Revision as of 16:29, 17 May 2021

Description

1994 Classic Four Sport is a 200-card set released in November, 1994, featuring recent draft picks, prospects, and rookies from the then-four major sports: basketball, hockey, football, and baseball. Each Hobby box is serial-numbered to 298,880.

Distribution

Wax: 36 packs per box, ten cards per pack. 298,880 serial-numbered boxes produced. 12 boxes per case.

Jumbos:

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Wax Odds	Jumbo Odds
Base	200	-	?	?
Gold	200	-	one-per-pack	?
Printer's Proofs	200	1000	?	?
Shaq-Fu Tip Cards	25	-	1:18	?
Classic Picks	10	-	1:72	?
Phone Cards	40	varies	1:72	?
High Voltage	20	varies	1:144	?
Top Draft Picks	1	4695	1:2160	?
Tri-Cards	5	2695	?	?
Bonus Cards	10	-	N/A	one-per-pack
Autographs	78	varies	1:72	?
Instant Winner	1	100	?	?

Checklist

Promos

Hockey Previews

This five-card set was inserted into packs of 1994-95 Classic Hockey.

P5 Ben Grieve
P1 Jeff O'Neill
P2 Marshall Faulk
P3 Grant Hill
P4 Jason Kidd

Promos

These three promos were distributed to Hobby dealers and collectors. The two Shaquille O'Neal cards are done in the style of the Shaq-Fu insert set.

