Collection Audit 1987-1988

I only made my way through two years with this post.  This process may take a little longer than I thought.  It went when there were only four or five different cards in the early 1980's, and I underestimated the tediousness of counting off a handful of copies for dozens of different sets in a given year.  Of this first batch, '87 Opening Day was the only real surprise.  Not sure how I missed 14 of those.  Sportflics was the lone set to go backwards.  I don't feel too bad about that given I don't really like Sportflics, and they tend to stick together when you're trying to count them.  So that error is easy enough to write off for me.

1987 Donruss: Listed 429   Actual: 435   Difference: +6

1987 Donruss Opening Day: Listed 39   Actual: 53   Difference: +14

1987 Fleer: Listed 224   Actual: 225   Difference: +1

1987 Fleer Glossy: Listed 30   Actual: 34   Difference: +4

1987 General Mills: Listed 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1987 Hostess: Listed 4   Actual: 4   Difference: none

1987 Indiana Blue Sox: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

1987 Leaf: Listed 53   Actual: 55   Difference: +2

1987 O-Pee-Chee: Listed 18   Actual: 18   Difference: none

1987 O-Pee-Chee Stickers: Listed 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1987 Red Foley Stickers: Listed 3   Actual: 3    Difference: none

1987 Sportflics: Listed 49   Actual: 47   Difference: -2

1987 Sportflics Tri-Stars: Listed 13   Actual: 13   Difference: none

1987 Stuart Super Star Panels: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

1987 Press Box: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

I'm at over 900 copies of '87 Topps and my count was only off by five.  I feel pretty good about that.  I'm going to have to make a point to push that card over the 1,000 mark before the end of the year.

1987 Topps: Listed 924   Actual: 929   Difference: +5

1987 Topps Stickers: Listed 6   Actual: 5   Difference: -1

1987 Topps Tiffany: Listed 19   Actual: 21    Difference: +2

I was an even 100 off on 1988 Donruss.  I don't know if I made a typo at some point or if I'm just an idiot.  I think I just have an aversion to 1988 Donruss.  It's probably my least favorite 1980's set design of the big three Topps/Fleer/Donruss.

1988 Donruss: Listed: 782   Actual: 882   Difference: +100

1988 Donruss All-Star: Listed 48   Actual: 49   Difference: +1

1988 Donruss Baseball's Best: Listed 34   Actual: 49   Difference: +15

1988 Fleer: Listed: 293   Actual: 294   Difference: +1

1988 Fleer Award Winners: Listed: 20   Actual: 24   Difference: +4

1988 Fleer All-Star: Listed: 11   Actual: 16   Difference: +5

1988 Fleer MVP: Listed: 20   Actual: 17   Difference: -3

1988 Fleer Box Bottoms: Listed: 15   Actual: 15   Difference: none

1988 Fleer Glossy: Listed: 11   Actual: 12   Difference: +1

1988 Fleer Mini: Listed: 15   Actual: 15   Difference: none

1988 Fleer Star Stickers: Listed: 80   Actual: 82   Difference: +2

1988 Hostess Disc: Listed: 4   Actual: 4   Difference: none

1988 Jiffy Pop: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Kay Bee: Listed: 32   Actual: 33   Difference: +1

1988 Leaf: Listed: 37   Actual: 37   Difference: none

1988 Leaf Canadian Greats: Listed: 35   Actual: 35   Difference: none

1988 Nestle: Listed: 6   Actual: 6   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee: Listed: 16   Actual: 16   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee Stickers: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee Super Stars: Listed: 6   Actual: 6   Difference: none

1988 Panini: Listed 11   Actual: 11   Difference: none

1988 Red Foley: Listed 16   Actual: 16   Difference: none

1988 Revco: Listed 42  Actual: 39   Difference: -3

1988 Score: Listed 267   Actual: 276   Difference: +9

1988 Score Glossy: Listed 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Sportflics: Listed 9   Actual: 9   Difference: none

1988 Starting Line-Up: Listed 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Topps: Listed 713   Actual: 721   Difference: +8

1988 Topps All-Star: Listed: 717   Actual: 745   Difference: +28

1988 Topps Big: Listed: 62  Actual: 63   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Cloth: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Topps Coins: Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1988 Topps Glossy Send Ins: Listed: 18   Actual: 19   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Mini Leaders: Listed: 34   Actual: 35   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Stickers: Listed: 25   Actual: 26   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Super Star: Listed: 29   Actual: 32   Difference: +3

1988 Topps Tiffany: Listed: 19   Actual: 20   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Tiffany All-Star: Listed: 17   Actual: 17    Difference: none

1988 Topps UK Mini: Listed: 89   Actual: 89   Difference: none

1988 Topps UK Mini Tiffany: Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

I ended up finding 208 more cards than I had listed from 1987-88.  That brings the running total up to an additional 387 cards.  I suspect that it will continue to go up through about 1991, then taper off significantly, but we'll see.