What happened to Stained Glass? I wanna say this was the last year they came out looking amazing… now they look like temu knock offs… whyyyyyyy??? 😭😭

Rumor has it that there were only 25 of each of these made (although they are unnumbered). They are super cool and beautiful in person! Love interesting Bo Jackson stuff!

The standard card size (on the left) along with big brother Jumbo Jeter.

1998 baseball was the only year/set that Topps made the jumbo size Gallery of Heroes.

Years ago, on Cage’s podcast, (At the time, it was “Lukas, Tigers, and Brons - Oh my!” now it’s The Hobby with Cage) he talked about the Gallery of Heroes insert set from the late 90s and early 2000s. Despite collecting back then, I’d never seen them.

As soon as I saw the cards, I was hooked. They’re semi-transparent like real stained glass. Photos don’t do them justice.

This 1998 Griffey is the best of the best in my opinion. This is the “jumbo” version that was only produced in 1998. (I’ll post the standard size vs jumbo size later.)

Topps brought this back in a few recent baseball sets. All of the Gallery of Heroes set are really cool, but this is on a level by itself.