'''Pinnacle Brands:''' Pinnacle Brands is a defunct trading card manufacturer active from 1986-98. At one
...ng through acquisitions in the mid-'90s. In 1994, the newly re-christened "Pinnacle Brands" purchased Action Packed, makers of embossed football and racing car
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...[1997 Pinnacle X-Press]] product. Released in July 1998, this product was Pinnacle Brands' penultimate baseball card product that was officially released prio
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...nnacle Mint was a 30-card and 30-coin set that was the second iteration of Pinnacle Brands, Inc's (unsuccessful) attempt to appeal to both card collectors and
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...Finest, featured chromium-stock cards with a removable protective "peel". Pinnacle Certified was available exclusively in Hobby stores.
...five separate print runs of '97 Certified. After the first run sold out, Pinnacle produced an additional two runs before Certified went live. Afterward, ano
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...scape orientation and featured two player photos, gold-foil nameplates and Pinnacle logo, and a semi-bordered design accented with the player's team colors. T
Pinnacle X-Press utilized unique packaging as it was available in both a standard 24
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...s set was on an info card that was issued inside each sealed can of [[1997 Pinnacle Inside]].
...997 Pinnacle|1997 Pinnacle Series One]], or the "new" format of [[1997 New Pinnacle]]. According to the info card, the product was to have contained the follo
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1997 Pinnacle Mint was a 30-card and 30-coin set that was Pinnacle Brands, Inc.'s first attempt to combine card collecting with numismatics.
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...and thus to open the actual "pack", collectors needed to use a can opener. Pinnacle-branded can openers were distributed to hobby dealers as part of a promotio
...ted by [[1999_UD_Choice|card companies]] in the future) and was a gimmick Pinnacle Brands, Inc. used to market the product and distinguish it from other baseb
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...1998. This product was the last baseball card set officially released by Pinnacle Brands prior to their bankruptcy which happened a couple weeks later. All
* The Naturals (a possible homage to the [[1994 Pinnacle Naturals]] boxed set)
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...t, released in July 1998 and was one of the last products the Donruss/Leaf/Pinnacle parent brand released before going bankrupt later that month. Once again,
Pinnacle Brands, Inc. continued the cards in a can" for a second consecutive year to
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1993 Pinnacle Cooperstown is a 30-card boxed set featuring possible future Hall of Fame i
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1993 Pinnacle Home Run Club is a 48-card, all-[[Dufex]], boxed set featuring the usual ca
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...llows the anti-counterfeit "bar code" to be read. (This lens works on all Pinnacle Brands cards with the "bar code".)
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...est took place July 7th-11th in Arlington, Texas. This was the first year Pinnacle Brands was the presenting sponsor of FanFest.
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...base card featured a borderless color photo with a gold foil nameplate and Pinnacle logo plate. Cards came in tamper resistant foil packs made from a combinat
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1994 Pinnacle New Generation is a 25-card boxed set spotlighting the most prominent prosp
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1994 Pinnacle Power Surge is a 25-card boxed set. 100,000 sets were produced with each se
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1994 Pinnacle Naturals is a 25-card boxed set printed with Pinnacle's [[Dufex]] process. 100,000 serial-numbered sets were produced.
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...ert set, one had to open Pinnacle, Score, Zenith, Score Rookie/Traded, and Pinnacle Plus packs.
...nnacle Certified set emerged on the secondary market nearly 20 years after Pinnacle's bankruptcy. A set is considered complete without the Certified cards.
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...a condition sensitive set. Card backs were horizontal and again featured Pinnacle's unique anti-counterfeit bar code that could be viewed through a [[Lenticu
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1995 Pinnacle is a 450-card set released in two series of 225 cards. By 1995, Pinnacle Brands, Inc. and its flagship product were established in the Hobby and kno
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1996 Pinnacle was a 400-card set released in two series of 200 cards. Similar to the [[1
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1997 Pinnacle was a 200-card, single-series set released in February, 1997. Similar to [
...a Series Two was replaced with an entire new product offering, [[1997 New Pinnacle]]. Many star players were originally planned to feature in Series Two and
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...98 and was the last offering of the flagship brand before the Donruss/Leaf/Pinnacle parent brand went bankrupt in July/August 1998. This final product offerin
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...ith the 1996 Major League All-Star Game FanFest in Philadelphia (of which, Pinnacle Brands was the presenting sponsor). Each attendee received a 2-card pack w
...ll have the design but no foil stamping or UV coating) were also issued by Pinnacle as part of the celebration. These five cards feature different personaliti
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...ound for the gold foil nameplate, and a player portrait that utilized what Pinnacle dubbed as "Heliogram" printing (spot holographic foil with black ink) on a
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...es set released in June 1997. Rather than issue a second series of [[1997 Pinnacle]], the parent company decided to release an entirely new set, complete with
...ss plates were distributed through two different methods involving the New Pinnacle brand: in sealed cases and in packs.
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1992 Pinnacle Mantle is a 30-card boxed set commemorating the life and career of Mickey M
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...ded Set | update set]], the design is completely different from the [[1992 Pinnacle]] set. A total of 180,000 sets were produced.
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...old parallels emerged on the secondary market, which some have dubbed the "Pinnacle Baseball Find" (PBF). While many players had base or parallel versions sur
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The Team Pinnacle Collector's Club was an attempt by Pinnacle Brands to create a "club" similar to Topps' Stadium Club. For $29.95 colle
* Three Pinnacle Mint football coins.
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1997 Pinnacle FanFest is a 21-card set distributed at the All-Star Game's FanFest held in
...core#All-Star FanFest|a similar-looking FanFest set]] that was produced by Pinnacle under their Score brand name.
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...d by Panini America on August 15, 2013. This set marks the return of the "Pinnacle" brand name (which was inherited by Panini after their purchase of Donruss-
|Pinnacle of Success||16||-||1:8||?
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...ommemorate the birth of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, Pinnacle Brands created two, 26-card, box sets. Each box set contains the team's re
...were made available through the [[1998 Team Pinnacle Collector's Club|Team Pinnacle Collector's Club.]] Each box is serial-numbered.
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1998 Pinnacle Snapshots was a series of fifteen, 18-"card", team photo sets. Snapshots w
...of 6 different photo-cards was included in each dealer order form for 1998 Pinnacle Snapshots baseball to preview the upcoming product. These sample photo-card
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In 1997, Pinnacle Brands, in association with American Airlines, issued this commemorative Du
...any with a plant in Baltimore. They also had a plant down the street from Pinnacle Brands' headquarters in Grand Prairie, Texas.
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...intage]] - [[1997 Bowman's Best]] - [[1999 Fleer Brilliants]] - [[1997 New Pinnacle]] - [[2004 Dodgers Fleer]] - [[1995 Topps Embossed]] - [[2005 Topps Total]
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...of 1000 copies, Artist Proof parallels would be inserted into a variety of Pinnacle Brands products until the company's demise.
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...the high-number concept with their 1997 Select baseball set, but like most Pinnacle
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...a, Yellow, Black) the actual cards in its [[1997 Pinnacle]] and [[1997 New Pinnacle]] sets.
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...e reverse image of what is actually seen on the front or back of the card, Pinnacle stated that the press plates inserted into packs were "used in printing" an
...1997, press plates have appeared in Stadium Club, Topps Gallery, and other Pinnacle products and then were used extensively by other card companies through the
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...: 1997 Flair Showcase baseball introduced [[One-of-One|one-of-ones,]] 1997 Pinnacle Totally Certified baseball numbered both the cards and the wax boxes, 1998
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'''Pinnacle Brands:''' Pinnacle Brands is a defunct trading card manufacturer active from 1986-98. At one
...ng through acquisitions in the mid-'90s. In 1994, the newly re-christened "Pinnacle Brands" purchased Action Packed, makers of embossed football and racing car
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...sn't the only card company to announce a card number "retirement" in 1997. Pinnacle Brands announced that, beginning in 1998, card #42 would no longer be issue
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.... It was the first "Donruss" branded card set since their previous owner, Pinnacle Brands went bankrupt in the Summer of 1998, and the first product released
...form of football card manufacturer Playoff, who purchased what was left of Pinnacle through a bankruptcy court.
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...r spin-off their trading card holdings into what would later be known as [[Pinnacle Brands]].
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...form of football card manufacturer Playoff, who purchased what was left of Pinnacle through a bankruptcy court.
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[[Category:Pinnacle Brands]]
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...1996 the Finnish company sold Donruss's baseball and hockey card lines to Pinnacle Brands, Inc. for approximately $41 million, and then sold the entertainment
[[Pinnacle Brands]] was a Texas company that had evolved out of baseball card maker Sc
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...d Hobby pack), the lack of any rookies and few inserts, and the release by Pinnacle Brands of a similar (and about $2/pack cheaper) product, [[1995 UC3|UC3.]]
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After a one year hiatus, Pinnacle Brands released ''1994 Score Rookie/Traded Baseball'' in October 1994. The
...ced again. This time, rather than fill Jose Lima's space with John Mabry, Pinnacle filled it with a redemption good for a card of the first player drafted in
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...[1997 Pinnacle X-Press]] product. Released in July 1998, this product was Pinnacle Brands' penultimate baseball card product that was officially released prio
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...ajor League baseball team. After the previous five years with Upper Deck, Pinnacle Brands began producing the Denny's set in 1996. The fronts feature a full m
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1997 Denny's is a 29-card set was produced by Pinnacle Brands for Denny's Restaurants and features a star player from each of the
[[Category:Pinnacle]]
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...z made his Major League debut the following year, Donruss, Fleer, Pacific, Pinnacle Brands, and Upper Deck all were able to issue true rookie cards. Topps, wh
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...tflics]] at mass market retail outlets, especially at Wal-Mart, encouraged Pinnacle to release R/T to retail outlets.
This card, featuring Pinnacle's picks for the 1994 Rookies of the Year, was inserted into packs as a "cas
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...ively to dealers who setup at the 1997 All-Star Game Fanfest (sponsored by Pinnacle Brands) in Cleveland. The Fanfest Edition tins are identical to the standa
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...nnacle Mint was a 30-card and 30-coin set that was the second iteration of Pinnacle Brands, Inc's (unsuccessful) attempt to appeal to both card collectors and
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...Finest, featured chromium-stock cards with a removable protective "peel". Pinnacle Certified was available exclusively in Hobby stores.
...five separate print runs of '97 Certified. After the first run sold out, Pinnacle produced an additional two runs before Certified went live. Afterward, ano
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...nnacle's high-end product for the year. The checklist is identical to its Pinnacle Certified base brand (minus Jose Cruz, Jr.) but the design differs: Each ca
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...venue for dealers to dump unwanted new boxes. This was especially true of Pinnacle Brands and Fleer products.
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...scape orientation and featured two player photos, gold-foil nameplates and Pinnacle logo, and a semi-bordered design accented with the player's team colors. T
Pinnacle X-Press utilized unique packaging as it was available in both a standard 24
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...Counterparts Limited Exposures) may have been "backdoored" after the 1998 Pinnacle Brands bankruptcy.
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...1997 All-Star Game FanFest -- which, not coincidentally, was sponsored by Pinnacle and took place in Cleveland.
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...s set was on an info card that was issued inside each sealed can of [[1997 Pinnacle Inside]].
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1997 Pinnacle Mint was a 30-card and 30-coin set that was Pinnacle Brands, Inc.'s first attempt to combine card collecting with numismatics.
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===Score/Pinnacle Promo Panels===
...core and Pinnacle sets. Each panel features mock-ups of two Score and two Pinnacle cards.
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...in March 1993. 93 Score was released to relatively very little fanfare as Pinnacle Brands put most of their marketing budget behind their new [[1993 Select|Se
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[[Category:Pinnacle Brands]]
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...lics 2000 is a 193-card [[Lenticular Printing|lenticular]] set released by Pinnacle Brands in April, 1994. This was the first Sportflics set in four years.