PR1 Donyell Marshall
PR2 Shaquille O'Neal
PR3 Shaquille O'Neal

Base Set

161 Paul Wilson
162 Ben Grieve
163 Doug Million
164 C.J. Nitkowski
165 Tommy Davis
166 Dustin Hermanson
167 Travis Miller
168 McKay Christensen
169 Victor Rodriguez
170 Jacob Cruz
171 Rick Heiserman
172 Mark Farris
173 Nomar Garciaparra
174 Paul Konerko
175 Trey Moore
176 Brian Stephenson
177 Matt Smith
178 Kevin L. Brown
179 Cade Gaspar
180 Bret Wagner
181 Mike Thurman
182 Doug Webb
183 Ryan Nye
184 Brian Buchanan
185 Scott Elarton
186 Mark Johnson
187 Jacob Shumate
188 Kevin Witt
FO1 Four in One - Paul Wilson
1 Glenn Robinson
2 Jason Kidd
3 Grant Hill
4 Donyell Marshall
5 Juwan Howard
6 Sharone Wright
7 Billy McCaffrey
8 Brian Grant
9 Eric Montross
10 Eddie Jones
11 Carlos Rogers
12 Khalid Reeves
13 Jalen Rose
14 Yinka Dare
15 Eric Piatkowski
16 Clifford Rozier
17 Aaron McKie
18 Eric Mobley
19 Tony Dumas
20 B.J. Tyler
21 Dickey Simpkins
22 Bill Curley
23 Wesley Person
24 Monty Williams
25 Greg Minor
26 Charlie Ward
27 Brooks Thompson
28 Deon Thomas
29 Antonio Lang
30 Howard Eisley
31 Rodney Dent
32 Jim McIlvaine
33 Derrick Alston
34 Gaylon Nickerson
35 Michael Smith
36 Andrei Fetisov
37 Dontonio Wingfield
38 Darrin Hancock
39 Anthony Miller
40 Jeff Webster
41 Arturas Karnishovas
42 Gary Collier
43 Shawnelle Scott
44 Damon Bailey
45 Dwayne Morton
46 Jamie Watson
47 Jevon Crudup
48 Melvin Booker
49 Brian Reese
50 Lawrence Funderburke
51 Dan Wilkinson
52 Marshall Faulk
53 Heath Shuler
54 Willie McGinest
55 Trev Alberts
56 Trent Dilfer
57 Bryant Young
58 Sam Adams
59 Antonio Langham
60 Jamir Miller
61 John Thierry
62 Aaron Glenn
63 Joe Johnson
64 Bernard Williams
65 Wayne Gandy
66 Aaron Taylor
67 Charles Johnson
68 Dewayne Washington
69 Todd Steussie
70 Tim Bowens
71 Johnnie Morton
72 Rob Fredrickson
73 Shante Carver
74 Thomas Lewis
75 Calvin Jones
76 Henry Ford
77 Jeff Burris
78 William Floyd
79 Derrick Alexander
80 Darnay Scott
81 Tre Johnson
82 Eric Mahlum
83 Errict Rhett
84 Kevin Lee
85 Andre Coleman
86 Corey Sawyer
87 Chuck Levy
88 Greg Hill
89 David Palmer
90 Ryan Yarborough
91 Charlie Garner
92 Mario Bates
93 Bert Emanuel
94 Thomas Randolph
95 Bucky Brooks
96 Rob Waldrop
97 Charlie Ward
98 Winfred Tubbs
99 James Folston
100 Kevin Mitchell
101 Aubrey Beavers
102 Fernando Smith
103 Jim Miller
104 Byron Morris
105 Donnell Bennett
106 Jason Sehorn
107 Glenn Foley
108 Lonnie Johnson
109 Tyronne Drakeford
110 Vaughn Parker
111 Doug Nussmeier
112 Perry Klein
113 Jason Gildon
114 Lake Dawson
115a Ed Jovanovski ERR: Photo on front actually Bill Bowler (white jersey, faceoff)
115b Ed Jovanovski COR: Corrected photo (blue jersey, skating)
116 Oleg Tverdovsky
117 Radek Bonk
118 Jason Bonsignore
119 Jeff O'Neill
120 Ryan Smyth
121 Jamie Storr
122 Jason Wiemer
123 Evgeni Ryabchikov
124 Nolan Baumgartner
125 Jeff Friesen
126 Wade Belak
127 Maxim Bets
128 Ethan Moreau
129 Alexander Kharlamov
130 Eric Fichaud
131 Wayne Primeau
132 Brad Brown
133 Chris Dingman
134 Craig Darby
135 Darby Hendrickson
136 Yan Golubovsky
137 Chris Wells
138 Vadim Sharifijanov
139 Dan Cloutier
140 Todd Marchant
141 David Roberts
142 Brian Rolston
143 Garth Snow
144 Cory Stillman
145 Chad Penney
146 Jeff Nelson
147 Michael Stewart
148 Mike Dunham
149 Joe Frederick
150 Mark DeSantis
151 David Cooper
152 Andrei Buschan
153 Mike Greenlay UER: Photo on back actually Pauli Jaks
154 Geoff Sarjeant
155 Pauli Jaks
156 Greg Andrusak
157 Denis Metlyuk
158 Mike Fountain
159 Brent Gretzky
160 Jason Allison
189 Glenn Robinson WAW
190 Jason Kidd WAW
191 Grant Hill WAW
192 Donyell Marshall WAW
193 Eric Montross WAW
194 Khalid Reeves WAW
195 Jalen Rose WAW
196 Clifford Rozier WAW
197 Damon Bailey WAW
198 Checklist 1 1-67
199 Checklist 2 68-134
200 Checklist 3 135-200

Parallels

All 200 cards, plus the Ed Jovanovski error card, are available in the following parallels.

Gold
Printer's Proof (limited to 1000 copies)

Inserts

Shaq-Fu Tip Cards

This 25-card set features the characters and levels of the soon-to-be-released Shaq-Fu video game. Shaq-Fu is generally considered one of the worst fighting games of the 16-Bit, or of any other era.

SF1 Shaquille O'Neal
SF2 Kaori
SF3 Voodoo
SF4 Rajah
SF5 Mephis
SF6 Beast
SF7 Sett Ra
SF8 Nezu
SF9 Leotsu
SF10 Colonel X
SF11 Aurok
SF12 Diesel
SF13 Shaq-uriken
SF14 Teleport Kick
SF15 Voodoo Doll Stab
SF16 Sword Toss
SF17 Summon Lightning
SF18 Auto Three Hit
SF19 Earth Rap Attack
SF20 Eno Bomb
SF21 Thunder Kai
SF22 Micro Missle
SF23 Eruption Fist
SF24 Knuckle Dash
SF25 Secret Guy in the Jungle

Classic Picks

Each card is limited, but not serial-numbered, to 24,900 copies.

