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Monday, September 11, 2017

Upgraded to a New Row

A couple weeks back I went into painful detail of the intricacies of 1997 Flair Showcase.  You can see that post here.  The set itself is very confusing, but it did produce some great looking cards.

The seller I purchased the cards from was breaking up an entire Legacy Collection set.  It was interesting to see how much some of the big names went for.  Here are a few that caught my eye so far.

Ken Griffey Jr Row 2 = $374.00
Barry Larkin Row 0 = 356.99
Derek Jeter Row 2 = 305.00
Ryne Sandberg Row 2 = 281.00

The Larkin was a little surprising, but the Row 0 cards are supposedly the most rare of the 3 varieties. The remaining big $ sellers were all over the place.  You can definitely tell which ones had bidding wars as guys like Jorge Posada went for huge money. Yankee collectors were definitely fighting there.

Here are my additions for Row 1.






As you can see they are both represented in the hitting pose while Row 2 was baserunning.

By the way in case you are wondering I was able to grab Row 0's to complete the Jose Guillen and Al Martin trifecta.  You can do that kind of thing when your team only had low $ players.  I should be able to show the Row 0 next week.

Thanks for reading!

8 comments:

  1. Showcase really was a nice set, plus I always liked Fleer's serial-numbering, which seems like a weird thing to single out, but it looks so much better than the plain ink they use now.

    Finishing up the trifectas is a pretty nice accomplishment!

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    1. In some of the more recent sets you have to really focus to find the serial numbering. No hiding Flair serial numbers.

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  2. Love this product. Glad you were able to pick these up at affordable prices. It's also good to know that there are people out there who are still willing to drop big $$$ for rarer 90's parallels.

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    1. I'm always amazed at what some of these cards go for. Always fun to do a sold items search for cards like these.

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  3. It amazes me to see how much some of these scarce '90s parallels still go for.

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    1. unopened late 90's wax is going to be worth a lot of money

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