New 2/14 Faces

I'm determined to get through my COMC to-be-posted content before I hit ship on the latest order. So, this weekend I will be getting caught up on the content in that box.

I'm opening with the newest wrestler addition to my collection in Lin Byron or her masked alter-ego of Ray. This also a pretty depressing entry, as she passed away from a brain tumour in August of 2018.

Two new ladies for the collection! I thought cards of her would be more plentiful, but realized I'd confused her with her sister Magdalena. A third sister, Katerina combined to make them the only sisters ever to be ranked in the Top 10 simultaneously.

A 1976 set that highlights the 1887 World Series adds Charles 'Pretzels' Getzein to my collection. He does have a vintage Allen & Ginter card, which will probably be my next add to the unreasonable want list.

A card of a team's general manager? Thanks, Smokey! Poile is now in that role with Nashville.

Cooperalls! Questionable hair! It must be an 80s hockey card! This does appear to be the only card David Lundmark got in his career. He's with the OHL's Kingston Canadians here, which, after a one-season stint as the Raiders, became the name they're still known as today - the Frontenacs.

And here's your big winner - a quartet of Bates Motel cards featuring Freddie Highmore. Unless someone starts releasing cards for The Good Doctor, this might be what his content is limited to.

There you have it! Familiar faces up next!

RIP: Jared Lorenzen

I'm always bummed out when guys in my PC pass away, but this one more than usual. He might have been one of my favourite guys to add cards of to the collection.

RIP: Zarley Zalapski

RIP to one of my favourite names in hockey.

RIP: Dave Semenko

Fuck cancer.

RIP: Anthony Young

Crap.

If Mets was an adjective, Anthony Young would have been the most Mets pitcher in team history.

RIP: Lou Fontinato

"That honker of his was right there, and I drilled it." - Gordie Howe, following a famous fight against Lou.

2016 Sucks

Screw this year.

RIP: Rowdy Roddy Piper

Dusty Rhodes dies. Hulk Hogan is a racist. Now this. Boy, my childhood sure has taken a beating over the past month and a half.

RIP: Dusty Rhodes

So long to one of the best promo men ever in the business.

I could link to the "Hard Times" promo, but this one is almost as great.

RIP: Nelson Frazier

Aka: Mabel, Viscera, or Big Daddy V

And, as a member of the 2/14 club, a guy who I collected. This was not the news I wanted to wake up to.

RIP: Shawn Burr

1966-2013. 16 year NHL veteran and Kitchener Rangers alum.