NOTE: Each card is sequentially-numbered 16-25. The first 15 cards in this set were randomly inserted into Football (1-5), Basketball (6-10), and Hockey (11-15) sets.

16 Paul Wilson
17 Ben Grieve
18 Trey Moore
19 Nomar Garciaparra
20 Doug Million�
21 Dan Wilkinson�
22 Willie McGinest�
23 Khalid Reeves�
24 Grant Hill�
25 Ethan Moreau�

Phone Cards

Each of the eight Phone Cards was available in the following denominations.

$1
$2 (serial-numbered to 3845 copies)
$3 (serial-numbered to 1562 copies)
$4 (serial-numbered to 1305 copies)
$5 (serial-numbered to 422 copies)

When calling the number of the reverse side and entering the code (which was concealed with a silver "scratch" bar), the caller was entitled to a long distance call in the amount listed on the front on the Sprint network. Each card's long distance value expired November 30th, 1995.

Test cards, where the scratch bar is replaced with "00 TEST 00" were also distributed.

High Voltage

The ten odd-numbered cards are serial-numbered to 5495 copies, while the ten even-numbered cards are numbered to 2995.

HV3 Paul Wilson
HV7 Ben Grieve
HV11 Dustin Hermanson
HV15 Doug Million
HV20 Nomar Garciaparra
HV1 Dan Wilkinson� 5495
HV2 Glenn Robinson� 2995
HV4 Ed Jovanovski� 2995
HV5 Marshall Faulk� 5495
HV6 Jason Kidd� 2995
HV8 Oleg Tverdovsky� 2995
HV9 Heath Shuler� 5495
HV10 Grant Hill� 2995
HV12 Radek Bonk� 2995
HV13 Trent Dilfer� 5495
HV14 Donyell Marshall� 2995
HV16 Jason Bonsignore� 2995
HV17 Willie McGinest� 5495
HV18 Juwan Howard� 2995
HV19 Jeff O'Neill� 5495

Top Draft Picks

This card features the number one overall picks in the 1994 NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB drafts. Each card is hand-numbered to 4695 copies.

FO1 Glenn Robinson / Ed Jovanovski / Dan Wilkinson / Paul Wilson

Tri-Cards

Each Tri-Card is serial-numbered to 2695 copies.

TC1 Marshall Faulk / Calvin Jones / Errict Rhett
TC2 Willie McGinest / Trev Alberts / Jamir Miller
TC3 Jalen Rose / Jason Kidd / Khalid Reeves
TC4 Radek Bonk / Chris Wells / Jeff O'Neill
TC5 Paul Wilson / Doug Million / Cade Gaspar

Bonus Cards

One Bonus Card was inserted into each Four Sport Jumbo Pack.

BC13 Paul Wilson
BC14 Ben Grieve
BC15 Doug Million
BC16 Nomar Garciaparra
BC1 Marshall Faulk
BC2 Heath Shuler
BC3 Antonio Langham
BC4 Derrick Alexander
BC5 Byron Morris
BC6 Glenn Robinson
BC7 Jason Kidd
BC8 Grant Hill
BC9 Jalen Rose
BC10 Donyell Marshall
BC11 Juwan Howard
BC12 Khalid Reeves
BC17 Ed Jovanovski
BC18 Radek Bonk
BC19 Jeff O'Neill
BC20 Ethan Moreau

C3 Collector's Club

This 20-card set was distributed to members of Classic's Collector's Club. Only 10,000 sets were issued.

NOTE: Despite the fact that the set uses the 1994 Four Sport design, the set was issued in 1995.

C15 Nomar Garciaparra

Player of the Year

This four-card set was available exclusively through a wrapper redemption offer. By sending in 20 1994 Classic Four Sport wrappers, they'd receive this set.

Autographs

This set is a 100-card autographed partial-parallel of the base set. Each card is hand-numbered on the front to the production figures listed below.

