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Barry Larkin
Year: 1998
Brand: Pacific Omega
Insert set: Online
Card number: 27
The Pacific Omega brand has long been one of my least favorite of the crazy Pacific sets. While this particular Larkin card is an insert card (and it's ugly), somehow I'm not even sure it's as ugly as Larkin's regular base card in the set. Oof!
In terms of the card itself, it's part of the highly-dated "Online" set. It appears the big deal about this set was that Pacific included some web addresses on the card. I suppose that may have been a kind of big deal back in the American Online days of the internet...but today it certainly doesn't hold up well (I can only imagine what people will think of 2018 Topps with the Twitter and Instagram handles on the backside of the cards).
All that said, I'm now only one card away from being able to close the doors forever on this travesty of a set. That missing card? A red parallel of Larkin's base card that was supposedly only available in Wal-Mart stores.
Year: 1998
Brand: Pacific Omega
Insert set: Online
Card number: 27
The Pacific Omega brand has long been one of my least favorite of the crazy Pacific sets. While this particular Larkin card is an insert card (and it's ugly), somehow I'm not even sure it's as ugly as Larkin's regular base card in the set. Oof!
In terms of the card itself, it's part of the highly-dated "Online" set. It appears the big deal about this set was that Pacific included some web addresses on the card. I suppose that may have been a kind of big deal back in the American Online days of the internet...but today it certainly doesn't hold up well (I can only imagine what people will think of 2018 Topps with the Twitter and Instagram handles on the backside of the cards).
All that said, I'm now only one card away from being able to close the doors forever on this travesty of a set. That missing card? A red parallel of Larkin's base card that was supposedly only available in Wal-Mart stores.
Damn that link doesn't even exist on the Internet Archive.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame these don't mention an AOL keyword for that peak late-90s internet feel. Instead I have to settle for being reminded of those early years when mlb.com was some random guy with MLB initials and majorleaguebaseball.com was the official URL.