1998 Pacific Online

Description

Released in mid-August of 1998, Pacific Online featured 750 player cards, 20 variations, and 30 team checklists. Every card contained a URL that corresponded with the either the pictured player or team. (It should be noted that the "bigleaguers.yahoo.com" domain has long since expired, and some of the team's official website URLs have changed.) Red Foil and Web parallels were available in packs. Winner cards, which are extremely scarce, were only available though the web site using a code printed on the back of some of the Red and Web parallels.

To add some spice to the set, the manufacturer decided to create two versions of twenty top stars. These cards are designed and (unfortunately) numbered identically, but feature totally different photos on both the front and back. For simplification to checklisting, we've added A and B suffixes to these cards, and added descriptions of the photos in an attempt to differentiate them.

Distribution

Hobby: 24 packs per box, nine cards per pack (MSRP: $1.49).

Retail: 20 packs per box, eight cards per pack.

Blasters: 9 packs per box, eight cards per pack (MSRP: $9.97).

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	770	-	8:1
Team Checklists	30	-	1:3
Web Cards	770	-	1:1
Gold Team Checklists	30	-	1:24

Checklist

Promos

A Tony Gwynn promo card was sent to dealers and The Hobby media as a preview to this set.

Base Set

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Parallels

Red

Each base card sold in retail packs had the player's name, position, and the Pacific logo struck with Red foil.

Web Cards

Inserted at the rate of one-per-pack, each web card is a unique code printed on the back, and Gold foil stamping on the front. Collectors were instructed to enter the code on the Pacific Trading Cards website for a chance to win an enhanced "Winner" card (see below).

Winners

Each "Winner" card is stamped "ONLINE WINNER" on the front.