2014 Leaf Memories Gold #/5

Card Review: 2.5  This is the 3rd year Leaf has done a self congratulatory set celebrating their own contribution to the junk wax era and driving children away from baseball card collecting.  I didn't like the 2012 set "honoring" the 1990 Leaf set, but I sort of understood it.  While I never liked the 1990 Leaf design, there is no denying that it caused a brief frenzy among collectors.  I actually kind of liked the 1991 Leaf design, but the 2013 tribute to it was even more of shameless marketing gimmick than the previous year.  With this 2014 incarnation, I don't know what they were thinking.  1992 Leaf was an ugly set, an inferior rip off of the 1991 design, and completely forgettable.  Nobody whines about the good old days of 1992 Leaf.  I'm really at a bit of a loss for words.  Why?  And who are you people that are buying this stuff?  I doubt that they are, but if the 1/1 variations are of the black gold variety, that could be this sets lone saving grace.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

1992 Leaf Black Gold #298

Card Review: 8.6  I think I like the black front better than the 1992 Leaf base card, but I can't stand the gold bordered back.  This is another one of those cards that probably would have made my head explode had I actually obtained one as an 11 year old in 1992.  Twenty years later it's just another ugly card from the junk wax era.  But I'm still happy to take every one I can find
Number of this card in my collection: 1
2013 update: 3
2014 update: 7
2015 update: 10
2016 update: 12
2017 update: 13
2018 update: 14

2019 update: n/a

2020 update: n/a

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 15

2023 update: 16

2024 update: n/a

2025 update: 17

1992 Leaf #298

Card Review: 5.2  This design hasn't aged well.  Much like the '90 Upper Deck design, it just looks and feels like an inferior knock-off of the previous year's set.  The grey Expos uniforms worn in the photos do nothing to help the drab look of this card.  Leaf really would have been better off going with a different colored border rather than recycling the previous years.  Perhaps they had a lot of leftover gray ink, though given the massive production numbers, I kind of doubt it.
 
Number of this card in my collection: 11
2012 update: 12
2013 update: 29
2014 update: 42
2015 update: 60
2016 update: 67
2017 update: 77
2018 update: 96
2019 update: 118
2020 update: 126

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 131

2023 update: 136

2024 update: 138

2025 update: 143

2026 update: 144