Pacific Trading Cards, Inc.

Early years Mike Cramer, the founder of Pacific Trading Cards, began collecting baseball cards at nine years old. His first card was a Babe Ruth card from a nickel pack of Fleer 1960 All-Time Greats cards. In 1977, Cramer entered into a deal with Topps and purchased all of their closeout cases of cards. 1990s By 1990, Pacific was manufacturing and distributing ten lines of trading cards including Major Indoor Soccer League, Baseball Legend, and Senior Baseball League. That year, Pacific also released a set of 110 Desert Shield trading cards featuring leaders, weapons, and soldiers involved in Operation Desert Shield. Pacific released sets of non-sports trading cards for I Love Lucy In 1993, Pacific finally received its first Major League Baseball license and began producing MLB cards in the Spanish language. By 1998 Pacific held a license to manufacture trading cards for all three major sports leagues, Major League Baseball, NFL Football and NHL Hockey. Pacific brands for the three major sports cards licenses included Pacific, Prism (now Prizm) Crown Royale, Invincible, Paramount, Aurora, Revolution, Omega, and Vanguard. In 1999, Pacific released the first-ever Kurt Warner and in 2000 Tom Brady rookie cards. By 2004, the only major license Pacific held was for the National Hockey League. When the 2004–05 NHL lockout started, Cramer decided to retire and sold Pacific Trading Cards to Playoff. Playoff was later sold to Panini Group, which continued Pacific's Prism line under the slightly altered name "Prizm". ==Products==

Sports trading cards Baseball Minor League Baseball Cards (1975-1986) Major League Baseball Cards(1980-2002) • Pacific Eight Men Out(1988) • Pacific Legends (1980-1990) • Pacific Senior League (1989-1990) • Pacific Tom Seaver "Tom Terrific" (1991) • Nolan Ryan Texas Express Series II (1991) • Pacific Jugadoes Calientes (1993) • Pacific Prisms (-1996 • Pacific Mariners (1995) • Pacific Harvey Riebe (1995) • Pacific Advil Nolan Ryan (1996) • Pacific Marlins (1997) • Aurora (1998-2000) • Pacific Omega Baseball (1998) • Pacific Home Run Heroes (1998) • Pacific Home Run History (1998) • Crown Royale Baseball (1998-2000) • Revolution (1998-2000) • Pacific Nestle (1998) • Paramount (1998-2000) • Pacific Crown Collection (1999-2000) • Private Stock (1999) • Pacific Vanguard (2000) • Paramount Update (2000) Football • NFL Football (1991-2002) • NFL Steve Largent (1988) NFL Orowheat Seattle Seahawks (1988-1992) Ice Hockey • NHL Hockey (1997-2005) NHL Hockey McDonalds(1998-2003) Soccer • Major Indoor Soccer League 1988-1993 Softball • Pacific Baerga Softball (1996-1997) Nonsports trading cards • Wizard of Oz (1990) • Operation Desert Shield (1991) • I Love Lucy (1991) • The Andy Griffith Show (1991) • Saved By the Bell (1992) • ”Saved by the Bell Collage Years (1994) • Rad Dudes(1991) • ”Leave it to Beaver”(1983) • ”World War II (1992) • ”Total Recall (1990) • ”Gunsmoke (1992) • ”Where are They” (1992) • ”Eight Men Out” (1988) • ”Garfield” (2000) • ”Bingo Movie” (1991) • ”Pukey-mon” (2000) Chocolate bars Chocolate bars came with a limited edition baseball card. • Ken Griffey Jr. (1989) • Tony Gwynn (1990) • Wade Boggs (1990) Memorabilia • Heads Up Bobbleheads • NHL Mini Sweaters ==Memoir==

In October 2023, Cramer's book, ''Cramer's Choice: Memoir of a Baseball Card Collector Turned Manufacturer'' was published by McFarland & Company. Cramer began writing the book a few years prior, after he was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, intending to document his life for his children and grandchildren. Bob Uecker had originally given Cramer the idea for the book. He wrote 117,000 words on an iPad, letter by letter, and later sent it to McFarland, which immediately accepted the manuscript. The final product is about 90,000 words. ==References==