Friday 4 April 2014

2014 Adventures in Repacks: Part 20 - Part 2

Now, for the non-Topps portion of the repack.

2007 Upper Deck S1

Clay Hensley - A nice start with Padres brown.
Todd Coffey
Joe Nathan
Ian Kinsler
Zach Duke
Carlos Zambrano - This might be a dream card for Nick @ Dime Boxes. A Cub. A pitcher at the plate. And a broken bat.
Placido Polanco - And here's an appearance of an award I really haven't seen much of on cardboards. It is the L.S. MacPhail Jr. award for the AL Championship Series MVP.
Tom Gorzelanny

2008 Documentary

Angels - Game 31 (At least one was a new Vladdy)
Diamondbacks - Game 41
Marlins - Game 78
Tigers - Game 78
Phillies - Game 59
Mariners - Game 58
Astros - Game 103
Marlins - Game 103
Tigers - Game 103
Angels - Game 64 (Gold)

1988 Fleer

Steve Lombardozzi
Tom Hume
Kelly Gruber - WOO-HOO! A Blue Jay!
John Davis
Danny Cox
Spike Owen
Randy St. Claire - WOO-HOO! An Expo!
Jay Bell
Les Lancaster
Harold Baines
Orel Hershiser
Jay Aldrich
Jeff Blauser
Eric Bell
Kevin Bass

2007 Upper Deck S2 Rack

Eric Hinske
Joe Borowski
Jimmy Gobble - Jimmy Gobble! One of my favourite names in baseball history!
Kevin Mench - Another twofer Dime Boxes mini-collection. Throwback uniform and signing autographs. It even has a nice photo of the stadium in the background.
Hanley Ramirez
Mike Piazza - Not an oddball, but seeing Piazza in anything but a Mets or Dodgers uniform still seems strange.
Ichiro
Shawn Hill
Jeremy Guthrie
Neal Cotts
Logan Kensing
Aubrey Huff
Kevin Gregg
Elmer Dessens - Baseball seriously needs more people named Elmer.
MVP Potential - Magglio Ordonez
Jon Lieber - There aren't too many play at the plate cards that feature the pitcher as opposed to the catcher showing off the ball.
Ryan Franklin
Ryan Zimmerman
Mike Lowell - This would have been an "Out of Bounds" parallel had this photo shown up in Topps S1 last year.
Vernon Wells - A Blue Jay! WOO-HOO! I don't know if he's circling the bases after a home run, or trotting back to the dugout after a pop-up. I assume I could look up day games in 2006 featuring Oakland at Toronto, but I'll pass.
Barry Zito
David Delucci
Octavio Dotel
Tony Graffanino - There's an Italian name for you! PAISANO!
Rob Bowen
Bruce Chen
Pete Orr - CanCon!
Brad Eldred - Unlike Vernon, you know this is after a home run.
Edwin Jackson
Jeff DaVanon
MVP Potential - Jermaine Dye

Lots of photographic keepers makes this a great repack busting session. I'll have to keep look for ones with UD rack packs visible, as they seem filled with keepers.

3 comments:

  1. Though the design isn't all that great, I'm just now starting to realize how great the photography was in 2007 Upper Deck.

    The Zambrano and Mench (both of which I have) are especially awesome mini-collection hits. The Lieber is another favorite of mine for the exact reason you mentioned.

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  2. I've always been a fan of UD's photography. Good stuff.

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  3. That Lowell is great, and this post makes me want some 07 Upper Deck.

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