As an adult of a certain age, my first true card collecting world wasn’t the Pokémon TCG or Magic the Gathering or any other trading card game, but baseball cards! I don’t think it was any coincidence for me that three things happened to get me hooked into baseball cards:

  1. my local baseball teams—the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Atheletics—were killing it in Baseball at the time, culminating with the 1989 World Series (aka the Battle of the Bay, which was also happening around my birthday AND the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake)
  2. I was a young and impressionable kid who was starting to discover my hobbies
  3. The glut of extreme overprinting of Baseball cards that made them extremely available for a kid like me to get tons of packs for a reasonable price, but ultimately leading to the Junk Wax Era of cards.

I mean, even as of 2025, I can still buy packs of cards from the Junk Wax era for like $2. Incidentally, the card shop I first bought my cards from—Lefty’s Sports Cards—is still in business to this day!

Anyways, seeing as those cards have a certain charm and nostalgia for those of us who grew up with it, I thought it might be fun to not just make new cards in those styles, but also give you the tools to make your own for your own favorite players! Take a quick look at some of the ones I made some years back (in the style of the 1987 Topps Baseball series):

And then compare them to actual cards from 1987 Topps:

You read up more about how I made these cards—and other custom cards I made—in this article below:

New Old Fakes, Today!

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That said, right now this page is still a work in progress as I just came up with the idea, so I just wanted to get things down on paper first. But the ultimate goal is to include cards from at least these releases:

  • Topps — 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990
  • Donruss — 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991
  • Fleer — 1989, 1990
  • Score — 1989

I feel these cards have the most iconic and unique designs, but I’ll admit I’m a little biased. Of course if this takes off and demand increases, I’ll include other sets as popularity demands.

Keep an eye out for more info in the future!