Baseball cards, like Coca-Cola or Harrison Ford, started as one thing and ended as another. And no one knew it would catch on. The first set of cards in the 1880s was a marketing tool by tobacco ...
But Henderson came to define the 1980s through baseball. Henderson's 1981 Topps card. In 1981, a strike interrupted the season for more than a month and a half. Henderson finished second in MVP ...
The bad news was none of the packs appeared to be baseball. There was 1979-80 hockey, 1980 football ... sports cards each and only cost a dollar! In other words, they were free money.