HEROIC 1993 UPPER DECK FUN PACK BASEBALL

BY JOEL REUTER

For many, nostalgia remains the driving force behind baseball card collecting, and that’s how we arrived at the idea of One-Sheet Collections.

It’s a simple concept with infinite possibilities.

Take a single nine-pocket sheet and a reasonable $50 budget, and build a nine-card collection with a unifying theme.

This time around we focus on a forgotten mid-1990s set.

Fun Pack was a short-lived product line from Upper Deck that was targeted toward kids with a low price point and a checklist filled with fun subsets.

The product was nixed after two years and essentially replaced by Collector’s Choice.

However, the nine-card HERO subset in the 1993 Fun Pack set deserves to be dusted off and appreciated for its comic-book style depiction of some of the game’s biggest stars.