1985 Baseball Cards

Get ready to hop on the I-70 and take a ride back into the 1985 baseball season! Kansas City fans will be excited to return to the season where the franchise claimed its first World Series championship over their in-state rival St. Louis Cardinals. Relive the magic of this classic series where Cy Young winner Bret Saberhagen led his Royals to victory with a complete game shutout in game 7 to the tune of a 0.50 ERA between his two starts as Kansas City miraculously erased a 3-1 deficit. Despite coming out on the losing end of the World Series, St. Louis was the team that dominated most of the storylines for the regular season. They led the majors with 101 wins, led by the efforts of NL MVP Willie McGee, who led the league in batting average (.353) and hits (216) while winning the Gold Glove. It wasn’t a one man show, however, as outfielder Vince Coleman managed to take home the NL Rookie of the Year award, while swiping 110 bases. Fellow teammates Tom Herr, John Tudor, and Jack Clark finished fifth, eighth, and tenth respectively in MVP voting. The AL East was a bloodbath this season, with the 99-win Blue Jays winning the division race over the 97 win New York Yankees. The division featured the four highest scoring offenses in the Majors, those being the Yanks (839), Baltimore (818), Boston (800) and Toronto (759). New York’s Don Mattingly finished first in the AL MVP voting, driven by his major-league leading 145 RBIs. George Brett far outpaced the rest of the AL with a 1.022 OPS. Brett’s .335 batting average was second only to Wade Boggs’ .368. Darrell Evans crushed 40 home runs for the 84-win Detroit Tigers. Over in the NL, Cy Young winner Dwight Gooden put together an all-time great pitching season for the 98-win New York Mets, tossing 16 complete games and 8 shutouts en route to a 24-win season with an astounding 1.53 ERA. On the opposite coast, the 95-win Los Angeles Dodgers featured great performances as well, notably Orel Hershiser’s 2.03 ERA season and Pedro Guerrero’s .999 OPS campaign. Rated for Basic, Advanced, and Super-Advanced play. Every game includes 783 player cards, almost 30 players per team. Enhanced by 1200 additional hours of box-score analysis and in-depth research to create exclusive Strat-O ratings. Add to Wishlist