Random Card of the Day

“ Front is ok, but there's something weird about the back.And funny name. ” -Duke

“ Here's first for the Card of the Day...this is the 1994 card shown. The 1995 card used the half gray box with facsimile signature and a close up head shot. Sterling won the Daytona 500 in both years becoming the first driver to score his first two career wins back to back in the most important NASCAR race of the year...and remains the only one to do that to this day. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ This looks way more retro than 1995. That just be me showing my age. 1995 doesn't feel like it would have that old of a look. The back is awful. ” -muskie027

“ NASCAR fans get their cars with this series. Just for the record: I've never bought a product based on advertising in racing. ” -Sportzcommish

“ More sponsors please. ” -carthage44

“ These came with a diecast car, this was one of the first cars/cards i got. Sterling won back to back daytona 500's in 94 and 95, won a couple other races in the mid 90s then nothing till 2001/2002 where he won another handfull of races and i think was leading the points when he got hurt at kansas ” -Thunderfoot

“ Racing Champions... Sterling Marlin... I'll give this a 5 out of 4 stars. ” -UKboogie

“ Super simple Racing card. Racing fans is it possible that this is one of the cards that came with the die-cast cars? ” -captkirk42

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“ I love holograms! Always have, always will. They don't usually scan very well but this one is not bad at all. I have two from this insert but not this one. Somebody wrote their name on the back of them though, but the hologram itself is fine, so I am happy. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ Interesting and nice cotd. Good way to start a day. Looks nice when scanned but I have couple of these early UD Hologram cards from hockey and they just don't look good at hand. ” -Duke

“ Nice cards to display with lighting, not so in a binder. I used a select few - the first ones I pulled from packs - to stick on the inside of a binder where no light hits them. Regrettable. ” -Sportzcommish

“ Well they were better than gum that tasted like cardboard after 10 seconds and usually disintegrated into nothingness in the pack ” -rmpaq5

“ Ah hologram cards. When they first appeared in the early 80s as a novelty insert I loved them thought they were great, even though it is hard to see what is on them if you don't see them at the proper angle. Once holograms became more of a regular thing and foiled lettering on foil backgrounds became mainstream for the super overproduced years they lost their appeal on me. ” -captkirk42

“ I laughed when I saw this. First off, it's a non-premium insert, basically it's UD's gum like Fleer had stickers and Donruss had puzzle pieces. Second, I am actually trying to put together the full set of these to go in my 1991 UD set and I'm missing ONLY this one. One day... ” -vrooomed

“ Loved putting these stickers on my card binders. ” -carthage44

“ I really liked the 91 Upperdeck Holos. The football groundbreakers are still some of my favorite cards. ” -SFC Temple

“ Now we know for sure, RCOTD indeed is random. ” -dilemma19

“ No stats on the back ;| ” -dilemma19

“ Let's Go Mets! ” -armac

“ On the positive it's the NY Mets. On the negative it's a hologram. To paraphrase Will Rogers, "I've never met a hologram I liked." ” -C2Cigars

“ Slightly better than the hockey ones Yzerman , Hull ,Messier etc.... ” -uncaian

“ These were neat little inserts in the Upper Deck packs. I liked when they made these the same size as cards as opposed to the smaller circles or rounded edge squares from the prior years. The off-sized inserts were always annoying from a storage perspective. I'll never forget how cool the hologram stuff was when I was younger. Upper Deck did a great job as the 3D effect on these was really good. ” -muskie027

“ not much going on here, but i can say i've always like when teams are named with something to do with where they are, hence mets=metropolitans ” -Thunderfoot

“ Once I put a set together, I used to give these away to other friends/collectors/fans. Probably going to be a lot of haters for these, but these were far cooler in 1991 than the Fleer team stickers of the era. ” -hphillips

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“ Not a bad design. Nice to see an actual photo and not just a cut out of the player over some digitally created backdrop. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ Not big into Rookies & Stars. This is OK if a bit odd design. back is a bit lacking. Ah an Anderson card I need to hunt down for my semi niche Andersen PC ” -captkirk42

“ The Rookies & Stars sets might be my favorite sets in the past 20 years! ” -carthage44

