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Barry Larkin
Year: 1993
Brand: Stadium Club
Card number: 415
Parallel set: First Day Production
Stadium Club has long had pointless parallels and for my money, the First Day Production parallels are among the most useless in all of baseball card land. With a stated print run of 2000 copies, the First Day Production cards are quite rare for the time period but unfortunately, they don't feel special or rare in hand. In fact, the only difference between the First Day Production parallel and a regular Stadium Club base card is that tiny little foil stamp (that you can barely read).
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have this particular card in my Barry Larkin collection but I can't in good faith actually recommend people seek out First Day Production parallels. Heck, even the concept is stupid in execution because to me the stamp on the parallels means that it's really the second day of production where Topps first introduces its regular Stadium Club base cards...so are second day production cards something collectors should also want to track down? How could they, without a stamp stating what day the card was produced on? So now we need a new stamp...and then we start seeking third day production, etc. etc. No. Stop the nonsense. Who cares what day a card was produced on (and, to that point, does Topps actually guarantee that all stamped First Day Production cards actually were produced on the first day of printing)?!
I actually thought the idea behind these parallels were cool (especially back in the 90's), because they reminded me of those first day issue envelopes that stamp collectors would buy. But in hindsight... there are just so many cooler parallels from the 90's than these. That being said... when I flip through 90's Stadium Club cards sitting in dime boxes, I'm always excited to find these... even if they're commons.
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