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Hello to all those with encyclopedic brains on the origins of sport card variations! Apparently there are variations to tbe 1998 Collector's Choice baseball where some of the holograms on the back of the cards are diamond shaped, and others are home plate shaped. My question is this: Are the variations a factory set distribution variation, a pack variation (retail, hobby, ect) or a variation found within regular packs themselves? Only recently did I become aware that the variations exsisted and have been unable to locate information about there origins. Any information is greatly appreciated. 

Not an answer to your question but an observation. I have 74 cards from this set scanned. 20 of them have the diamond shaped hologram. There doesn't seem to be a pattern although most of them are higher card numbers (295 and above). I never noticed this before.