Oh Super Sweet 90's Inserts.... #3

[AUTaxMan]

^^^ Very cool! What set is that again?!

1997 New Pinnacle. AP odds are 1:39. 200-card set, but only 25 greens, 50 blues and 125 reds. Beckett says the greens have the "scarcest printing," but I don't know if that's a result of a lower print run of each green compared to the blues and reds, or just because greens only make up 1/8 of the set. If it's the latter, while the odds of pulling a green would be 1:312, the odds of pulling the AP of any particular card (1-200) would still be 1:7,800. If it's the former, I'm not sure there is any way of knowing the odds.

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Just got my first one of these in today. Think I got it for a pretty good price too from none other then burbank.

 

[MansGame]

Just got my first one of these in today. Think I got it for a pretty good price too from none other then burbank.

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Nice pick-up! Crusades are the best

 

[olerud363]

eBay mailday today:



I really like the horizontal Select designs from the mid-90's, and the holo foil on the AP's is really sharp.


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[heavy_hitter]

A Juan Gone 1999 Starquest Gold showed up on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Upper-Deck-...0923355693?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item27cbd36e2d

Shipping is steep....

 

[PadresFan86]

Nice Gwynn. I can't help but laugh every time I see a Manny Ramirez card. He is such a ****** bag. He tried picking up on my gf before I got to a bar earlier this year when he was playing up here for the A's minor league team.

 

[trauty]

Are the white border artists proofs only in series 1?

Yes, I believe they were a retail-only insert for just Series 1. Personally, I equate the Series 2 HR-prefix Hobby Reserve with these Series 1 AP, at least in terms of difficulty.

These were actually only available in the All-Star Fanfest packs (which the baseballcardpedia states was only available at All-Star fan fest but I know I saw these packs at Toys R Us and K-Mart). I bought a few boxes from sportscardswholesale.com in 2001 -- before they got really sketchy -- and pulled 1 white border per box. There was a time in the late 90's-early 2000's when these were selling for huge amounts but then a bunch of these showed up in 2003-2004. I picked up 5-100 count lots from tradingcardsource.com back then that I assumed were just commons (they were just listed as 100 count lot) but I was pleasantly surprised when they showed up and I pulled pretty much everybody that was good (and everybody that was bad too ) + I think there was an extra 15-20 cards per lot. I paid maybe $30 per lot. At the same time I bought those I also picked up a couple sets of the 1996 Leaf Preferred Silver Promos for around $50/set. I think the site was in the process of liquidating everything (I think they shut down in '05). I made a lot of money on that transaction.

 

[cbrandtw]

1997 Pinnacle Mint Solid Gold Redemption Alex Rodriguez 1/1 ( I didn't get it).

http://hugginsandscott.com/cgi-bin/showitem.pl?itemid=49251

 

[MansGame]

1997 Pinnacle Mint Solid Gold Redemption Alex Rodriguez 1/1 ( I didn't get it).

http://hugginsandscott.com/cgi-bin/showitem.pl?itemid=49251

Wow.....

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Does anyone have a 98 leaf fractal matrix Z2 axis? Maybe its 97. Also are these cards #'d/20?

 

[Brewer Andy]

Does anyone have a 98 leaf fractal matrix Z2 axis? Maybe its 97. Also are these cards #'d/20?

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Thanks, I appreciate it. Is it regular stock, or a chrome type finish? I only ask because I found someone who has one but doesn't have the ability to scan it. I trust this person as we've dealt together many times.

 

[RustyGreerFan]

Depends on the card. Some have a wood finish, some are leather, some are nylon, and some are plastic. But all Z2's are /20. baseballcardpedia has all the info.

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Depends on the card. Some have a wood finish, some are leather, some are nylon, and some are plastic. But all Z2's are /20. baseballcardpedia has all the info.

Thanks for the response, wasn't able to find the info I was looking for bbcpedia so I might just buy it and see what it looks like.

 

[MansGame]

Thanks for the response, wasn't able to find the info I was looking for bbcpedia so I might just buy it and see what it looks like.

Which player?

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Which player?

I found the info I needed, just had to hop on the computer as opposed to my tablet. Looks to be the leather kind, and I saw a picture as a reference. I'll be grabbing that soon here.

 

[adifran25]

Can someone please tell me what this card is? I just received it in the mail, and it says 1 of 1, but I am not sure what kind of 1/1 it is or how much it is. I got it for $8 of ebay, and I just figured it was a good deal, and I couldn't press the BIN fast enough. Any info would be great.

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[MansGame]

Can someone please tell me what this card is? I just received it in the mail, and it says 1 of 1, but I am not sure what kind of 1/1 it is or how much it is. I got it for $8 of ebay, and I just figured it was a good deal, and I couldn't press the BIN fast enough. Any info would be great.

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Ill punt to some of the big McGwire collectors here but this looks like a base card that someone stamped but I could be wrong. $8 just seems like a giveaway

 

[adifran25]

That's what I thought, but for $8 I couldn't pass it up.

 

[Hendersonfan]

Yeah after market 1/1. Card was stamped by someone other than Pinnacle. I remember seeing a bunch of Rickey and other players years ago. Just about every base card was stamped and they used different stamps.

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