Sports Card Geek Heaven
Blast from the Past
1997 Pinnacle Inside
Jul 5th
10 cards per can, most of the time the can was more valuable than the cards. A few inserts held some value with the Diamond Edition parallel being the chase cards. Diamond Edition were die cut and foil boarded to perfection…well sort of.
The above Randy Johnson, god bless that hair, is posted up for sale at $25 currently. Probably a bit high but still an example of some sort of value retained by this set.
Pinnacle Inside is obscure enough that BaseballCardPedia which is an up and coming site (for baseball only) to get info on old sets doesn’t even have it listed! Inside had a few other inserts and a lower level of parallel named Club Edition but other than that the baseball version had little to offer. The football version had autographs to chase but they were extremely scarce and hand signed….ahhh the good old days.
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2002-03 UD Glass Auto Focus Autographs
Jun 30th
2002-03 UD Glass Auto Focus Autographs
Not only were the Auto Focus cards amazing to look at but they also had some of the greatest autograph checklists NBA cards have ever seen once 2004-05 and 2005-06 rolled out UD Trilogy Auto Focus sets. No disrespect to the obvious leaders like Topps Fan Favorites and Upper Deck Legends sets. The Auto Focus sets were littered with a lot of worthless rookies that now a few years later might as well be in a trash can. (I’m talking to you Sean May and Wayne Simien) Also…how in the hell did Keyon Dooling make this checklist? Very strange.
Check out this checklist in 2005-06:
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A few of those SP’s should be super SP’s like Pippen and Ming but it’s balanced out by the J.R. Smith that few would consider short printed.
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1995 and 1996 Pinnacle Summit Ground Zero Parallel
Jun 22nd
1995 and 1996 Pinnacle Summit Ground Zero Parallel
Ah yes, Ground Zero. Pinnacle Summit was far from what we consider a high-end product today but it was certainly in the upper tier of football cards at $6-7 per pack in the mid-1990′s. I don’t recall pack odds nor can I find odds at the moment but they were not very easy to come by. Summit had a black bordered base card, a silver foil parallel and then the Ground Zero parallel. The top RC’s from ’95 and ’96 still hold decent value from this set in the Ground Zero version. Marvin Harrison is usually $5-7, Curtis Martin $7-10, Steve McNair $7-10, Eddie George $10-12, Terrell Davis $6-7 and Kordell Stewart $3-5. Those are not earth shattering prices by any means but for cards produced those years outside of SP and Topps Chrome you won’t find anything else holding value over a dollar or so. This is one of my all time favorite parallels and without sounding too much like a homer I can really see this set gaining value as time goes by. These were the early days of parallels when I could still appreciate them.
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