
Frank Pastore
1983 • Fleer
#599

1982 Topps Frank Pastore #128 is a vintage-era Cincinnati Reds baseball card prized by collectors completing sets, tracking player careers, or investing in classic Topps issues.
1982 • Topps
MLB • Cincinnati Reds
PSA
128
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Frank Pastore's 1982 Topps card occupies the lower tier of his collectible footprint, consistent with a journeyman pitcher from the early 1980s whose career stats don't command significant premiums in the broader market. With only one active listing available, price discovery is limited and the card trades in a thin, illiquid segment of the vintage baseball market. Condition remains the primary value driver here, as high-grade examples of early 1980s Topps cards can command a meaningful premium over raw copies simply due to the era's notoriously poor centering and surface quality.
The 1982 Topps base set was produced in mass quantities, making this a high-print-run base card with no serial numbering or parallel structure — scarcity is driven entirely by grade, not by designed limitation. Graded copies do exist in the population reports, but top-tier grades (PSA 9 or 10) are the only configurations that separate meaningfully from the raw card market. The extremely low number of active listings suggests either minimal collector demand or that most copies remain ungraded in vintage lots and sets.
Pastore, who passed away in 2012 and became widely known as a Christian radio host after his playing career, has a modest but stable niche collector base tied more to his post-baseball legacy than his on-field performance. His cards are unlikely to see speculative surges driven by Hall of Fame consideration or statistical reappraisal, keeping demand steady but subdued. Grading submission trends for 1980s Topps commons remain low relative to star cards, meaning high-grade population growth is slow — a stabilizing factor for those holding top-graded examples.

1983 • Fleer
#599

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2012 • Topps
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