161 Paul Wilson
162 Ben Grieve
163 Doug Million
164 C.J. Nitkowski
165 Tommy Davis
166 Dustin Hermanson
167 Travis Miller
169 Victor Rodriguez
170 Jacob Cruz
171 Rick Heiserman
172 Mark Farris
173 Nomar Garciaparra
174 Paul Konerko
176 Brian Stephenson
177 Matt Smith
178 Kevin L. Brown
179 Cade Gaspar
180 Bret Wagner
181 Mike Thurman
183 Ryan Nye
184 Brian Buchanan
186 Mark Johnson
187 Jacob Shumate
188 Kevin Witt
1 Glenn Robinson� 1000
2 Jason Kidd� 1300
5 Juwan Howard� 940
9 Eric Montross� 1000
11 Carlos Rogers� 660
12 Khalid Reeves�
13 Jalen Rose� 970
15 Eric Piatkowski� 1090
16 Clifford Rozier� 900
22 Bill Curley� 1120
23 Wesley Person� 1000
24 Monty Williams� 1100
28 Deon Thomas� 1090
30 Howard Eisley� 970
31 Rodney Dent� 1070
32 Jim McIlvaine� 965
33 Derrick Alston� 1050
36 Andrei Fetisov� 1080
39 Anthony Miller� 1000
40 Jeff Webster� 1070
41 Arturas Karnishovas� 980
42 Gary Collier� 1000
44 Damon Bailey� 1050
45 Dwayne Morton� 1000
46 Jamie Watson� 1080
47 Jevon Crudup� 1180
49 Brian Reese� 960
51 Dan Wilkinson� 670
53 Heath Shuler� 1330
55 Trev Alberts� 2520
56 Trent Dilfer� 1495
81 Tre Johnson� 1000
82 Eric Mahlum� 1090
90 Ryan Yarborough� 1020
93 Bert Emanuel� 1100
96 Rob Waldrop� 1095
97 Charlie Ward� 1520
99 James Folston� 1100
100 Kevin Mitchell� 1090
103 Jim Miller� 1030
108 Lonnie Johnson� 1050
110 Vaughn Parker� 750
115 Ed Jovanovski� 1180
119 Jeff O'Neill� 3000
124 Nolan Baumgartner 2900
134 Craig Darby 2990
139 Dan Cloutier 2980
140 Todd Marchant 3100
143 Garth Snow 3050
144 Cory Stillman 3000
148 Mike Dunham 2960
149 Joe Frederick 3000
150 Mark DeSantis 3000
154 Geoff Sarjeant 3000
156 Greg Andrusak� 2960
157 Denis Metlyuk 2960
158 Mike Fountain 3000
161 Paul Wilson� 2400
162 Ben Grieve� 2500
163 Doug Million� 1020
164 C.J. Nitkowski 970
165 Tommy Davis 960
166 Dustin Hermanson 1020
167 Travis Miller 760
169 Victor Rodriguez 1000
170 Jacob Cruz 990
171 Rick Heiserman 600
172 Mark Farris 1090
173 Nomar Garciaparra� 1020
174 Paul Konerko� 970
176 Brian Stephenson 1100
177 Matt Smith 1090
178 Kevin Brown� 1090
179 Cade Gaspar� 1090
180 Bret Wagner 970
181 Mike Thurman 990
183 Ryan Nye 1015
184 Brian Buchanan 950
186 Mark Johnson 1000
187 Jacob Shumate 980
188 Kevin Witt 970

Instant Winner

Randomly inserted into packs were 100 Instant Winner cards good for the entire 100-card Autograph set.

Wrapper Redemption Autographs

As part of a wrapper redemption program, collectors who mailed in 30 1994 Classic Four Sport wrappers would receive a four card "Player of the Year" set (see above) and one of the autographed listed above. Those sending 144 wrappers would receive the Player of the Year set and an exclusive Muhammad Ali autograph. For 216 wrappers, you'd get an exclusive Shaquille O'Neal autograph.

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 =Description=
-Classic Four Sport is a 200-card set featuring recent draft picks, prospects, and rookies from the then-four major sports: basketball, hockey, football, and baseball.  Each Hobby box is serial-numbered to 298,880.
+Classic Four Sport is a 200-card set released in November, 1994, featuring recent draft picks, prospects, and rookies from the then-four major sports: basketball, hockey, football, and baseball.  Each Hobby box is serial-numbered to 298,880.
 =Distribution=