1995 Stadium Club #259 1st Day Issue

Card Review: 7.5  This is the 4th of what is currently 6 different variations of this card in my collection.  This one features a stamp that says "1st Day Issue."  Can't say I'm all that excited.  I don't have a problem with variations, but you shouldn't have to look so hard to figure out what makes them different.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

2014 update: n/a

2015 update: n/a

2016 update: n/a

2017 update: n/a

2018 update: n/a

2019 update: n/a

2020 update: n/a

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 2

2023 update: n/a

2024 update: 3

1993 Stadium Club Dodgers #11

Card Review: 8.6  I actually kind of like this card, despite it being the type of product I'm usually predisposed to abhor.  I've never seen any other cards from this set, am not entirely sure that I'm calling it by the correct name, have simply labeled it based on how the person I bought it from described it.  It could be something completely different for all I know.  I have no idea who or where these were sold, I just know I never saw any back in 1993.  I'm assuming they were issued as team sets, but that's pure conjecture based on a name.  A name that I'm not even entirely sure is correct.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2013 update: 5
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a (maybe I have them all?)
2018 update: 6
2019 update: 7
2020 update: 9

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 11

1994 Stadium Club Member's Only #217

 






Card Review: 7.4 This card is basically the same as the regular '94 Stadium Club, but it has a stupid little "member's only" logo stamped on the front.  I'm not sure how one became a member, or what the benefits were, other than cards slightly uglier than the regular cards.  Thankfully, there are fewer of these uglier versions floating around than the standard version, and the standard version is a pretty nice looking card.  It's tough to tell for sure where this photo was taken, given Wallach's in a road jersey, but if it's a road stadium (and not a spring training facility), I'd be curious to know how many ball parks had indoor hitting cages for the road teams back in the early 90's.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2014 update: 3

1995 Stadium Club Virtual Reality #127

Card Review:  8.1  Card is pretty much identical to the '95 Stadium Club but for the "Virtual Reality" stamp on the front and the numbers and summary on the back.  The numbers are supposed to be what they would have been if it wasn't for the Selig tantrum that canceled the end of the '94 season.  They're the same numbers Topps used for the '95 Cyber Stats with the Topps set.  Only difference is Stadium Club did a new write-up too.  Again Topps failed to mention that Wallach would have been World Series MVP.  Not everyone got this treatment apparently as this card is numbered 127, and his base card is #259.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2015 update: 3
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: n/a
2019 update: 5
2020 update: 6

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 8

2023 update: n/a

2024 update: 9

1995 Stadium Club #259

Card Review: 8.8 (8.4 of which are strictly for the shot of the glove and ball)  You have to wonder what Wallach was thinking while the Topps photographer made him pose for this card.  Also, where exactly was this picture taken?  Are those pine trees in the outfield?  I guess it's kind of cool.  As for the back, well, it's not that cool.

Fun Facts: Take a good look at the glove in this photo.  Wallach used the same glove for nearly his entire career, which is actually extremely rare among major leaguers.  So rare in fact, that The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown asked Tim for the glove upon his retirement, a requests he politely declined. 

Number of this card in my collection: 5
2013 update: 12
2014 update: 15
2015 update: 17 
2016 update: 19
2017 update: 21
2018 update: 22
2019 update: 26
2020 update: 30

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 32

2023 update: 35

2024 update: 39

2025 update: 40

1993 Stadium Club 1st Day Production #686

Card Review: 7.9  This card is identical to the regular '93 Stadium Club base card but for the little shiny box in the upper left.  These were perceived to be very rare and in high demand in '93.  Sort of the opposite of what '93 Stadium Club is perceived to be today.  I remember having a good number of them, despite not buying a huge amount of this product, yet the Wallach remains rather elusive to this day.

Fun Facts: *Wallach only wore #25 for one season with the Dodgers before switching back to #29.  Today he wears #26 has the 3rd base coach.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

1992 Topps Stadium Club #340

Card Review: 9.1 My disdain for the modern glossy card is well documented.  But I will say this for the early Stadium Club efforts;  They were, and remain, the best looking sets of the "modern" card style, and paid appropriate homage to the cards that came before with the rookie's on the back.  Wallach looks as unhappy with the photographer making him strike this pose as I was to see it on the card.





 
Number of this card in my collection: 5
2013 update: 8
2014 update: 18
2015 update: 30 
2016 update: 36
2017 update: 41
2018 update: 55
2019 update: 72
2020 update: 95

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 100

2023 update: 107

2024 update: 115

2025 update: 118

2026 update: 119

1993 Stadium Club #686

Card Review: 8.1  I guess this card and set are fine as far as cards go.  This was the third year of Stadium Club and the first where no one held any pretenses about it being a "valuable" set at the time.  Just pure mass produced junk.  It did however have inserts.  Which worked fell for me in the fact that the spoiled kid up the street opened box upon box of this stuff and would dump all the "worthless" base cards on the rest of us for free.  Joke was on him I guess, as in hind sight, it's pretty clear the inserts were worthless too.

Number of this card in my collection: 8
2012 update: 14
2013 update: 22
2014 update: 34 
2015 update: 40
2016 update: 45
2017 update: 52
2018 update: 67
2019 update: 74
2020 update: 80

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 84

2023 update: 87

2024 update: 97

2025 update: 103

2026 update: 104

1994 Stadium Club #217

Card Review: 8.6 This card has a solid front design, but the back is heinous.  The way the name was done on these cards has not aged well.  But what I considered a so-so picture on the front at the time, as become one of my favorites.
Fun Facts: *The black #52 patch on the sleeve was a memorial to the late Tim Crews
* Wallach finished 18th in 1994 NL MVP voting
* Wallach was 10th in the NL in RBI's in 1994
* Wallach was the NL Comeback Player of the year in 1994
Number of this card in my collection: 5

2012 update: 9
2013 update: 18
2014 update: 24
2015 update: 28 
2016 update: 32
2017 update: 36
2018 update: 41
2019 update: 50

2020 update: 53

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 60

2023 update: 61

2024 update: 68

2025 update: 69

2026 update: 71

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