Random Card of the Day

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Year: 1992

“ I've always liked this design but in the past few years I have begun to appreciate them more. Wish the scan wasn't so washed out. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ These cards are the same as the gold foil parallel except they say Winner. What do you win? ” -carthage44

“ Were these the original parallel series (along with the regular gold that year)? Well framed photo for the design...literally. ” -rmpaq5

“ Man look at that "row of red" under Stolen Bases. None greater. ” -RoyalChief

“ This card is a winner! ” -sahal694

“ Hey this gold foil scan looks good I can actually read Rickey's name and Athletics. In real life sometimes that is even hard with these "gold" cards. Thus one of the many reasons I don't like the use of foil leaf for cards. ” -captkirk42

“ Used to sit out in the left field bleachers in Toronto screaming "Riiiiiiickeyyyyyyyyyyyy"... Good times. ” -SFC Temple

“ Well, it's a gold parallel. That's about all I have to say about that. ” -switzr1

“ A weird dude, but he could sure play some baseball. ” -wax_house

“ Winner winner chicken dinner. I remember these parallels were a huge deal back in 1992 commanding some decent money. Now filler for the dime boxes, but still a great addition to any player or team collection. ” -cynicalbuddha

“ Nice scan of a really nice card. I have always liked the 92 Topps set and love finding the Gold variations. ” -cckeith

“ This was the first set I became familiar with the concept of a parallel set and spent all of my allowance trying to buy these cards in the hopes of getting a gold card. At the time, the concept was new to me and I loved them. Over the next 25 years, they went a little nuts, but I will always have a spot in my heart for these. I wasn't familiar with the concept of the "Gold Winner" though. What exactly was one? I ask, knowing that I can trust the community to give an answer! ” -muskie027

“ By winner do they mean steals title winner? Which one are they referring to? ” -DarkSide830

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Kaline6

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Joined: Nov 2014

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 4:38 AM
It's been awhile, but, I believe the gold cards were inserted parallels, while the gold "winner" cards (also a parallel) were something you could win packs of through their "match the stats" game. Anyone feel free to correct me if you remember better, lol. ------------------------------- "He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched that one go by." - Ernie Harwell

Colengco90

Posts: 572
Joined: Oct 2014

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7:00 AM
i would hold those match the stats cards up to a light bulb and be able to see thru that scratch off stuff well enough to pick the winner almost every time.... ------------------------------- Jerry

capewood

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Joined: May 2015

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 9:13 AM
There were the "gold" cards, that looked just like this card but without the "Winner". They were available as inserts in packs. I forget the insertion rates. There was a scratch-off contest card in each pack. If you got one that said Winner under the stratch off, you could mail the card in an get 5 of the Gold Winner cards.

djmilhaus

Posts: 32
Joined: Jun 2016

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 2:41 PM

The scratch cards had you match 3 of the same stat. If you scratched three and all had the same stat, you "won" a 10 card pack of Gold Winners. I had a ton of these as I found out you could see through them with a pen light and make them ALL winners. No idea what I did with them all, I don't have many left.

The regular gold parallels without the "Winner" text were randomly inserted into packs and I think I found one and opened boxes of that stuff.

newfie

Posts: 25
Joined: May 2016

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 2:50 PM
Still looking for #156 Manny Ramirez & #237 Jose Hernandez to complete my set.

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