The cards in this post span a decade, from 1997 through 2007, so I am going to post them in sequential order by year. First up.....
Three Cardinals cards out of the Pinnacle Totally Certified set. The set ran off of colored parallels, with each color having a different print run. This is still a really popular set, a sure fire favorite of collectors from the late 1990s. I already have the complete run of Lankford's out of this set, along with one or two different colors from the three players shown above. I should probably try to assemble a complete set of these cards, but for the moment I am sticking with putting together the Cardinals cards. These are three sharp looking cards.
Next up, a card from a set that I am trying to put together. I have a ton of 1997 Topps and Topps Chrome cards. The base sets are both complete and I am deep on several of the insert sets. Working on finishing out those missing cards, I actually got some non-Cardinals cards in this lot, but Andy Benes was the only Cardinals insert that I was missing.
This Eckersley is here for the same reasons as the Andy Benes card, but it's from the 1998 Topps set. This scan really mangled his hat for some reason. Looks like one of those old man baseball hats with the rope looking piece going between the bill and body of the hat. Eck is old on this card, but not that old. Plus, nobody with hair like Eckersley would ever wear a hat like that, way too cool.
This Cliff Politte card is a spillover from the first post. I had several of the Cardinals from the 1998 Leaf Stars & Rookie set in that post, but somehow I missed this card. My bad.
This is a set that I own, Always liked the Black Diamond sets. I have several of the parallels from the Cardinals players, just trying to finish out the team set of parallel cards. I will have to double check my accounting, but I believe this is the last card I was missing.
Non-Cardinal card of a former Cardinals player, Preston Wilson was on the 2006 World Series winning team. Not specifically collecting Preston Wilson, never minded him as a player and I like him on television, but I actually really liked the Fleer Mystique set back when it came out. I have the base set assembled, but I am missing a few of the short printed rookie cards which are all serial numbered.
I am actually a little disappointed by the printing around the serial numbers on this card. They looked scratched, or something happened to them. I looked at a few other cards that I have from this set, none of them. I am going to overlook the scratching for the moment, maybe I will go back later and get a different copy.
I am not a big fan of the Donruss Fan Club set. It was a pretty cheap box back in 2002 and the cards seemed somewhat repetitive from the Donruss base set. If you cut off the words Fan Club, this feels like the runner up design for the Donruss base set. I do like So Taguchi however, so this was sort of a necessary evil. 2002 had a lot of serial numbered rookie cards, at the time I skipped a ton of them. Slight case of fatigue from chasing down Pujols rookie cards from the previous year combined with the fact that Taguchi spent his first year with the Cardinals in Triple A.
So turned it around and eventually became a pretty useful player for the Cardinals in the mid 2000s. He hit an important playoff home run off of Billy Wagner in the 2006 NLCS and also was always brutally honest about the mosquito problems at Busch Stadium.
It's a serial numbered Ray Lankford, and it's not a difficult one to find. This is not already in my collection? Well, it was, but child #2 somehow get her hands on this card. I still have it, but it's in pretty poor condition at this point.
Two more.
I did work on the 2005 Upper Deck Reflections set back in the day, but did not touch the 2004 product. Both were generally the standard mid 2000s Upper Deck product, but the 2005 set had some really distinctive dual signature cards. The 2004 set was rather boring autograph wise, mainly just a few rookies, not sure any of them are really highly sought after, or worth much.
Back to the card. I liked Renteria a lot in the mid 2000s, but I really slowed down on collecting his cards once he left the Cardinals for the Red Sox at the end of the 2004 season. There are quite a few serial numbered cards from his later years in St. Louis that I just never took the time to find, they are all very affordable now.
I really like the looks of this card. An obvious Upper Deck card.
Last one. I did not touch the 2007 Topps Rookie 52 set. Seemed repetitive. I think I have an Edward Muijica autograph, since he was on the Cardinals, but that's about it. Did you know that it has a Jim Edmonds card in it? I didn't either, now I own one.
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