1994 Flair Series 1

Let’s cut to the chase here. 1994 Flair is a set that’s stylin’ and profilin’. It’s a set worthy of the Flair moniker, although there can only be one true Flair. Ric Flair, that is. Today, we’re going to open a pack and see how each card measures up to the Nature Boy.

Let’s tear in.

Top to Bottom:
177 Pedro Astacio
Score: Woo! Woo!
The Dodgers’ proximity to Tinseltown is this card’s saving grace.


168 Andujar Cedeno
Score: Woo!
No literal connection between Andujar and Flair, but he looks good taking a cut, which Ric would approve of.


196 John Franco
Score: Woo! Woo! Woo!
I was listening to a podcast the other day where some video game guys were talking Mets baseball, and one of them could only name Gooden and Franco. This shows Franco had enough Flair in him to make a non-fan remember him.


82 Jimmy Key
Score: Woo!
Flair was from Tennessee, Key from Alabama. That’s all we have to hang our hats on. Plus, New York is the antithesis of Flair’s wrestling roots.


295 Checklist
Score: Woo! Woo!
Checklists usually suck, but this one features Greg Maddux, baseball embodiment of “To be the man, you’ve got to beat the man.”


216 Mark Dewey
Score: Woo!
This Dewey guy is the baseball equivalent of a jobber.


234 Trevor Hoffman
Score: Woo! Woo! Woo!
Flair: WWE Hall of Fame
Hoffman: Could get in Baseball Hall of Fame, if voters ever got their act together about relievers.


242 Bryan Hickerson
Score: 0


213 Milt Thompson
Score: Woo!
They both have a nice set of teeth?


133 Mark Wohlers
Score: Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
With a bunch of extra o’s in his name, Mark could be Wooooooooooooohlers. And sometimes that’s all you need.

1994 Flair

Here's pack 5 out of the plastic repack box thingy I got. The second year of Flair has a snazzy box, super thick cards slathered in gloss and a gaudy foil exploding shield motif, but it's really not that special of a set. The only card worth a flip is the A-Rod rookie and he's worth twice the rest of the set by himself. Unfortunately this is a series 1 pack, where the big rookie hit is Chan Ho Park. It's not often you get to open up a hard pack though, so lets open this sucker up.


188 Darren Fletcher
185 Todd Worrell
172 Todd Jones
214 Jay Bell
232 Archi Cianfrocco
230 Todd Zeile
62 Jeff Montgomory
122 Todd Stottlemyre
246 Mark Portugal
3 of 10 Steve Karsay Wave of the Future

Wow, these are some really gorgeous looking crappy cards. I got an insert though, so that's something. Wave of the Future cards were always really cool to me, even when they got all weird and had lenticular fronts and goopy glittery fluid in them. Karsay was actually a decent pitcher too, and came over to the Braves when we pawned off Johnny Rocker on the Tribe. I can file this off in my Braves collection and wonder what the hell it's doing in there in a decade or so. The rest of the pack is dreadful, even if the Tigers' current closer is in there. I like the Fletcher card just for the blindingly bright red chest protector and knee pads. They really pop off the card thanks to space-age Flair technology.