Top 10 Parallel Sets from the 1990s Junk Wax Era for Baseball Cards

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Ай бұрын

The absolute best parallel sets from each year of the 1990s, the ones that bring me back to my early teenage years every time I look at them. For anyone that grew up in the 1990s, I'm sure you know what I mean and you probably still get nostalgic when you see certain parallel cards from that time period. Join me to check out my favorites from that era, and we'll go through a bit of history on the evolution of parallel cards while we're at it!
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@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and reminiscing about 90s parallel sets! Be sure to check out my History of Baseball Cards series I recently put out of you haven't seen those yet!

@royakard8536 Ай бұрын

I collected all through the junk wax era myself.I seem to remember when the strike happened, I got upset and quite buying wax. Coming back so many years later.. This stuff is so much fun for me. I personally really like the flair cards along with the pinicle hit men. Great content!

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Very cool, it's great to see you back and enjoying it! Definitely brings back some great memories, doesn't it?

@Dufex_of_Life Ай бұрын

1997 Pinnacle Mint did parallels for cards and for corresponding Coins!

@HighPopProfessor Ай бұрын

Don’t forget pinnacle inside with their club edition and diamond edition! Get those can openers ready!!

@HighPopProfessor Ай бұрын

What an AWESOME primer for the history of 90s parallels! GREAT video! You also properly classified Topps Tiffany cards as “not parallels” which should be noted and commended! 😂 I’m glad someone else out there shares my affinity for Dufex and the ‘94 / ‘95 Museum Collection cards! I always liked the ‘97 Score Showcase Artist Proofs - those had a wild wavy refractor like pattern, and the ‘97 Stadium Club Matrix cards with that shimmery “dot matrix” technology. But the best from ‘97 was the gold embossed deckle-edged / die cut refractor from ‘97 Finest. I mean, it’s tough to top the Essential Credentials from that year… but I believe them to have a more limited print run than the Essential Credentials, even if they’re not serial numbered. Awesome stuff!

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Prof, really appreciate the compliments! Those embossed Finest with deckle edges are amazing looking cards. Finest started so well with 93, but 94-96 to me didn't push the envelope much, but they really turned it up a notch in 97 with those. I'll have to check out those Score...pretty sure I had stopped buying Score by 97, so likely missed them

@elliotbarlas Ай бұрын

Great review of 90s parallels! I pulled a 97 Ultra Platinum Medallion Sid Hernandez. Too bad it wasn't a star player, but cool nonetheless. Most of the sets covered were too premium for my wallet. I was more of a Collector's Choice kid. The idea of a gold signature parallel was so exciting!

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thank you, the one I pulled from that set was the 97 Platinum Medallion Ryne Sandberg...but I traded it early on for who knows what. That's what I love about parallels like 92 Leaf Gold and 94/95 Pinnacle Museum, great looking cards but still very accessible to anyone!

@elliotbarlas Ай бұрын

@@brutusonbaseball Absolutely! I loved Pinnacle. Great parallels, great inserts, and highly collectible.

@rschreck97 Ай бұрын

I didn’t know as much about 90’s junk wax past precious metal gems. Very informative! I’m an M’s fan born too late for Griffey but in time for Ichiro so I’ve usually focused on 2000’s and not the 90’s but this makes me want to check out more 90’s sets!

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Very cool, the 90s are a great era in my opinion to check out especially for inserts and parallels. Especially for an M's fan, lots of good stuff with Griffey and Edgar and Randy plus others. I grew up in the Seattle area in the 90s....such an amazing time to be with that team (even though they never managed to win it all with all that talent 😫

@RatedRookie Ай бұрын

Fantastic video! I’m a big fan of the Essential Credentials especially in 1998

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thanks RR, appreciate it! Those are great sets, I've always liked 97 the best personally but you really can't go wrong with any of them

@Dodgertown_76_Fungo Ай бұрын

Great video. Very informative. Cheers.

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

@brentrichards4699 Ай бұрын

Great vid. DUFEX is still the best!!

