Sports Cards Ate My Brain

Page six is all 1984.  There were 3 major manufacturers and Topps and Fleer was also generating food sets and other oddities so there was plenty to buy. This was between my junior and senior years of high school so any job many I made went toward cards. Nestle Dream Team 3 Topps made these cards and Nestle packaged them with candy bars.  I'm pretty sure I got this card from a local shop as I was more of a Snicker's fan. O-Pee-Chee 212 Those crazy Canadians!  They are more aboot hockey than baseball but I appreciate them having separate sets of cards. Ralston Purina 13 This is a Topps product even though it's not a clone of the regular Topps cards like almost all of the others. Seven-Eleven Coins 5 These discs came on the bottom of a Slurpee Cup inside a compartment on the underside.  As Seven-Eleven was close to my house I bought a bunch of Slurpee's in 1984 (Cherry and Cola swirl.) Topps 500 Here is the actual Topps cards from 1984, not to be confused with it's 1 m...

Page 5 brings us in to 1983.  The Braves won the division for the first time I could remember and Dale Murphy would go on to win his second MVP award.  The city was having a ball.  I was at the peak of my teen aged collecting, taking any money I got and going to 7-11 to buy some packs of cards and a Slurpee (with a baseball coin in the bottom.)  George's batting average stayed above .300 and he was still the perennial American League All-Star Third baseman. Here are the cards for page 5: 1983 Donruss 338 This is an almost identical Donruss design from 1982 except there is a glove instead of a ball and the bat points in the opposite direction.  Not a lot of imagination here. 1983 Fleer 649 Yes, it's a checklist but it has George's name on it.  I will replace it with a regular Brett Fleer card some day and put it in my Braves collection since their checklist is on the back. 1983 Kellogg's 4 We say goodbye to Kellogg's after this set.  It's a little on th...