tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post7663736847113614832..comments2024-03-04T07:33:09.398-05:00Comments on The Phillies Room: 1994 Topps PhilliesJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-66211004048495133222012-02-15T21:20:55.827-05:002012-02-15T21:20:55.827-05:00Jim - It was a miserable time for a baseball fan, ...Jim - It was a miserable time for a baseball fan, wasn't it? I just didn't want "new" cards from 1994 until maybe 1999/2000.<br /><br />Kevin - You hit the nail on the head. The designers should have been reigned in. There are too many gradients, competing styles and even competing fonts.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161762602291616465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-33222183840610366982012-02-14T15:16:07.250-05:002012-02-14T15:16:07.250-05:00Going through this exercise, you can see when comp...Going through this exercise, you can see when computers take over the design process and I would say 1994 is when it happened for Topps.<br /><br />These cards are very busy...too much going on design wise...its as if Topps discovered photoshop or some other computer graphic program and used all of the features possible.<br /><br />I wonder if there is great future value in cards from about this year onward, as I rarely see cards this late in garage sales now, so that tells me these aren't as common as the 1986 to about 1993 cards.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09170852386254175201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433941530167569659.post-49526609442470824932012-02-12T17:31:34.197-05:002012-02-12T17:31:34.197-05:00The players' strike that would go on until the...<i>The players' strike that would go on until the following spring stained the game and sent away countless long-time fans, disgusted by the greed on both sides of the argument.</i><br /><br />Ahh yes, the 1994 strike:<br /><br />1) I didn't follow baseball from the strike until the latter part of the McGwire/Sosa homerun race.<br /><br />2) If I recall, my first post-strike Phillies game didn't occur until the last month of the final season at Veterans Stadium.<br /><br />3) I didn't buy any baseball cards from 1994 until AFTER the Phillies had won the 2008 World Series. Then it was just Phillies' team sets from the mid/late 2000s, as well as working on the 1966, 1965, and 1970 Topps sets.Jim from Downingtownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01537007940455183397noreply@blogger.com