23 Vintage Baseball Cards Every 80s Kid Wanted

Growing up in the 80s, there were a select few things that you could be into. You could be an outdoors kid, disappearing for hours or even days on end exploring the big wide world and all the weird and wonderful things that can be done in it. You might have been a stay at homebody, playing with toys, reading comic books and if you were really luck, smashing buttons on Atari's first console. Or you were a collector, a purveyor of fine items, they might have been rocks, candy, bird feathers, or even Baseball Cards. These cards not only represented the heroes who we grew up watching hitting home runs in the Major League. These cards were our personal connection to those players.

They were the first thing we saw in the morning, and the last we saw at night. They knew our secrets, our hopes and dreams. And all we dreamt of was collecting more of them. So to satisfy the child within you, we put together an eye watering collection of some of the most sought after Baseball trading cards for you to reminisce over.

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Warren Edward Spahn as his parents named him bowled a mind boggling twenty one seasons in the major league. He was a left-handed pitcher best known for his time with the Boston Braves. And you are looking at his rookie card in mint condition. Do you think you would have been able to hold on to such a treasure when you were a kid?
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Tony or as he was known around his team the San Diego Padres, “Mr. Padre”. Was one of the all time left handed hitters the major league had ever seen. Playing twenty seasons and winning 8 batting titles along the way. This is unfortunately not an example of his rookie card, but it is one of the earliest mainstream cards after his rookie year in 1983.
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