Breaker's Club Recap: 1999 Pacific Invincible

Late 90s Pacific baseball products are some of my all-time favorite sets which was a big part why I was happy to land a box of 1999 Pacific Invincible for our current Breaker's Club.  Each pack of 1999 Invincible contains three cards - typically one base card, one Sandlot Heroes card, and one Seismic Force card (except in the rare cases of pulling one of the other inserts - more on that in a moment).

For me, the highlight of this set is the base cards.  

I love the acetate window with the player image on it.  I like the large team logos in the background of the card.  I love how unique the set looks (both back in the late 90s but even up through today).  Of the base cards in our box, the highlight has to be that Griffey, Jr. card - gorgeous!

Next, each pack contains two inserts - Sandlot Heroes and Seismic Force.  Let's look at Seismic Force first:

As you can see, this set is chock full of some of the biggest names of the era.  Even more interesting is the fact that there are different image variations for each of the players (an action version and a portrait version).  All of the different variations are seeded at the same insertion rates, so while there are no "chase" cards in that sense, it's still a tough set to put together in total since you need two (different) copies of each of the 20 players in the set!

My personal favorite of the two common insert sets is the Sandlot Heroes set.  

I love the pop of color on this set!  Interestingly enough, this set also features two versions for each of the 20 cards in the set.  I guess Pacific had 20 star players they liked and wanted to make more cards of each of those players rather than expand the two common insert sets to 40 cards with 40 different players (and no variations).  

Finally, we get to the not-so-common inserts.  According to the printed odds on the box we ripped, we could expect to find the following:

• Platinum Blue Parallels (#/67)
• Flash Point (1:25 packs)
• Diamond Magic (1:49 packs)
• Thunder Alley (1:121 packs)
• Giants of the Game (#/10)

I learned after the fact that the Giants of the Game cards are actually redemptions so I'm not mad we didn't find one of those.  I was hoping to pull a Platinum Blue parallel but alas, we didn't find one of those either.  Instead, we did hit a Flash Point card:

That's a pretty cool Mike Piazza card (congrats to Brett Alan who has the Mets in this edition of the Breaker's Club).  That being said, Brett's not done yet...

Our final insert of the break was another Mike Piazza, this time a 1:49 pack Diamond Magic card.

I love the background of this card - no idea why there's a big mountain pictured on Piazza's card but I like it anyhow!  

Overall, this was a fun box to rip - and while I was personally hoping for a Barry Larkin card (which didn't happen) it was still a great box to open from start to finish.  I can only hope that seeing these cards (whether on the blog or in hand) will convert someone else to be a Pacific baseball set lover like I am!