Odds and Ends, secondary collection-Part Three

When you're a hard-core collector of one team, there are a ton of instances where you get stuck with untradeable cards because no one has comparable pieces in their collection. So these valuable gems of history are what you're stuck with; I'll share a few of the cards I'm stuck with, and to be honest, I'm very grateful for my Odds and Ends collection.

I sold cards on Ebay for a few years, but it was too much hassle and expensive for shipping, so around my 400th sale, I quit. Now that these gems are starting to pile up in my collection, today's post is about a cards I pulled and saved.

2001 UD Cooperstown Collection HOF

Randomly inserted into packs this 40-card insert features small pieses of actual game-used bats. Although this insert wasn't very valuable, it's still amazing to have some of the greatest players' history.

---

---

---

Secondary Collection:

• HOF Autograph or Relics
• Rookies Autograph or Relics
• World Series Autograph or Relics
• ex-Cubs on different teams Autograph or Relics

These secondary collections get to be fairly valuable over the years, and before you know it, you're looking forward to getting any of these gems. I hope 2024 will be a banner year for Cubs and the rest of the collection.

2003 Bazooka Cubs Checklist

Number of Cards

2003 Bazooka set had 280 cards, with 12 Cubs players

Size of Cards

The size of the cards are standard-size 2 ½ x 3 ½

Basic Features

I always liked collecting Bazooka baseball cards, and this set doesn't disappoint. There are mostly action shots on the front, along with the name of the player and team logo on the bottom. The reveres of the card have the usual bio and stats, including a short blurb. There is a section called Bazooka Blast Stats of the Year. There is lots of great information contained there.

Twenty cards in the collection included a colored Bazooka logo along with a facsimile signature of the featured player. The player's standard and unique logo cards were produced in equal quantities.

Chicago Cubs 2003 Bazooka Checklist

Number	Player
7	Bazooka Joe VAR
19	Hee Seop Choi
21	Sammy Sosa
22	Mark Prior
22	Mark Prior VAR
64	Moises Alou
78	Matt Clement
127	Kerry Wood
171	Nic Jackson
201	Aron Weston RC
206	Jemel Spearman RC
222	Donald Hood RC

---

---

---

       

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

1998 Pinnacle Cubs Checklist

Number of Cards

1998 Pinnacle set had 200 cards, with 6 Cubs players

Size of Cards

The size of the cards are standard-size 2 ½ x 3 ½

Basic Features

Today's post will focus on the 1998 Pinnacle brand with so many sets of parallels you could go blind reading about all of them. The front of the card features glossy action player photographs. The reverse contains another color image that includes biographical and statistical data with a short blurb about players' careers.

The set contains the following subsets:
Rookies (158-181)
Field of Vision (182-187)
Goin' Jake (188-197)
Checklists (198-200)

There were three different versions of every card, 1–157. The cards were printed in equal quantities and have home, away, or seasonal statistics on the back, and all three are traded for equal values.

Chicago Cubs 1998 Pinnacle Checklist

Number	Player
15	Mark Grace
53	Sammy Sosa
71	Kevin Orie
104	Kevin Foster
132	Doug Glanville
168	Jeremi Gonzalez

---

---

---

---

---

---

Chicago Cubs 1998 Pinnacle Inserts Checklist

1998 Pinnacle - Artist's Proofs Cards have a gold Dufex finish and a red "Artist Proof" foil stamp on the front.

Number	Player
PP15	Mark Grace
PP48	Sammy Sosa
PP71	Jeremi Gonzalez

1998 Pinnacle - Museum Collection Cards have a silver Dufex finish on the front, and "Museum Collection" is printed on the lower back.

Number	Player
PP15	Mark Grace
PP48	Sammy Sosa
PP71	Jeremi Gonzalez

1998 Pinnacle - Epix Epix card came in three differant colors (Emerald, Orange, Purple)and was Part of a large cross-promotional release featuring 1998 Pinnacle, 1998 Score, 1998 Zenith and an unreleased 1998 Pinnacle Certified. For this specific set, #E1-E6 are "Game", #E7-E12 are "Season", #E13-E18 are "Moment", and #E19-24 are "Play".

Number	Player
E6	Ryne Sandberg

Chicago Cubs 1998 Pinnacle Sets Checklist

1998 Pinnacle
1998 Pinnacle Inside
1998 Pinnacle Mint Collection
1998 Pinnacle Performers
1998 Pinnacle Plus
1998 Pinnacle Snapshots
1998 Score
1998 Score Rookie & Traded
1998 Zenith