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The Sports Card Professor
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Registrace 6. 08. 2020
I will be exploring the endless world of Sports Cards, looking at each set to help collectors better understand the various cards, inserts, and parallels that we are collecting. If you ask me, I am a sports card master and expert (and if you ask my parents, I have just been wasting my time), but I am still finding exciting new tidbits of information about cards as I continue along. On this channel I will be sharing my ever-growing knowledge with you. So, welcome, and enjoy the show.
1995-96 Topps Basketball Cards and Inserts
Finally, Topps got into inserts. I remember putting together these retail inserts well, but that meant that half of the inserts I never pursued until this project. Just one of the perks of doing all of this.
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Best Basketball Card Designs of 1994
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Basketball has to be the place where the best variety of cool card designs could be found in 1994. The uniqueness of Embossed and Emotion is such a great pair of awesome design choices that makes this sport stand out from the rest.
1991 Score Football Box Review
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Man, what a great card design. I have to note that I got a second series 1 box and I still ended up 10 cards shy.
1989 Score Football Card Sets
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Personally I missed this set by 1 year, so they seemed like clunky old cards to me. I can now better appreciate them, but the innovative nature of the set was so strong that I always knew this stuff to be standard with cards.
The Best Football Card Designs of 1994
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I know that a lot of people are down on 1994 cards, but I'm going on the record as saying that the better cards are vastly underappreciated. If you're into great images, this is the year for you.
1997 Pinnacle Xpress Retail Box Review
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Sorry for the static. I think I've learned how to keep it from happening, but this was a video I recorded a while back and I didn't want to either loose it or recreate it. So here it is. The statis only last across the first 1 1/2 minutes.
1994 Sportflics & 1995 Sportflix Sets
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I am very impressed with how well Sportflics was upgraded for the mid-1990s card release. There is absolutely no hint of the cards that had long bored ;80s collectors. Thank goodness.
The Best Baseball Card Designs of 1994
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I hate when I'm editing one of these videos and I realize that I have again changed my mind, and in this case I think that I want Upper Deck in at 4...but I'm not entirely sure.
1991-92 Pro Set Hockey Series 2 Box Review
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It's not the most glamorous set, or the most interesting set, but it is a cheap opportunity, so what's it ultimately like?
1990-91 Score Hockey Sets
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I was lucky to stumble upon the fact that the regional cards are different. I happened to be completing a set and I needed three cards, one of which happened to be among the 12 different cards. Beckett does not mention that any of the cards in the Canadian set are different.
Best 1994 Hockey Card Designs
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I was pleasantly surprised, there haven't been that many times I've liked all the cards in a hockey card ranking. Mostly I was surprised at how much I like the tops three, what a great change of pace.
1994 Signature Rookies Gold Standard Box Review
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I like collecting 1994 & 1995 Signature Rookies sets, so this was something I was looking forward to. I was surprised to discover that this set does not work the same way.
1993-94 Topps Basketball Series 2 Box Review
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I enjoy thinking back to the packs and boxes I opened all those years ago. How the experience has changed between then and now is difficult to fully grasp.
1994-95 Topps Basketball Card Set Full Look
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I never disliked these cards, but I never really noticed them at the time. It took me quite a while to notice them and consider their plusses, and frankly I think I was mainly reacting to the subsets.
Ranking Michael Jordan's 1994 Basketball Cards
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It took me a while to finally do a card ranking for Michael Jordan, but this was a year that I could not avoid.
1991 (or so) Pro Set Spanish Cards Box Review
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1991 (or so) Pro Set Spanish Cards Box Review
1999 & 2000 Fleer Ultra Football Card Sets
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1999 & 2000 Fleer Ultra Football Card Sets
1986 through 1990 Sportflics Baseball Cards
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1986 through 1990 Sportflics Baseball Cards
Topps Archive Football, 1994, 2001, & 2013
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Topps Archive Football, 1994, 2001, & 2013
1994 Sideliners Cheerleader Cards Box Review
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1994 Sideliners Cheerleader Cards Box Review
NFL Cheerleader Team Card Sets (Cowboys & Niners)
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NFL Cheerleader Team Card Sets (Cowboys & Niners)
Have never seen these before. Very unattractive cards.
