1992 O-Pee-Chee Premier

Je n'ai rien l'original pour dire de cette série. Donc je serai péniblement unclever et le dis français.

L'O-Pee-Chee Premier Tigres de Détroit:

11 Danny Gladden

31 Alan Trammell

48 Mark Leiter

56 Scott Livingstone

70 Cecil Fielder

80 Eric King

88 Mark Carreon

126 Pete Incaviglia

174 Paul Gibson

Paul Gibson? Oui.

Lou Whitaker? Non.

 

Ma bonté! Remercier des cieux que je suis fini avec 1992!

1992 Upper Deck

I swore I was not going to do another Upper Deck set while under the influence.

I lied.

I like these. I really do. But I must draw this blogging session to a close.

The 1992 Upper Deck Detroit Tigers:

74 Rico Brogna

96 Team Checklist Cecil Fielder

184 Tony Phillips

251 Mickey Tettleton

255 Cecil Fielder

271 Pete Incaviglia

273 Alan Trammell

294 Rob Deer

317 Bill Gullickson

319 Mark Leiter

339 Mike Henneman

453 Rusty Meacham

466 Travis Fryman

468  Lloyd Moseby

470 Skeeter Barnes

487 John Cerutti

489 Paul Gibson

516 Lou Whitaker

520 Walt Terrell

536 Milt Cuyler

538 Scott Livingstone

601 Jerry Don Gleaton

605 Frank Tanana

643 Travis Fryman Best Infield Arm

647 Cecil Fielder Best Power

737 Dan Gladden

739 Mark Carreon

There were some inserts.

The Inserts:

Scouting Report

SR14 Scott Livingstone

Home Run Heroes

HR2 Cecil Fielder

Ted Williams Best

T5 Cecil Fielder

The first person to post a comment about the Mark Carreon photo that makes me laugh will win something to be determined sometime later. Probably a beer sometime next summer in Pittsburgh.....

Thank in advance for playing.

1992 Pinnacle

Score decided they were going to join the big boy club with their own high end set in 1992, and they didn't do a bad job with these. But from a printing standpoint, all they did was throw a gloss coating on a regular card, so these aren't really all that high end, unless you consider the sticker price on these packs.

I like these better than their base set, what with the black and orange motif, but there's not much else to like about these. No interesting design, no interesting player selection, no interesting nothing. Even the Team 2000 insert set is uninteresting. There's not even a goofy photograph to make fun of. 

Yawn.

The 1992 Pinnacle Detroit Tigers:

4 Cecil Fielder

29 Lou Whitaker

87 Bill Gullickson

110 Travis Fryman

113 Alan Trammell

164 Mike Henneman

174 Milt Cuyler

190 Walt Terrell

198 Frank Tanana

218 Skeeter Barnes

226 Mickey Tettleton

243 Tony Phillips

318 Dan Gladden

348 Rob Deer

354 Scott Aldred

441 Mark Carreon

490 Scott Livingstone

503 Eric King

513 John Doherty

579 Trever Miller

598 Shawn Hare

Egads! I picked up the one insert card I have from this set out of a commons bin. I had no idea there were that many more! 

Rookie Idols:

17 Chad Curtis and Alan Trammell

Slugfest:

1 Cecil Fielder

Team 2000:

4 Travis Fryman

44 Milt Cuyler

Rookies:

4 John Doherty

1992 Score

I'll never understand the logic behind the odd border combinations of Score's sets. At my age I spend far too much time looking for my car keys in the morning to devote too much time to thinking about things like this. So it will probably always remain a mystery. But in '92, Score came back to give us a decent looking set, weird border colors not withstanding. 

The Ty Cobb tribute card is the best Tigers card Score ever made, period. Hell, I'd collect a whole set of HOF cards that looked like that.

