Something has puzzled me ever since I took this card home. It's a 1999 Omega card, one of the many, many sets that Pacific issued in the late 1990s. But I didn't buy it at store or at a card show. This card was part of a free sample mailing that Pacific apparently distributed to newspaper publications at the time. We would receive a large envelope once or twice a year as Pacific announced yet another set in a fancy PR release. I didn't pay much attention to the cards at the time because I wasn't collecting then, and I found the cards particularly gaudy. For some reason, the cards Pacific sent in the mailings were always of Tony Gwynn. I would end up taking the cards home because no one else at the office wanted them, and I didn't have the heart to throw them in the trash (I don't think I've ever thrown away a single baseball card ever since my first horrid mistake back in 1974). But here's the thing; they were free samples, and it's obvious Pacific ...
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