1996 Stadium Club

I was one of those folks who went out and bought all the new Beatles reissues last month. I already had all their stuff on iTunes that I'd acquired from here and there over the years, but I'd never actually owned any of their stuff, so I decided what the hell, they're remastered and each has a nice little documentary and booklet included.


I've managed to plow through about half of them now. I'll grab one and listen to it for 2-3 days on my commute. So far my clear favorite is Revolver, followed by Rubber Soul and Please Please Me. It has certainly been a worthwhile purchase in that it's getting me into The Beatles in a way I never had before. I would listen to the songs when they came on shuffle, and I know the hits, but actually listening to the album several times repeatedly and then reading wiki and watching the mini-documentaries on each cd has really been enjoyable.


The 1996 Stadium Club Tigers:
21 Chad Curtis
42 Tony Clark
60 Phil Nevin
84 Sean Bergman
95 Cecil Fielder
145 Chris Gomez
234 Bobby Higginson
302 Felipe Lira
337 Alan Trammell
397 John Flaherty
431 Travis Fryman
445 Steve Rodriguez
170 Bobby Higginson

The "shark's tooth necklace" set. These are awful. These are Stadium Club. I guess there was some sort of parallel set that was a game card that you could fill in the back and send away for a chance to win something. Long story short, I have the Bronze version of Chad Curtis's card.

I have a couple other insert cards too. Whoa boy.

Bash & Burn
9 Chad Curtis

Power Packed
8 Cecil Fielder


After several days of listening to Let It Be, I listened to Let It Be...Naked, which was the original album before Phil Spector doctored it up. Trust me on this one. Don't buy the Phil Spector version. Go get the Naked version. Much better. The Long And Winding Road on the Naked album is fantastic.

1995 Stadium Club

Stadium Club. I don't like writing about them anymore than you like reading about them. Let's cut to the chase.

The 1995 Topps Stadium Club Detroit Tigers:

6 Travis Fryman

34 Mickey Tettleton

78 Danny Bautista

105 Cade Gaspar

154 Junior Felix

182 David Wells

208 Tony Phillips

250 Bill Gullickson

298 Alan Trammell

309 Cecil Fielder

329 Mike Henneman

383 Chris Gomez

460 John Doherty

481 Lou Whitaker

515 Cecil Fielder Extreme Corps

547 Chad Curtis

585 Felipe Lira

611 Bobby Higginson

There was some sort of parallel where they have World Series logos gold foil stamped on the front of the cards. Your guess is as good as mine. Someone feel free to explain.

Ok, so I have this one insert card of Cecil Fielder. I'm too lazy to look it up, or even if there are any other inserts, but if anybody wants to fill in the blanks then please go ahead.

1994 Stadium Club

It was 11 degrees here today. This morning I got up and balanced my check book while downloading cds to my computer. I went out and ate chinese food for lunch. I then went to Borders and picked up a couple of books out of the clearance bin. One by Al Franken, the other a Not For Tourists guide to Chicago. I spent less than $6 total. Then I headed over to FYE, where I contemplated picking up a used 2-cd set of the remastered version of The Joshua Tree, but I decided to pass. From there on to a check cashing place where I cashed my $95 expense reimbursement from last month. Now I'm sitting in my apartment watching the second half of the Memphis Tigers' game against those bozos wearing orange.

That's how little I care about Stadium Club. In fact, from now on this is the new format I'm going to use for Stadium Club. 

The 1994 Stadium Club Detroit Tigers:

25 Cecil Fielder

50 Skeeter Barnes

73 Chris Gomez

99 Mike Moore

155 Danny Bautista

184 John Doherty

192 Mickey Tettleton

209 Eric Davis

309 Travis Fryman

331 Alan Trammell

351 Scott Livingstone

370 Bill Gullickson

401 Mike Henneman

411 Chad Kreuter

443 Lou Whitaker

458 Joe Boever

474 Mike Gardiner

535 Quick Start Cecil Fielder

553 Tony Phillips

582 Tim Belcher

617 David Wells

660 Junior Felix

679 Juan Samuel

There were a couple of insert sets.

