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In 1992 I left my job at WWMJ radio and immediately went to work at WKIT radio, the station I still work for today. I traded in the "hits of today" for a "rock and roll" format. I also cut my commute from 30 minutes to one minute as WKIT was literally within walking distance of my apartment. Another big step I made personally that year was sit down with my brother (a contractor), and together we designed my house and started to build it on my property. We capped off a finished basement with plans to build the remainder of the house at a later date.

On the card front, Score added another set in 1992 with their Pinnacle line. I bought a complete set to add to the other 10 sets that year. Here are nine 1992 cards from my collection.

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1992 Action Packed ASG 24K #13G Johnny Mize (This set featured embossed player photos of all-time greats. This Mize card is a 24K gold leaf stamped version, a parallel that was randomly inserted into packs.)
1992 Bowman #461 Mike Piazza RC (1,389 players were selected before Mike in the 1988 MLB amateur draft. Whoops!)
1992 Classic Draft Picks Foil Bonus #BC6 Derek Jeter (This is a foil bonus parallel card that was inserted one per jumbo pack and features Derek Jeter in his high school uniform.)

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1992 Excel #210 Derek Jeter (This card is from a Minor League set.)
1992 Fleer Rookie Sensations #1 Frank Thomas
1992 Front Row Draft Picks Gold #55 Derek Jeter (Here's another high school card of Jeter and it's the Gold parallel to the regular Front Row Draft Picks set. I burned my complete Scorpions album collection onto CDs for another collector and this card as well as the other two Jeter cards pictured here, was from one of many complete sets I got in return.)

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1992 Pacific Ryan Gold #2 Nolan Ryan/Number Two (Pacific released a second Nolan Ryan tribute set in 1992 and this Gold card is one of eight that was randomly inserted into packs. Each card celebrates one of Nolan's no-hitters while the eighth card summarizes them all.)
1992 Pinnacle Team Pinnacle #4 F.Thomas/W.Clark (Team Pinnacle features Pinnacle's All-star team on these double-sided cards, this one showing AL and NL first basemen Frank Thomas on one side and Will Clark on the other side. The cards were randomly inserted in Series I wax packs and feature illustrations by sports artist Chris Greco.)
1992 Stadium Club East Coast National #620 Barry Bonds (I bought this at a card show years ago. I always look for a table that has a huge box of 10 for dollar or a similar set-up but I don't just buy a dollar's worth of cards. No, I pull out every Hall of Famer whether I have it already or not and other star players and parallels or inserts that catch my eye. Then when I go to pay, the seller normally counts out 50 or 100 cards and then estimates stacks of them as I usually have picked out several hundred cards, and then they give me an even better deal. I pulled this Bonds card out of one of those boxes and spent between five and ten cents for it.)