Well done 🎉
Great use of John Stockton cards! ☺️
As always, I just wish there were more to use.
A stadium card trapped inside a Topps border... That's it exactly!
I love your content, but you would get tens of thousands more subscribers if you clipped your fingernails. It’s very off-putting when you handle the cards and makes a lot of people uneasy js
I do try to keep them shorter, but have you watched the Cardaholic videos yet? I explain the reason for this in that video.
Nice breakdown as always. I hadn’t realized how many insert sets were in this year. But Whiz Kids always stuck with me. Very striking cards, front to back.
Man i hadn't realized how many either until working on this video. I was missing half of the insert sets when I got started.
Really enjoyed this one (though I enjoy all your videos). Slightly off-topic, but I am always struck by the condition of your cards (great photography, btw). Have you ever considered doing a video on how you store your collection? Whatever you're doing seems to be working.
Thanks, they are in pretty good condition, but to be fair I use Photoshop and so I can slightly crop any border defects (digitally, not in real life).
Loved this set. Magic’s All-Rookie was a really hot set carrying over from the year before. I remember pulling a Lindsey Hunter from a pack bought at an Eckerd drug store, and being excited about it. 😆
Allan Houston was the guy I remember being excited about, neither of whom aged all that well.
I agree with two of your top three. The Upper Decks are my favorite overall card designs of 1992, and probably my favorite UD cards ever. The Fleer cards from 1992 are probably my favorite Fleer designs ever, so I'd put them at number two. But the SkyBox cards were a disappointment to me as a kid. I LOVED both the 1990 and 1991 SkyBox sets, these just weren't as exciting to me.
I get that, SkyBox was a big shift from the first two years. 1991 had kind of softened my enthusiasm so by 1992 I was not really in the same frame of mind, they needed to pivot and this was an interesting approach.
This is one of my favorite NBA sets ever, but the Jordan image is a bit disappointing. I really like the image they used for the Jordan promo card a whole lot more.
Just discovered your channel, appreciate your videos man! Every other trading card youtuber just talk about the (lack of) value of these cards. I don't buy junk wax era cards to resell them to someone else, I collect them because it's what I had as a kid and I actually want to own it. Love that you focus on the actual card designs themselves instead of obsessing over the value. Anyway, would love to see one of these for the 1991 SkyBox cards!
Thank you, I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be anyone else bothering to really look at these cards and I just don't know why not. I thought about this same particular idea for '91 but the designs have nothing to do with the player image so I just didn't really feel it. I'd still like to so maybe at some point. I did do Fasion Week for both sets.
Upper Deck sure looked good that year and I LOVE Flair.
At least Fleer made SOMETHING well.
@@sportscardprofessor right?!
Nailed everything in this video!
💯. Emotion was such a fun card set.
I agree completely.
@@sportscardprofessor 😁
Buddy. Just tell me the reason why it’s junk wax wtf 😂😂😂
At some point I do need to do a focused video on the era itself rather than this comparison video.
I have a nostalgic love for the 91-92 set, as those were the first packs I opened. Maybe a little boring, but I think that allows the photos and cardbacks to stand out. The 92-93 was similar, but improved a little. I enjoy these type of designs much more than later ‘90s design vomit.
Simplicity done right is difficult to match, and you're absolutely right that late in the decade they tried way too hard.
I recall reading in an old Beckett somewhere (I could be mistaken of the source) between 91-93 that some of the Dream team cards inserted in packs were autographed with real autographs instead of facsimiles.
Yes, some of the offensive Dream Team players have actual autographs and the facsimiles are not printed on those. They are ridiculously difficult to pull.
