1995 Pinnacle Zenith

I laugh at the goldbricks pictured on the cards. Score/Pinnacle could not have left any more of a subtle hint. Unfortunately that's all I can laugh about with these. 

The 1995 Pinnacle Zenith Detroit Tigers:

15 Cecil Fielder

66 Kirk Gibson

105 Travis Fryman

131 Bobby Higginson

Obama is a Steelers fan? Now the NL has tied it up! I hate Score/Pinnacle! I'm done here!

1995 Pinnacle

Sheryl Crow singing while the Batplane flys over. Yawn. At least the introduction of all the Cardinals Hall Of Famers was cool. Always neat to see Stan The Man. Cool to see President Obama too, but did he have to wear that god awful jacket? LOL, I never knew he was a lefty. Who woulda thunk it?

This is not a great looking set, but not so horrible that it's worth complaining about, and there are still more Score/Pinnacle set to go, so I'll save it. Again, these remind me of Stadium Club cards, and I never thought they were so hot either. It's a full set, at least by 1995 standards, so there, I said something good.

The 1995 Pinnacle Detroit Tigers:

15 Danny Bautista

42 Junior Felix

69 Chris Gomez

117 Lou Whitaker

124 Travis Fryman

130 Milt Cuyler

148 Jose Lima

184 Cecil Fielder

209 Tony Phillips

338 Eric Davis

349 Kirk Gibson

379 David Wells

392 Alan Trammell

I can't find any info that there were any inserts or parallels with this one, which seems odd, but with something this mediocre, that's a good thing.

1994 Church's Chicken

This one is deserving of it's own blog entry. I don't know anything about it other than it has a 1994 Pinnacle copyright on the back. It really doesn't do for me much as an advertisement to eat more fried food though....

9 Cecil Fielder

1994 Pinnacle

These look like Stadium Club cards. That's not meant to be complimentary and should not be taken as such. 

The 1994 Pinnacle Detroit Tigers:

10 Cecil Fielder

67 Mickey Tettleton

96 John Doherty

125 Chad Kreuter

154 Mike Henneman

183 Travis Fryman

212 Mike Moore

234 Danny Bautista

281 Lou Whitaker

330 Tony Phillips

359 Milt Cuyler

388 Eric Davis

414 Chris Gomez

429 Alan Trammell

433 Matt Brunson

453 Kirk Gibson

464 David Wells

491 Tim Belcher

I'm not usually a big fan of parallels, but Pinnacle knocked it out of the park with these. Very cool. They should have just made these the base cards and called it a day.

I've got a couple of inserts, but nothing to blog home about.

Power Surge

14 Travis Fryman

The Run Creators

11 Tony Phillips

There was also a Cecil Fielder card that looks just like his base card, but with big block letter printed across the front and back that reads "SAMPLE" 

All righty then....

1993 Pinnacle

Everything I said about 1992 Pinnacle applies here. All of it. 

Except.....

Just this week there was a discussion about the quality of Jack Morris' bad 'stache in the Detroit Tigers Forum at Worldcrossing.com (see sidebar). I think this pretty much ends all discussion. At least now I can see what exactly he was trying to cover....

The 1993 Pinnacle Detroit Tigers:

26 Cecil Fielder

52 Mickey Tettleton

79 Travis Fryman

106 Scott Livingstone

114 David Wells

193 Milt Cuyler

202 Mike Moore

240 Rico Brogna

264 Rich Rowland

287 Phil Clark

333 Dan Gladden

352 BIll Gullickson

353 Alan Trammell

385 Mike Henneman

406 Tony Phillips

407 John Doherty

429 Eric Davis

472 Jack Morris Now & Then

509 Lou Whitaker

547 Bill Krueger

615 Greg Gohr

There were a slew of insert sets. The only one I have is not even listed in the checklist book I am using, so I don't know much about it.

Cooperstown Card

28 Cecil Fielder

Slugfest

3 Cecil Fielder

30 Travis Fryman

Team 2001

10 Travis Fryman

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