The 90's Collection:1995 Fleer Ultra On-Base Leader Paul O'Neill

Think my eyes are seeing things! Are there many Paul O'Neills running at me????

No. It's just Paul getting on base time and time again.

Back to when the Yankees actually could hit and were a good team, Paul O'Neill was one of their consistent guys both at the plate and in the outfield. After he arrived to the Yankees in 1993, all the guy did was hit increasing yearly with hits and hitting a consistent 20 homers a year.

These inserts were for those guys that seemed to be on-base a lot and the designed showed it. They fell at a rate of 1:8 Jumbo packs with a much tougher Gold Medallion parallel of it falling at 1:80 packs.

So what do you guys think of today's card design? Cool? Lame?

The 90's Collection:1998 Topps Gold Label Charles Way and Danny Kanell

Simply put, Topps Gold Label may have been the best looking product Topps ever produced and I am beyond excited about it's return to baseball this year.

I mean the layout, the colors the writing and even the cardboard itself is beyond elegant. That's why I had to feature two of the cards from my Giants PC.

The base set was broken down to 3 classes with each class bringing their own parallels. Each class had writing on the back describing which class was what. The design on the front in the writing would display what parallels there were.

If you must know, I was a big fan of this guy. Beast FB!

Kanell on the other hand was on and off with his performances. I just remember how poor QB play the Giants had in the 90's after Phil Simms. Was so great to get Kerry Collins then Eli. You could call it a SUPER turnaround.

 

I am sure I am not alone about the love of Gold Label. What I wanna know is, what's your best card from the product? Hit a 1/1? Comment below!

The 90's Collection:1993 Donruss Triple Play Gallery Of Stars Wade Boggs

It's Donruss, it's an insert, it's most likely artistically done, yup. Fits the bill.

I don't know what it is, but when I acquired this card from my buddy Tim in a trade, I fell in love. It's surprisingly something I hadn't seen before.

You could find these one-per-pack in 1993 Triple Play baseball jumbo packs. I never knew until now about the inserts that were in Triple Play due to the fact I only acquired base cards of the product over the years but I guess this was one of four inserts offered with most coming one-per pack. So they don't have big book value, but are still pretty cool to look at.

Not a bad addition to my Yankees PC either.

 

What do you guys think of this card? Own one? Gong to get one now? Triple Play baseball thoughts?

The 90's Collection:1994-1995 Fleer All Star Weekend Patrick Ewing

My Knicks PC doesn't match my other ones as I moved away from collecting them as much since 2000, they year I feel the Knicks became a disgrace, but I still pick up cards from the 90's when I spot them.

Especially when they look this good....

 

I think anytime you can make a card that resembles the sport represented, you have a winner. I actually only have one minor complaint about the card, I do wished the name was a bit bigger but other than that, looks solid. 

I haven't quite found the odds info on these, but I would assume they fell 1:6 packs or so.

What do you guys think of cards done like this? Cool? Uncool? Why?

The 90's Collection:1998 Spx Finite Ike Hilliard

Spx of the 90's were probably some of the best products out there. It didn't matter the sport, the holographic faces and the foil blended beautifully together.

However, in 1998, Spx was released two different ways. Today's card covers the Finite brand that year when Upper Deck started to move away from the holograms used in Spx that were found from 96-98.

The Finite brand was still pretty sharp with lots of foil and player boldly standing out. There were tougher parallels to find of the base card and all base cards were numbered. There were also many subsets.

This Ike, was as basic as it got and was numbered to 10,100.

Spx of the 90's, any fans?? What was your favorite year?

The 90's Collection:1997 Finest Michael Strahan "Hitmen"

1997 Finest was broken into many parts/themes and into two series. There was Bronze, Silver and Gold base cards. Today's card is of Michael Strahan. It's the bronze base card with the theme Hitmen which covered a lot of defensive players who knew how to Hit.

I not only think the design is cool, but I still dig the non-peel on the card. I have never once peeled one off and if I have, it's only on the Mystery Finest.

 

Thoughts on today's card or the theme of Finest is welcomed in comments!

The 90's Collection:1995 Upper Deck SP Future All-Pro Tyrone Wheatley

Falling at 1:5 packs, you could find All-Pro or Future All-Pro die-cut inserts in 1995 Sp football. One of my favorite UD products of the 90's.

I like the design with foil borders and special fx behind the full colored player. I also like that it's a Giant. Even though Wheatley didn't do much in NY as Tiki quickly took the spotlight away, it's when he hit Oakland when his career got better. But, a card with a Giants player on the front is always a PC add.

How many of you pulled these back in the day? Thoughts on the design? Die Cut fan?

The 90's Collection:1993 Topps Gold Phil Simms

Today's Topps Gold parallels are much different than the ones in the 90's. Today's gold parallels usually are just a gold border around the card with numbering of the year the card is released.

The 90's version is simply gold foil on the players name and instead of Topps in the top corner, it was written in gold. This card serves as a 90's PC and a Giants PC. Really like the angle of the photo here as well.

 

 

So if we were to battle today's gold parallels vs the ones of the 90's, which one would you vote for?

The 90's Collection:1995 Topps Dimension 3D Don Mattingly

In 1995, Topps came out with a full set of Lenticular cards that was supposed to be revolutionary. Well, it really wasn't. Many brands before them had already introduced this technology to baseball cards including Pinnacle UC3. It also had a weird amount of cards in the base set with only 59 and there was only one insert set to collect. They also were asking $5 a pack for 5 cards. Pretty expensive for those days.

The 3D look doesn't look that 3D to me. I think what I like most about the card has nothing to do with the technology, it's the angle of the photo shots and this one of Mattingly with the wide open photography is quite impressive.

 

 

What are your guys thoughts on 1995 Topps Dimension 3D Baseball?

The 90's Collection:1995 Fleer Ultra League Leader Paul O'Neill

Time to kick off this new segment that features just 90's cards. You all know my passion for those and I have plenty of them to showcase. This will mainly be a small write up and picture of card type of segment mainly focusing on the eye candy of the 90's.

Today, I feature one of my favorite Yankees of all-time, Paul O'Neill.

League Leaders fell in packs of 1995 Fleer Ultra baseball Series 1 at a rate of 1:3 packs. So this card wasn't the toughest pull. What I like about it is the simplicity yet nice design that it has. The card is simply a one color with some added silver foil for the writing and a player inset. But, the design and layout are well placed. 

There is also a Gold Medallion parallel of this insert set as well that falls at a much tougher rate of 1:30.