Last week, I held the final night of box breaks for Breaker's Club #6. One of the boxes in that break was a box of 1998 Pinnacle Zenith - a set where every card starts out as a 5x7 card.
I say "starts out as" because each 5x7 is actually a rip card...and since no one claimed the Marlins, I had to give one of the cards a proper tear simply to see what was inside it!
Poor Sheffield.
And inside? A regular-sized card of Nomar Garciaparra.
Kind of a cool concept I guess but the idea of a box containing nothing but rip cards kind of hurts me on many levels.
That was the only card that I ripped and honestly, I think one is enough!
This is one of the stranger sets I've seen opened but I was pleased to see a card pulled for me that's a dupe. You bet I'm tearing it! (Which reminds me I need to request shipment).
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite products from the 90's. I own one of these 5x7 sets... and a few of the hockey sets. I was actually obsessed with the hockey set back in the day and opened up several boxes that were on clearance. I got really good at carefully slicing the back of the 5x7 to extract the standard size card while keeping the 5x7 in reasonable shape.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna ask if there was a way to open the card and keep it presentable, but Fuji answered it!
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