1996 Bowman's Best

You gotta love a 180 card set from 1996 that's called "Best" and only contains TWO Tigers cards....

The 1996 Bowman's Best Detroit Tigers:
5 Cecil Fielder
69 Travis Fryman

...and Cecil was negligible by 1996......

1995 Bowman's Best

I have a hard time believing that anybody's "Best" set of cards could contain a card of Pat Ahearne. I actually have two of these, and if a certain high school baseball coach shows up for the Tigers series in Pittsburgh next month, the other one is his.

The 1995 Bowman's Best Detroit Tigers:

B20 Tony Clark

B30 Pat Ahearne

B49 Juan Encarnacion

R28 Cecil Fielder

R64 Chad Curtis

R70 Travis Fryman

1994 Bowman's Best

I figure I'll knock out one tonight and this is as good as any. This is basically Bowman's version of Topps Finest, ripping off all the elements of the early Fleer Ultra cards. They had that lame ass numbering system where instead of numbering them 1-180, they numbered them B1-B90 and R1-R90. (B equalling Blue, for rookies, and R equalling Red, for veterans) Then there were some numbered X, but since I've never seen one, I'd just be talking out my ass to go any further.

At one time this was THE Tony Clark RC to own, but that time has long since passed. These are just flat out crappy.

The 1994 Bowman's Best Detroit Tigers:

B6 Justin Thompson

B16 Danny Bautista

B62 Tony Clark

R32 Cecil Fielder

R61 Travis Fryman

X108 Travis Fryman