Premiere Date

Adrian Brown 2000 Pacific Premiere Date /37

Premiere Date parallels are probably the least sexy of the Pacific brands line of parallels and inserts. While people will pay hundreds of dollars for Cramer's Choice Awards and Reflections, Premieres tend to be quite affordable. Often times $5 will be enough for everyone minus the premium stars. 

These cards always appeal to me because Pacific featured a lot of Pirates that came and went in the blink of an eye.  Brown was drafted in the 48th round (!!!!) so he didn't get a ton of love. He managed to carve out a bit of a career in the early 2000's so some of the bigger sets gave him a few releases. 

I paid a shade over $2 and utilized a sellers combined shipping to nab a few for a couple of trade partners! 

Long live Pacific!!!!

Specifically Pacific

Back when I was in high school my local Kmart would often mark down Pacific cards.  It was almost impossible to pull anything other than base cards, but I still loved buying these up for pennies on the dollar. I would see pictures of crazy inserts and high end autos and hope that I would be the lucky one opening a dream pack.

Well that day never came, but I still have fond memories of spending my hard earned high school money on cardboard. The funny thing is some of those early parallels and inserts stood the test of time on the secondary market.  A Derek Jeter Cramers Choice insert /25 recently sold for $125 and some of the short printed parallels of the base cards can go for big bucks as well.

2000 Pacific Al Martin Platinum Blue Parallel /75

I recently picked this Al Martin up for .99 and utilized the sellers combined shipping offer to add some trade bait as well. This continues my nice trend of finding some unique Pirate cards from this time period. It would be a fun project to add some more Pirates from the Pacific sets as their were 12 different releases back in 2000 alone! Can you name them all.....I had to go on eBay to remind myself what some of them looked like. Pacific Invincible was a very wild set.

Aurora
Crown Royale
Pacific
Pacific Crown Collection
Pacific Invincible
Pacific Omega
Pacific Prism
Pacific Vanguard
Paramount
Paramount Update
Private Stock
Revolution

Some nice challenges for player collectors in some of these sets. Several of the Pacific sets had low numbered hobby and retail exclusives.

Big series for the Pirates starting tonight. Hopefully the wizardry and black magic of the Cardinals will go away for a few days and allow the Buccos to take two of three.

Thanks for reading!