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

[joey12508]

Another red, another black.

 

[BenG76]

Scooped this up for $5 at the flea market today. I love the early Elite cards.

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[RustyGreerFan]

Five-dollar Find on Flea Market Friday!

 

[BenG76]

Five-dollar Find on Flea Market Friday!

Yea for sure. Scored a couple other cool cards plus a few junk wax boxes to rip. You should come up to the yearly flea market we have up here sometime. It takes over the whole town of Hillsville. Supposedly its the biggest flea market east of the Mississippi.

BTW I keep thinking about collecting Elite inserts from the early 90's. This could be the start of a set. LOL

 

[RStadlerASU22]

Another red, another black.

You know my feelings w this set , great looking stuff.

Ryan

 

[joey12508]

You know my feelings w this set , great looking stuff.

Ryan

One of topps best. I been looking for one of these with the correct name.

 

[RustyGreerFan]

So the tally is in: I just spent $330 breaking 10 boxes of 1997 Score Hobby Reserve. Total Reserve Collection hits: 12(!). So my hit rate was a mere 1:16.6 packs. And the last box I opened had 2 reserves. A real dud of a break and I will likely take a bath on this one. The best Reserve Collection was the Thome GY, so hopefully I can make some $$ back on that one.

Please PM me with list - I'd be interested in buying some probably

 

[Brewer Andy]

I thought you had OCD , how the heck you gonna have the 2nd card in, on bottom right of first pic with the border flipped the opposite of the others First thing that caught my eye. Good luck on filling in the blanks.

Ryan

You raise an interesting subject. When loading horizontal cards into pages or loaders, do you load left edge up or right edge up? I always thought people who load right edge up were weird, like lefties. I won't start a conversation about if the magnet on a one touch is the top or the bottom (it's obviously the top but some people again are down right weirdos)

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Bought this for fun, just got it in today:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262026531287?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I remember when this stuff was decent money, with all those HOT HOT HOT prospects who are now doing everything but playing pro baseball. Each box comes with a "chiptopper" (hated that term, glad they don't use it anymore!) of a Gold or Silver parallel, #'ed /50 or 150, "approximately" two autos, and a boatload of other inserts. Auto checklist has Carlos Pena, CC Sabathia, Troy Glaus, Rick Ankiel, Lane Berkman, and 60 other guys who might be serving you at Arby's tomorrow!

First box got me a Fernando Seguignol Silver /150, Darnell McDonald and Randy Wolf autos, Lance Berkman Scout's Choice (1:90 packs!), and a Best Possibilities of Ryan Minor (front) and Ryan Bradley (back). Modern day prospecters, gaze upon your future and cry. Your hot Bowman Chrome auto will be Ryan Minor in a few years!

Second box, a Frankie Figueroa Gold /50 boxtopper! Woah, that guy was such a huge star that I can't even tell what team accidently drafted him! Seriously though, neat to find a /50 just sitting in a box after 16 years. Vernon Wells and Steve Carver (WOAH) autos, and another Lance Berkman insert (with the immortal John Patterson on the back).

That was fun, seeing a bunch of guys who have just as much major league experience as I do!

 

[Will Style 13]

There's a Marlin in quite possibly my favorite Dufex set of all time, despite the checklist:


1993 Score Select Rookie & Traded All-Star Rookie Team #1 - Jeff Conine
Courtesy of COMC.com

That is one of the nicest sets with the worst checklist. David Hulse FTW!

 

[magicpapa]

Scooped this up for $5 at the flea market today. I love the early Elite cards.

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1993 Donruss Elite Dominators is a 20-card set, offered exclusively for sale on the Shop at Home television network.
In a series of programs broadcast December 8-13, 1993, viewers were offered the opportunity to purchase a factory-sealed box of either 1993 Donruss Series One or Series Two, which included one Elite Dominator card produced especially for the promotion, shrink-wrapped directly to the box. Each box retailed for $99 plus $6 for postage and handling.
5000 serial-numbered sets were produced and half of the cards for Nolan Ryan, Juan Gonzalez, Paul Molitor, and Don Mattingly were signed by the player. The entire print run of 100,000 cards were reportedly purchased by the Shop at Home network and were to be offered periodically over the networ

 

[RStadlerASU22]

$99 ??? Seems crazy. A $30 box maybe at the time and $69 for the Dominator? Ouch


Ryan

 

[Bane50]

[quote name="RStadlerASU22" post=2308258]I thought you had OCD , how the heck you gonna have the 2nd card in, on bottom right of first pic with the border flipped the opposite of the others First thing that caught my eye. Good luck on filling in the blanks.



