1991 was a great year. I was just starting high school and officially began collecting. The first baseball trading cards I got my hands on were the now cheap and famous 1991 Panini stickers. I don't know how much money we paid for the album and single packs back then, but I do remember I saved and used for this purpose every single penny I was supposed to spend on lunch and whatever extra cash I received from one of my crazy uncles.
Every morning, we would get to school early enough to buy and share our pulls. If you got there late and missed the seller and didn't fell like waiting until tomorrow, at 10:15am you had 45 minutes (lunch break) to sneak out and run 3 blocks down the street to a nearby private school where the seller was at that time.
Did I ever complete the 1991 album? No. Later that year we were introduced to "regular" baseball cards and never looked back.
For my surprise and delight, a couple of moths ago I found these stickers in a local flea market and I knew they were coming home with me right away.
Now that Panini is in the baseball business once again, maybe they'll resurrect this project and bring back the album glory days for our kids.
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