Premiere Edition! I don't think there was a second. This set is all about the lumber. Not only do you get a couple wood chips from bats embedded in cards, but you also get a couple cards printed on actual wood. I happened to get the man pictured here. Seemed to be everywhere in this break.
#66 - Phil Nevin - Phil never fully lived up to his potential, but he put in a solid year off the bench for the Cubs, so I like him. He even hit a walk-off hit in extras in one of the games I went to that year. We don't really have a good power bench guy like that this year.
#20 - Junior Spivey - Nice picture here, even if Cedeno does look like he's on a water slide. 2 pictures, no bats in hand so far. No floating Ted Williams heads, either.
#2 of 15 KG - Barry Bonds - This would be a much better insert if it didn't have all that unused territory on the left side there. It would also be cool if they put Barry on a sandlot type field since there are no knotholes in major league parks.
#56 - Hideo Nomo - A pitcher? What the hell he is doing here? I guess he could splinter some bats. Fine I talked myself out my anger. Still not thrilled about it.
#86 - Rich Aurilia - The card backs when for some Stadium Club/90's Bowman crazy split stats stuff. Or should I say Splintered stats. The stuff really only managers and higher should be concerning themselves with since they really don't matter too much to average schlubs like us.It's a nice set overall, but very small. I wish they would have loaded up the wood a bit more. Corked some bats and let this set fly. Maybe in the second edition. Oh, wait.
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