Anyway, as I said, I got a couple of boxes of 99 Upper Deck to play with. 48 packs to keep me busy (of cards, I mean). I'm actually trying to get a box of each base Upper deck product. Those from the 90s are real cheap, but then it got all memorabilia crazy, and you can forget about cheapness.
I actually hadn't seen any 99 UD in person. None had shown up so far in team or player lots I'd purchased. All I can say is that I wasn't really impressed. The design is just too crowded, I prefer when they go full bleed and when there's more space at the back of the cards for photography. But I guess they had shares in a foil and gloss company and just needed to represent.
First, a look at the stars of that period :
As I was sorting them out, they started to grow on me. Because I found some nice photos, and also because they finally stopped sticking to each other like crazy and I could at last shuffle through them.
I think they might have been mocking Randy Johnson on that one.
They also got either real lazy or wanted to have their own Studio set :
Not too many inserts (and no, I didn't get a Babe Ruth auto), and it took me 24 hours to realize that the Piazza is actually serial numbered (out of 2 000). They were able to let go of their gloss and foil buckets for those. Maybe that's why I like them so much.
Then of course you've got your Blue Jays, with the brief Canseco stint, before he became a famous writer.
As for Griffey, well, I didn't get his base card (booo), but at least I got 3 new ones for the binder
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