FREE: Dwight Evans Boston Red Sox Desert shield 1991

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1991 Topps Desert Shield #155 - Dwight Evans Parallel Card. Slight wax stain on back see scan slight creasing to upper right corner not visible on scan


This is from the special parallel set of it's 1991 Topps baseball set for the U.S. troops serving in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, the Desert Shield baseball cards all have a gold foil stamp on the front, featuring a palm tree inside of a shield, and the words "Operation Desert Shield" beside an American Flag. The fact that the 1991 Topps Desert Shield set was distributed overseas, combined with relatively limited production in comparison with the large hobby of the era, made the demand outweigh the supply in 1991. It's rumored that many of the cards that were given to soldiers ended up being lost in the turmoil of war, moving from base to base, back home, etc...or just thrown away to minimize what a soldier had to carry with him. Another rumor that's floated around the hobby is that one of the distribution centers where some of the cards were being kept over there caught fire and many of the cards were destroyed as a result.