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Baseball Talk was a set of 164 "talking" that were released by and the Corporation during the spring of 1989. Each card featured a plastic disk affixed to the back of an oversized baseball card. When placed in the SportsTalk player the cards would play two to three minutes of recorded audio. 1989 Topps Baseball Talk Baseball Card Checklist on Keyman Collectibles The player retailed for $24.99 and was labeled for ages six and up. It required four AA alkaline batteries to operate.

The cards featured most of the better known players in baseball in 1988 and were sold in toy stores throughout the United States and Canada during 1989 Major League Baseball season. LJN and Topps planned to debut talking NFL and NBA cards (it stated in print advertising "Coming Soon - NFL Football and NBA Basketball Talking Cards), but those plans, along with follow-up MLB editions, were canceled as the card players often broke or played with poor audio quality. Stores were flooded with returned boxes of Baseball Talk and by the fall of 1989 many of the cards and players could be found in discount bins at places like Toys R Us and Target. At one point, packs of cards that had been priced at $4 a piece were selling for as low as 50 cents by stores that were eager to move a failed product.

Cards
The SportsTalk player was sold with four cards (a checklist card that served as an introduction to the series, a card, and the cards of 1988 stars and ). Additional cards were sold with four to a pack and were labeled in a manner that let the buyer know what cards were inside. narrated eight cards that featured highlights from historic games as well as 33 cards of former stars such as and .

interviewed the players of the National League for their cards and did the same for the American League players. Many of the cards featured amusing or humorous anecdotes, such as Mike Flanagan recounting how his Japanese baseball glove manufacturer (Mizuno) spelled his name "Mike Franagan" and that the company's executives told him, "Mr. Franagan, we're very grad you use our grub."

Rare collectibles
Due to the cards and players being on the market for a short period of time and that many of the players did not work well, a complete set and a working player sells for a Beckett book value of $250 to $300 (Beckett 2008 Almanac).

Checklist
The following is the numerical checklist for the only set of cards ever released for Baseball Talk.

Eight classic games
  • 1. 1975 World Series, Game 6 Boston Red Sox 7, Cincinnati Reds 6 on Retrosheet database
  • 2. 1986 World Series, Game 6
  • 3. 1986 ALCS, Game 5
  • 4. 1956 World Series, Game 5
  • 5. 1986 NLCS, Game 6
  • 6. 1969 World Series, Game 5
  • 7. 1984 World Series, Game 5
  • 8. 1988 World Series, Game 1

33 famous former players

122 Present Day Players and Managers in 1988
By Team
Each team was represented by at least three players except for the 1988 Baltimore Orioles, who had two (Cal Ripken Jr. and .) It is possible that the late season trade of from Baltimore to Detroit did not allow time to find a third Oriole. The New York Mets had the most players with eight.

  • New York Mets 8 (Hernandez, Carter, Gooden, Darling, Jefferies, Myers, McDowell, and Strawberry)
  • New York Yankees 7 (Winfield, J. Clark, Guidry, John, Mattingly, Henderson, and Righetti)
  • Boston Red Sox 7 (Boggs, Clemens, Rice, Evans, L. Smith, Greenwell, and Hurst)
  • St. Louis Cardinals 7 (O. Smith, Guerrero, McGee, Coleman, Worrell, Magrane, and Brunansky)
  • Los Angeles Dodgers 7 (Hershiser, Gibson, Marshall, Tudor, Sax, Lasorda, and Valenzuela)
  • Oakland Athletics 7 (LaRussa, McGwire, Canseco, Welch, Eckersley, Parker, and Lansford)
  • Minnesota Twins 6 (Hrbek, Gaetti, Viola, Rearden, Blyleven, and Puckett)
  • Cincinnati Reds 6 (E. Davis, Daniels, Larkin, Sabo, D. Jackson, and Franco)
  • Detroit Tigers 6 (Anderson, Trammel, Whitaker, Morris, Tanana, and Lynn)
  • Toronto Blue Jays 5 (G. Bell, Fernandez, Key, Henke, and Flanagan)
  • San Francisco Giants 5 (W. Clark, Mitchell, Reuschel, Craig, and Maldonado)
  • Montreal Expos 4 (Raines, Wallach, Galarraga, and Brooks)
  • Chicago Cubs 4 (Sandberg, Dawson, Sutcliffe, and Gossage)
  • Pittsburgh Pirates 4 (Bonds, Bonilla, Van Slyke, and LaValliere)
  • Houston Astros 4 (Ryan, Scott, Bass, and G. Davis)
  • Cleveland Indians 4 (Snyder, Carter, Butler, and D. Jones)
  • Kansas City Royals 4 (Saberhagen, Brett, White, and Seitzer)
  • California Angels 4 (M. Witt, Boone, C. Davis, and Joyner)
  • Texas Rangers 3 (McDowell, Incaviglia, and Hough)
  • San Diego Padres 3 (Gwynn, Santiago, and Kruk)
  • Philadelphia Phillies 3 (Schmidt, Bedrosian, and Samuel)
  • Atlanta Braves 3 (Murphy, Perry, and Sutter)
  • Milwaukee Brewers 3 (Molitor, Plesac, and Yount)
  • Seattle Mariners 3 (A. Davis, H. Reynolds, and Langston)
  • Chicago White Sox 3 (Guillen, Fisk, and Baines)
  • Baltimore Orioles 2 (Ripken and Murray)

By Card Number

One Checklist card
164. Checklist

See also

Sources and photographs

Street & Smith 1989 Baseball Guide pages 104 and 105.

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