1995 Topps

Oh, where should I begin? This is not a bad looking set. But it's ruined for me by the horrible font used for the player name, coupled with the name being in an unreadable gold foil. I still have to tilt these cards back and forth like a Sportflics card and hope to catch the light at the right angle to read these names. 

One thing I'd like to say, I'm a sucker for the multi-player rookie/prospects cards, and this one looks great, as long as I don't consider who is on it. I wish Topps, or Upper Deck for that matter, would do more of these, but with the bizarre rookie card rule that I still haven't figured out (mainly how Bowman gets away with printing cards of minor leaguers, but yet no one else can...) it looks like these have gone the way of packs actually being made out of wax. It's a shame, and I wish somebody would explain that rule to me. 

The 1995 Topps Detroit Tigers:

15 Lou Whitaker

40 Travis Fryman

68 Junior Felix

97 Mike Gardiner

125 John Doherty

153 Tony Clark

182 Milt Cuyler

209 Tim Belcher

220 Cecil Fielder

249 Bill Gullickson

277 Chris Gomez

307 Mike Henneman

334 John Flaherty

362 Chad Kreuter

434 David Wells

457 Joe Boever

474 Alan Trammell

492 Cade Gaspar

519 Kirk Gibson

541 Tony Phillips

557 Danny Bautista

576 Mike Moore

612 Mickey Tettleton

636 Sean Bergman/Shannon Penn On Deck

These even had a pretty cool quasi-parallel set. An all foil design (I know I've bitched about it, but these are ok) called Cyberstats. They look just like the base cards, but the backs have the '94 stats extrapolated as to what they would've done had the '94 season not been cancelled. I thought there were only a handful of these, since I only have a handful of these, but my research has found that there were a lot of these. My research also shows that Big Daddy was on pace for 133 RBI, which would have tied his career high. Mike Moore was on pace to suck even more than he did. Go figure.....

13 Lou Whitaker

32 Travis Fryman

123 Tim Belcher

124 Cecil Fielder

135 Junior Felix

136 Bill Gullickson

150 Chris Gomez

165 Mike Henneman

231 David Wells

242 Danny Bautista

252 Joe Boever

267 Alan Trammell

306 Kirk Gibson

322 Tony Phillips

350 Mike Moore

380 Mickey Tettleton

The Traded Set was issued in packs for the first time since '75. I remember buying a ton of these packs and still not getting the Nomo or Chipper cards. I do have all the Tigers though so I guess I should be happy.

16T Brian Maxcy

21T Chad Curtis

31T Todd Steverson

35T Bob Higginson

68T Felipe Lira

88T Pat Ahearne

107T Rob Gable (ok, I lied. I don't have this one. Who the hell was Rob Gable?)