1983 Fleer

For such an unappealing set, I can remember collecting these by the boatload. There was a dollar store in our neighborhood in New Baltimore that sold cello packs of these. I can remember riding my bike up there and buying a pack or two of these just about every day that summer, yet I'm missing half the Tigers in this set. 

The beige borders and the brown backs sure made up for one odd looking card in '83. With all the "earth" colors that are the rage today, I could see something like this in '08, but in '83 it was flat out ugly. It's not a bad design. I like the use of the official team logo on the cards. It's not a bad set, even though they too omitted Aurelio Lopez. It's just flat out u-g-l-y. 

The 1983 Detroit Tigers:

327 Tom Brookens

328 Enos Cabell

329 Kirk Gibson

330 Larry Herndon

331 Mike Ivie

332 Howard Johnson

333 Lynn Jones

334 Rick Leach

335 Chet Lemon

336 Jack Morris

337 Lance Parrish

338 Larry Pashnick

339 Dan Petry

340 Dave Rozema

341 Dave Rucker

342 Elias Sosa

343 Dave Tobik

344 Alan Trammell

345 Jerry Turner

346 Jerry Udjer

347 Pat Underwood

348 Lou Whitaker

349 Milt Wilcox

350 Glenn Wilson

351 John Wockenfuss

653 Team Checklist

You look at the cards and try and find something else to say about them. (Although I would love to have one of those BP jerseys that Herndon is wearing......)