The 1993 Topps Stadium Club set is my favorite baseball card set from the 1990s. It has beautiful photography, a nice clean design and a parallel set that I’m still trying to complete 15 years later.
Borrowing an idea from stamp collecting, Topps produced First Day Production parallels for each of the cards in the regular Stadium Club set. Limited to 2,000 copies, they were actually pretty rare in 1993. If I recall correctly, a First Day Production card turned up about once per box (on average.) There really wasn’t a big internet trading community then, so it was a challenge to collect these.
Anthony Young is the perfect poster boy for the futility of the early 1990s Mets. Young lost 27 connsecutive decisions between May 6, 1992 and July 24, 1993, though in most cases he didn’t really pitch that badly. He bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen during the streak – he even filled in for closer John Franco. He – much like the Mets of that era – just couldn’t get a lucky break (or a win.)
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I love this card too. I need to go through all my stuff, I think I have all his cards.
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AY wasn’t really a favorite, per say, but I respected the way he handled all of the media attention during the losing streak.
And I do think his 1993 Stadium Club is a great card. 🙂
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Can anyone tell me why a few of the 1993 Stadium Club Member’s Choice cards have four Gold starts near the bottom to the right between the little baseball and the player’s name?
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I’m not sure. I know there was a full parallel of the 750-card set, and there was a separate, smaller members’ only set that featured stars or season highlights or something.
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Thanks.. it’s weird.. seems like a random thing.
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