Top 10 Insert Sets from the Junk Wax Era - 1990s Baseball Cards
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- I'm sharing my favorite insert sets from the 1990s, the ones that bring me back to my early teenage years every time I look at them. For anyone that grew up in the 1990s, I'm sure you know what I mean and you probably still get nostalgic when you see certain insert cards from that time period. Join me to check out my favorites from that era!
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Dude the crazy thing about that heritage edition set, I found an Andre Dawson and because he was dressed in the old uniforms I just always thought he was a dead ball player and still playing 😂
That's a great story, I can imagine it could be really confusing if you didn't understand the theme!
I remember pulling that 1991 Donruss Elite Nolan Ryan that year. It booked for $600 and I sold it to a LCS for $300 and bought a 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig from Sport Card Plus in CA. Crazy times!
That is not only a really great pull...but an even better trade! Way to go!
Wow, great video! Well done on the production. It was great to see all of the card photos and imagery alongside the commentary. Thank you!
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A trip down memory lane. Some others I loved that weren't mentioned include 95-98 Zenith Z-Team, 97-00 Topps Gallery Of Heroes, 94-98 Fleer Diamond Tribute, and especially the 96-99 Ultra Diamond Producers.
Thanks for sharing! I never collected Zenith, but I do remember those Z-Team cards were awesome. Gallery of Heroes was great too, but toward the end of my insert collecting days.
Thanks for the reminders on some of these cool insert sets. First year Hot Gloves and First year Elite have to be my fav 2.
My pleasure, two really great choices there and tough ones to collect!
Also bought the Elite Ripken auto many years ago
@@rightfieldcollectibles9021 nice, great one to have...wish I had it!
95 leaf SS were hands down best insert of 90s
Great comment, I think I would agree if I were only picking a single insert from a single year. For this video I focused more on runs across multiple years, and I just didn't care as much for the Statistical Standouts before or after 1995, but in that one year it was perfect
Beautiful
Thank you!
Very cool video. Loved team pinnacle!
Thanks for watching and commenting, always happy to hear from other collectors that have the same great taste in cards!
Great video. Well done!!!
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Great video, lots of fun. Thanks!
Awesome, thanks for watching and commenting!
Really fun countdown! That Ozzie Smith Pro Vision card is spectacular
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, that was always one of my favorite all time pro vision cards
a lot of good information. ty
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for giving me some homework! Gotta find if there are any Rynos in these sets! The Mother Lode inserts in the 96 Metal Universe are the the cleanest, most beautiful I’ve ever seen. Great video!!!! Subscribed!
I always love handing out homework! I'm sure there's lots of good Ryno cards in those sets. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Dude i was so worried you weren’t going to mention the 1992 Team Pinnacle insert set, then you didn’t disappoint!
BOOM! Glad you waited until the end for the big payoff!
Great video! The one that is nostalgic for me is the 1992 Fleer Rookie Sensations! I was thrilled to pull a Frank Thomas back in the day!
Thanks for checking out the video and commenting! I definitely remember the craze around the fleer sensations in 1992, especially the Big Hurt! I didn't include it simply because I didn't open a lot of those boxes that had that set, but it's a common belief that was the one that sparked the whole transition into chasing inserts.
94 pinnacle museum collection set was mine, loved that Starburst like effect
What a beautiful set that was! I've got another video in the works that is my top 10 parallel sets...sneak info that pinnacle museum will certainly be high on that list!
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Great video
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Hard to disagree with any pick! My top would be slightly different but you had them all. Those years 92-94 though were great for insert card designs. And with fleer doing the hot pack stuff during that time, was great to buy packs. 😊
Totally agree, hard to differentiate at the top. Great years for design though like you pointed out. Which one would be your #1?
@@brutusonbaseball for the pure chase of them, elite would be number 1, followed by diamond kings and then pro visions. Those are the ones that made getting packs more worth it. Started about the same time as you
@@richardbianco9674 great choices
96 and 97 Fleer Ultra Thunder Clap were sick inserts
Absolutely beautiful inserts! Only reason I didn't include them was because they came so late to the game and I already had quite a few ultra inserts I collected by then
Great video! So many awesome insert sets from the 90’s! One thing to mention is that the Pro Vision cards in 94 and 95 for together to make one big picture, which in my opinion makes them even cooler.
