1987 Classic Baseball Game

This was the only post on this set that I had figured I would be writing  Circumstances led me to write another one a couple days ago.  Thank you to those who left comments....I left a neutral and dinged his stars.

It was just about two years ago that I started collecting the Cubs cards from the Classic Baseball Board games.  The first set of 100 cards came out in 1987.  One or two sets a year followed these through 1992.  I ended up with 62 Cubs cards.

In addition to Cubs cards, I also collect complete sets. I try to get the first complete set for any of the brands that I've put together for my Cubs collection.  That means that I would be after the first set from Classic, the 1987 green set.

The cards were not sold separately, but the 100 card set was a part of the Classic Baseball board game.  Trivial Pursuit was a very popular game at the time and there were many copy cat games put out by other companies.  Classic Baseball was one of those games.

The back of each card contains five questions...single, double, triple, home run, and rookie.  The first four questions were for older players while the rookie question was for young kids.

Each player would spin the spinner and either get a question, a walk, or an out.  They played like a regular inning of baseball.  Correct answers moved you around the bases.  Incorrect answers were outs.  Your turn was over when you got three outs.

Scoresheets provided with the game were used to keep track of each player.  There could be as many players as you wanted since there was no head-to-head competition.

With 100 baseball cards, that made 400 questions for regular players.  It would be very unlikely to have the same question used more than once in a game.

The players didn't have any real connection to the questions on the back.  They didn't have just Cubs questions on Sandberg's card, or catcher questions on the card of Gary Carter.  The baseball cards just made it more interesting that a more plain Trivial Pursuit type card.

The players on the card the big names of the day, for the most part.  I counted 20 current Hall of Famers (Gary Carter, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Barry Larkin, Reggie Jackson, Tony Gwynn, Ozzie Smith, Ryne Sandberg, Carlton Fisk, Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, George Brett, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken, Kirby Puckett, Jim Rice, Wade Boggs, Mike Schmidt, Nolan Ryan, Goose Gossage).

They weren't evenly divided among the 26 teams, though.  The Cubs, Pirates, and A's only had one player each while 11 Mets and 10 Red Sox were included.

Here are the 100 players, listed by team.

Angels
Reggie Jackson	24
Wally Joyner	6
A's
Jose Canseco	46
Astros
Kevin Bass	17
Nolan Ryan	82
Glenn Davis	28
Mike Scott	81
Dave Smith	66
Blue Jays
Jesse Barfield	58
George Bell	56
Tony Fernandez	57
Braves
Bob Horner	38
Dale Murphy	37
Andres Thomas	7
Brewers
Rob Deer	43
Paul Molitor	45
Robin Yount	44
Cardinals
Vince Coleman	30
Willie McGee	31
Tim Raines	29
Ozzie Smith	32
John Tudor	77
Todd Worrell	97
Cubs
Ryne Sandberg	35
Dodgers
Pedro Guerrero	39
Orel Hershiser	92
Rick Honeycutt	93
Steve Sax	20
Fernando Valenzuela	91
Expos
Andres Galarraga	71
Jeff Reardon	94
Floyd Youmans	98
Giants
Chris Brown	65
Mike Krukow	67
Jeff Leonard	64
Indians
Brett Butler	36
Brook Jacoby	40
Mark Langston	89
Jim Presley	48
Mets
Rick Aguilera	79
Gary Carter	5
Lenny Dykstra	2
Sid Fernandez	74
Dwight Gooden	72
Keith Hernandez	4
Dave Magadan	19
Roger McDowell	76
Bob Ojeda	73
Jesse Orosco	75
Darryl Strawberry	3
Orioles
Don Aase	99
John Habyan	95
Fred Lynn	23
Eddie Murray	51
Cal Ripken, Jr.	52
Padres
Steve Garvey	27
Goose Gossage	96
Tony Gwynn	26
Lance McCullers	80
Phillies
Von Hayes	63
Mike Schmidt	62
Pirates
Tony Pena	34
Rangers
Pete Incaviglia	16
Larry Parrish	25
Red Sox
Marty Barrett	61
Don Baylor	14
Wade Boggs	60
Dennis Boyd	85
Roger Clemens	84
Pat Dodson	8
Rich Gedman	49
Bruce Hurst	83
Jim Rice	59
Rob Woodward	69
Reds
Tom Browning	78
Eric Davis	21
John Franco	100
Barry Larkin	18
Rob Murphy	70
Dave Parker	33
Pete Rose	1
Royals
George Brett	47
Bo Jackson	15
Bret Saberhagen	88
Tigers
Kirk Gibson	9
Jack Morris	90
Lance Parrish	50
Twins
Gary Gaetti	54
Kent Hrbek	53
Kirby Puckett	55
White Sox
Harold Baines	42
Carlton Fisk	41
Yankees
Ron Guidry	68
Rickey Henderson	12
Don Mattingly	10
Mike Pagliarulo	22
Dan Pasqua	13
Dennis Rasmussen	87
Dave Righetti	86
Dave Winfield	11