...ap to figure out which set they received; however, about two-thirds of the sets were Vintage.
<h4>Previous Sets of the Month</h4>
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...ssing Mays card. Collectors had until October 24, 2001, to complete their sets and receive their Mays card.
For the third consecutive year, Topps Gallery featured an insert of 10 players done in the style of a classic Topps set; in this case [[1965
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'''Baseball Heroes:''' A series of [[insert]] sets, and later a stand-alone product, issued by Upper Deck.
...96 with another set of Future Heroes, and Ken Griffey, Jr. in 1997 SP. The sets issued in the SP brands were decidedly tougher to pull (the '97 Griffey's w
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...larity increased further in 1996, when Donruss made them a serial numbered insert as "completists" wanted to keep their set runs alive.
Playoff revived the Diamond Kings as an insert in 2001, and issued a stand-alone DK product in 2002.
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...with a Dufex finish and the amount of players in these parallel or insert sets, the amount of Dufex cards ordered for a set was high. This is a possible
...the first time since Pinnacle's bankruptcy for their 2000 Finest Dreamcast insert. Further, Donruss-Playoff (which bought Pinnacle Brands' assets in 1998 af
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...s [[Baseball Heroes]]. Since then, almost every brand has had some sort of insert to add value to the product.
...et, and Nolan Ryan in the [[high-Number]] series, again with [[autographed Insert]]s both random and rare. Other brands quickly followed suit with varying de
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...food issues (1970s era Burger King), regional issues, team issues, police sets, test issues, non-traditional card-like items (1989 Topps Heads Ups), redem
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'''Parallel:''' An [[insert]] set that is almost identical to the [[Base Set|base set,]] except for som
...ly the very first parallel set in the current sense were the Topps Tiffany sets of the 80s. Another example is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield baseball. The D
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...ou could make a case that the first parallel brands were the Topps Tiffany sets of the 1980s, the first such product as we now know them was 1996 Topps Chr
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...n current Major League players. It must be a base card and cannot be an [[insert]], [[parallel]], or [[Redemption Card|redemption card]]. A player may only
...the respective leagues and teams. This is why many of the players in such sets are still pictured in their college and high school uniforms. It should be
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...Lombardi Trophy Hologram card. In 1991, Donruss combined numbering with [[insert]]s on their [[Elite]] set (numbered to 10,000) with great success, with the
Naturally, with dozens more serial numbered sets coming out every year, the attraction has worn off, but a numbered card is
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...SPx. Billed as "SP to the X degree," SPx was marketed as a base set with "insert quality" cards, and sold in one-card packs for $2.99. Although the set was
...Deck created a product in which every single card (base set, parallel and insert alike) would come out of the pack serial numbered. The second series of '98
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'''SSPC:''' With the exception of some regional and oddball sets, baseball card collectors in the 1970s had the choice of collecting cards f
...league sets, but also some special team sets and reprints of some classic sets. His company was called TCMA, which stood for The Card Memorabilia Associat
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...nsive words with a black box (this was the version included in all factory sets). Both the original card and many of the corrected versions have become col
==Key Trading Card sets==
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...ach six-card Hobby pack will yield one die-cut parallel and one Xpoenetial insert. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield one game-used card. Each 20-box case w
...randomly inserted for the 100-card base set and all six Xponential insert sets.<br />
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...iations. Each Hobby pack will contain a card from one of seventeen insert sets. In addition, each 12-pack Hobby box will yield four parallels, one game-u
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...eld day with the Retail release as the 2000 Retro (pack in a pack) 90-card sets were selling easily for $100.00 a set on eBay making all the other cards pu
...Baseball and 2000 Donruss Football sets are uncanny to say the least. Both sets have roughly the same number of cards (220 in baseball versus 250 in footba
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...er, Upper Deck lost their MLB license after 2009. Unlike the OPC baseball sets of yore, this set is exclusively in English.
This 33-card insert is done in the style of the 1979-80 OPC/Topps Hockey set. The first ten ca
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...ll yield nine 20th Anniversary inserts, four Joe DiMaggio Career Highlight insert cards numbered to 425, four jersey cards, two which will be multi-swatch, a
Similar to sets for [[2007 SPx#Iron Man|Cal Ripken, Jr. in 2007]] and [[2008 SPx|Ken Griffe
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...en in the production of this product. The only difference between the two sets are the words "EXTRA EDITION" stamped in foil on the front of each card. T
'''NOTE:''' All four insert sets are serial-numbered to 500 copies.
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