Strawberry’s more serious pictures featured so far.No cheesy grin. No look of admiration at a ball blasted in to the bleachers. Str…

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Well, I didn’t chat with him personally, but ESPN.com let users submit questions to Darryl on Friday morning. See the transcript here.It wasn’t for lack of effort – I submitted multiple compliments, but couldn’t think of anything relevant or hard hitt…

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Moving right along, 1987 Donruss Opening Day #128:To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t aware that Donruss Opening Day even existed until I looked up the exact set this particular card came from. It’s a different color than the “regular” Donruss issue (whi…

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For as little as I like the blue borders, I’ll admit that Fleer outdid Topps’ “Team Leaders” subset with their “SuperStar Specials” cards.Take a look at #629:Pictured left to right are Gary Carter, Sid Fernandez, Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez, and of …

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For a second, I was thinking about skipping to the end of my Darryl Strawberry card binder where I store all the odd ball cards, simply because I knew what was next – and there was no way it could live up to the wood grained goodness of ’87 Topps. But…

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Today’s a sad day for Darryl Strawberry Fields. I’ve had a lot of fun revisiting my Strawberry card collection, but today’s entry marks the end of an era.With the posting of 1987 Topps #601, Darryl’s All-Star card, I’ve reached the end of my cards wit…

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With another opening day having come and gone, I can’t help but think about how much the game has changed over the years. And what better way to take a glimpse at that change than a 1987 Topps Mets Leaders card?OK, not a Darryl Strawberry card per se,…

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Got a short (but sweet?) entry for you tonight: the 1987 O-Pee-Chee “version” of the ’87 Strawberry Topps card. The fronts of the two versions are identical. My only question: What does Darryl have in his back pocket?? Is it a THIRD batting glove?…

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Woah.It’s been a while since I last posted an entry on the site. Usually when that happens it’s because I’m writing on my other site, Bad Baseball. Just some extra time killing material, if you’re interested.So back to Darryl…Next up is 1987 Topps,…

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