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Today we'll take a "ride, ride, ride on heavy metal", to quote Don Felder. For an oddball post today I'm showing off nine cards from my collection all made of metal.

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1991 Stadium Club Charter Member #NNO Nolan Ryan Bronze Medal (in 1991 Topps produced a 50-card multi-sport set that was sent to charter members in the Topps Stadium Club. The display box that contained the cards also included this Nolan Ryan bronze metallic card and a key chain. This is probably the heaviest card in my collection.)
1995 Metallic Impressions Ripken #6 Cal Ripken Jr./Batting follow through (Produced by Avon, this card came in a special collector's tin that held five metal Ripken cards. I also have Metallic Impressions cards of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Nolan Ryan and Ty Cobb.)
1996 Leaf Preferred Steel Gold #1 Frank Thomas (Leaf Preferred Steel cards are metalized cards that came one per pack of Leaf Preferred. This is a scarce Gold version that was seeded one every 24 packs.)

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1997 Pinnacle X-Press Metal Works #15 Nomar Garciaparra (This bronze card is printed on very thick metal stock. It rivals the 1991 TSC Ryan as being the heaviest card in my collection.)
1999 SkyBox Molten Metal Xplosion #147 Roger Clemens SN (Here's an insert from Skybox's Molten Metal set in 1999 that was randomly inserted into packs. They are parallels to the base set printed on metal stock with added etching, rounded corners and foil stamping.)
1999 Topps Stars 'N Steel #26 Ken Griffey Jr. (In 1999 Topps jumped into the metal card fray with a 44-card set printed using "Serillustion" technology and bonded to 25-gauge metal with a silver border.)

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2005 Fleer Platinum Diamond Dominators Metal #19 Miguel Cabrera (Here's a Hobby exclusive metal parallel to the regular Diamond Dominators insert set. The metal cards have die cut rounded corners.)
2005 Origins Nostalgic Signs #IR Ivan Rodriguez (Upper Deck issued their Origins set in 22-card tins that included one oversize Nostalgic tin sign. I don't normally collect oversize cards but mistakenly traded for this somewhere along the line and kept it because I think it is a beautiful design.)
2015 Topps Update Etched in History #EIH6 Ichiro Suzuki (This is an insert from 2015 Topps Update. Another thing that I normally try to avoid are manufactured relic cards and I didn't know that's what this was when I traded for it. Still it's pretty cool and it features what will be the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame.)