1994 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1

Not sure exactly how many different wrappers there were for this set, but I chose the Deion wrapper when I purchased it because I didn't recall it right away. Seems I mostly find either Kirby Puckett, Mike Piazza, or Barry Bonds wrappers.

The checklist cards have the same type graphic as the wrappers for the most part, although there is no checklist card with Deion on it, so again I'm not sure exactly how they match up. I have the checklist set for series 1 and 2 (all of which are found in series 1 packs), and those cards are of Bonds, Griffey, Piazza, Puckett, Ryan, Alomar, Clemens, Gonzalez, Griffey (again), Justice, Kruk, and Thomas.

Each pack comes with a silver or gold signature parallel.

1994 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1

 And so our next pack for review is...well, let me clean things up a bit and see exactly what it is.

The pack is 1994 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1. This was just after I stopped collecting cards when I was 15.  I soon found cars, comics, and music to spend my money on and baseball cards took a back seat  for the next fifteen or so years.

Each pack has one insert card which has a foil stamped signature of the player featured.  Each pack gets a silver foil and gold foil stamps are 1 in every 36 packs...so I imagine that is one per box.  

#220 Joseph Oliver Silver Signature Insert

I collect Tom Gordon cards...maybe it's because he has a Stephen King novel named after him...maybe it's because he pitched a surprising amount of years in the big leagues...21 seasons to be exact.  Maybe it's because he has one of the all-time nicknames [Flash Gordon] or it might be that he is the only pitcher in baseball history to have more than 100 wins, saves, and holds.  For those unfamiliar with the "hold" stat here is a more detailed description.

#112 Tom Gordon

This has got to be one of the best looking checklist cards I've ever seen.  Topps should do more of this with their current checklists.

#318 Mike Piazza Checklist

And the rest: