...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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