- Having a real tough time with Pacific products. For years, I thought this was the base card of this set. Turns out the base is in gold foil, and that this is the silver parallel. Sheesh.
- Despite my mistaken identity, I really like this card. Full bleed photo, and the sun ray type of design from the team logo is appealing to me.
- Just received 20 more cards of Joe from a fellow Sakic collector in Canada. The march to 700 Sakic cards continues.
- Robert
- The majority of the 2001 Topps Stars set had already been added to the Trading Card Database, but Thome was one of the few that hadn't been scanned until now.
- The front of the card certainly doesn't hide what set it belongs with. Stars all over the place. Chief Wahoo in silver looks kind of spooky.
- The back of the card doesn't have any stats or a write up of Jim. It has the traditional 5 tools (hitting, power, speed, defense and arm) and rates every player on each. Jim's only 5 star rating is for power, with the others being rated mostly 3 (speed is rated a 2, but you don't have to be fast running the bases after a homer.)
- Robert
- Love how the red really stands out on the card. Almost looks like a stage curtain.
- Unlike this morning's card, this has suffered a bit of warping. But still not bad for a 20 year old card.
- Just looked up prices on COMC for this parallel, and they're not bad. 4 copies, cheapest at $1.19, highest at $1.50.
- Still need the Mirror Gold, Mirror Red and Mirror Blue parallels of this card. The one I found on ebay this morning was the mirror blue, priced at $40. Yikes...
- Robert
- Nope, don't even ask. I'm not peeling off the protective layer. Ever.
- Very nice for a shiny card. It has also stood the test of time; unlike most shiny cards this hasn't hardly succumbed to warping.
- Stats on the back: No bio this time, all there is on the back is stats versus each team he played against in the 96-97 season. The Oilers were the biggest victims, as Joe scored 13 points against them in just 5 contests.
- Robert
- Thought I had finished the Paramount rainbow with this and another recent eBay purchase, but the emerald green that the seller sent me turned out to be the ice blue. Oh well, not a major deal.
- This will be the final "single" card post of Sakic for the 97-98 year. I have 6 cards left, 3 sets of parallel cards.
- Paid $1.49 for this on ebay with free shipping (PWE of course). No current copies of the red on COMC right now, so I'm glad I didn't hesitate on pulling the trigger.
- Robert
- Very grainy scan. Might be time to update to a new scanner.
- Cartoon on the back: Vintage used cartoons similar to the ones Topps used in the early days. "Thome is among the most powerful hitters in the game". Indeed.
- Career home run #241 was hit 5/25/2001 against the Yankees. Orlando Hernandez was the victim, and it was a 2 run shot to put the Indians out of reach, ending up with a 6-4 win. Bob Wickman struck out the side in the 9th for his 9th save.
- Robert
- I don't know if it's just me, but it looks like Jim hadn't washed his face and rolled in the dirt before having this photo taken.
- With all the hoopla about the Indians changing their logo and removing Chief Wahoo, the glasses covering the old logo might be appropriate in today's PC age, no?
- The back of the card looks a bit like an excel spreadsheet to me, having 10 years of Jim's stats to go along with a trio of bar graphs. Interesting that in 2000, Jim had a slugging percentage of .937 on the first pitch. Wow!
- Robert
- I'm hoping to show a jersey card of my PCs each time I hit a card # that ends in 50 or 00. This is one of the earliest jersey cards I bought of Joe.
- Joe's card mate, Milan Hejduk, shared the Stanley Cup with Joe in 2000-01, and led the league in assists during that playoff year with 16.
- There are different copies of this card; there's a combo's card with Brendan Shanahan ($20 on COMC), and a Spectrum version ($10 on COMC) of this card #'d to 99 copies. The Spectrum version is especially cheap considering there are a few cards from 07-08 going for twice the price of the Sakic/Shanahan combo.
- Robert
- Had a heckuva time scanning this card and keeping it somewhat straight. Then I realized that I could rotate the scan, so I placed the card upside down on the scanner bed. I scare myself sometimes...
- I have always loved these gold crown die cut cards. Can't say how many cards though over the years that I've nipped an edge and created a ding. Just have to be extra careful.
- 3 copies of this card on COMC, all at $1.49. Not bad. I need the emerald green parallel of this card; the 1 copy on COMC of the green is $9.25 and none are to be found on ebay right now.
- Robert
- The red on Jim's socks really stands out on this card. In person, they stand out even more. Wonder why the difference between the socks and the other red's on Jim's uniform.
- The green border on this card has grown on me over the years. When I first bought packs of 2001 Topps, I didn't care much for the design. Now, I like it. Softening in old age I guess...
- Bio on the back: " Twenty home runs is tough for most but routine for Jim." Once he hit his 20th homer in 2001, Jim became the first Indian to ever hit 20+ in 8 straight seasons.
- Robert
