...available at Denny's only with the purchase of a meal from the restaurant's Grand Slam menu; each card came sealed in a plastic bag that prevents prior
...ntest. So many teams hit grand slams in that time frame which caused Denny's never to run that aspect of the promotion again.
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...leased in September, 2003. As with the [[2002 Bowman's Best|previous year's set]], the bulk of the set is of autographed and game-used rookie cards.
In addition, Bryan Bullington (the #1 overall pick in that year's MLB Draft) autographed the outside of some Hobby boxes.
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2002 Bowman's Best is a 181-card set released in August, 2002. In a radical departure fo
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1997 Bowman's Best is a 200-card, rookie and prospect-themed set printed on [[Chromium |
===1997 Bowman's Best Preview===
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[[Image:1976Isalys.png|right|frame|1976 Isaly's Hank Aaron]]
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...-- ten years after the release of [[2006 Topps Allen & Ginter's]]. (That's how anniversarys work.) Nonetheless, there are a number of Tenth Anniversa
Also for the first time since this brand's inception, there are (with the exception of the one-of-one Box Loader Cut S
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1997 Collector's Choice is a 506-card set released in two series of 246 and 260 cards, respe
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2014 Topps Allen & Ginter's was released July 9th, 2014. As usual, the base set is 350 cards with the
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Collector's Choice is a 670-card set was distributed in two series of 320 and 350, resp
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...s One would be turned into a one-time 265-card set; while [[1995 Collector's Choice]] would be consolidated into a 530-card, single-series, release late
The design of SE is the same as the Collector's Choice set that would be released later in the year, however all SE cards h
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1995 Collector's Choice is a 530-card, single-series, set released in April 1995.
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...set of Hall of Famers distributed exclusively at five Seattle-area Shakey's Pizza outlets. All cards have black & white photography.
Earl Averill's card (sequentially-numbered as "A") serves as a $1 off coupon.
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[[Image:1980kellogs.jpg|right|frame|1980 Kellog's #57 Jack Clark]]
The 1980 Kellogg's set consists of 60 cards that measure approximately 1 7/8" x 3 1/4". The fr
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1978 Papa Gino's Discs is a 40-disc set distributed by the New England-based pizza chain. E
...irst 25 discs are of the Boston Red Sox; appropriate considering the chain's location.
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...m logo, career statistics, player biography, and a narrative on the player's career. However, every card in the set has a statistical error that was ne
[[Category:Kellogg's]]
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1999 Bowman's Best is a 200-card chromium stock set released in August, 1999. The set is
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1996 Bowman's Best is a 180 card set released by Topps. The set consists of a 90 veteran
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1995 Bowman's Best is a 195-card set consisting of 90 veterans, 90 rookies, and 15 Mirror
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1994 Bowman's Best is a 200-card set that is a hybrid of Topps' successful Bowman and Fin
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...ped miserably. It reappeared in July '93 with [[1993 Finest|Topps Baseball's Finest,]] one of the first "super-premium" card sets. Although Topps does n
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...When the rookie card phenomena really took off in the late-70s, Pete Rose's rookie was the first well-known counterfeit, and thousands of them flooded
...ult to fake), borrow or invest in a strong glass or, better yet, a jeweler's loupe. These can help collectors spot flaws in addition to fakes.
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The 2009 edition of Topps Allen & Ginter's World Champions was released the week of July 8th, 2009. Topps was suppose
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#REDIRECT [[2009 Topps Allen & Ginter World's Champions]]
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...C" icon, the Shohei Ohtani card is '''NOT''' a "true" rookie card. Ohtani's "true" Heritage RC was in the Heritage High Number series.
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...onsuming nature of the hand engraving necessary for each individual player's card with a Dufex design, the entire process took up to 6 months to complet
...Dufexfoils Ltd., which acquired all rights to Dufex and also bought Warren's stock from the Receiver. However, Dufexfoils shut down in 2017 and no comp
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...roduct with collegiate licensing and can be seen as Donruss-Playoff/Panini's answer to [[BDP&P|Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects.]]
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More information can be found at the National's organizers have a web site: [http://www.nsccshow.com nsccshow.com]
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...ept that it had a Topps Gold logo on the back and the front had the player's name and team name embossed in gold foil. At first, demand for these cards
...Broome in the February 1997 Beckett Baseball issue aptly captured the era's zeitgeist and identified four major reasons for the explosive rise in paral
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...the concept of parallel brands though. But the parallel brand came into it's own with the release of 1996-97 Topps Chrome basketball and 1997 Bowman Chr
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...o the heavy use of yellow in Pirates uniforms of that era. In the mid-1980's Topps put up many of their old plates for public auction, which was an unpr
...r variations, so some collectors may not consider them "True [[One-of-One]]s.
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'''Rookie Card:''' A player's first base card(s) in a regular issued, fully-licensed card set.
...Bowman set was officially licensed by Major League Baseball and the Player's Association, this is a rookie card.
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...news with features, collecting stories, athlete profiles and opinion. It's accompanying website offers content similar to the magazine, with a handy "
...ries for ''SCD'' about Topps proofs cards. Olbermann is one of the country's leading authorities on tobacco era baseball cards and rare Topps proof card
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...i Trophy Hologram card. In 1991, Donruss combined numbering with [[insert]]s on their [[Elite]] set (numbered to 10,000) with great success, with the to
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...or changes, light, dark, light, dark, etc.) that should be evident when it's opened. There should also be some card shavings across the top of the cards
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...tory set distribution. To some, if you couldn't pull it out of a pack, it's not a "true" rookie card. Because of the widespread distribution and gener
...r can have his "rookie card" in a set AFTER his XRC was in a previous year's extended set.
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...ect" would be fuzzy corners, slight off-centering, printer's lines printer's spots, slightly out of focus, or slight loss of original gloss.
...T. A "Major Defect" would be rounded corner(s), badly off centered, crease(s), deceptive trimming, deceptively retouched borders, pin hole, staple hole,
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...less a significant amount of force is applied to it.) Some people like BGS's 4-point system because it gives them a better idea as to why the card recei
The concept of a third-party "professional" grading service has it's roots in numismatics (coin collecting). Both PSA and SGC are part of much l
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...Rookie Card." By exploiting a loophole in the Major League Baseball Player's Association licensing agreement, Topps was allowed to include rookie cards
...go down as one of the greatest products for rookie cards ever. '95 Bowman's Best was loaded with key rookie cards of Andruw Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, S
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...[Donruss]], [[Leaf]], and [[Score]] brand names. After going bankrupt, it's remaining trading card assets were purchased by Playoff, Inc -- which now d
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