To stay with my alternating pattern, it looks like a baseball one is next.
This one, in particular. We open with a nicely laid-put horizontal photo.Wednesday 30 October 2024
2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 30 - Back to Baseball
Monday 28 October 2024
Baseball 2/14s
Over to my COMC to-be-posted box, and it is time to start working my way through the 2/14 content in, broken up into 3 parts. There's baseball, hockey, and everything else. I'll stay topical to the World Series and begin with the baseball.
I didn't have any Yankees to show off in the box, so it will be Dodgers content to lead. This is probably my most obscure Len Gabrielson entry in the collection. At least until I add his 1964 Venezuelan parallel into the binder.There's always room for Stadium Club in the collection, especially of the inked variety.
That is a (partial) background worthy of a 1989 Diamond Kings card. Me like!
Sunday 27 October 2024
Redeemed!
In which this...
turned into this...And it is pretty topical considering last night's game. Even if it is two years old. But it is a great looking card, and it the silver signature is a perfect combination with the design. It might have been a redemption, but at least the card was nice enough to be worth the wait.
There you have it!
Friday 25 October 2024
2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 29 - Alternating
Do a baseball one of these, follow it up with the football version:
And it is this one. That might be the most compact photo I've seen on a base card in ages.Cardale Jones was a draft pick of the Bills, so of course that counts as a card towards that binder. And, unlike with 2/14 fave Christian Hackenberg, he actually saw some game action with his drafting team. That's the second Sharpe that I've found in one of these repacks from the most recent restocking.Punter card! Such a quaint time when a punter would receive a card in a draft-themed set. Also Junious > Buck.Here's the hit! He may not have had the most stellar NFL career, but Ramses is a pretty great name. If only he'd been drafted by St. Louis back in 2009, his cards would have been a lot more memorable. Neil Smith will win the photo battle in this one with the interesting sideline shot. Len Ford doubles up on the Enor HOF cards. However, seeing as he's a Wolverines alum, that card has already been set aside for future outgoing mail. And the finale.
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Tip-Off
Games may have officially started last night, but the season doesn't really start until your favourite team has hit the court in the regular season for the first time. That's tonight, and here are some Raptors to welcome the season.
I like completeness, and I was doubtful that Will Barton's 16 games in Toronto would earn him a card as the team. So, I added a collegiate card of his to the binder. But then Panini needed to dump some stickers, so he showed up in Elite as a Raptor. Fortunately, adding this to the collection was not an expensive proposition.Speaking of collegiate cards, here's two featuring rookies that may, or may not, be debuting tonight. Walter was their first rounder, while Shead went in the second. A perfectly acceptable start to a collection that will likely add some actual Raptors cards as the season release season progresses.A not so random VanVleet closes off the COMC portion of this post.Not-so-random because I picked this up since the back salutes his record performance for an undrafted player.Now, some group break cards from a part case of Phoenix. Phoenix did make a previous appearance as part of Chronicles, but this is its solo debut in basketball. Since it was a part case, I didn't get a complete team set, but it did result in Ochai Agbaji joining the binders. He actually had a pre-Raptors connection with Gradey Dick. They both weren't just Kansas alum, but Gradey got his dorm room when he left KU.Here's the parallels. The McGrady is an unnumbered silver, with Poeltl coming in at /175 for his pink version."Court of the Kings"? Real creative there Panini.
Monday 21 October 2024
Player to be Named Later
One of Toronto's most famous:
And one of Pittsburgh's most infamous.Saturday 19 October 2024
New Faces of the 2/14 Collection
A grand total of 4 new faces have been added to my 2/14 collection, and it is time to show them off!
My first surfer! More importantly, Caroline Marks might also be the first individual Olympic Gold Medalist in the collection, having picked up a surfing medal this past summer in Paris. All my others with the medal are in team events, such as Milan Hejduk, Angel di Maria and Kara Lawson. Of course, I may research my way to more to acquire, or to already be in there.My policy of googling people I hadn't heard of beforehand ran into a bump here, as most of my results were of the character from the movie Get Out. But I didn't come across anything negative about any real Rod Williams, so I'll assume all is well with this one.I had been seeing Juan Graterol's name on the list of Feb 14 birthdays over at baseball-reference for a few years, and just assumed I'd had at least one of his cards. Nope! Then again, this was about as close as things got to a mainstream card of his. Everything else was just a local minor-league issue. So, it is this - or nothing. Thank you, Topps Total, for your completeness.Thursday 17 October 2024
The Ranger Roundup
Shininess!
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Chasing, and Capturing
2024 Upper Deck CFL dropped last week. I picked up two boxes, hoping to build the base set. Unfortunately, the base content in the box was remarkably similar and I ended up 25-ish short of the base set.
But that really didn't matter, since I landed what was probably my personal chase card in the product.
A Tre-Ford patch/auto!Monday 14 October 2024
Bills! Bills! Bills!
As the team crashes down to their expected reality over the past two games, let's see some 2024 Bills courtesy of a Score group break.
Here's the veteran/legend base. Sort of a 1990 Score vibe for the border, although it is killed with the addition of the additional white border to make things crowded. They also did that back in 2019 with the 1989 salute, but I really didn't feel that then. I'm not sure why - maybe I just liked the base photography more.
Here's the rookies, still in their college attire of various licensing and photoshopping. I'm not sure, but I think Frank Gore Sr and Jr are the first father/son combo in the Bills collection. Something I found interesting about the design is that photos are re-used for the rookies on the back of the card, but the veterans got new ones. There's a sports crossover on the only insert I got, with 1991 Baseball's "The Franchise" design being ported over to football.Let's see some autographs. Frank Gore Jr's experience with the Bills has been on the practice squad, but I want to complete the father/son set with a Gore Sr. Bills auto. There aren't too many of those out there, so my dream might have to be fulfilled with a Miami Hurricanes one.Green autograph parallels were somewhat more SPd than the regular versions, but I'm not too sure as to what level. I don't really care too much other than for curiosity's sake, since this card of their top draft pick is a keeper. His first games have been perfectly fine for a rookie, especially with the way the targets have been spreadd around so far this season.