[[Category:Pinnacle Brands]]
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...n the shape of the Pinnacle logo; although most did not. It's assumed that Pinnacle was overwhelmed at the number of redemptions and quit punching holes to exp
====Pinnacle Logo Punched Version====
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...p of the Finnish conglomerate Huhtamäki Oy, as they sold the company to [[Pinnacle Brands]] in May of 1996. It was also the final year that famed artist Dick
...as the fifteenth and final year Perez produced the Diamond Kings insert as Pinnacle Brands, who bought Donruss in May of 1996, chose other artists in the follo
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...long with [[1994 Upper Deck|Upper Deck's flagship brand,]] [[1994 Pinnacle|Pinnacle,]] and their own [[1994 Leaf|Leaf]] and [[1994 Studio|Studio]] brands. Eac
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...and thus to open the actual "pack", collectors needed to use a can opener. Pinnacle-branded can openers were distributed to hobby dealers as part of a promotio
...ted by [[1999_UD_Choice|card companies]] in the future) and was a gimmick Pinnacle Brands, Inc. used to market the product and distinguish it from other baseb
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...1998. This product was the last baseball card set officially released by Pinnacle Brands prior to their bankruptcy which happened a couple weeks later. All
* The Naturals (a possible homage to the [[1994 Pinnacle Naturals]] boxed set)
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...t, released in July 1998 and was one of the last products the Donruss/Leaf/Pinnacle parent brand released before going bankrupt later that month. Once again,
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1993 Pinnacle Cooperstown is a 30-card boxed set featuring possible future Hall of Fame i
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1993 Pinnacle Home Run Club is a 48-card, all-[[Dufex]], boxed set featuring the usual ca
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...llows the anti-counterfeit "bar code" to be read. (This lens works on all Pinnacle Brands cards with the "bar code".)
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...Ryan. Fleer's card sports the design of [[1995 Ultra]], while Upper Deck, Pinnacle Brands, and Donruss produced a special design and Topps modified Ryan's 196
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...est took place July 7th-11th in Arlington, Texas. This was the first year Pinnacle Brands was the presenting sponsor of FanFest.
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...Card number 42 was not issued as it was "retired" by Leaf's previous owner Pinnacle Brands in 1997 in honor of Jackie Robinson.
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...-printed in relation to the other prospect cards 151-200. Card #42, which Pinnacle Brands had previously retired in honor of Jackie Robinson, was originally i
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...y Topps and the first released by any company since the 1998 bankruptcy of Pinnacle Brands.
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...base card featured a borderless color photo with a gold foil nameplate and Pinnacle logo plate. Cards came in tamper resistant foil packs made from a combinat
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1994 Pinnacle New Generation is a 25-card boxed set spotlighting the most prominent prosp
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1994 Pinnacle Power Surge is a 25-card boxed set. 100,000 sets were produced with each se
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1994 Pinnacle Naturals is a 25-card boxed set printed with Pinnacle's [[Dufex]] process. 100,000 serial-numbered sets were produced.
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...A, and the six licensed card companies from 1995 (Donruss, Fleer, Pacific, Pinnacle, Topps, and Upper Deck). The set was issued in large part to drum-up sales
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...poses. These quality control cards were more than likely backdoored after Pinnacle Brands' bankruptcy.
...1 of 1 are known to exist. These were, more than likely, backdoored after Pinnacle Brands' bankruptcy.
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==Pinnacle==
* [[2013 Pinnacle]]
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This ten-card set features baseball's Dream Team as selected by Pinnacle Brands. Banded by forest green stripes above and below, the player photos o
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Chip-topper is term frequently used by Pinnacle Brands in the 1990s to describe a single card that is included inside a wax
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This nine-card set features the best player at each position (in Pinnacle's opinion) and was inserted into all Series One packs.
