Topps's 1986 set, 792 cards, is the one with the black band across the top. On Mike Schmidt's card, #200, PHILLIES fills it in big red letters.
He is following through on a swing in the powder-blue road uniform, number 20, and a maroon helmet, the bat flung behind him. His name runs across the white strip at the bottom, and the small position circle in the corner reads 1B. He spent most of his career at third base, but he played some first base too, and this card lists him there.
The season it was sold, he won his third Most Valuable Player award, with 37 home runs and 119 runs batted in, and the last of his eight home-run titles. He finished the year five home runs short of 500.
Five home runs short of 500 when the season ended.
He hit the 500th on April 18, 1987, at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh: a three-run home run in the ninth inning that turned a 6–5 deficit into an 8–6 win. He was the fourteenth player to reach it.
He retired on May 29, 1989, with 548 home runs and ten Gold Gloves, and went into the Hall of Fame in 1995, on his first ballot.
