05-14-2011, 10:17 PM
This may interest those of you who collect someone who played in the mid-90s.
While skimming through the OPG I noticed that a couple of additions were very recently added of several players that I collect. What I am referring to are the 1995 Stadium Club Diffractions and the 1995 Stadium Club Members Only Diffractions. These two newly listed parallels exist for only 90 cards in this set.
Prior I never heard of these "Diffraction" cards and had no idea how to distinguish whether one is or not, so it motivated me to look through my stash of duplicates to look for variations.
In addition to the main one in my collection I have a total of seven duplicate base cards of this player and after I investigated each one I did not notice any differences apart from the different color tinges on the front, which I always knew was normal with these cards.
However after looking over the cards a second time I noticed that one of the seven had only a reddish color and the silver foil trim looked a little different from the others (far right card).
I subsequently learned that my Member's Only parallel from my collection was a Diffraction parallel as well.
It is curious that 15+ years later that this parallel was discovered and I must admit I never was aware of its existence, especially since its from a Topps set.
While skimming through the OPG I noticed that a couple of additions were very recently added of several players that I collect. What I am referring to are the 1995 Stadium Club Diffractions and the 1995 Stadium Club Members Only Diffractions. These two newly listed parallels exist for only 90 cards in this set.
Prior I never heard of these "Diffraction" cards and had no idea how to distinguish whether one is or not, so it motivated me to look through my stash of duplicates to look for variations.
In addition to the main one in my collection I have a total of seven duplicate base cards of this player and after I investigated each one I did not notice any differences apart from the different color tinges on the front, which I always knew was normal with these cards.
However after looking over the cards a second time I noticed that one of the seven had only a reddish color and the silver foil trim looked a little different from the others (far right card).
I subsequently learned that my Member's Only parallel from my collection was a Diffraction parallel as well.
It is curious that 15+ years later that this parallel was discovered and I must admit I never was aware of its existence, especially since its from a Topps set.