I'm featuring 1988 Topps Cards featuring members of my beloved Blue Jays that are featured on this blog.
Derek Bell is actually the second Blue Jays prospect featured in the O-Pee-Chee set. O-Pee-Chee cards were the ones I collected and they were essentially Topps cards with a Canadian angle and bilingual print on the back. Unlike Alex Sanchez, featured earlier today, Derek Bell actually had some pretty sweet seasons, although they weren't with the Jays.
We traded this prospect to the Padres for Darrin Jackson after our World Series win in 1992. Darrin Jackson only played a couple of months before we traded his ass to New York for Tony Fernandez. I missed Tony Fernandez and was very happy to see him play such a key role in our 1993 World Series victory. His nine World Series RBIs is still a record for a shortstop.
