So Topps is hosting a vote to name the 60 greatest baseball cards of all-time, but the company “pre-selected the 100 greatest cards [it has] ever produced.”
I have no idea by what standards they determined those 100, or how they define “great,” but any list of top baseball cards that does not include the following gem does not deserve to be voted on.
Also, I remember thinking that when Kevin Mitchell led the league in homers in 1989 it was something of a meteoric breakout season. But looking back at his stats now, I see that Mitchell was an excellent hitter from the time he came up and for pretty much the length of his Major League tenure. Career 142 OPS+. Not shabby.
Tedquarters 
This is a great card, I think I have about 12 of them in a box at my parents house.
I think the best card ever though was the Bo Jackson dual sport one, where hes got the shoulder pads on holding the baseball bat. That wasnt topps though, Score i think.
Also omitted because it’s a Topps contest: the Billy Ripken “f**k face” card, printed by Fleer.
(Though I have a feeling they would’ve omitted that one if it were one of theirs too. Hilarious error cards are presumably not what they’re looking to bring up in a self-glorifying “contest”.)
And I was thinking when Mitchell had that anomalous homerun season in San Francisco in 1989 that he had found the same fountain of boom uncovered by Ponce De Conseco across the bay.
See also Dykstra, Lenny – 1993
That’s odd. I didn’t see the 1985 Rusty Kuntz card in there anywhere.
Ah, further traces of a bygone era. The dramatic dust cloud slide has gone the way of the dodo, thanks to the new clay being used on infields.
Wally Backman’s 87 Topps features a dusty home plate slide as well, but this one is better.
I’d have to say this is probably a good thing. Not all aspects of the past are missed.
From a practical standpoint, of course it’s a good thing. But this card would be pretty boring without that cloud, no?
Oh yea for sure. That cloud of dust is awesome. And the catcher looking all confused, being left in the dust by Kevin Mitchell, doesnt get much better than that.
What is it about sliding-runner card photos that makes them awesome?
(See also: ’78 Lenny Randle)