We reach, finally, the last of the trades I have backlogged for sharing and this one is with TCDB member acasebol to whom I sent some baseball and basketball, to get back a bunch of Jays and an error card.
As I continue to get the last few variations of the 1989 Donruss Blue Jays - thank you to those dots and asterisk marks - you can guess the error pick up is the non-Jay Felix Jose.
The big winner card from the trade is the 1994 Pinnacle Duane Ward as he is the last of the 18 base cards for the team set so I have all my Jays now for that one - yay!
A nice David Cone to remind us of that short lived time he was in Toronto.
There are a couple newer Jays in the bunch, like Espinal, but most are mid-90s Jays staples like Shawn Green. Although we have many product releases now, with almost all being under the same company, it's just a different feel from the 90s when there were more companies out there in the market making very different products.
Sometimes change isn't always great....though the card quality and design is likely better in some respects, definitely more variety 30 years ago.
Totally miss the 90's in regards to card collection. The higher number of card companies out there led to a competitive environment which produced or inspired ingenuity and creativity. The old saying "they don't make it like they used to" definitely applies to our hobby.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we will see competition like the 90s for a very long time, if ever, again.
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