Super Teams:

20 Detroit Tigers

Draft Picks:

13 Cade Gaspar

25 Mike Darr

63 Dave Kauflin

As soon as this game is over I'm probably going to make a beer run. 

1993 Stadium Club

I don't think I have ever liked a Stadium Club set, but hands down that is the best Tony Phillips card ever. 

1993 Stadium Club:

5 Tony Phillips

31 Mickey Tettleton

65 Kurt Knudsen

116 Mark Leiter

135 Lou Whitaker

156 Milt Cuyler

191 Danny Gladden

212 John Kiely

223 Walt Terrell

248 Mike Munoz

267 Frank Tanana

328 Scott Livingstone

357 Rob Deer

389 Skeeter Barnes

416 Alan Trammell

448 Travis Fryman

480 Mike Henneman

503 Cecil Fielder

519 Rich Rowland

530 Rico Brogna

574 Bill Gullickson

673 Kirk Gibson

685 Greg Gohr

693 Mike Moore

I want one of those caps. Better yet I'd like to see an Indians card from 1993 with one of those throwbacks just to see what they look like. 

1992 Stadium Club

I have zero fond memories of this set. Topps suckered everybody baaaaaaad with these cards. After the frenzy of '91 Stadium Club being impossible to find, Topps produced somewhere in the trillions of these, yet kept the $3 a pack sticker price. I distinctly remember buying a Series 1 box of these for $90. I kept those cards up until just a few years ago, when I gave them to a friend of mine. I think you can pick up a set of all three series for around $20 if you look around hard enough. Not only did they produce a NINE HUNDRED CARD premium set, but they look very similar to the year before too. (Almost identical on the back). This was Topps greed at its finest.

The 1992 Stadium Club Detroit Tigers:

5 Milt Cuyler

34 Mike Henneman

59 Travis Fryman

71 John Cerutti

92 Rob Deer

119 Bill Gullickson

139 Walt Terrell

171 Dave Bergman

195 Mickey Tettleton

223 Paul Gibson

238 Andy Allanson

250 Cecil Fielder

276 Dan Gakeler

317 Scott Livingstone

337 Kevin Ritz

362 Dave Haas

384 John Kiely

416 Frank Tanana

441 Mike Munoz

465 Shawn Hare

488 Tony Phillips

508 Rich Rowland

526 Jeff Kaiser

550 Lou Whitaker

585 Skeeter Barnes

638 Eric King

678 Mark Carreon

762 Scott Aldred

801 Danny Gladden

850 Alan Trammell

889 Mark Leiter

1991 Stadium Club

Topps got into the high end card business with these babies. I seem to remember these being $3-4 a pack, and that was if you could find them anywhere. Very un-Topps-like, I think they only printed about 100 of each card. I don't have but a handful, and those are just from picking up a single here and there over the years. Topps began their neverending fascination with foil stamping with these, so that's yet another reason not to like them. They never lived up to the hype for me. 

The 1991 Stadium Club Detroit Tigers:

23 Chet Lemon

41 Tony Phillips

63 Alan Trammell

101 Lou Whitaker

158 Frank Tanana

186 Cecil Fielder

287 Mike Henneman

315 Walt Terrell

352 Steve Searcy

355 Travis Fryman

364 Lloyd Moseby

386 Dave Bergman

412 Mickey Tettleton

429 Scott Aldred

445 John Cerutti

456 Mark Salas

470 Milt Cuyler

539 Rob Deer

574 Jerry Don Gleaton

I see I have a Cecil Fielder All-Star card that is not part of the set. (#48 is Steve Avery) The stats on the back contain stats up to the All-Star break of 1991, so this was obviously released later in that season. I don't know if it was an insert card or if it was part of a special All-Star set, but here it is.

48 Cecil Fielder