The 2004 Fleer Greats of the Game – Cut Signature Edition – Part 2 – the subsets

The Announcing Greats and the Yankee Clippings

In addition to the Etched in Time subset discussed earlier, there are four additional subsets included in the Cut Signature Edition of the 2004 Fleer Greats of The Game product. These are the Announcing Greats subset, the Yankee Clippings subset, the Forever subset and the Personality Cuts subset.  I’ll cover the Announcing Greats and the Yankee Clippings today.

Let’s start with the Announcing Greats subset. The idea here was to pair a broadcasting legend and a baseball legend from the same market. There are ten (10) terrific combinations such as Mel Allen and Yogi Berra from the Yankees and Vin Scully and Steve Garvey from the Dodgers. Others include Kalas and Schmidt of Phillies fame and Caray and Sandberg from the Chicago Cubs. Eight (8) of the ten include a cut autograph (missing are the combinations of Scully and Garvey as well as Martin and Fisk of the Red Sox. These eighteen (18) additions push the number of this series to 236 cards.

Now, on to the Yankee Clippings subset. Here we enjoy a game-used memorabilia card of eight great Yankees; Yogi Berra, Wade Boggs, Reggie Jackson, Paul O’Neill, Roger Maris, Don Mattingly, Phil Rizzuto and Moose Skowron. All eight come with a variation which is a combination of a smaller memorabilia swatch and an autograph. The Roger Maris autograph is limited to a production quantity of three (3) and the Maris and Rizzuto memorabilia cards are limited to a quantity of 150. The remaining memorabilia/autograph are also short-printed with quantities as high as 26 (Boggs, O’Neill and Skowron) and as low as 15 (Berra, Jackson, Mattingly and Rizzuto). These 16 Yankee Clippings push our magic number to 252.

Next time, I’ll cover the beast that is the Forever subset.  Until then, all best.