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I'm doing another oddball day of sorts today and posting nine hologram cards from my collection. I never saw a hologram on a card until Upper Deck put them on the backs of their inaugural 1989 set and produced full hologram cards soon thereafter. They seemed to be quite popular in the early 1990s with several companies doing their own versions. I had a difficult time scanning these but for better or worse, here's a sampling of some.

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1991 Arena Holograms #3A Frank Thomas Silver (This card was produced by Arena and distributed through hobby dealers. The back features The Big Hurt in a tuxedo. I also have a gold version of this although it's more the color of root beer.)
1991 SilverStar Holograms #4 Cal Ripken (These cards were issued with a color blank-backed ticket also featuring the player and commemorates one of the player's achievements. This card commemorates Cal's consecutive game streak.)
1991 Upper Deck Comic Ball 2 Holograms #9 Reggie Jackson/Nolan Ryan/with Roadrunner and Coyote (This card not only features two of the all-time greats of the game but also features my younger brother's two favorite cartoon characters superimposed on it. Upper Deck teaming up with Looney Tunes. Beep beep be-deep!)

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1992 Front Row Griffey Holograms #2 Ken Griffey Jr./Rewriting the Record Book (This is one of a three-card set of holograms issued by Front Row to commemorate The Kid.)
1992 MJB Holographics Bagwell #2 Jeff Bagwell/Crouching posture/ready to field (From the premier edition of Holoprism set featuring 1991 NL Rookie of the Year, Jeff Bagwell. MJB also released a set of Chuck Knoblauch, the 1991 AL Rookie of the Year.)
1992 Ruth Gold Entertainment #1 Babe Ruth (This card is from a five-card set produced by Gold Entertainment celebrating the life of Babe Ruth. A couple of the cards in the set have a Lou Gehrig hologram on the reverse side. I also have a Gold version of this card which is much more rare than this standard silver version.)

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1992 Upper Deck Team MVP Holograms #45 Nolan Ryan (This is from the first complete set of hologram cards I ever bought. Upper Deck issued this 54-card set featuring the top pitcher and batter from each team and it came in a special custom-designed box along with a cool certificate of authenticity featuring Cal Ripken Jr.)
1992 Whitehall Legends to Life #1 Ty Cobb (Created from actual photographs from the Whitehall Collection.)
1993 BBM Japan Holograms #NNO Tokyo Yomiuri Giants (Here's a Japanese team logo card that I pulled from a pack of BBM Japanese cards. This card is beautiful in person.)