1995 Signature Rookies Preview #P-2

Kind of a boring card in my opinion.  Similar photo that we have seen before on other Signature Rookies cards.

The back uses cropped versions of the same photo.  The last line of the text on the back could have been formatted a bit differently to line up with the rest of the story.

This is one of the few cards I only have 1 of.  I've had this one for many years and have never seen another one since I found it.

Current total = 1

1995 Select Certified Mirror Gold #103

Up next is the Mirror Gold version of the 1995 Select Certified card.  The only difference is the chrome color of the card front is now gold!  Gold!

On the back they have the Mirror Gold designation.

Current Total = 8

1995 Select Certified #103

Behold, the 1995 Select Certified #103!  I'm not a huge fan of this card because of the goofy face he is making but I do like the thickness and glossy aspect of it.

The back could use some work too.  No stats and another goofy picture.  It's pretty good for a candid photo but with no stats they could have made it a little bigger at least.

Current Total = 24

My First Mail Day!

I sent some Tim Wallach cards over to the fellow at http://timwallach.blogspot.com/ to help him with his quest to own every Tim Wallach card ever printed.  He was my inspiration to start this blog and he sent me a nice package with some Hawk cards not too long ago.

Thanks for the great cards!  I am still keeping my eye out for some more Wallach cards to send your way.  Sorry the picture is sideways, I couldn't figure out how to turn it the right way.  Check out his blog if you can and send some Wallach cards his way.  http://timwallach.blogspot.com/

1995 Fleer #204

1995 Fleer.  Card number 204.  Not a huge fan of this one.  Too much happening on the front.  The yellow outline around the photo is pretty cool but I think the rest of the stuff on there should be on the back of the card.

The back is not a whole lot better.  If they would have condensed the spacing on the stats and added the odd stuff from the front this would be a much better looking card I think.

Current total = 33

1995 Flair #280

I like this card because it is a little thicker than most cards and with the shiny gold and silver on it it looks fancy!  I'm not usually a fan of sideways cards but this one looks pretty good.  They went with the tough guy photos, no smiling.  Gotta make sure he keeps up that street cred.

A full photo on the back which is pretty cool along with full minor league stats.

Current total = 24

1995 Collector's Choice SE Gold, Silver #7

Next up we have the two parallel cards for the 1995 Collector's Choice SE.  These feature a Gold and Silver signature and SE logo on the front.  The gold version is a little tougher to find than the silver but that's ok, I think the silver one looks cooler anyways!

Nothing special on the back, same as the standard card.

Current totals: Gold = 2
                      Silver = 12

1995 Collector's Choice SE #7

This is one of my favorite cards.  I like the posed/candid photo and he has a good smile but what I really like is his hat.  He wrote, "Hawk, Top Dawg" on the underside of the bill.  I think it's pretty cool to show how a player has customized their equipment.

A nice little story of his Minor's career so far and some combined stats round out the back.

Current total = 70

1995 Bowman's Best Refractor #53

Nearly identical card as yesterday but this one has a rainbow sheen to it.

It also says Refractor on the back to the left of the card number.

Current total = 7

1995 Bowman's Best #53

Chrome cards are some of my favorites and this one is a good one.  It has a nice action photo with the team logo in the background with the vertical lines behind that.  I like how that have just enough of the field in the middle to offset all of the silver on the front.

On the back they have a different photo potentially taken just before the one on the front.  Super Skills is a feature that you don't usually see on the back of a card now days.

Current total = 30

1995 Bowman Gold #256

This is the Gold parallel version of yesterdays Bowman card.  The same loosey-goosey goodness in a golden version.

Kind of hard to tell in my poor photo but I swear it is gold.  Not real gold though.  Just golden in color.

Current total = 9

1995 Bowman #256

I like the shiny and sparkly cards and this one is in my list of favorites.  It seems like such a random photo too, like he is looking for someone who wants to play catch.

Under skills they list his loosey-goosey body and arm as the first key point.  I haven't seen that term on too many baseball cards.

Current total = 24

94-95 Fleer Excel League Leader #8

League Leader insert card from the 94-95 Fleer Excel set.  I like the blurry background, gives more focus to the player.  The photo though looks pretty familiar, kind of like the 1994 Signature Rookies cards.  Take a look back at that post and tell me what you think.

The back is fairly plain with just a recap of his season and what made him a league leader.

Current total = 17

94-95 Fleer Excel #86

94-95 Fleer Excel.  A nice looking design with the cropped out background and the basebll stitches on the side.  It's kind of cool that they let the photo overlap into the border of the card.  Not sure I would have went with this photo as it kind of looks like he is staring off into space.

Same photo on the back which I am never a fan of.  I like to see different photos front and rear but I guess that adds to the complexity of designing a card.  Kind of a different way to display the stats, the column headers are way up at the top and then each team is split off on its own.

Current Total = 17

1994 Signature Rookies Panel

I forgot that I had this item until I was rearranging some of my baseball stuff and this was in a stack of magazines.  I got this on eBay a few years ago and it is the only one I have come across since.  It is numbered out of 900 on the right side above Scott Ruffcorn's name.

A pretty neat oddball item I think.  Someday I will figure out how to display this so it doesn't get lost in a stack of magazines again.

1994 Upper Deck Minors Player Of The Year #PY26

Player of the Year insert card form the 1994 UD Minors set.  Cool blue background with bronze lettering, and if you look really closely you can see a Minnesota Twins logo hiding back there too.  Very similar photo to the previous two cards.

Kind of boring on the back.  Small photo from the same photo shoot again, bio, star hologram.

Current total = 8

1994 Upper Deck Minors #248

I like the angle of the photos on this card, looking up at him showing the concentration on his face.  Looks like the photos could have come from the same photo shoot as the previous card.  The scrunched up little photo on the let is a little weird.  They should have left that a solid color and put the "Twins Top Prospect" from the right side in there.

Similar photo on the back only this time a blue undershirt and a different jersey with a patch on the left shoulder.  The star Upper Deck hologram is cool as they usually use a baseball field shaped hologram.  Only one line of stats but they added a rating scale for his pitches which is different but pretty cool.

Current total = 103

1994 Upper Deck Next In Line #6

Card number 6 out of 20 in the Next In Line insert set.  I like the close up photo with his glove up and the serious stare he has going on.  They had to put a happy photo on there so they got one of him smiling to put in the corner to even it out.  1 of 2500 it says, I have not seen many of these cards so it is a bit more scarce.

A nice wind up photo on the back with a little bio and the short version of his stats.  Overall a nice card, I hope to find more of these over the years.

Current total = 2

1994 Upper Deck #548

With the angle of the photo and the clouds in the background this photo is pretty cool.  I like when they get creative with card photos, it adds more fun to collecting!  The card has a shine to it which makes it stand out among other cards.

The back has a similar photo but this time he rolled up his sleeve so we can see the gun show.  And the tattoo, don't forget that.  A nice bio and full career stats round out the back of this card.

Current total = 183

There is also an Electric Diamond version of this card which merely has the extra words stamped among the right side under the Upper Deck logo.  The added lettering is very sparkly like a diamond.  Not sure it is electric but what can you do.

Electric Diamond total = 44

1994 Fleer Ultra #389

I like the full picture with minimal border on the bottom.  The gold diamond in the Fleer Ultra logo makes it a bit difficult to read but I like the Rookie designation and otherwise it's a good looking card.  Now, the picture itself, I am not a big fan of.  I always thought his face in this picture looked a bit washed out but the high leg kick is cool.

The back has a three part photo that shows different angles of his delivery.  Only one year worth of stats on the card and no bio but the nice photos make up for it.

Current total = 57