This blog has really opened my eyes to how weird the 90s was as a decade. Baseball cards started out as cheap things on brown cardboard that came with gum and by the end of the decade some of them were CD-Roms. We talk about the pace of change now, but the 90s was the decade when the pace accelerated. In a way, change itself changed.
Looking back on the mid-90s now puts me in the curious position of knowing I lived through it but also feeling like it's an utterly alien decade. It doesn't help when trying to track down a baseball card that becomes symbolic of how complicated things got in the 90s.
Card Number 608: Topps Mystery Finest, 1998; #M9
"Topps Finest, you say. Why, that should be cinch to find on Trading Card Database."
Narrator: It was not easy to find on Trading Card Database.
The Mystery Finest cards were inserts in the Topps flagship set. There were a few different types. This is from the 20-card set labelled 'Borderless' on TCDb.
It's a very foiley card and it doesn't scan very well on the flatbed.
The overhead scan was much brighter. The baseball in the background was a recurring motif on Finest cards in the 90s.
Oh, on the back there's a clue to the card's set, as it says 'Mystery Finest'. Of course, that only helps if you know that Mystery Finest was different to regular Finest, which I didn't.
Total: 608 cards
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