Kirk from Eutaw Street Cardboard recently sent me a little under
100 Tino cards. I purchased them from him in his effort to raise money for The
National. There were a lot of a great Tinos in there, and a good portion which
were new to my collection.
Here is one of those Tinos. It’s from 1994 Upper Deck, and
it’s an Electric Diamond parallel. Upper Deck always had such cool names for
things. Electric Diamond. I feel like every time I say “electric diamond” there
should be a few sweet notes played on the electric guitar afterwards. “Electric
diamond” bah nah nah neeeeer.
I don’t love the design of ’94 Upper Deck. The black and
white repetitive photo is a little weird. The image is pretty cool though. I
think it looks like Tino is diving back into first base, perhaps to avoid a
pickoff attempt. I am nearly certain it’s a spring training shot, which I found
a lot of Tino’s 1990s Upper Deck releases to be.
I do, however, like the shiny foul of “Electric Diamond”
baaah neeh naaah neeeeeryyyyaooow.
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