Today I'm featuring the second of three price guides that were new to me as of a month ago.
This one is called "Showcase Gallery" and like the 1991 Showcase Baseball, it is numbered to 10,000. I'm pretty sure that two different companies put out two guides with Showcase in their name. I find it interesting that the two Showcases were both numbered to 10,000.
The numbering bit didn't work for Showcase Baseball which died after two editions. Showcase Gallery was even less successful, as this is their one and only issue.
The magazine included a sheet with nine cards including every price guide's favorite Cub,
Ryne Sandberg! The photograph of the whole sheets gives a better look at the gold foil compared to the scan of the card. I still haven't found a good way to scan foil and keep if from looking so dark.
They couldn't spell Cal Ripken's name correctly? It's not like he was a newcomer--he'd been a literal everyday player for a decade and won 2 MVPs by then!
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