The first thing that I noticed is that my large 5” x 7” cards weren’t in the greatest of shape. A lot of them had bent corners or nicks in the side. It made me feel better about the fact that I was planning on cutting all of these open.
As I opened the box, I set aside the players that I collect as well as the Impulse silver parallels. I pulled two Mike Piazzas which will be going into my collection. I had 4 Impulse parallels of Smoltz, Mo Vaughn, Tony Gwynn and Lou Collier. I got 39 different jumbo cards + 4 Impulse + 10 doubles and triples (I pulled three Mondesi jumbos) = 53 cards. Yep, one of my packs only contained 2 cards instead of three leaving me a card short. My bad luck spans decades.
Here’s a jumbo card next to a regular sized card that you find inside. One nice thing is that there are different pictures used on the two cards. Pinnacle could have been lazy and used the same picture on both cards.
The smaller Thomas pictured here is a Z Silver parallel. I pulled Thomas, Edgar Martinez, Derrek Lee, Andy Pettitte and another Frank Thomas. Collating the large cards is one thing, but it looks like collating the smaller cards wasn’t easy as you’re about to read.
I got 8 inserts in the smaller cards along with 43 base cards and 2 cards still living inside of the Piazzas. Of the 43 base cards, there were 34 different cards. I think there are 100 cards in the set so that’s right around a third of the set. I don’t see too many people chasing this set by busting open packs and jumbo cards. I ended up with 4 Cal Ripkens out of this box. I was going to keep the Impulse jumbos unopened and that would have been wise since 3 out of the 4 cards contained a Cal. If someone were to open a bunch of packs, there is one benefit.
The Epix cards that Pinnacle inserted across its brands in 1998 are great looking cards. There were Epix Play, Game, Season, Moment and All-Star Moment cards in the following colors: Orange, Purple and Emerald. I’m a sucker for just about anything Dufex and naturally I love these cards.
Right here we’ve got a Paul Molitor Orange Game. Game is the second easiest Epix set to pull and Orange is the easiest color.
Here’s an insert of Big Mac. The design on the Play cards is my favorite. This Orange Play is the easiest card to pull.
My final Epix is of Roger Clemens. These Purple cards look sharp. I’m definitely going to have to track down the Purple Piazzas for my collection. I wasn’t lucky enough to pull an Emerald like dayf was and if I had pulled an Emerald Piazza I would be doing cartwheels. I love the Epix cards and have already picked up a few of the Piazzas that were on CheckOutMyCards.com.
If anyone out there is interested in cards from this set for your team or player collections, let me know what you’re looking for and I’ll tell you what I’ve got. The jumbo cards have a slit across the top on the back, but look perfect on the front. They’re perfect for displaying. I’ll trade the Epix cards that I have for Piazza Epix cards that I don’t yet have.
2 comments:
Nice break! When you said "Epix" in the last post, I was hoping it was something like this and not 2005 Zenith. That Epix set doesn't compare to this one. Funny thing about this product is that I actually ordered a box of it online (literally just days before Dayf posted about it), but then had my order refunded because they were out of stock and hadn't updated their site. That site is no longer in business. Anyway, how much did this one cost?
Oh, and my verification word is "scone." I'm hungry now.
I found this on Amazon by using Froogle. There are a couple of people who still have it listed for that price, but they may be more sites which haven't been updated. I got it at this link: http://amzn.com/B001616V1Y but it was $15 cheaper. Not sure why it went up so much in the past week. I don't think there's any way that I would have paid $40 for this box.
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