It's Not That I Am Against Sets......

There have been a whole bunch of 2019 sets that have been released this year starting with Topps Series 1 way back in January or February.

I think I have a Stadium Club set put together.  Otherwise, I just have a bunch of random 2019 cards from a whole bunch of different sets.  Way back at the beginning of the year I thought I would try to put together a couple of small sets.  Have I done that?  

No.  

It's not that I am against sets, it's just that the majority that Topps is putting out at this point do not really hold my interest.  Rather mediocre.  

What to do?  

I am going to try to put together a pair of small Upper Deck insert sets from the early 1990s.  One from the 1992 Upper Deck Minor League set, and the other from the 1993 Upper Deck base set. Different years, different products, but I have always felt like these two insert sets are clones of each other.  

Minor League set first....

This is from the Top Prospects Holograms set.  There are 9 cards, but I only have two of them.  One being the Dmitri Young shown above as a member of the Springfield Cardinals.  The other belongs to Chipper Jones, which is a Durham Bulls card.  The other 7 cards in the set shouldn't be too hard to find.

I already have the red cards. 

TP1 Midre Cummings

TP2 Cliff Floyd

TP3 Chipper Jones

TP4 Mike Kelly

TP5 David McCarty

TP6 Frank Rodriguez

TP7 Brien Taylor

TP8 Rondell White

TP9 Dmitri Young

North Carolina native Brien Taylor card seems like he might be the hardest card left to find.  There is not one on COMC at the moment, so I will have to find one from some place different, I do not always like buying single cards like this off of Ebay.  Might have to go do a SportsLots order, something.    

On to the 1993 Upper Deck set.  If you collected at the time, I bet you can guess the insert set....

This is from the Then & Now set.  There is an older player of the picture in color with the hologram showing a new picture.  There are 18 cards in all.  There are actually a few cards in this set that I am not big on, but the rest of the cards more than make up for it.  

These are the cards I do not like.....

The retired players in the set have a goofy picture of the player wearing an Upper Deck shirt of some sort in the hologram picture rather than an older image.  Why doesn't this Reggie Jackson have a picture of him on the Angels, or his last season with the A's?  Would have made for a better set, but it's only a few cards that fit into this category.  

I am missing roughly half the set.  I already have the red cards. 

TN1 Wade Boggs

TN2 George Brett

TN3 Rickey Henderson

TN4 Cal Ripken, Jr.

TN5 Nolan Ryan

TN6 Ryne Sandberg

TN7 Ozzie Smith

TN8 Darryl Strawberry

TN9 Dave Winfield

TN10 Dennis Eckersley

TN11 Tony Gwynn

TN12 Howard Johnson

TN13 Don Mattingly

TN14 Eddie Murray

TN15 Robin Yount

TN16 Reggie Jackson

TN17 Mickey Mantle

TN18 Willie Mays

I think I can have these two small sets put together by the end of September.  Go team.