Ryan[/QUOTE]



You raise an interesting subject. When loading horizontal cards into pages or loaders, do you load left edge up or right edge up? I always thought people who load right edge up were weird, like lefties. I won't start a conversation about if the magnet on a one touch is the top or the bottom (it's obviously the top but some people again are down right weirdos)

I use the back of the card to determine which way is up. If the back is horizontal too, I always put the card number at the top.

 

[RustyGreerFan]

You raise an interesting subject. When loading horizontal cards into pages or loaders, do you load left edge up or right edge up? I always thought people who load right edge up were weird, like lefties. I won't start a conversation about if the magnet on a one touch is the top or the bottom (it's obviously the top but some people again are down right weirdos)

Since part of the joy of collecting to me is looking at my cards in albums, I actually shy away from horizontal cards. I wish there were sheets specially made for horizontal cards even if that meant only six to a page. Maybe they already exist?

 

[RStadlerASU22]

They may exist, I'd think they could hold 8.

I like my non-top/bottom bordered horizontal cards to "lean" left. Then if they do have a top/bottom border, the border down so it "leans" whatever way at that point. Though I don't like that they make cards that way in the first place. If it's gonna be a horizontal card, have the border that is appropriate.

*** loaded wrong pic so turn that left and you'll get what I mean



Ryan

 

[RustyGreerFan]

It says they fit slightly larger cards which makes me wonder how snugly normal cards would stay in there:

 

[Therion]

Bought this for fun, just got it in today:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262026531287?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I remember when this stuff was decent money, with all those HOT HOT HOT prospects who are now doing everything but playing pro baseball. Each box comes with a "chiptopper" (hated that term, glad they don't use it anymore!) of a Gold or Silver parallel, #'ed /50 or 150, "approximately" two autos, and a boatload of other inserts. Auto checklist has Carlos Pena, CC Sabathia, Troy Glaus, Rick Ankiel, Lane Berkman, and 60 other guys who might be serving you at Arby's tomorrow!

First box got me a Fernando Seguignol Silver /150, Darnell McDonald and Randy Wolf autos, Lance Berkman Scout's Choice (1:90 packs!), and a Best Possibilities of Ryan Minor (front) and Ryan Bradley (back). Modern day prospecters, gaze upon your future and cry. Your hot Bowman Chrome auto will be Ryan Minor in a few years!

Second box, a Frankie Figueroa Gold /50 boxtopper! Woah, that guy was such a huge star that I can't even tell what team accidently drafted him! Seriously though, neat to find a /50 just sitting in a box after 16 years. Vernon Wells and Steve Carver (WOAH) autos, and another Lance Berkman insert (with the immortal John Patterson on the back).

That was fun, seeing a bunch of guys who have just as much major league experience as I do!

This is why I don't understand prospecting. I don't hate prospectors or anything, it just isn't my way to collect.

 

[JoshHamilton]

I thought you had OCD , how the heck you gonna have the 2nd card in, on bottom right of first pic with the border flipped the opposite of the others First thing that caught my eye. Good luck on filling in the blanks.

Ryan

Good catch! I didn't notice that. I think I just sorted them by # and put them in the pages. The dumb thing is it faces to the right, whereas the Conine .300 faces the other way. I'll fix that.

I prefer horizontal cards to face to the left, IE the top of the picture faces that way. As long as it's uniform, I don't really care.


A few new pickups and comments/questions

-I'm gonna venture a guess that the 97 Mirror Gold has a bit higher print run than 30, otherwise it wouldn't have cost me $3

-The horizontal CJ Legacy doesn't have any gloss. I assume it's a backdoored example? It's numbered on the back, but the serial # stamp doesn't seem like it's 'pressed' into the card.

-I don't know what the Conine is, other than a 'proof.' The foil and everything matches up with a legit card other than the lack of die cutting.

-BGS used to be a LOT tougher. It got an 8.5 on corners. If those are 8.5, all my recent gems are 7's. I might resubmit it.

 

[George_Calfas]

I love the sellers that say 1997 Mirror Gold Print Run /30 :lol:

 

[RStadlerASU22]

I love the sellers that say 1997 Mirror Gold Print Run /30 :lol:

I think they did the full print run 30 times over , that's prob more accurate.

Ryan