Night Owl Cards

  It's time again to wear my research hat. Someone online was wondering how many players have appeared on the 1987 Topps design, given Topps' habit of trotting out the tired wood borders every chance it gets, even rejiggering the anniversary rules once to be able to use it again. "I'd love to see someone come up with a list ..." OK, that sounded like a challenge. I shall accept that challenge. I assume the reference was to players who have appeared on the '87 design after 1987 Topps came out. I don't see the point in counting up the players who appeared in the 1987 set. I also don't see the point of counting those player who showed up in 2001 Archives, for example, as those cards are repeats of the '87 cards, for the most part. No, the real period for when Topps ramped up the '87 love, exploiting all those collectors who started their collecting journey that year, has been the past decade when Topps started putting players onto the '87 desi...