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After a weekend's hiatus I'm moving up to 1987 today. I went to my first MLB game that year on September 6th at Fenway. I mentioned that in post #153 and showed you the Eddie Romero card I got autographed that day. Jeff Sellers pitched for the Sox and Corey Snyder hit a home run for the Indians who ended up winning the game. Here are nine cards from my collection all released in 1987.

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1987 Classic Game #15 Bo Jackson/(Swinging bat in/Auburn FB uniform) (I drove my wife down to her hometown of Front Royal, Virginia that summer around the 4th of July so we could see if we could locate any of her long lost relatives and I could see where she grew up. On the way, we drove through North Conway, New Hampshire and stopped at a card shop where I picked up the Classic board game. It came with 100 cards including this early card of Bo Jackson. The set was missing card #38 Bob Horner, and to this day I still haven't found one to complete that set and the game continues to sit on the top shelf in a closet, never having been played.)
1987 Drake's #6 Cal Ripken (Once again I hit the supermarket buying enough Drake's Cakes to assemble the complete Big Hitters/Super Pitchers set.)
1987 Drake's #32 Nolan Ryan

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1987 Fleer Hottest Stars #5 Barry Bonds (The sticker on the box of this 44 card set reads $2.99 which is probably what I paid for it.)
1987 Leaf/Donruss #219 Barry Bonds (A young Barry Bonds before his head got so big.)
1987 Topps Tiffany #170 Bo Jackson (I bought the complete 1987 Topps Tiffany set from Downeast Coins and Collectibles that year for $125. That was a lot for me to pay for a set but the proprietor threw in the Topps Traded Tiffany set with it so I went for it. At that time I'd heard of Canseco, McGwire, Bo, Bonds and Will Clark but others like Larkin and Maddux, I had not heard of. They are the only complete Tiffany sets I have and it was a good year to get this one as there are many early cards of big stars in it.)

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1987 Topps Tiffany #320 Barry Bonds
1987 Topps Tiffany #648 Barry Larkin
1987 Topps Traded Tiffany #70T Greg Maddux