Designs I miss....Spx Baseball 97

Love the base design on these. The die cut. The color design. The hologram of a player. This is by far one of the best base card designs in history.

What do you guys think?

Designs I miss: 1990's Inserts

This insert was put into Topps Football 1996 the year Topps was celebrating 40 years. Turf Warriors is still to this day one of my favorite inserts of all-time. The card has a unique feel to it. Not turf though. They used a special kind of felt to make it feel like turf which makes this insert very different. Card Companies now don't put as much effort into their inserts. They make them white background, flimsy, cheesy. Something we nowadays would use in our bicycle spikes just like they used to do in the olden days.

In the 90's inserts were much more exciting to chase and harder to find. Now they come about every pack.

Card Designs I miss...Playoff Contenders Football '98 part 2 Leather edition!

The leather version. Still smells like it. Love these cards! This is a Kevin Dyson and its actually a red parallel of one because the name is in red. Still to this day, the 98 Contenders one of my favorite sets! I don't own them all, but I do have a few cards. Wished I had pulled one of the auto's but didn't.

Card Designs I miss...Playoff Contenders Football '98 Pennants

First off, this is Hines Ward rookie season and rookie card. These pennants were part of a three part breakdown of the '98 Contenders. There were leather ones (will be another flashback on this brand with one of those so stay tuned), pennants, and base cards. I found this to be one of the most unique products in the late 90's and to me was a high end brand. I don't quite remember the full breakdown of a pack anymore, but I believe there were 3 cards per pack and you got one of each type of card in the pack. This was a hot and still is a hot product for its autographed rookie cards of Randy Moss and Peyton Manning and Ahman Green.

Any form of this product in pack or box form can go for 100's of dollars. I was glad to be able to purchase and own some of these cards when they were under $10 a pack. If only I had known back then I would have stocked up...