This isn't just any 1998 Pinnacle box. It's a Power Pack box. This is basically Pinnacle's version of a jumbo pack.
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| 1998 Pinnacle baseball Power Pack box |
Each box contains 12 packs with 21 cards each. The jumbo packs also contain an oversized card from the base set. The oversized cards are 3.5"x5".
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| 1998 Pinnacle baseball Power Pack |
THE BIG HITS: printing plates
Pinnacle was the first company to put out printing plates. The plates were first included in 1997 products, and continued into 1998. (Pinnacle folded in late 1998.) Pinnacle's plates were inserted at a rate of 1:1,250 packs. Pinnacle's plates are interesting because samples were issued for both the front and back of the cards. Also, plates were issued for all the insert sets. In all, including fronts, backs, base cards, and inserts, Pinnacle produced 2,272 plates for their 1998 baseball set.
THE CONTENTS
No plates. This box had lots of base cards - 170 of 200 for 85% of the set. In 1998 Pinnacle issued it's base cards with three back styles that differ in what stats are shown. One version has a player's full season stats, another has home stats, and the last has away stats. This box was about a 50:50 mix of home and away. I didn't get a single full season stats back in the box.
This is a nice, clean set with full bleed photographs. I like it.
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| 23 - Barry Bonds |
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| 64 - Derek Jeter |
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| 173 - Todd Helton |
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| 182 - Alex Rodriguez Field of Vision 193 - Ken Griffey Jr. Goin' Jake |
Aside from the plates, there are no full parallel sets. The two partial parallels are Museum Collection and Artist's Proofs. These are very sparkly.
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| Museum Collection - 98 - Ray Lankford Goin' Jake Artist's Proofs - 46 - Tim Salmon |
The set includes a few insert sets as well. The insertion rates on the partial parallels and inserts into Power Packs are higher than the standard 10-card hobby and retail packs.
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| Spellbound - 9 - Roger Clemens O Hit It Here - 1 - Larry Walker EPIX Orange Play - 23 - Paul Molitor |
CONCLUSION
This was a great set. It's too bad that Pinnacle couldn't stay afloat. I will definitely break more of this product and enjoy hunting for some plate cards.
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