“ Classic running back pose. Look at that hole he has to run through. ” -Brimose

“ Good design--before R&S got all cut-out weird. ” -cjjt

“ I thought that was some kind of gunk on the card below the team name then I realize it's "feets" ” -NJDevils

“ Finally a football card with game background instead of digitized background. Mike Anderson, man did he have one awesome season. I like the look of this card, surprised it comes from 2001 since usually the early 2000's seem to be always on my hate list. The only complaint is the lower case first name and all capped last name. I hate playing with the caps and lower case to try to be cool. It is too gimmicky. Other than that, a solid card. ” -muskie027

“ Big fan of the Leaf R&S designs year after year. Admittedly I couldn't find a lot of them, so the few that I have pretty much only exist in my PCs, but still one of my favorite set designs. ” -jasongerman9

“ This was the start of R&S rolling out some of my favorite sets ” -Thunderfoot

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“ Cool! I am really enjoying hockey- I wish I had taken up the sport sooner. Better late then never. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ I like this one a lot. Cool retro hockey card with nice photo and design. No OPC on the front, clear name and position, big team logo and now we all know he is retired. What's not to like? ” -Duke

“ It always seems odd to me that a buffalo is always part of a Buffalo teams' logo. Shouldn't the team name be the emphasis? ” -Sportzcommish

“ One of my favourite hockey designs of the 1980s - eclipsed only by the years immediately before and after it - although this one seemed to borrow quite heavily from the 83-84 Vachon food issue. ” -bevans

“ Like this design. You don't see many players in any sport spending their entire long career with a single team these days. ” -rmpaq5

“ He looks like the guy from X-Files. ” -carthage44

“ Nice. I was going to say Vintage but mid 80s isn't, well OK technically depending on your definition of Vintage and how many years you consider vintage to be. Oh love the "Now Retired" notice. I don't think I've seen that. OPC is known for their traded "Now with ____" notes but I don't recall seeing "Retired" maybe I don't get around to OPC that much anymore. ” -captkirk42

“ Love "Now Retired" ” -cjjt

“ "Now retired". Never saw that before ” -NJDevils

“ Nice , love this set Ramsay was a mainstay in Buffalo very popular. ” -uncaian

“ Thumbs up for the "now retired" indication. ” -dilemma19

“ Methinks an airbrushing of a knee-long, white beard is appropriate here. ” -DanD

“ Retired? I thought he finished up his career in Detroit?? *checks hockey-reference* oh, that was MIKE Ramsey. Anyway, congrats on your retirement, Craig. ” -Howintensive

“ LET'S GO BUFFALO!!!!!! I am in heaven, a Buffalo sports figure as card of the day! Love the card, love the player, love the Sabres, love the Bills, love Buffalo!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, this is a great card and design even for the non-Sabres. A solid classic from a great age of sport card designs! ” -muskie027

“ Simplicity of design, everything is there, I like it even though I don't care for hockey. Seems to be a lot of hockey and football on rcotd lately ” -hphillips

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“ Lot of mirror foils coming up as Card of the Day lately. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ It's an attractive card. I'd vary the colors a bit more so the uniform doesn't blend in as much with the background. Also, I'd have designated greater funding for photography so that the back picture wasn't simply cropped by a graphic designer. ” -Sportzcommish

“ At least Panini doesn't have to pay some guy to come up with different card designs each year... ” -rmpaq5

“ Overall I kind of like the Elite designs, but they tend to be too foil filled. I like the simplicity of this front but would like a border and the team logo. Back doesn't need the same picture as the front taking up half the space. Stats should be at least the last few years, preferably full career. OH well since it is sort of the low-end of the high-end products I guess it can be a little skimpy and flashy looking. ” -captkirk42

“ Always liked the Donruss Elite but disliked the Panini Elite. ” -carthage44

“ I feel like there has been a wave of football cards with a player and a nothing background lately. The back isn't bad but I don't like the dual use of the front photo. Overall...mediocre. ” -muskie027

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“ They couldn't fit his whole first name on the nameplate? It seems a bit washed out but I don't have any of these in hand to be sure. The inserts in Ionix were usually pretty bright. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ This is when Denver was churning out a new running back just about every season. ” -carthage44