The 1992 Score Detroit Tigers:

26 Milt Cuyler

50 Cecil Fielder

56 Rob Deer

65 Travis Fryman

134 Mickey Tettleton

179 John Cerutti

217 Mike Henneman

242 Bill Gullickson

255 Lou Whitaker

261 Paul Gibson

271 Frank Tanana

306 Pete Incaviglia

355 Walt Terrell

375 Jerry Don Gleaton

394 Mark Salas

395 Rusty Meacham

414 Scott Livingstone

453 Tony Phillips

468 Lloyd Moseby

515 Alan Trammell

537 Andy Allanson

543 Dave Bergman

569 Skeeter Barnes

626 Mark Leiter

729 Scott Aldred

825 David Haas

828 Shawn Hare

831 Dan Gakeler

878 Ty Cobb Tribute

There was a bloated 90 card insert set of "Impact Players." Hard to fathom that there could be 90 cards of "Impact Players", but it's true. Just in case you think I am lying, Milt Cuyler, Anthony Young, and Eddie Zosky are in this set. As I like to say on occasion, there you go.

4 Milt Cuyler

47 Travis Fryman

60 Cecil Fielder

One of these days, I'm going to go on ebay and buy a Score Rookie and Traded set for each year, because it seems that I never did, and then bundle up all the non-Tigers by team to trade to other folks like me.

The 1992 Score Update and Traded:

28 Dan Gladden

37 Mark Carreon

42 Eric King

81 John Doherty

1992 Triple Play

Just to make sure the kids didn't go a wanting in '92, Donruss released a set specifically marketed for them, and it says here that they did a great job. The fiery borders somehow work here. The player selection is ok for a 264 card set. I vaguely remember that you could put this whole set together for under $10. (That would explain why I am missing a few of these....) So despite my ragging on Donruss for their previous childish designs, it's ok to do so in my book as long as the cards are cheap and made for kids to begin with.

The 1992 Donruss Triple Play Detroit Tigers:

29 Cecil Fielder

44 Mickey Tettleton

86 Travis Fryman

99 Awesome Action Tony Phillips

100 Milt Cuyler

117 Lou Whitaker

161 Bill Gullickson

176 Alan Trammell

218 Tony Phillips

249 Frank Tanana

Now to perhaps one of the best baseball cards ever. Check out the "Awesome Action" card of Luis Polonia stealing second base on the Tigers. Now look at the second picture of the ump calling Polonia out while the ball is clearly above Phillips's head. Now look at what it says on the back of the card.

Awesome. Simply awesome. They even let the kids write up the backs too. How could anybody not like these?

1992 Studio

Donruss did a much better job with their second year of Studio cards than they did with their first. The metallic gold borders and grainy sepia tone photo were both innovative in '92. Unfortunately, there isn't much else going on here. Unless you count the photo of the dad from Seventh Heaven on Frank Tanana's card. You don't think that's him? Look at the t-shirt. Enough said.

The 1992 Studio Detroit Tigers:

171 Milt Cuyler

172 Rob Deer

173 Cecil Fielder

174 Travis Fryman

175 Mike Henneman

176 Tony Phillips

177 Frank Tanana

178 Mickey Tettleton

179 Alan Trammell

180 Lou Whitaker

1992 Leaf

Some sets don't really give you much to work with, and this is one of those sets. They used the metallic silver again to excess and didn't do much with the design. The parallel cards look much much better, but again, gold foil over black doesn't scan worth a shit, so you won't see much here.

The 1992 Leaf Detroit Tigers:

21 Frank Tanana

40 Tony Phillips

61 Bill Gullickson

75 Milt Cuyler

127 Scott Livingstone

153 Cecil Fielder

172 Alan Trammell

193 Rob Deer

207 Mark Leiter

239 Dan Gladden

259 Mark Carreon

285 Mickey Tettleton

304 Travis Fryman

325 Mike Henneman

386 Kevin Ritz

391 Lou Whitaker

402 Les Lancaster

496 Chad Kreuter

There was another Gold Rookies insert set that was pretty ho-hum. The cards themselves don't look that great, but the picture of John Doherty makes him look like a bad ass flame thrower, which he never was. If I had the card I would post it, but I don't, and I can't find a decent scan on ebay.

BC24 John Doherty