1985 Topps were the first packs I opened in my childhood. The #1 card in the set...Carlton Fisk sets record for longest game played by a catcher...is THE card that him my favourite baseball player of all time.

Love the design of the card fronts, which incorporate team colours and logo, while maximizing the size of the player image.

Great looking set with the Team Logo on the front (first time in 20 years) and what a loaded crop of rookie pitchers in this set: Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden, Bret Saberhagen, Mark Gubicza, Jimmy Key, Orel Hershiser, John Franco, Jose Rijo and Mark Langston, not to mention of course the Puckett and McGwire Olympic rookie cards. Love this design!

This set is special to me. It's one of those sets that looks very 1980s (makes sense), and I genuinely like the design. It does get old after going through hundreds of them at a time.

The bubblegum inside of a 1985 Topps pack of cards was truly a rare vintage. First pack I opened!

I'm pretty sure this was the first year I got into baseball cards, when I was 7 years old. Growing up in Minnesota I (and everyone) was a Kirby Puckett fan and I remember desperately trying to get the 85 Topps Kirby and never finding it in packs. I did remember getting an Eric Davis rookie which was a big deal at the time. I was really into cards through most of my childhood but fell off my senior year of high school (1994-1995) and through college. Decades later I got a 2018 Topps Dodgers team set for a work Christmas gift and I've been back ever since. Looking forward to seeing what TCDB has to offer!

1985 Topps were the first baseball packs I ever opened. A family friend gave me two cello packs, the last packs from the Waldenbooks where he worked. I barely followed baseball nor knew the players but I was thrilled to get an Ozzie Smith and Steve Braun, as the hometown Cardinals were my favorite team! I also recall getting Bret Saberhagen, Roger Clemens and Eric Davis which I later learned were highly desired by 8th grade classmates!

1985 All-Star Set Collector's Edition (Glossy Send-Ins)

The following sets show both the Gray Back Variation and White Back Variation Sets.
Note1: In the TCDb listings you will see some cards' images with either a gray back or a white back.
Note2: The TCDb doesn't accept these backs as variations.

In the summer of '85 I was cutting lawns and cleaning out garages for all my neighbors and fetching burgers and beers for aunts and uncles at the family BBQ's, just to earn cash to buy 1985 Topps from my corner store. I believe they were $0.35 wax packs and $0.65 cello packs. I loved pulling the Cubs from those packs, my hometown team and the apple of my eye.

My grandparents bought me my first cards in the form of Rack Packs back in 1985 at the local drug store. Back then, the packs were on the bottom shelf thrown in a bin so kids could access them. I only got a couple of rack packs that day. Can't even remember opening them or what I exactly got. That spurned a crazy obsession with the hobby for the last 35 years.

1985 Topps is my favorite. I remember getting a pack at my local drug store and going home to watch a game in TV and was looking to see if any of the players in the game I had a baseball card if. I was hooked and 30 years later I’ve developed a successful career working in baseball and an extensive collection spanning from 1975 to 2006...and counting

This was my first pack. Must've been in late '85 or early '86 as it was just one pack of this followed by a deluge of '86. We could only find Topps in Glendive, MT, until '88 or '89. At least, within the radius I could wander from home. Packs were 30 cents. So, $1 got us 3 packs and two nickel suckers.

Note: The send-in Glossy All-Stars have parallel sets with Gray Backs and White Backs.

{ My IR was denied, but I have both sets. You figure it out}

I was eight years old when I opened my first pack. I wanted to see if there were any Padres. I just saw them lose in the 1984 World Series to the Tigers. I couldn't wait to try and get a card of my favorite players: Tony Gwynn and Tim Flannery. Good memories.

Some of the #1 Draft Picks show NO #1 on the backs. Member input and research indicates an inking problem in one of the runs. PM me for additional info.

This set is what really got me starting to collect. The catalyst was when my mother bought me some packs and the first one was Dwight Gooden. I was immediately hit with the collecting bug. This design is still my all time favorite of any sports set.

I collected cards back in my youth in the 1960's,used some in the spokes of my Stingray.Wished I knew what happened to my collection.Started up collecting again when my kids started playing Little League.The kids and I would set at the kitchen table opening wax packs and do some trading.And this was the set we started with...the last card and hardest card was Mark McGwire.

The first set I ever collected buying packs was 1985 Topps. My Dad and I bought packs and hit card stores all over. We then Focused on Phillies, re-collected cards from his youth on up. Still Love the hobby!

1st box/pack of cards I ever opened. I happened to win this box in a raffle when I was 8. Unlike most older relatives in my family, (who used to eat the gum and throw out the cards) I did just the opposite.

My Grandmother bought me this set when I was a kid and started my baseball collection. I've collected off and on ever since. Unfortunately I sold it when I was in high school but I'm working on putting it back together.