The Best Looking 1988 Baseball Card Base Set

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Created on Friday, July 20, 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Written by King Mika

Most trading card manufacturers had improved the designs of their base sets in 1988, but did they merely improve the designs from "crap" to "average?" Let's take a look at the five main sets:

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1988 Donruss:

Donruss continued to disappoint fans with their horrible looking 1988 set...

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1988 Fleer:

Fleer tried something different with this set. It's a shame that they settled with average.

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1988 Score:

I'm not a fan of colorful cards, but the backs in this set looks fantastic!

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1988 Sportflics:

The fronts of this set looks similar to last years set, but the backs are a huge improvement!

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1988 Topps:

Topps bombed in 1987. They took note and designed the fronts of this set well. The backs looks horrible though.

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The Winner: None of those sets are perfect. Topps has the best fronts, and Score has the best backs; whatever the case, the fronts of a card takes priority, so Topps wins this award.

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