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Saturday, January 17, 2009

1998 Topps Finest Series 2

6 Super Premium cards. 1 dollar. I grabbed this pack out of a bin off of a floor at a card show and decided to open it up. I'd never bought a Topps Finest pack before and the protective layers on the card fronts kind of amusing to me. (What is a "No Protector" card, by the way? Does it mean that it doesn't have the protective layer coating? Is that really a fair qualifier for a parallel insert?)

263 - Travis Lee

265 - Raul Mondesi (I think I like the backs of the cards more than the fronts.)
193 - Jeff Reed

170 - John Smoltz (On my blog, I asked for people to guess who was the only active player - with a contract - that I pulled in this pack. Smoltzie the Traitor was the answer. No one guessed it.)

191 - Ray Durham (Durham might have been the answer, but he is a man without a team at the moment.)
159 - Richard Hidalgo (Hidalgo's 3D shading is very out of register on the front of the card. I would have shown a picture of it, but my camera's batteries decided to die. Whatever happened to Hidalgo, anyway? He's only 33 apparently.)