Unopened 1982 Fleer Cello Pack

This is my 3rd unopened cello pack featuring the Wallach card visible on top.  I think these are pretty cool.  I'm not sure if I like this better than the '82 pack, but it's right up with it as my favorite.  Not that there's anything wrong with the '88 Fleer pack I have, I'm just not wild about that set design.  I certainly prefer these to unopened rack packs, as those feature three visible cards, and I find the effect is a little watered down.  With these cello packs the Wallach is very front and center.

1982 Fleer Autograph

At the beginning of the 1987 season I sent this card to Tim Wallach c/o The Montreal Expos at Olympic Stadium along with a SASE.  I was still in school at the time.  All summer I waited with no response, literally checking the mail on a daily basis.  Sometime in September, right after school had started back up, this card arrived back in the mail.

It immediately became my most prized possession.  Other kids in the neighborhood tried sending cards to their favorite players, Mattingly, Boggs, Pete Rose, but none of them ever got one back.  This card remains my most prized item of sports memorabilia.  The signature isn't great (due to the almost waxy surface of '82 Fleer), it's sun faded, and dinged, but I don't mind any of that.  It may as well be a '52 Mantle as far as my collection goes.

1982 Fleer #210

Card Review: 9.4 I like the backs of '82 Fleer better than the fronts (which have a weird waxy feel to them).  The first one of these I got was at my local card shop "The Batter's Box" in Phoenix.  I had literally just asked the guy for it, and he got annoyed, because I was like 7 and had asked once a week for six months straight.  Then some kid came in with a couple of cards to sell so the dealer told me to get lost.  One of the cards the kid had was this one.  The dealer rudely dismissed all the kid's cards as crap but told the kid he'd take the '82 Fleer Wallach, "I'll give ya a quarter, it's not like anyone collects Wallachs."  The kid took the offer and the guy turned to me, still in earshot of the kid, and said "one dollar."  He wasn't trying to be funny.  In the history of human civilization, I'm not sure there has ever been a bigger collection of dirt bags, than 1980's baseball card shop owners.


Number of this card in my collection: 26
2012 update: 37
2013 update: 57
2014 update: 60
2015 update: 70 
2016 update: 79
2017 update: 242
2018 update: 248
2019 update: 382
2020 update: 456

2021 update: 457

2022 update: 462

2023 update: 465

2024 update: 500

2025 update: 505

2026 update: 506