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Pinnacle Brands commissioned Seattle Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson to snap photos f
...ve 20-card FanFest insert. This set is not to be confused with the [[1997 Pinnacle FanFest]] set, which was distributed directly to attendees and features a s
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...998 Score Baseball set was released in December, 1997. Four months later, Pinnacle Brands re-released '98 Score under the "Score: All-Star Edition" banner. T
Additional cards were seeded into 1998 Pinnacle and Zenith packs in a cross-brand promotion.
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...ert set, one had to open Pinnacle, Score, Zenith, Score Rookie/Traded, and Pinnacle Plus packs.
...nnacle Certified set emerged on the secondary market nearly 20 years after Pinnacle's bankruptcy. A set is considered complete without the Certified cards.
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...a condition sensitive set. Card backs were horizontal and again featured Pinnacle's unique anti-counterfeit bar code that could be viewed through a [[Lenticu
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1995 Pinnacle is a 450-card set released in two series of 225 cards. By 1995, Pinnacle Brands, Inc. and its flagship product were established in the Hobby and kno
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1996 Pinnacle was a 400-card set released in two series of 200 cards. Similar to the [[1
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1997 Pinnacle was a 200-card, single-series set released in February, 1997. Similar to [
...a Series Two was replaced with an entire new product offering, [[1997 New Pinnacle]]. Many star players were originally planned to feature in Series Two and
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...98 and was the last offering of the flagship brand before the Donruss/Leaf/Pinnacle parent brand went bankrupt in July/August 1998. This final product offerin
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...ar the Donruss flagship brand was released under its new parent company, [[Pinnacle Brands]], and their influence (especially in the Update Series) shows in th
This longtime Donruss staple continued in 1997, but with major changes. [[Pinnacle Brands]], the new owners of the Donruss brand, replaced longtime Diamond Ki
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1994 Tombstone Pizza is a 30-card [[Food Issue|food issue]] produced by Pinnacle Brands. One card was inserted into specially marked Tombstone brand frozen
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...orporation -- known for its football cards -- paid $9.6 million for all of Pinnacle's assets and subsequently entered a license agreement with Major League Bas
...eviewed the upcoming [[1998 Donruss Signature Series]] set -- which due to Pinnacle Brands' bankruptcy and liquidation, would be released by Playoff in January
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...this set are uncorrected errors (UERs). If not for the 1998 bankruptcy of Pinnacle Brands which cancelled the 1999 and 2000 editions, 2005 Donruss would have
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After a five-year run, this would be the last Sportflics set until Pinnacle Brands revived the product in [[1994 Sportflics 2000|1994.]]
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...D product, however the Kellogg's 3-D cards of the 70s and 80s (produced by Pinnacle's parent company Optigraphics) had beaten it by two decades. In addition,
These two cards are reprints from the "Clear Shots" insert set. Like all Pinnacle Brands promo cards of the era, the words "SAMPLE" are printed on both sides
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...in the premium, mid-price market, Select was marketed at a level below the Pinnacle Flagship but above the base brand Score. 1993 Select was buttressed by an
1993 Select was notable as it was the first set that Pinnacle utilized its trademark [[Dufex]] printing technology on all the insert card
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...er etched-foil cards. Each card was serial-numbered on the back; however, Pinnacle Brands never publicly announced the print run. Some collectors believe tha
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...front but this year featured a wood grain design. Unlike previous years, Pinnacle Brands did not publicly disclose production figures; however, it is believe
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...3. This was first baseball card product released under the newly renamed "Pinnacle Brands." Only 1950, 24-box cases were produced with each individual box be
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1995 Zenith Edition is a 150-card set released in August, 1995. Zenith was Pinnacle Brands' first foray into a "super-premium" product to compete with Topps' F
The naming of the brand is conspicuously redundant as "pinnacle" and "zenith" are synonyms. The front design features an Egyptian pyramid a
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1996 Zenith is a 150-card "super-premium" set released by Pinnacle Brands in August, 1996. The set contains the subset: Honor Roll (131-150).
