1994 Pacific Crown Collection - Gems of the Crown Silver Prism Hobby

Year: 1994

Manufacturer: Pacific

Card Set: Crown Collection

Card Number: 1

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Silver Prisms Hobby!

Colbey who writes the great blog Cardboard Collections decided to get back to holding his Affordable Group Breaks.  To get back into the swing of things his first break featured two early Pacific products, 1993 Pacific Spanish and 1994 Series 1 Pacific Crown Collection.  I didn't have a lot of Brewers cards from either set so for $7 I figured why not.  And boy am I glad I did.  There are some great inserts to be had in the set.  Not a lot of inserts and you only get a couple per hobby box, but Pacific introduced us to the Prisms.  The Silver Prisms came in two varieties the circular prisms which were inserted into retail product and these snowflake prisms that were exclusive to hobby boxes and a much harder pull.  There were a couple inserts I was hoping to get pulled during the group break, but getting a card I needed for my Yount collection, and a card that still has decent value was a huge shocker.  But it really made my day seeing this get pulled live.  A great addition to the collection!

All About the Base - 1994 Topps

Year: 1994

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 310

Card Type: Base

Here we are the end of the road.  Robin's final Topps flagship card.  He would get a few more tribute cards next year before the Yountless years of 1996-1998.  Robin announced his retirement on February 10th so being featured in the first series meant the checklist had already been finalized and most likely printing started for the set.  Which for us Yount collector's is a nice ending.  This year the Topps Gold parallel cards were a little more subdued with just the player name and the Topps Gold Logo being foiled.  This year Topps returned to the horizontal backs but still squished all the player stats over to the right side to allow for a back photo.

Whew that was a long ride.  I'm going to go back to doing some random card posts, but I do plan to do an All About the Base series for Robin's, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, and Score flagship runs.

1994 Score Gold Rush

Card Manufacturer: Score

Card Set: Score Baseball

Year:  1994

Card Number: 13

Card Type: Base Parallel

Parallel Set: Gold Rush

I figured I'd throw another 1994 parallel card out here. These were all the rage too. As collector's we were craving anything different from the over produced base cards of the late 80's and 90's and the card companies delivered with their parallels.  Topps had it's gold foil, which turned into the monster that Topps parallels are to day, Donruss had it's Special Edition, Upper Deck had silver scripts, and Score had Gold Rush.  According to the Standard Catalog these were inserted one per pack. 

Score eventually became an imprint of Donruss and so did Pacific which all eventually became Panini, which keeps the foil board cards alive today.  These are pretty nice card and the scan doesn't do it justice.  

Robin retired at the end of the 1993 season, but was featured in all the major 1994 early releases, so while Robin missed the circus that the insert and parallel revolution would become we do get a few nice examples for the collection.

1994 Donruss Special Edition parallel

Card Manufacturer: Donruss

Card Set: Donruss Baseball

Year:  1994

Card Number: 15

Card Type: Base Parallel

Parallel Set: Special Edition

In 1994 parallels were becoming all the rage. Sure Topps had had it's Gold parallel for a few years now, but now Score and Donruss were getting in the game.  And back in the 90's the parallel and inserts were all the rage.  Only 50 players per series, or 100 total were paralleled with a Special Edition card in 94 Donruss.  Robin had retired the year before, but we are lucky enough that Robin got a base card in just about all the major sets that year and was also featured on a Special Edition parallel.

On the special edition cards the name and team logo on the front were stamped with holofoil and the number on the back was marked with the Special Edition stamp and holofoil.

While these were very hot cards back in 1994, you can find most of this set at very reasonable prices.