Showing posts with label 1991 Stadium Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1991 Stadium Club. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2019

1991 Stadium Club Printing Error




My sorting process for Wallach cards has evolved of the years.  When I pick up a half dozen or so new Wallachs, be it by eBay or the generosity of a stranger by mail, it's not very time efficient to go to the stacks and try to log them into their proper place.  I keep an 1,800 count shoe box for new cards to go into.  When it begins to fill up, that's when I break down and sort the new arrivals into the mix with the other 20,000 plus Wallach's.  It's tedious, but I enjoy it.

Recently while undertaking that task, I was thumbing through a small stack of '91 Stadium Club, counting out 25 at a time to place into team bags, when the card above on the left caught my eye.  It's missing the gold foil stamping.  I'm pretty sure I've seen these pop up on eBay before, but it never interested me enough to pay the asking price for one.  That said, it was pretty cool to find one in the wild like this.

I'm not  a huge "error guy" when it comes to Wallach's, I actually prefer things like wildly off-centered cards or grossly off caliber color printing levels, but I do have a few wrong backs, blank-fronts, blank backs, and things of that nature.  This will find it's way into a binder with those.

Below is the card back, which as you can see is perfectly normal.


Saturday, March 12, 2011

1991 Stadium Club #463



Card Review: 9.6 This set blew my mind when it was released.  Yet to this day I've never bought so much as single pack of it as it also blew my budget when it was released.  Topps put out some amazing cards in this set, and at the time I felt disappointed because I didn't think the Wallach just isn't one of them.  But since then, this card has grown on me perhaps more than any other in my collection.  It just screams New York and Shea Stadium to me now, and has become one of my favorite Wallach cards8

In Cooperstown where I was living at the time, all the local card shops were charging $8 a pack for this stuff and the tourist were paying it.  So I didn't see too many examples other than the ones in glass cases in the card shops.  It wasn't until a local derelict up the street shoplifted an entire box of the stuff that I was able to get my hands on a Wallach.  I didn't feel guilty about it at the time, and still don't today.  Not at $8 a pack.

Fun Facts: *The Expos were forced to play a disproportionate number of road games in 1991 due to collapsing concrete walls in Olympic Stadium.
*1991 was Montreal's only last place finish in the NL East during Tim's tenure with the club.

Number of this card in my collection: 10
2012 update: 27
2013 update: 32
2014 update: 46
2015 update: 57 
2016 update: 70
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 123
2019 update: 138
2020 update: 145
2021 update: n/a
2022 update: 156
2023 update: 158
2024 update: 179
2025 update: 180