Stadium club official thread

RipublicaninMass

What is the difference between the series 1 and series 2? Were these boxes ever factory sealed? Does anyone have any wax or sets for sale or trade??
Also, what's up with stadium club dome?

Lothar52

coachh

How many will stick together if placed in a 600 count box for 14 years?

Lothar52

ok, now that im over my nervous breakdown......

i bought 3 boxes of each series about a year and a half ago for craps....i always wanted thisset when i was a kid and it was hot...and never could afford it....well....at 10-15 a box either 1 or 2..........i couldnt help but do it. I put a nice set together.....


series 1- cards 1-300... series 2- 301-600 ........the stadium club dome had alot of rookies not in stadium club and was only availableina factor set I believe...i did not get that though.

its a great set..i love the photo quality on the old stars.

Loth

Lothar52

when i opened the packs...some WERE stuck together and damaged because of that..luckily i had 3 boxes of each series and got enough cards that 1 of each was not damaged.

Loth

RipublicaninMass

I like the photo quality also, and no borders make it tough. Was the Nolan Ryan "Tux" card a preview?

NickM

I busted a box of 1993 Stadium Club baseball about a year ago, and many of the cards were stuck together so severely that portions of the surface of one card came off on the other. The same problem happened to me with the foil surface cards from 1994 Upper Deck baseball.

Nick

pandrews

i got like 6 or 7 of those damn Dome Sets..

helionaut

Assuming you're talking about the 1991 set, the difference between the series is that series 2 had 300 different players from series 1. I don't recall for sure if the boxes were sealed, but I don't think so. The Stadium Club Dome set was a very hot item at the time. It was supposed to come out late in the year in 1991, after the season, and so late that people debated calling it a 1992 set. This was before sets for the previous year were routinely being issued in the following January. As it happened, it was so late in coming out, March 1992, IIRC, that the debate was pretty much ended. Too bad, because there would've been some sweet 1991 RCs. The dome itself was a plastic box made to look like the Toronto Skydome, the site of the 1991 All-Star Game. The next year they made one that looked like Jack Murphy Stadium. That set did contain some sweet RCs like Jeter and an early Nomar.

You also might find floating around somewhere "pre-production" sample cards, which were oversized cards with the same images of certain players like Ryan, Dave Stewart, Paul Molitor I think I've seen, maybe a couple others. They are also distinguished by a lack of foil stamping. I've heard that they really weren't proofs or whatnot, but cards stolen off the production line. I know one of the comic shops back in PK, which also did a little cards and was owned by a kind of shady character, had dozens of uncut sheets that were missing the foil.

I love the 1991 TSC set. That was the year I got back into cards and was blown away by it. It was also extremely expensive for the time. In Poughkeepsie, there was only a couple shops that carried it, and they both charged $5 per pack. Singles were ridiculous, like $10 for a Ryne Sandberg. But I bought 2 packs that first day, being flush with my summer job at IBM. I pulled a Frank Thomas. Then I found a Beckett and saw that it was a $35 card. I bought a few more packs of series 1, but kept with Leaf and Ultra as they were a little cheaper, and I bought about 10 packs of regular Topps every day. But I think that TSC card was what made me a Thomas collector.

If you really want to get a complete set, you also have to get the Members Only set, the keychain, and the bronze Ryan. But that's another story.

EagleEyeKid

Man I love Stadium Club when they first came out. I was blown away when I first saw the cards. We were calling them Polaroid cards because of the picture quality. I think during this time in 1991 was when the penny sleeves started to garner more attention as people started to realize that placing these cards in card savers alone only damaged them when they took them out. Pieces of the corners and edges were still stuck/left inside the card savers. I built the set back then and all 600 cards were in penny sleeves inside a 800 count box. I needed a larger box because the sleeves took up space but it made it look very nice and showed I took great care and pride when I did sell it.

Fabfrank

Eagle eye is right. You have to put these cards in penny sleeves if you want to preserve them. Even in an album with Ultra Pro pages and they will eventually stick. This goes for Ultra and Upper Deck cards too. Same problem.
I recently found a stack of SC and Ultra football cards in cardsavers that I had put aside for future submittal. I went to take the cards out to transfer them to penny sleeves and every one was stuck to the cardsaver. The ones I did pry from the plastic left a slight "ghost" imprint of the card on the cardsaver.
Regardless of these problems, SC is a great product. Inexpensive, with hi quality photography. Landmark brand in that it also raised the bar of what a premium card should look like.

86nova

If my memory is correct, which it may not be, supposedly Topps introduced this set to compete with Upper Deck.


The '89 and '90 UD certainly cut into the profit margin, and Stadium Club was their answer. The Ryan tux card

was part of the set. There were several very expensive cards in the set, with Frank Thomas being the highest.

These boxes are not factory sealed. The set seemed to fall out of popularity rather quickly. Cost, over-

production, not sure of the reason. Still have my box from Topps with the Ryan Medallion, key chain, and

limited edition cards. Regardless, the cards (photographs) are outstanding. 86nova (Craig)