We really like these cards. Some information for you. The gold cards are inserted 1:72 packs for boosters (2 boxes) and 1:32 starters (4 boxes). The rares are cheap because the base set was over printed like much of the sports card/CCG market at the time. Boxes are still cheap for both. Starter only gold cards are much harder to find than the booster (likely because they were exclusive, tougher pull rate and likely lower print run). The expansion (1996-97) are red bordered (orange if you prefer) and only come in a 7 card hanger pack (as far as we can tell) bundled with a base booster pack. The expansion had a 110 card set with 10 gold ultra-rares inserted at 1:24 packs. Bulk and rares are quite a bit harder to find than the base set while gold cards are much more prevalent and cheaper.
Thank you for the run down. At some point I'll need to sit down and learn the game itself, but that'll take some time for sure. I did play the football game and that video took forever to create so it's scared me off from this and the Top of the Order games.
Awesome! I didn't know anything about that "Aerial Assault" subset. Do you know something about the photography for the Collection Club set? To me it looks like they were looking for a specific style of photography. I stored a bunch of those cards for 30 years in 9 pockets pages along with some other upper deck and pro set cards and only pinnacle cards survived and actually are in perfect shape.
I would love to talk with a card designer to find out about how they choose which images to use. I know that some sets have image selection approaches that define the whole card experience but I don't know if that applied to this set.
While editing the video it dawned on me that Herschel Walker was obviously not the Cowboy running back on the wrapper, turns out it was Tommie Agee...also number 34 for the Cowboys.
OMG this one of my all time fav videos in YT. Please do 1995 Pinnacle Collection Club Football if you have the chance. Awesome content, thanks for sharing.
Already got it, it's in the 1995 Pinnacle Football video.
I still have a box somewhere.
That is a lot of ripping! I loved that set, and did a lot of it back in 1991, so it's fun to see a review all these years later. Fun seeing Mike Singletary in Wilbur Marshall's jersey on the pack 😁
Should have given him 46, since he was the linchpin of that D.
@@sportscardprofessor yes!
Well done 🎉
Pro Set Platinum was much of the same. Can't complain about the collation on that set. The Hall of Fame photos gave me the "what's this" reaction.
Those Hall photos were a great idea, but they really could have used something on the card front.
I loved the James Lofton / Tim Brown error card reference there! It bugged me so much having the wrong image. Same thing with the Willie Gault / Great Townsend your card. It was nice getting those on eBay decades later.
I loved the subset cards, but that one complaint... I wish it had been a 660 card set. 330 was way too low, imo. Glad they made the Score update set, at least.
Literally all of the three sets were half sized. In just one year they all doubled (well Topps almost did).
@@sportscardprofessor yep, I loved that for 1990. And I didn't know that Franco card ever existed until your video. That's not a cheap card!
@@bearcards3497 One of the two is not bad, the other's pretty tough.
@@sportscardprofessor is the original one the more costly?
@@bearcards3497 it does appear that the Sureshot card is more costly. There is a "Hall" card on CZcams for $8 (1989 Score Promo) right now.
Great video, as always. I vividly remember that year when Score and Pro Set joined Topps. It was so much fun to have three sets to collect, and I loved them all. It was interesting how much less available Score was at my LCS. I have a million Topps cards that year, and a billion Pro Set... But other than one hand collated set, I only have about thirty doubles from Score. This was a great set. I always go right to the Barry RC from Score when I think 1989 FB.
I started in 1990 so I had to go back and collect these sets years later. That made the Score set harder to finish. I don't think I got Barry and Aikman until like 1998 or so.
@@sportscardprofessor I still wish I'd been able to get more back then. I ended up with 4 Barry Score RC's but two of those were through trades with friends. But I'd still love to have more 😁
Very important set historically
This is so niche but so good. Thanks for posting.
My favorite card set of all time, thanks for covering
It's an iconic set from our generation, that's for sure.
Apologies for a comment unrelated to the video at hand, which I do intend to watch. But I wasnt sure what the best way was to send a comment that would be seen. Since I really enjoy your history and info provided on videos for certain products, it would be interesting to see a video covering the history of Topps Baseball Coins (and other milk cap toppers or similar items). The little bit of info I could find talked about there being sets in 1964 and 1971, some of which my Father has, and then there's the 4 sets that came out from 1987 to 1990. It appears the special holder they made came out in 88 but nothing for the smaller 87 set, then they released full factory sets already in the holders, defeating the purpose and fun of collecting a set by hand. I wonder what made them decide to make, and then stop, and then make again, and then stop...
