1988 Topps Mini Leaders #16 Danny Tartabull

Danny Tartabull. Son of a major leaguer and dead beat Dad. He once called the police because his car was broken into and was arrested. He was a fugitive at the time because he owed $270,000 in child support according to this article

1988 Topps Minis #14 Bret Saberhagen

1988 Topps Minis #14 Bret Saberhagen.

“Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racingyacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.” -Ernest Hemingway, the Sun Also Rises.

Sorry, wrong Bret. That one had two T's.

This one pitched for the Royals. New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, and Boston Red Sox from 1984 through 1999, and a comeback in 2001.

1990 Topps Stickers

Topps stickers were an interesting thing. I don't know if they ever became popular, maybe they are still around. The idea was that you collect all these stickers and then stick them in the right place in a baseball yearbook you could buy. Then, with the stickers gone, the backing of the card that formerly held the stickers is still a collectible card. Surely whoever came up with this at Topps got a promotion.

Here's an example;
The stickers are Kevin Elster of the New York Mets and Tom Gordon of the Kansas City Royals. The card on the back is Carlton Fisk, Hall of Famer with the Chicago White Sox at the time.