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1992 - beginning of the Insert-craze Era
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Pre-war novice collector Looking for one card for each of the following (SGC only): e94 Blome's Chocolates e98 Old Put Cigar e99 Bishop & Co. e100 Bishop & Co. e104 Nadja e105 Mello-Mint e107 Breisch Williams Successful transactions: aconte, brianp-beme, Luke |
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I forgot about that, I remember the Topps Gold and the Fleer Rookie Sensations being popular, though if I remember correctly the Rookie Sensations were one per pack but the style of pack they came in was scarce.
When I think of "chase" cards I think of 1993 on to about 1999-2000 when attention turned to the game used. There were a few GU starting in about 1997 but there were so few that not many people had them. |
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I have it down to 1993 and 2001.
1993 - The launch of SP Baseball and SP Football. Both products were incredibly popular plus the die-cut inserts were always in demand. That same year, we were introduced to 1993 Topps Finest baseball and the "refractor" craze was just beginning. Another brilliant product that took the hobby by storm. Inserts were a big focus, not only in these products, but others as someone else mentioned, but SP and Finest were HUGE! 2001 - Ichiro and Pujols drove the baseball card market. Low serial numbered cards and redemptions of either one of these two HoFers were HUGE too. Football was special too with Michael Vick (before his downward spiral), LaDainian Tomlinson, Drew Brees rookie cards hitting the market. I still remember opening a box of 2001 Topps Heritage and hoping for one of these studs, but ended up pulling the #2 overall pick, Leonard Davis. I still have the card, lol. Anyway, there you go! |
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And there's 94, which had (I think) the first 1/1 cards. Edge football had a series of cards called supreme season review or something like that. Really long odds, like 1/4000 packs. I got one, and since it wasn't labeled or serial numbered it took a while to figure out that it was one of those, and even longer to find out that it was a 1/1.
There was hardly any mention of them at the time, and even less since then. |
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There were definitely more than Rookie Sensations. All of the Ultra inserts were hot. Donruss made their popular Diamond Kings inserts. Collectors were chasing everything to complete their master sets. Card companies saw collectors would bust more packs to get these cards, so they just kept upping the odds until we got /25 inserts and 1/1 parallels. |
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