1997 SPx Baseball Forum

I have the base, the Bronze, the Silver, cant figure out or find this one

Thanks

This one looks like the base card to me. How does it differ from the base?

Is that not the base?

What is the actual difference between the base and Steel cards?  Looking through the checklists I see some differences, but they don't seem consistent for the whole set.  I don't know enough about the baseball version of this product to know if all of the pictures are correct or not.

-Tom 

If you look at the base set, it looks like gold foil for the # & logo on the fronts and parts of the X look like a flat color not foil like the variations but it seems i dont have a base to compare it to, the card in question has silver foil for # and logo on front, var. #s & logos are black on fronts

Hello.  I have at the moment have every set completed except I only have 13 of 50 grand finale cards. I'm in a huge dilemma now... after about 10 years looking, I have finally found and purchased a box of 1997 spx sealed with upper deck logo printed across. 

I want to open so bad but I believe it may be one of the last remaining.  I have many doubles if anyone is looking for but I only collect 1997 SPx, frank thomas and  rookie cards now to trade. If you do have a grand finale that I need, I will do my best to work out a deal. Thanks for your time and I'm free to answer any questions. 

The odds of you pulling one is highly unlikely. I tried to find what a box goes for and couldn't find any, you might just want to hold onto it. You probably have better odds finding someone who unknowingly lists one as a gold version.

That's how I got most of my grand finale cards is by buying"gold" which ended up being grand finale. I only have 13 g.f. but I have since bought many gold with sellers tilting cards to seem like hologram is gold. 

I used to get a box for my birthday of 1997 SPx but I can't remember ever getting or finding one since my son was born and that was 9 years ago. 

I was paying $100-120 for a box but ended up playing$300 for this one. I'm just mad cause now that I have it, I don't think I should open it. Oh how I want to! 

If anyone has any grand finale, Boxes packs of SPx '97, or Frank Thomas cards they're willing to trade, I have many doubles of SPx and even extra sets as well as some double main rc like UD 89 ken Griffey Jr.

I'm willing to pay for some items. 

For now, I'm going to keep this box sealed but it sure is hard to not open.

I want to complete this whole collection and if anyone

Well now I'm confused! I been collecting these baseball 1997 SPx since they came out. I was hooked once I seen the sampler of ken griffey Jr. Every year I get a box for my birthday and been passing it down to my 9 year old son. 

I got a sealed box from Dave and Adams Card World like 7 months ago. I decided since it took me a while to locate that one, that I wouldn't open till I got another box in fear that I may not get another box.

Last week I found one on eBay and was lucky enough to get it. Seller had close to 3,000 feedback with 100% positive. Today I received the box in the mail and was so happy that I can finally open one, right?!

I opened package and was naturally excited but then quickly realized something's different... I got the other box out and I was right. There IS 2 differences in the 2 boxes of 1997 SPx baseball but the bar codes are both the SAME!

One of my boxes is more silvery where the other has a gold tint to it and has a deliberate cracking in silver while the other doesn't. Both appear to be factory sealed with the "Upper deck" logo on wrapping. 

Aaaaahhhh, as much as I hate to say it, I'm going to have to wait on opening. If anyone has any info on these boxes or if you have any for sale please let me know. I'm having difficulties posting pictures but do have them 

You can post photographs of both types of boxes to the Packaging section of the product.  It would be easier to discuss the different types of boxes with pictures as reference.

There is already a picture of the top of one type of box, but I like to see pictures or scans of every side available.

-Tom