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How many 1997 Pinnacle Mirror Black cards made their way into packs?
Print run of 1997 Finest Gold Die-Cut Embossed Refractors--thought to be around 35 but who knows?
1998 Totally Certified Platinum blues, I have seen cards 1-10 in gold but only one example of a blue.
One of my 2002 Topps Own the Game Jim Thome cards, #6 , has a snowflake in the top lefthand corner on the front of the card. My other copies of this card don't, and some other cards in this insert set don't either. Anybody know why? Thanks.
Ok here's mine. I believe the year is 2005. I go into a my local card shop & see an older gentlemen busting open a case of the new baseball product that just came out. I am from Delaware where card shops are very few and far between & this shop is really the only shop the serious "big time" collectors go to. Everyone there knew each other on a first name basis & on Wednesday's when the owner got a new shipment in all the big time guys would be there opening their cases in the store. At 18 years old I was lucky if I bought a box a week so I was nowhere near these guys but never the less they all liked me & I think thoroughly enjoyed interacting with a youngster who had a serious passion about cards and knew just as much about the hobby as they did. Fresh out of high school I would go into the shop two times a week to watch the guys rip open boxes & I never missed a Wednesday. I would usually buy all their Cleveland Indians base (or they'd just give them to me) and if they pulled a game used card that wasn't out of my price range I'd buy it off them too. Anyways I am rambling on here. One Wednesday I go in and see the familiar faces plus this older gentlemen I've never seen before. He asked if I would assist him in opening some packs, saying perhaps I would bring him good luck on finding the card he was looking for. He had been busting boxes all day with no luck.
So the card he was looking for? I was wondering who was in this product. Babe Ruth? Ty Cobb? Ted Williams? Lou Gehrig? Nope...the autograph he was in search for - Spook Jacobs. Who is Spook Jacobs? I'll forgive you for not knowing. He spent three years in the big leagues, playing for three different teams. He played in exactly 188 career games, totaling 757 plate appearances with a career triple slash line of .247/.329/.274 with exactly zero home runs and was not known for being a defensive whiz by any means.
So here is my "baseball card mystery" A.) What product was this? I can't find it anywhere online. I'm 99.9% sure this was in 2005. And B.) If I remember correctly there were only a few autographs in this set and every other player other then Spook Jacobs was a house hold name Hall of Fame player. So why in the world was Spook Jacobs included in this set? It's just about the most random thing in the world to me. I've always been curious as hell about this but could never find any information about it. I just can not wrap my mind around it. :?:
Also - I would find out later that day - the older gentlemen who asked if I wanted to rip some packs with him - Spook Jacobs. He is from Delaware and I didn't even know who the heck he was. This opens up a whole new can of worms in my brain - why did Mr. Jacobs spent $1,500 on a case of cards to try and get his own autograph?
The only autographs he has around that time frame were his 2005 Topps Heritage Real One Autograph - which has mostly duds and some great players like Aaron and Banks in the set - and 2006 Diamond Signatures, which I had never heard of. The Beckett description for the set:
Some cards were also issued with signatures in case replacements were needed. We are showing one of the cards without a signature. The set was issued from the Philadelphia A's society at a price point of $299 for the complete signed set.
Pretty terrible description...was it issued in packs as well or just the complete $300 set? If it was just the set he'd obviously get a card of himself right away. There's 45 autographed cards and the checklist is pretty woeful...the only HOFers are Bobby Doerr, George Kell, and Whitey Herzog.
If it was Heritage you helped him rip, he would have been a lot better off finding somebody to buy the card for him online, current "book value" is $25.
Spook Jacobs' only other Beckett-listed autograph is out of 2009 Tristar Obak so it doesn't fit your timeline.
Dude you are amazing! After doing a google search on what 2005 Topps Heritage looks like that is defiantly the product I helped him open. Thanks for the info I've been curious about it for some time! Now I just need to figure out why he was included & why he spent $1,500 trying to get his own autograph lol.
Could that just be foil degradation? On some of my hologram/holofoil type cards they've developed spots that look like snowflakes. I'd consider it severe damage. 2009 UD Spectrum is especially bad...here's an example from COMC:
Not sure what causes it or how to stop it.
How exactly were the 86 donruss highlights white letters error cards packed?
In other words, when someone found one, was it one card in the set? Five? 10? The entire set?
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1986 Sportflics Robin Yount Error