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1997 Zenith is a 50-card set, released by Pinnacle Brands in the Summer of 1997. In a radical departure for the brand, each p
...later, long after Pinnacle had gone out of business, boxes of late-90s era Pinnacle and Donruss cards began showing up at K-Mart stores nationwide, including s
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1998 Zenith was a 100-card set released by Pinnacle Brands in May, 1998. Dubbed the "Dare to Tear" set, each pack had three 5"
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...point metallic stock and double laminated. This was the inaugural year of Pinnacle Brands' super-premium brand and the precursor to one of the most influentia
Pinnacle Brands announced that production of Select Certified was 34% less than that
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1996 Select Certified was a 144-card hobby-only set released by Pinnacle Brands in the summer of 1996. This set contained a staggering (for the tim
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...ith the 1996 Major League All-Star Game FanFest in Philadelphia (of which, Pinnacle Brands was the presenting sponsor). Each attendee received a 2-card pack w
...ll have the design but no foil stamping or UV coating) were also issued by Pinnacle as part of the celebration. These five cards feature different personaliti
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...ound for the gold foil nameplate, and a player portrait that utilized what Pinnacle dubbed as "Heliogram" printing (spot holographic foil with black ink) on a
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...red insert. Football card manufacturer Playoff purchased what was left of Pinnacle Brands and negotiated with MLB Properties a temporary license that allowed
...gambling. However, the name was officially changed after Playoff took over Pinnacle's assets.
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...above 130 have surfaced as many of these cards were "backdoored" after the Pinnacle Brands bankruptcy (see [[1998_Donruss_Crusade#Unreleased_Cards|'''Unrelease
...serial-numbered. While Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP) instructed Pinnacle Brands - which included the Donruss and Leaf products - to destroy its base
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...year to those dealers who ordered a specific number of cases directly from Pinnacle Brands. Despite not being issued in packs, the card is attainable on the s
...year to those dealers who ordered a specific number of cases directly from Pinnacle Brands. Despite not being issued in packs, the card is attainable on the se
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...a 200-card, Hobby exclusive set. This set is a premium product issued by Pinnacle Brands and produced on thicker paper than the regular set.
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...Their slogan on the box read "Half The Battle Is Knowing What To Collect...Pinnacle."
...matching serial numbers could exchange that set for one box of every 1997 Pinnacle product from ''every'' sport.
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...oored release of extra copies across all players flooding the market after Pinnacle Brands’ bankruptcy. There were two types of Fractal Matrix parallels:
...t many non-pack-issued copies from this set hit the secondary market after Pinnacle’s Brands’ bankruptcy. This, some collectors question the veracity of th
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...es set released in June 1997. Rather than issue a second series of [[1997 Pinnacle]], the parent company decided to release an entirely new set, complete with
...ss plates were distributed through two different methods involving the New Pinnacle brand: in sealed cases and in packs.
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...ayoff in September, 2005. Conceived as a tribute to the brand released by Pinnacle Brands in the 1990s, each 18-pack Hobby box contained an autograph, a Z-Jer
Epix is a 96-card tribute to the multi-tier insert from [[1998 Pinnacle Epix|1998.]] Each of the 24 players has four cards: Play, Game, Season, an
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...ry year from 1994 until the brand was discontinued after the bankruptcy of Pinnacle Brands in 1998). This ten-card set featured the game's top statistical pla
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...fter a two-year absence due to the bankruptcy of the line's previous owner Pinnacle Brands. The final fifty cards in the base set make up a Rookie subset, wit
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...cle Brands executives. However, the cards were never released until after Pinnacle Brands' bankruptcy. The cards look similar to the Gold Press Proofs, but a
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...he first Donruss-branded card set released after the firm's acquisition by Pinnacle Brands.
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...Sportflix is a 170-card [[Lenticular Printing|lenticular]] set released by Pinnacle Brands, primarily to retail outlets, in the summer of 1995. Subsets include
Unlike other Pinnacle Brands sample cards of the era, the '95 Sportflix Samples are extremely tou
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1996 Sportflix is a 144-card set released by Pinnacle Brands, exclusively to mass-market retail outlets, in the summer of 1996.
