2005 Upper Deck All-Star Classics

This set is divided into current All-Stars, Legendary All-Stars, and All-Star Futures. I personally really enjoy sets like this and think I will try to find a box of this somewhere. They run about $25 before shipping.

Here are my All-Stars:

#28 Lance Berkman

#29 Manny Ramirez

#30 Mariano Rivera

And here are my Legendary All-Stars:

#83 Eddie Murray

#85 Harmon Killebrew

#98 Tom Seaver

And I really like my Future All-Star. Justin would be the MVP two years later.

#69 Justin Morneau

Plus an insert of Mike Piazza, the best catcher ever? Or just best hitting catcher ever?

#PAS-14 Mike Piazza Perennial All-Stars Insert

2005 All-Star Classics

I was at Target looking through their discounted packs and I came across this beauty:

I had never seen it before and was not even sure what the base cards looked like, so I figured I would give it a try.  I was pleasantly surprised.

I scored two Legendary All-Stars: Nolan Ryan and Bob Gibson.

Here is the back of the Legendary All-Stars card, which is similar to the next subset of cards: All-Star Futures.



Here is a really nice looking Joe Mauer All-Star Futures:

Now a much less accurate prediction of All-Star Futures: Oliver Perez.

If you, like me are a Met fan, you are quite upset with Perez's unwillingness to go down to the minors this season to work out his mechanics.  You also hope that he is not in a Met uniform next season.

The other four cards were normal base cards.

Here is the front and back of a Gagne card, remember how dominant he was?



The pack finished up with an Alfonso Soriano, Miguel Tejada, and Randy Johnson.

For me this pack was definitely worth it: good players and an interesting design I had never seen.

Hope you enjoyed seeing them too!