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This blog will explore the baseball card collecting hobby of the 1980s, particularly highlighting the Chicago Cubs. Unlike vintage baseball cards, most modern cards are quite budget-friendly. The different sets will be much easier to find. Therefore, with thousands of cards in the mix, we will begin with the 80 Topps and conclude with the highly valuable 1985 Topps Mini Test. The pinnacle of this era was marked by the Sandberg Rookie of the Year in 1983.


Sunday, December 11, 2022

1989 Topps Baseball Talk Rich Gossage

Number of Cards

1989 Topps Baseball Talk set has 164 cards which there are 7 Cub players

Card Dimensions

The cards are the following dimensions: 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" slightly oversized

Basic Features

Most cards featured a picture of the baseball player's Topps rookie card on the front. The player's entire statistics were listed on the back of the card, and a plastic phonograph disc was adhered to the card and played about two and a half minutes of audio.

Rich Gossage didn't start with the Cubs as a rookie; instead, he joined the White Sox in 1972 and spent one season with the North Siders. The card isn't his standard issue but features a 1989 Topps design.

The battery-powered LJN Sportstalk player was a basic gadget. When the card was inserted, a stylus rotated beneath to play the disc while the image on the card was displayed under a clear plastic cover.



Chicago Cubs 1989 Topps Baseball Talk Checklist


Number Player
11 Billy Williams
17 Ernie Banks
26 Lou Brock
69 Ryne Sandberg
75 Rick Sutcliffe
78 Andre Dawson
101 Rich Gossage






All of the recordings in this odd set were expertly compiled by the Daclyde YouTube channel. Click here and check out all of his recordings.