“ I guess if the design had brighter colors I might like the front. Back ugh. Did they get inspiration for the design from looking at a 3.5" floppy disk? ” -captkirk42

“ Never like any Broncos cards. Especially IONIX. ” -RoyalChief

“ What does diamond tread plate have to do with football? Or high voltage? Overall, one ugly card front and back. ” -C2Cigars

“ No sir, I don't like it. ” -muskie027

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“ Some great sets have been popping up lately, the 80's and early 90's stuff. This was one of those sets that everyone I knew had a ton of, and 27 years later, we just laugh at how worthless they are. It was a fun set to collect. This is very similar to the 91 Fleer that had yellow borders and every Donruss set that seems to come out these days. Also, I think there has never been a sloppier set in terms of errors, variations, and stupid little things that went wrong in printing. Still, I can't bring myself to hate the set. I rather look fondly at it. ” -muskie027

“ I have good memories of this set, even though it is my least favorite Donruss design of my early collecting years. ” -duaned99

“ I really like this design...The early 90s were so great. Great scan, too! Looks just like the card does in real life. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ If Harris would smile he'd look like Griffey, Jr. I really liked this design. Too bad there was a trillion made. ” -Sportzcommish

“ The back of these cards gave me everything I need! ” -carthage44

“ Last time I remember a 1990 Donruss card coming up in RCOTD, it generated a very nice transaction for me. I do have a lot of these. Anyone who needs anything from this set should e-mail me. Funny thing is the fact that I still am not a fan of this set. The front rivals the Topps' design from the same year and the back is the same exact back they used starting in 1985 (making this the 6th straight year!) and even the 82-84 backs only varied slightly from this design. I do like how they got the year on the fronts of all their cards. ” -vrooomed

“ Quite a run recently of 90s MLB. Never a fan of this look. I don't really care for the 100s of variations either (line in name, line not in name etc..). Just a set that is there...and annoying to look at. ” -rmpaq5

“ My beloved Mariners! Love it! I have a ton of cards from this set (yet to enter)...but then again, doesn't everybody! ” -bkklaos

“ I love this set. Always takes me back in time. It looks like he was not expecting that photograph. ” -RoyalChief

“ The set that everyone loves! Photography is nice. Surprisingly, I still need two cards to complete the set: #3 and #210. ” -jayoneill

“ mid overproduced madness Donruss Goodness. At one time when I was really anti overproduced years this set was on my s..er "junk" list of sets. I have since forgiven most card sets produced during those superoverproduced years. I still need to complete this set like 95% of the other sets over the years. I will not go for the nitpicking variants of name with a dot, name above the black line, name below the black line, name missing black line etc... ” -captkirk42

“ Alot of people really pan this set, but for some reason I have always like it.....Donruss always had some interesting borders....I thought the paint splatter was one of the better ones. Too many variations however..... ” -tbshaw

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“ Nice design. I like it. Wish Fleer was doing my sports during the time. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ I just love all the 80's sets. ” -muskie027

“ I appreciate the action shot which shows the intensity and follow-through, the simple design that doesn't interfere with the player, and the nameplate that gives us the basic information we need. But not least of all I appreciate Fleer sacrificing their business theory and not placing their logo on the front. ” -Sportzcommish

“ Simple but nice. ” -carthage44

“ Ahhhh, 1982 Fleer. So much better than Topps. Clean design. Nice pictures. ” -cjjt

“ My last year of collecting until 1999. I thought 3 different sets to collect each year was too many. ” -CluelessJoe

“ Pretty plain.....pretty ordinary....but reminds me of being an 80's kid.....so it is pretty cool to me! ” -tbshaw

“ Nice early 80s Fleer just before the dreaded superduperexpialidosiousoverproduced years. I like the simpleness of the design. Loved it at the time. Now I would prefer to have the team logo on front, oh at least it is on the back. Like that the framing color was keyed to the team colors. Loved that Fleer used to have the sets organized by team back then so when you looked through your collection you would see the set by team. ” -captkirk42

“ I love photos of pitchers mid-throw because it sometimes looks like they're missing a hand or something ” -Howintensive

