But back in mid 90's, I remember busting packs of Donruss baseball, football, and hockey products in search of their Press Proofs. And every time I found one, it felt like I struck gold. Or in the case of this particular card... it felt like I struck silver:
1997 Donruss Silver Press Proof #133
Back then, there's a chance that I didn't even know who Mariano Rivera was. Looking back at his career, 1997 was his breakout season and the first year he made the all-star team.
But I can assure you, that this card was quickly pulled from the pack and inserted into a penny sleeve and top loader, due to its relative scarcity of being only 1 of 2,000.
Fast forward sixteen years and you have this not so rare parallel of the best closer to play the game.
Happy Sunday and sayonara!
4 comments:
Still an awesome card. To this day I have a Tino Martinez card from 1997 Leaf in a screw case, and it was numbered to 2500.
It may be out of 2000 but that's a sweet pic of Mo.
That's one top card, Mr. Fuji.
Mo hasn't aged much, has he?
You did better than me - my packs only yielded me a Roberto Hernandez Press Proof!
I'm not one to bash umps too much, but tonight the douche was calling pitches IN the zone balls for Joe Nathan and giving Rivera a couple inches off the plate. "Sigh".
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