Card Collecting : Fact or Fantasy ! Jim Thome Rainbow

Today's topic is : collecting rainbows.

First let's define rainbow, as it pertains to card collecting, not what Dorothy sings about, along the Yellow Brick Road !

As we all know, the card manufacturing gods have created at least a bazillion parallels the last couple of years. Cards that all look alike, but with a wide variety of colored borders, a rainbow if you will.

So collecting a "rainbow" of your favorite player is a new segment of card collecting.

Fact or Fiction ! ?

 

 

How many said fact ?

 

 

Understandable, but you need to go back to
 Basic Card Collecting 101.

 

 

Let Jim Thome explain it to you.

 

 

Back in the year 2000, when Pacific was still producing baseball cards,
 there were  a lot of really cool inserts and parallels.

Take a look !

 

2000 Pacific Crown Royale

Base card.

 

 

Premiere date.

 

 

Red parallel.

 

 

Proof.

 

 

Now I need a little help.

There is also a silver foil parallel, known as " Limited Series",

and a Platinum Blue version.

I need both of these if anyone can help.

 

Also in 2000 there was Pacific Prism.

 

Here's the base card.

 

 

A rainbow in itself !

 

 

This is a base card, embossed by Pacific, at the

2000 Chicago Sportsfest Show.

 

 

Holographic Mirror

 

 

Tinsel Silver

 

 

Drops Silver

 

 

Rapture Silver

 

 

Rapture Gold

 

Now the bad news.

 

This is a list of the rest of the parallels to this set

 that I still need !!

 

 

Holographic Blue

Holographic Gold

Holographic Purple

Pebbly Dots

Premiere Date

Sheen Silver

Slider Silver

Texture Silver

Woodgrain Silver

 

And you thought Topps was crazy !!

 

Plus, I need most of these parallels

 for all the other Indians in the set !

 

Roberto Alomar

Bartolo Colon

David Justice

Manny Ramirez

Richie Sexon

Omar Vizquel

 

Lord, give me strength !!