Spiff of Texas Rangers Cards recently put this card up for grabs, and I indeed did grab it. I had no idea what it looked like before it arrived in the mail. But I did know it was from the V.J. Lovero insert set in 1996 Upper Deck, and that was enough for me. The few cards I've seen from that set are amazing. The year this set came out is a complete mystery to me as far as cards go. I officially list my collecting hiatus as 1994-2005, but there were only two years in there in which I didn't see a single card. One of those years was 1996. I'm not sure why that happened. I was buying a house in '96, but that's hardly an excuse for avoiding cards. The Yankees and Braves were in the World Series, but that happened after the card-buying season, so it wasn't like I was too depressed to buy cards. The only thing I know -- 14 years after the fact -- is that I missed out on an absolutely seismic year in cards. After spending four years or so trying to catch up o...
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