Flair Legacy cards are some of my favorite 90’s Parallels. High end card stock. First packs that came in little sealed boxes. Super premium at the time. They just look so cool and numbered /150. Many can still be had for semi-reasonable prices compared to things like PMGs, Rubies, etc. KG is one of my all-time favorite players!

Had to grab this refractor featuring the juniors of Tim Raines, Gary Matthews, and Garry Maddox. Topps knew the assignment.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto didn't have the best start last night but that won't stop me from adding colorful parallels of his cards.

While scrolling through 1999 Stadium Club One of a Kind parallel listings on eBay I saw a play at the plate between Phil Nevin and Brady Anderson that I swear I just scrolled past a minute earlier. It turns out Stadium Club used a before and after photo on the respective cards for Nevin and Anderson.

I did some digging and discovered that the play in question occurred in the bottom of the 9th inning of a game on 9/12/98. The Angels went into the last frame up 2-0 but the Orioles rallied and Eric Davis sent a single up the middle that resulted in a collision at home between Brady Anderson and Phil Nevin. Brady won the showdown and the Orioles took it in a walkoff, 3-2.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen another example of a set featuring the same play on different cards. I’m happy to have this easter egg in my collection.

Every card collector has a few sets that they’ve looked through so many times they can remember the card fronts from memory. 1996 Topps baseball is one of those sets for me. A much younger version of myself spent lots of allowance money ripping packs from this set.

I recently bought this Rondell White refractor as a bookend to those memories. I might be a little older and my tastes more refined, but I’m still spending my money in the best way I know.