1992 Topps Gold Winner Roger Clemens

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. As a nod to the Gold Together activities going on this month to help raise awareness of the leading cause of death by disease in children, I thought I'd contribute several "gold" themed posts sprinkled throughout the month. Here's the first one.

Let's talk about this card...

The 1992 Topps Gold Roger Clemens. If memory serves, the gold cards from Topps were the first ever parallel inserts. Thanks for the craziness that ensued, Topps. The regular gold cards were relatively rare. These guys, less so. When it became apparent that winning a scratch contest for regular gold cards became easy to scam, Topps decided to award these beauties as a compromise. Or, that was the plan all along and created a little bit of publicity for themselves.

Really enjoy the look of the card. Fresh off another Cy Young award winning season in 1991, this card perfectly captures Rocket. The tight crop brings to focus on Clemens. The green backdrop makes the white uniform rally stand out, and you can see the snarl on his face. That's probably not something batters enjoyed seeing.

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