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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Year: 1990

“ Don't know what is more hideous, the uniform or the design of this card. Plus, red batting glove?! ” -hphillips

“ Cool name for a team. Interesting to see two logos on the same card. I really like the minor league cards I've seen come up as Card of the Day.great scan too, at least the front. Haven't figured out how to see the back on my tablet yet without clicking on the card, but I don't want to have to type this twice, LOL ” -Billy Kingsley

“ Loved these ProCards minor league sets. ” -carthage44

“ Very nice for a minor league design. Why do Florida teams love to stick "Rays" in their name? ” -muskie027

“ Talk about a screwy set(s). Who would know to look for 1990 ProCards #1094 in 1990 CMC #722. But of course it's also listed in 1990 ProCards. If you ask me these are a headache because the CMC and ProCards came in the same packs. ” -C2Cigars

“ The wood-grain border reminds me of the 1987 Topps set, although not quite as eye-catching. One spot of confusion...TCDB lists this as card #722; meanwhile, on the back of the card in the upper left, it says "1094". I see in the lower right on the back the "722". Anyone have any idea what that means? ” -jasongerman9

“ The Pro-Cards designs have never done it for me. I know they are minor leaguers, but it just comes off as something your kid gets after picture day. The backs seem to have wasted space, but then again minor leaguers sometimes don't have a lot of stats. Maybe some personal information blurbs would help the back out. On a side not I think Frank needs a smaller, or at least shorter, hat. ” -rmpaq5

“ Just remembered that I was on a youth basketball team when I was about 5 called the Sunrays. At the time I thought we were the Sun Raise and thought that was really stupid. ” -sahal694

“ And we are back to 1990s MILB cards. I kind of like this set. Looks sort of like a Hall of Fame plaque design. Back is very 1980s looking. ” -captkirk42

“ Wow - how did CMC use ProCards' design like that and get away with it. The ProCards logo on the front, and the ProCards number is still on the back too. Strange. I don't remember the whole story behind that. Hopefully, someone will fill us in. I was too busy doing our own minor league sets in 1990 (Star Co) to have followed too closely. :) ” -vrooomed

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DaClyde

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Saturday, February 18, 2017 11:54 AM

Here is the Standard Catalog write-up on this set:

This set combines CMC team sets with cards produced by ProCards and purchased by CMC. The ProCards were given a glossy facing and randomly inserted in wax packs along with CMC cards. The cards are numbered at bottom right on back. These numbers were not coordinated with the original CMC team sets, and therefore many team sets were separated with ProCards cards between them. The CMC cards in this set differ from the original CMC team sets by the color of their backs (yellow in lieu of green) and the players are pictured in place of the team logos. A checklist was available though the company. Shortly after the cards hit the market, the CMC company was sold to Impel Marketing. Cince the original CMC team sets were issued as one complete AAA set in a special wooden box, there were packaging problems with duplicates and/or missing cards.

There are some issues with this description rendering it not entirely accurate. CMC did not simply buy ProCards cards and "insert" them into packs. CMC licensed with ProCards to reproduce some of their cards to represent A and AA teams, as all of the CMC cards represented AAA teams. CMC then printed the whole 880 card set as a single entity, with the aforementioned differences to the CMC AAA cards, and with the altered ProCards A & AA cards.

The notable differences between the ProCards issued as team sets, and those included in the larger CMC Pre-Rookie set, are the CMC-produced versions have the card number in the lower right hand corner on the back, have high glossy fronts, and also have noticeable differences in photo cropping. Almost all of the CMC-issued cards have tighter cropping than the ProCards team set equivilents. The simplest way to tell the difference is the presence or absence of the extra CMC-set card number on the card backs.

And despite what the write-up says, there was no 1990 CMC factory set in a wooden box. Impel did that in 1991 with their AA and AAA sets.

Edited on: Feb 18, 2017 - 11:59AM

C2Cigars

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Saturday, February 18, 2017 12:07 PM
No surprise, the 1990 ProCards set has a lot of CMC images uploaded. A major headache. Something needs to be added to both the 1990 CMC and 1990 ProCards sets' Release Notes. DaClyde? ------------------------------- *Someday my cards may double in value and then be worth half of what I paid for them.*

DaClyde

Posts: 1318
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Saturday, February 18, 2017 2:57 PM
Note added. C2Cigars wrote: No surprise, the 1990 ProCards set has a lot of CMC images uploaded. A major headache. Something needs to be added to both the 1990 CMC and 1990 ProCards sets' Release Notes. DaClyde?

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