i had never seen fernando valenzuela's 1994 panini sticker before i ordered it from a sportlots seller not too long ago.
it's a great oddball addition to my fernando post-dodger collection, and it is doubly of interest to me because of cal ripken jr lurking there in the background even if he is out of focus.i went looking through my fernando collection to see if there was a card from his dodger days showing steve garvey in the background since ripken and garvey were once right next to each other on the all-time consecutive games played streak leaderboard, but i couldn't find one. at the time of the photo, ripken was still a couple of years away from catching lou gehrig, but he was well past garvey.
i think it's an interesting note that fernando played with the two iron men of the post-war era - one more iron than the other, of course.
here's another oriole fernando card for my collection that is interesting in a different way
it's a 1994 pacific card - the prisms insert with a print run of 8,000 as i understand it. and, while i'm at it, i suppose i'll show a 1995 pacific card in the same vein, although this one is a dodger - henry rodriguez to be exact
and since this has somehow become a post of pacific cards, here's a raul mondesi insert from 1999 pacific omegalooking at the backgrounds of those three pacific cards, i am surprised that no card company created cards with a magic eye image in the background. seems like a missed opportunity to me.
this started out as a quick post to show the panini sticker and now i am thinking about seinfeld. better stop here before i post some keith hernandez cards.
a quick plug for my most wanted list - if you have a 1996 collector's choice #299 fernando card (he's a padre), let's trade!
You know what? Magic Eye baseball cards does sound like a good idea. Not a whole big set, maybe, but an insert or something. I like it.
ReplyDeleteGoodness I forgot how much I like those Pacific Prizm inserts.
ReplyDeleteI saw a lot more Pacific Prism football than baseball back then so these are new to me. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered how much time I spent at the mall when I was younger staring at those Magic Eye posters. I never could see the hidden image :D
ReplyDeletePacific's Prism was, and always will be, far superior to Panini's Prizm.
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