Rusty Meacham was one of my favorite players as a teenager in the '90's. I met him a few times at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida during Spring Training in 1996. He signed a few baseball cards for me, and was always kind enough to talk to the fans before games. I chose him to be the first player to be on a base card in the custom 1992 Topps set. Rusty would later appear in the 1992 Topps Debut set (card # 122), the 1992 Topps Traded set, as he joined the Royals in 1992 (card # T72), and in the 1993 Topps set the following year (card # 321), but nothing in the 1992 regular set, so now he does.
