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Sunday, January 30, 2022

One Card Only - another crown

Way back in June 2020, I blogged about a card that I really liked, a die-cut Pacific Crown Royale card. It had a special provenance because it was in a repack of baseball cards I bought at the Hall of Fame. 

Well, anyway, that card has been joined by another die-cut crown card now.

Card Number 910: Pacific Crown Royale, 1999; #119


Compared with the other die-cut crown, this is muted and under-stated. 

On the back we get a potrait and a brief paragraph with some salient stats. Tony had a decent year in 1997, hit a milestone in 1998, and they even managed to squeeze in a mention of his opening day performance in 1999.


I also love cards that I learn something from - I did not know that the Padres opened the 1999 season in Monterey. It's inconceivable now that the first competitive games after an appearance in the World Series would be staged in another country!

Total: 910 cards


4 comments:

  1. What a well executed card design. The first time I saw these I just knew they where an expensive insert that I could never afford. If my memory serves me correctly I ended up paying $2 for it back in 1999 or 2000.

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  2. I'm really starting to like those 90's Pacific Crown Royale sets.

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  3. When I first read this... I thought you meant Monterey, California and was wondering where the heck they would have played. The die-cut Crown Royale base cards are awesome.

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    1. That would have been an ever odder choice of venue.

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