Thanks for watching! That's a really great point that I totally forgot to highlight...and one of the biggest reasons those pro vision sets were so great on the 9-card binder pages! Thanks for pointing that out 😁
Hard to disagree. Loved the first Hot Gloves, Ultra All-Stars but best to me was the 91 Elites, 1 in 76 or so boxes, opened a lot but never pulled one. Expensive today, the Ryan short print especially. I collect them now, have all except Canseco. My favorite all time insert. Only one I would add is the 2002 Sweet Spot autos. Thanks Tony
That 91 Elite set was special, tough to find now. I think I'd say my favorite was 93 Elite, but that's just splitting hairs. I didn't really look for inserts after the late 90s, so I'll have to look up the 2002 one you mentioned!
I stumbled into the 94 pinnacle series (found them really cheap) and have been enjoying it. I really like the Museum prints (almost look like a holographic wood block print).
LOVE that parallel set myself, probably my favorite. I've got another video in the works of me favorite parallel sets from the 90s...that one just may be at the top!
Good picks but I expected to see some type of hologram insert if not only in honorable mentions. They were a new thing in early 90s and really nice. My favorite hologram insert was the Upper Deck Then and Now. I also like the Denny's grand slam and the SP hollow views.
Great thoughts, I actually had the Denny's hologram grand slam set as part of this video in honorable mentions...but I took it out in editing because it technically wasn't an insert set. I made a video dedicated to that set though called "What Inspires You to Collect"... check it out!
I love the UD Iooss and Team Pinnacle inserts. I'm hoping to get more. Funny how business works where Pinnacle buys Donruss then goes bankrupt a year later lol.
That Iooss set was really pretty, tough to find though. Pinnacle going bankrupt was a sad day for me, I loved their sets
Missing the golden era of inserts. 96-99
That's an interesting take about the late 90s being the golden age. Which inserts do you think were the best from that time period? For this list I tried to look at nostalgia and continuity between years, and to me the late 90s was a time of a lot of change and new insert designs.
I guess it depends on your mindset, for me the golden age was the early to mid 90 when inserts were still new and evolving...by the late 90s the inserts were getting super fancy and expensive/rare, but I don't hear most collectors from that time referring to that period as the best. I think of that period as the time when I lost interest because there were just too many inserts everywhere, and the only ones worth anything were impossible to find.
@@brutusonbaseball the beginning of the 90’s was arguably still the junk wax era. 94-95 ish things transitioned. With so many products ya and manufacturers competition was real. So many technologies were introduced and peaked in the late 90’s. Innovation. Diecuts, holograms, wood cards, acetate, holo foil, refractors, low serial numbering, 1/1’s, laser and etching, dufex, parallels, and on card autos. No expense was spared. Right before the advent of expensive boxes, online, etc Was still all avail at shops and stores.
If you like “runs” I’d say the platinum medallion, essential credentials, PMG, mirror golds, diamond producers, legacies, are just some examples. In 01, things quickly transitioned to more expensive boxes, less cards. Internet took over. Cards became nothing but relics and sticker autos. And very little foil /good design. It’s THE era for basketball cards and I’d argue the same for baseball. Yes, it lacked key rookies, but the mac/sosa run, and the many HOF’ers made this era.
I’d like to think that it wasn’t the cards that made people lose interest….it was the strike and age. Many in know that got out did so as it was their HS and College years. We all know what took precedent there. There’s a HUGE 90’s group on Facebook and the golden age of inserts are from early 90’s to early 00’s. But primarily late 90’s
All really great points, thanks for sharing! I think you hit on some things about why the early to mid 90s for me were the "golden age". The early 90s were still the junk wax era, but 92-93 was really the beginning of insert mania and I have a lot of nostalgia for that time period. The 94-97 period for me was kind of the height of my collecting days, but at the same time it was a period where a lot of fans were lost because of the strike. For whatever reason, I wasn't one of those, but I do know I lot of people left the hobby during that time.
I started university in 97, so those late 90s years were definitely when I stepped away because of time and also the money required to chase the more rare cards. I will also say that the term "insert" is also different for me because I wouldn't put platinum medallion, credentials, mirror golds, or anything like that in the insert category. To me those are parallel sets...and yes I am planning to release my top 10 parallel sets video in the next month or two that may just have a few of those cards you mentioned in there!
Collecting got too busy and adult orientated at this time. No Fun!
You're quite right, this is the time period where the manufacturers started targeting adults with disposable income rather than the younger generation