1980's Topps / Donruss & Fleer Top Rookies1980: Rickey Henderson 1981: Tim Raines / Harold Baines / Fernando Valenzuela 1982: Cal Ripken Jr. / Lee Smith 1983: Tony Gwynn / Wade Boggs / Ryne Sandberg 1984: Don Mattingly / Darryl Strawberry 1985: Kirby Puckett / Roger Clemens / Mark McGwire / Dwight Gooden 1986: Fred McGriff / Jose Canseco / Cecil Fielder 1987: Greg Maddux / Barry Bonds / Barry Larkin / Will Clark 1988: Roberto Alomar / Mark Grace / Tom Glavine 1989: Randy Johnson / John Smoltz / Gary Sheffield / Curt Schilling / Craig Biggio |
The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.
In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.
In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.