That's pretty much right. Topps kept trying different inserts throughout the 1960s and early '70s to spice up the collectability for ever changing young collectors. In the late 1980s they were trying to diversify what crazy stuff kids would collect including Triple Header baseballs, Doubleheaders, and candy-filled Topps Stand-ups. Bringing back the coin idea was a nostalgia cash-grab. The 1990 coins were available in packs or comp[ete set form. I will get around to both coins and milk caps at some point but I'm still working on putting together the whole picture. Thanks for the request.
@@sportscardprofessor That's great to hear, and thank you for the reply in detail. Anytime I come up with a question regarding sports cards/etc I now check your channel first before any others. Your channel is an invaluable resource and the box breakdowns are entertaining as well.
@@Rubberneck1965 I glad to hear that. I put a lot of work into this and I'm glad that it is being utilized.
Wow how do you not have 1000's of views and 100's of likes. This video was incredible. From start to Finnish I really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing. Got my subscription. Ok so I posted your video on every Facebook group of sports cards I was apart of.
Wow, thank you I'm just assuming that I'm way ahead of the curve.
Well done 👍
Before I even watch the video, the best design for me is Topps because of how Special Effects read off of base design
Settle down, parallels in due time.
@@sportscardprofessor 😂😂😂😂🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
Who, no way... I still have a box of these boosters at home... Series 1 1991-92 pro set french. Nice to see lol Thanks for showing what I could be looking for. As a kid in the 90's I had no clue what I was looking at. Just "cool cards"
well, if you do crack it open I hope you get good CC cards.
Would you be willing to sale any of the duplicates you pull from all your content?
I need to set something up for that. I don't have time to start down that road, but I really should soon.
Another awesome video my friend 🎉
You should play strat-o-matic baseball
I played the Donruss Redzone game during the first year of this channel and it was sooooooo much work I've been wary of taking on another game. Donruss Top of the Order has been sitting here for over 3 years and I haven't touched it yet.
This was the set that blew my mind due to black background which made colors pop! I don't love the fronts, but don't hate them either. The fact they differed from what other manufacturers were doing was what I loved!
Over in football we were so crowded that I didn't really notice these cards that much, but the 1992 set sure stood out the next year. It was the helmet on each card that I remembered from the time. I wish card designers did that more often.
I always thought their manner of making cards was great, simply because it was so different! Great vid!
Coming from football I always sort of took Action Packed for granted. Man I wish they had been able to make the 1991 set for all four sports.
Ugh! Those Bowman are brutal lol You nailed the UD design! Makes you wonder what they were thinking.
In all my years collecting, I have come across a TON of these but have NEVER seen an actual box or packs! I like that Legends set! Quite snazzy for the time!
This channel has me stumbling into so much that I had either never bothered to look at or never come across.
The CC's was just named Collectibles, however I always assumed it stood for card collectibles, which is kinda weird. lol Even as a kid I thought the design was so boring, but didn't care when you can buy boxes at the dollar store for $10 at the time. And the fact Leaf replicated it... ugh! Great vid!
Man, as tempting as that $10 price tag was the contents within those boxes was just not going to move me.
I can't figure out why I always say Kelso for Ryan Klesko. I practiced it numerous times and it still came out wrong.
Lenticular rules! I don't get why it never became popular. That Flair Hot Numbers insert from Basketball was awesome. Many good lenticular flashes in the pan from time to time. Stadium Club also did some
I still think that the Kellogg's cards were the best, and they were way back in the 1970s.
@@sportscardprofessor haha. I had the Boog Powell
Keep up with the great videos
Thanks, I'm doing my best.
1994 was the year I loved Donruss. I almost exclusively bought it for the year trying to make a complete set and came as close as I ever did. I still remember that fondly. Then they went and made 1995 Donruss and that was that. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
yeah, 1995 certainly did gift us with some duds, Ultra and Fleer both took sharp nosedives too.