Tuesday, July 14, 2009

1995 Upper Deck



Going to the 5th and the NL is up 3-2. Mass substitutions have begun. HEY MLB, I'VE GOT AN IDEA ON HOW TO MAKE THE ALL STAR GAME MORE INTERESTING. HOW ABOUT LETTING THE STARTERS PLAY AT LEAST FIVE INNINGS? 

I like this set. Very clean, crisp, minimalist design. Upper Deck liked it so much that they pretty much duplicated it in 2008. After that horrible 1995 set, these were a welcome issue.


The 1995 Upper Deck Detroit Tigers:
184 Chris Gomez
185 Travis Fryman
186 Kirk Gibson
187 Mike Moore
188 Lou Whitaker
189 Sean Bergman
227 Tony Clark
233 Bobby Higginson
249 Rudy Pemberton
421 Greg Gohr
422 Felipe Lira
423 John Doherty
424 Chad Curtis
425 Cecil Fielder
426 Alan Trammell


They did the Electric Diamond parallel sets again, this time with a silver or gold foil stamped "home plate" in the upper corner of the card. I've only got a few of the inserts and one of them is only a checklist. Another is that lousy looking "Special Edition" set. 


I vaguely remember the Predictor inserts being game cards that if the player did something related to the statistic listed on the front you could win a complete set. I'm guessing Cecil Fielder didn't do that. Oh well, here are the inserts that I know of: 

Checklist
1 Cecil Fielder

Predictor
R13 Cecil Fielder
R32 Cecil Fielder

Special Edition
95 Cecil Fielder
96 Alan Trammell
97 Tony Phillips
98 Junior Felix
229 Chad Curtis
230 Lou Whitaker
231 Kirk Gibson
232 Travis Fryman

Joe Mauer has tied the game at 3 with an RBI double. Sweet! 

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