Will Clark Collectors Thread

cool t-shirt. Too bad they are all gone

I've got some extra Will Clark stuff available. Hit me up.

A monster for me finally knocked off the need list.

clarkfan said:

A monster for me finally knocked off the need list.

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I know it's 97 Score, but what exactly is this card?

The actual parallel is called "Reserve Collection". Silver Etched foil on the front and a little thicker than normal card stock with a big RC watermarked on the reverse. It comes from the Series 2 Hobby Reserve packs. Wasn't supposed to be a hard card to find, but it's one of the last Score cards I needed to complete the collection.

clarkfan said:

The actual parallel is called "Reserve Collection". Silver Etched foil on the front and a little thicker than normal card stock with a big RC watermarked on the reverse. It comes from the Series 2 Hobby Reserve packs. Wasn't supposed to be a hard card to find, but it's one of the last Score cards I needed to complete the collection.

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Gotcha. I thought it was something super rare. I do have it, but thought I was missing something.

Just rare for me I guess It wasn't supposed to be a tough find, but I had a heck of a time doing so. Score was pretty confusing that year, so a lot of the variations get confused by both buyers and sellers, so it took COMC with the actual card pictured for me to find the exact one I was looking for.

It's a spectacular find - gorgeous card!

It is rare because it's a parallel that's 1:11 packs out of an (attempted) semi-premium product where there are 20 packs in a box. Unlike the other Score parallels that year, these parallels were only found in Hobby Reserve packs.

But possibly what really makes it rare is that a lot of it likely went unopened. Hobby Reserve basically mirrors the Score Series II set which has no real (significant) RCs and the only star cards are subsets. An enormous number of the 221ish cards in the set are completely worthless no-names. Even in 1997 nobody wanted to shell out for these packs. It's a fantastic parallel in what is rightfully considered junk wax.

My newest addition. I love the dual auto's especially with Mattingly. Clark has quite a few with him:

RustyGreerFan said:

It's a spectacular find - gorgeous card!

It is rare because it's a parallel that's 1:11 packs out of an (attempted) semi-premium product where there are 20 packs in a box. Unlike the other Score parallels that year, these parallels were only found in Hobby Reserve packs.

But possibly what really makes it rare is that a lot of it likely went unopened. Hobby Reserve basically mirrors the Score Series II set which has no real (significant) RCs and the only star cards are subsets. An enormous number of the 221ish cards in the set are completely worthless no-names. Even in 1997 nobody wanted to shell out for these packs. It's a fantastic parallel in what is rightfully considered junk wax.

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I was working at a card shop when it came out... people HATED it. :lol:

Hey guys.

I've been pretty quiet lately. Got married and haven't had much luck picking up many Will Clark items in the last few months.

I don't remember if I posted this earlier this summer, but my now wife invited Will to our wedding. Although he did not attend, he did return the response card with his own 1988 Topps card which he personalized for us. I really like that he wrote his name on the response card, as opposed to signing an autograph. The difference may not be dramatic, but it's obvious to those of us who are fans.



In addition to that gem, I also managed to add this one to my collection recently:



From what I can tell, this set is really rare. I've see Juan Gonzalez collectors go nuts for their guy. Amazingly, the seller had TWO of them in the same lot.

That reply card and the accompanying 1988 Topps are awesome! Why didn't I think of inviting Rickey to my wedding

ManOfSteal said:

That reply card and the accompanying 1988 Topps are awesome! Why didn't I think of inviting Rickey to my wedding

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I know, that would have been a great idea.

I invited Gretzky to my wedding and didn't get any response
That response is very cool and 2 thumbs up to Will for being
into it too...

ajw said:

Hey guys.

I've been pretty quiet lately. Got married and haven't had much luck picking up many Will Clark items in the last few months.

I don't remember if I posted this earlier this summer, but my now wife invited Will to our wedding. Although he did not attend, he did return the response card with his own 1988 Topps card which he personalized for us. I really like that he wrote his name on the response card, as opposed to signing an autograph. The difference may not be dramatic, but it's obvious to those of us who are fans.

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That is too cool!

dd316 said:

ajw said:

Hey guys.

I've been pretty quiet lately. Got married and haven't had much luck picking up many Will Clark items in the last few months.

I don't remember if I posted this earlier this summer, but my now wife invited Will to our wedding. Although he did not attend, he did return the response card with his own 1988 Topps card which he personalized for us. I really like that he wrote his name on the response card, as opposed to signing an autograph. The difference may not be dramatic, but it's obvious to those of us who are fans.

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That is too cool!

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Thats Awesome.

I uploaded a couple more recent (well, last few months at least) pickups. I got another Rangers postcard. I really have no idea how to list these things. I'm sure someone out there knows what's what, but it isn't me...

Any of you guys need a 91 Sports Heroes Postercard of Clark? I came across some unopened packs awhile back hoping to snag a Henderson. Up until then I never even heard of these before.

One really interesting (and equally confusing) area of my player collection is the team-issued postcards. I have a bunch of them, but there are some for which I can't identify a maker or year of issue. I'm assuming those without sponsors are team-issued cards that would be inserted responses to fan mail and the like, but I'm not really sure.

Does anyone have any more information on the issues I haven't identified? I think most of the Rangers cards are blank-backed, but I need to check that. If I remember, one of the Orioles postcards has "2000" written in pencil on the back. I'll need to check that, too.

(I may give this its own thread too, as I'd love to see if any Rangers or Orioles collectors can help identify those team issues.)

Anyway, here's what I have:

1. 1986


2. 1987


3. 1988


1989
None issued that I know of.

4. 1990


5. 1991


6. 1991 (2)


7. 1992


8. 1993


9. 1993 (2)


10. 1995 Crayola (I'm pretty sure about this one)


11. 1996 Dr. Pepper (maybe)


12. Unknown


13. Unknown


14. Unknown Dr. Pepper


15. Unknown


16. Unknown


17. Unknown


18. Unknown


I have one more Orioles postcard that I apparently haven't uploaded to my website. I'll try to do that in the next couple of days and update this post.

I guess I had pics already. here is the front, and the middle pic. The back has info too, but I dont have a pic of it.

ajw said:

One really interesting (and equally confusing) area of my player collection is the team-issued postcards. I have a bunch of them, but there are some for which I can't identify a maker or year of issue. I'm assuming those without sponsors are team-issued cards that would be inserted responses to fan mail and the like, but I'm not really sure.

Does anyone have any more information on the issues I haven't identified? I think most of the Rangers cards are blank-backed, but I need to check that. If I remember, one of the Orioles postcards has "2000" written in pencil on the back. I'll need to check that, too.

(I may give this its own thread too, as I'd love to see if any Rangers or Orioles collectors can help identify those team issues.)

Anyway, here's what I have:

15. Unknown

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Drew, I have one just like this that I received as a response to an auto request in 1996 or 1997.