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1994 Score Burger King Ripken is a nine-card set produced by Pinnacle Brands to honor Baltimore Orioles star shortstop, Cal Ripken, Jr. A pack o
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...urch's Hometown Stars is a 28-card set (one card per MLB team) produced by Pinnacle Brands. Collectors who purchased a nine-piece family meal during the month
...three regular cards and one gold parallel card. Despite being produced by Pinnacle Brands (at the time a licensee), this set is not licensed by MLB Properties
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...known to exist. It's believed that these cards did not emerge until after Pinnacle Brands' 1998 bankruptcy.
...known to exist. It's believed that these cards did not emerge until after Pinnacle Brands' 1998 bankruptcy.
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1992 Pinnacle Mantle is a 30-card boxed set commemorating the life and career of Mickey M
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...ded Set | update set]], the design is completely different from the [[1992 Pinnacle]] set. A total of 180,000 sets were produced.
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...old parallels emerged on the secondary market, which some have dubbed the "Pinnacle Baseball Find" (PBF). While many players had base or parallel versions sur
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...including cards from this product) to be destroyed; yet, similar to [[1998 Pinnacle Certified]], [[1998 Donruss Limited]], and [[1998 Donruss Crusade|high-numb
The product itself was to be a 250-card fractured set based on what Pinnacle called the "Quasar System" and was similar to how 1997-1999 Flair Showcase
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...ended for release in October, 1998. The product was never released due to Pinnacle Brands' bankruptcy. Similar to the previous year's release, this set was t
...e other Pinnacle Brands bankruptcy issues (i.e. [[1998 Select]] and [[1998 Pinnacle Certified]]), none of the cards from this set have surfaced on the secondar
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...services, MLB and the MLBPA granted Playoff (who had bought the rights to Pinnacle's name and inventory in bankruptcy) a temporary license that allowed them t
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The Team Pinnacle Collector's Club was an attempt by Pinnacle Brands to create a "club" similar to Topps' Stadium Club. For $29.95 colle
* Three Pinnacle Mint football coins.
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1997 Pinnacle FanFest is a 21-card set distributed at the All-Star Game's FanFest held in
...core#All-Star FanFest|a similar-looking FanFest set]] that was produced by Pinnacle under their Score brand name.
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...c Trading Cards participated in the FanFest promotion, taking the place of Pinnacle Brands and Donruss.
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...d by Panini America on August 15, 2013. This set marks the return of the "Pinnacle" brand name (which was inherited by Panini after their purchase of Donruss-
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...ct baseball release since 1997, and the first by Panini America, owners of Pinnacle Brands' intellectual property. With that said, the product bears little re
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...ommemorate the birth of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, Pinnacle Brands created two, 26-card, box sets. Each box set contains the team's re
...were made available through the [[1998 Team Pinnacle Collector's Club|Team Pinnacle Collector's Club.]] Each box is serial-numbered.
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...mounted onto a new 2003 card. Donruss-Playoff inherited a large amount of Pinnacle Brands' (the former parent of Donruss) excess stock when they purchased the
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==1992 Pinnacle==
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#REDIRECT [[1997 Pinnacle Totally Certified]]
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1998 Pinnacle Snapshots was a series of fifteen, 18-"card", team photo sets. Snapshots w
...of 6 different photo-cards was included in each dealer order form for 1998 Pinnacle Snapshots baseball to preview the upcoming product. These sample photo-card
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...com, October 29th. Not unlike the disastrous [[1998 Zenith]] product from Pinnacle Brands (who went bankrupt just a couple of months later), each standard-siz
And you wonder why Pinnacle Brands went bankrupt?
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...ugh both sets share the same design, the Diamondbacks set is branded as a "Pinnacle" set and the Mariners as an "Upper Deck" set.
===Diamondbacks Pinnacle===
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...om, November 30th. Not unlike the disastrous [[1998 Zenith]] product from Pinnacle Brands (who went bankrupt just a couple of months later), each standard-siz
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In 1997, Pinnacle Brands, in association with American Airlines, issued this commemorative Du
...any with a plant in Baltimore. They also had a plant down the street from Pinnacle Brands' headquarters in Grand Prairie, Texas.
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