[jack pfiester]

Hey all,

Wanted to share a great find over the weekend. Found a sealed factory set for $40 and thought I should bite. I've only been buying factory sealed sets because I've been burned too many times with opened factory sets missing all the good cards.

The 8 random inserts were pretty good too. Pulled a Minted In Cooperstown Tony Gwynn and Hallbound Mike Piazza in addition to 3 Clemente tribute cards.

When I was sorting through the set I noticed dozens of cards that were missing the gold foil on the front and made the Devil Rays logo much less intrusive on the card. I actually like no gold foil but these are probably considered miss prints, not variations.

I was pretty happy with the set overall, although most of the cards were stuck together due to glossy coating, and managed to salvage the entire set. Only a handful had speckling from being stuck to another card.

Now, I need to find the Inagural Diamondbacks set!

[DrMitchJ]

Congrats! Great pick up! Weird that the foil is so randomly missing throughout. I wonder if all the sets are like that.
No matter, lots of great HOF in there!
I need to find a deal on the Marlins inaugural set. The Piazza RC in there greatly increases that set price.

[jack pfiester]

Congrats! Great pick up! Weird that the foil is so randomly missing throughout. I wonder if all the sets are like that.
No matter, lots of great HOF in there!
I need to find a deal on the Marlins inaugural set. The Piazza RC in there greatly increases that set price.

I was shocked to discover the book value on the Devil Rays set is $100. The most expensive card is Corey Lidle and Richie Sexson!

Jeter is escalating prices on all 1993 sets and boxes, but he will be the 2nd unanimous HOFer!