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thank you sir, I agree they made for some really GREAT looking cards!

@brentrichards4699 Ай бұрын

@@brutusonbaseball the 1995 fan fest Nolan Ryan card might be the best looking card of all time. It’s just laid out perfectly and the DUFEX is amazing.

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

@brentrichards4699 FANTASTIC looking card. I love how the lines on the card match up so with all the wrinkles on the old man's face!

@brentrichards4699 Ай бұрын

@@brutusonbaseball dude it’s just amazing. Perfect smile and poses.

@richardbianco9674 Ай бұрын

Since you mentioned the desert shield cards, I'd also include the releases for the marlins and rockies inaugural year. Released only in set form like the Tiffany releases and in much smaller quantities

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Agreed, I recorded this video with kind of a cut off 1991 and before and 1992 and after. Those sets were 1993, but when I was editing it was difficult to take those out and place them in the "early" part...it just didn't fit, so I left them where they were. But you're right, they would fit into the Tiffany type mold from a factory set instead of a true parallel

@richardbianco9674 Ай бұрын

The 90s were fun to be a parallel set builder. Wasn't the monstrous challenge it has been the last 20 years.

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

For sure, the 90s were the golden age for insert and parallel set building

@Dufex_of_Life Ай бұрын

1998/99 Stadium Club Triumvirate had Luminescent and Illuminator Die Cut parallels that are really cool amd underrated

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Very cool, that's not one I'm familiar with. Thanks for adding, I'll check them out!

@Dufex_of_Life Ай бұрын

Great video, love the attention to Dufex and museum collection sets - i like to think of different eras/evolution of parallels and do think the Mini and Tiffany/Glossy sets are parallels but different distn than the pack inserted parallel era kicked off with Gold

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Love the user name...I can tell you must have loved the Museum Collection as much as I did! My favorite set was 92 Leaf Gold....until Museum Collection came out and then that's the only one I could think about!

@richardbianco9674 Ай бұрын

The essential credentials from 97 have pretty much won that year long term as those are very expensive compared to other parallel sets from that year

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

When I was first filing out my ideas for this video, I assumed that Essentially Credentials would be my choice for 1997, but after researching more I just couldn't pass up Flair making the first 1 of 1 cards that I found. I wonder if the Flair Masterpiece would sell for more, but they just aren't on the market very often?

@richardbianco9674 Ай бұрын

@brutusonbaseball I would think so, although the commons probably don't. ECs have set builders still, whereas the 1 of 1s don't. Those are pretty much at the mercy of the collectors for that particular player. It's crazy to look back and see what sets are above the rest from a value standpoint. Those few years of essential credentials and the skybox premium star rubies are at the very top often worth 1000s even in lower mid grades. It's sad that the precious metal gems in baseball aren't nearly as popular as their basketball and football counterparts. But I'd call those the big 3 from that Era that still have massive hobby attention. I was like you more. I built the 92 leaf black set and those pinnacle museum collections myself. ( long before graded became this big thing and all were raw)

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

@@richardbianco9674 great point, no set builders for 1 of 1 type sets. So the common players won't draw much attention I really love looking back at my Museum Collection sets...

@richardbianco9674 Ай бұрын

@@brutusonbaseballI made the mistake when I liquidated the bulk of my collection when I got out of the hobby and didn't save any of those sets lol

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

@richardbianco9674 too bad 😔

@minhho9490 26 күн бұрын

1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold, Mirror Blue, and Mirror Red are the best parallels of the 1990s

@brutusonbaseball 25 күн бұрын

Hard to argue with that one, really amazing looking sets!

@Swoop187OG187 Ай бұрын

I like these but there are plenty of others. Pinnacle Diamond Collection Upper Deck Electric Diamond Topps Gold Upper Deck Collectors Choice Gold Signature

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Cool, thanks for adding some personal favorites!

@Dufex_of_Life Ай бұрын

97 Donruss Preferred used 1 gram of silver, gold, platinum not 1/2 ounce of metal

@brutusonbaseball Ай бұрын

Thanks for the correction!