Even now, 35 years later, opening a pack of 1987 Topps feels like home. The wood-grain borders welcome you with open arms, like the memory of wedging yourself into the corner of the comfortable but ...

Two packs into my box of 1987 Topps, ordered online in a moment of nostalgic indulgence, the memories were rushing back faster than Vince Coleman used to steal second base. The smell of the gum was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jerry Beach covers New York sports and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in ...

In an article that appeared on Baseball Prospectus recently, I concluded that, in spite of an across-the-board decrease in player salaries, the winter's market has done a very efficient job of ...

So we had to take a different route: We had to dive into the baseball card industry circa 1987, when it was transitioning from making disposable bike-spoke smackers to producing the higher-quality, ...

The problem with being so successful in 1986 was that the 1987 Alabama baseball team had nearly no returning starters As if playing baseball in the Southeastern Conference wasn't difficult enough, the ...

I could just kick myself for forgetting that this year is the ruby anniversary of Jackie Robinson`s first major-league baseball game. Peter Ueberroth, a thoughtful man and alert commissioner, did not ...

Join us as we rip a box of 1987 Topps O-Pee-Chee baseball cards, searching for the elusive Barry Bonds rookie card! Will we ...

Say you had a time machine. Say you set it to 1987. Say you met a baseball fan from that year named Kelly. What could you tell Kelly about baseball in 2017 that would most strain his or her belief?