“ Perfect card. Great action shot. Love the stats. ” -RoyalChief

“ Fleer's second attempt in the comeback. Simple front design, probably could have been a little better, but has name, team, and position. The back (although blurry in this scan as of this writing) has a nice big number, team logo, and full stats. Basically, everything the baseball card collectors on here seem to love. However, Fleer didn't have the technology to take the photos they had and reproduce them properly on cards, so a lot of the cards pictures were pretty brutal. ” -vrooomed

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“ Nothing flashy about this design but it is one of the better modern Topps flagship designs ” -ketchupman36

“ I like this design. Unusually Topps did not use it in all their sports, as it never appeared in the NBA. Too bad, I would have liked to have collected it. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ I'm all for the design being secondary and the player being the primary focus, but this epitomizes blandness. Too much white border and the banner at the bottom reminds me of hockey sticks. No bueno. ” -Sportzcommish

“ Back to the real one. ” -RoundtheDiamond87

“ Always liked the backs of these cards.....although never excited about the fronts.... ” -tbshaw

“ I never was a big fan of the front design of this set, but the backs are to notch. ” -rmpaq5

“ I don't hate this card design, but the flagship sets around this time seemed to play down to the competition (bright yellow and green Fleer?!) rather than stepping up to the big leagues with Leaf and UD. I guess Topps chose to fill that niche with Stadium Club, and let flagship design itself. Winningham was a useful player for 8 years, and a memorable piece of the Reds 1990 championship season. I bet he'd be an interesting man to chat with. ” -dilemma19

“ Ah, the good old days when bad players like this could hang around forever in the league. ” -carthage44

“ 1993 was the last flagship set just before my decade long hiatus from new involvement in the hobby. When they first came out I was pretty happy with the overall design, except for the new thinner card stock that would become the standard in the hobby. Wish they had never left off the team logos during these years. Back is pretty much stocked well, except I have never liked the overall design of it too colorful. Hey that is what gets me now-days about card backs that I couldn't quite put my finger on what bugged me about modern card backs. The overuse of colors. Glad this is a regular edition and not the Gold variant that was had the gold foil lettering over gold foil background. ” -captkirk42

“ This is an OK set. I like logos and player positions on the front of cards, but that's just me. Overall decent card though. ” -RoyalChief

“ Nice design. Easy to read back with lots of stats. ” -cjjt

“ I find nothing too awful or nothing too great about the 1993 Topps. First set time with their main set they had the glossy backs. Though I do find the printing sometimes a little blurry on the back. ” -kirkscards

“ The scan looks like it needed to be cropped a little more. I have to admit, I loved the 1993 Topps design when it came out. I still think it looks great. This set brings a tear to my eye, it was officially the last set I collected before I took over a 20 year hiatus from collecting. It literally represents the end of an era in my early years. It's amazing how cards can bring back amazing memories and take you back to bygone eras. They truly are more than pictures and stats on little pieces of cardboard. ” -muskie027

“ One of those cards I went from having a billion of to zero. ” -DanD

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“ One of the many pointless subsets Press Pass produced instead of figuring out that a NASCAR set should show the cars. I don't really miss them much, Panini is doing a decent- but not perfect-job with them...but they are not cramming multiple useless subsets down our throats so it is an improvement. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ Nice and colorful, even joyous, but it took me a second to locate the driver's name. I'm not into NASCAR so I don't recognize the face, nor the name after seeing it. ” -Sportzcommish

“ We are back to a NASCAR card of which I have no idea about. Looks good to me. Racing fans will probably scream that it doesn't show his car or any of his stats from that season. ” -captkirk42

“ I like the information about the track on the back, and how it is connected to Harvick. ” -rmpaq5

“ Must have gotten a winner in his coke bottle cap. ” -NJDevils

“ Thank goodness someone pulled a NASCAR Nation card! Oh wait, it is Kevin Harvick. This is not a knock on the foil lettering as much as it is on how the font size for these two items on the card should have been reversed. Other than that, not a bad card, and not a great one. Not sure what makes a great racing card, but I'll give this an ok. ” -muskie027

“ had to double check to see if he was holding a coke or a mr pibb ” -Howintensive

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