Sunday, 17 January 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 3 - Sandwich

Some Dollarama hangers are the perfect cardboard bread to complete the 2021 opening repack adventures of a cube and some Surprise bags. A trio of $1 for 15 baggies.
2018 Platinum - Brock Nelson - Not the  best centering, but you gotta start somewhere.
2015 UD - Anders Lee
1991 Score - Mike Peluso
1990 Bowman - Daniel Marois
1995 Pinnacle - Trent Klatt
2005 Franchises - Laurie Boschman - It looks like 'Franchises' is joining 1990 Bowman as 1-per-hanger.I approve.
1994 Leaf - Dale Hawerchuk
2008 OPC - Trent Hunter
1990 UD - Drake Berehowsky
1993 Pinnacle - Todd Ewen
1995 Coll. Choice Players Club - Tony Granato - A parallel! WOO-HOO!
1990 UD - Eric Weinrich
1990 OPC - Yvon Corriveau
1991 7IS - Alexandre Gaumond - This was the only card of his career - might as well scan and show it.
2011 UD - Kris Letang - A great photo to end the first one.
2019 UD - Joonas Korpisalo - And the second repack opens.
2013 Score - Scott Clemmensen
1991 Bowman - Darcy Wakaluk
1990 UD - Doug Crossman
1990 Bowman - Bruce Driver
1996 Topps - Pat Verbeek
2002 Parkhurst - Saku Koivu
2005 Franchises - Gerry Cheevers - Again, one-per-repack is welcome.
2002 Topps - Michal Handzus
1990 Pro Set - Jean Jacques Daigneault - One of my favourite names to say out loud. 
1997 Choice - France St. Louis - Content for the distaff side!
1997 Choice - Doug Weight/Checklist - While the 'Letter means insert' is now quite quaint, it is still thrilling to find a beautiful card in a pack.
1991 OPC - Mathieu Schneider
1990 Score - Mark Messier
2015 Portfolio - Brian Leetch - I think the retired portion of the Portfolio set was slightly SPd, so that's a nice little bonus to end the second one.
2019 UD - Justin Schultz - An alternate uniform for repack #3's opener.
2017 OPC Update- Christian Jaros - The first Sens card in the repack. He's still in the Sens system.
1994 Leaf - Garth Snow
1998 Choice - Boris Mironov - The 'skate up' is one of my favourite motifs for card photos.
1996 Impact - Peter Forsberg
2001 Pacific - Paul Kariya
1993 Leaf - Mike Richter - Gotta scan the back of a '93 Leaf!
2005 Franchises - Roy Worters - Not that long ago, one of these provided by first Brooklyn Americans card with a Ching Johnson. Now I've got a New York Americans card to go with it! WOO-HOO! Best card of these repacks!
2004 UD - Chuck Kobasew
2006 BTP - Grant Fuhr
1993 Parkhurst - Jamie Baker
1993 UD - Whalers Leaders - All of these have included one Whalers card (Corriveau, Black), so I might as well scan one of them.
1990 Bowman - John Carter
1994 Score - Steve Larmer
1992 Classic - Jeff Shantz
2015 SPA - Chris Kreider

Not that spectacular an ending, but these were really solid on the whole.

Friday, 15 January 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 2.5 - Cubism

1991 Skybox - Jerry Reynolds - We're underway for the final fifth with some Skybox. 
1992 Fleer - Rafael Addison
1997 Scoreboard - Jacque Vaughn
1991 UD - Karl Malone
1993 Fleer - Hubert Davis
1992 Stad. Club - Frank Johnson
1991 UD - Kiki Vanderweghe
1992 Topps - Mark Macon
1992 Topps - Dikembe Mutombo - Again, I loves me some Dikembe.
1989 Hoops - Joe Kleine
1989 Fleer - John Battle
1995 UD - Juwan Howard
2004 UD - Jamal Mashburn - The crouching photo is just perfect for a horizontal layout.
1997 Fleer - Scott Burrell
1992 Stad. Club - Harvey Grant
1993 Fleer - Ken Norman
1997 Score Board - Damon Stoudamire - Does this count as the second Raptors card of the break? It sure does!
1991 UD - Tom Chambers
1989 Hoops - Walter Davis
1995 Fleer - Glenn Robinson - Typical mid 90s Fleer loudness.
1993 Ultra - Derek Harper
1993 Ultra - Pete Chilcutt
2018 Hoops - Karl Malone
1997 Fleer - Jamal Mashburn
2018 Prizm - Amar'e Stoudamire
1992 Ultra - John Williams
1993 Classic - Mark Bell
1990 Fleer - Byron Irvin
2010 Update - Andre Iguodala
2007 Topps - Rasheed Wallace - A nice photo with a perfect glimpse of two points going on the board.
2006 Bowman - Baron Davis
1999 Hoops - Andre Miller
2008 MVP - Ron Artest
1992 Fleer - Terry Catledge
2010 Update - Nenad Krstic
1990 Skybox - Randy Breuer
1992 Ultra - Lance Blanks
1994 Skybox - Dominique Wilkins
1992 Stad. Club - Jon Barry
1990 Fleer - Scott Brooks
1992 UD - Otis Thorpe
1992 Fleer - Nick Anderson
1990 Fleer - Eric Leckner
1992 UD - Drazen Petrovic

1989 Fleer - Rik Smits - Classic logo! Classic unis! Rookie sensation! Fun card!
1991 Fleer - Scott Skiles
1992 Stad. Club - Mark Johnson
1992 Fleer - Larry Johnson
1990 Skybox - Eric Leckner
1991 Hoops - Mitchell Wiggins - A great use of the design letting the players break through the border. Much like with the Mokeski from yesterday, this could easily of have been the photo on the card of either pictured player.
1990 Fleer - John Salley
2016 Donruss - Georges Niang
2014 Hoops - Courtney Lee


2015 Court Kings - Al-Farouq Aminu - It might have taken until the second last card, but here's a random Court Kings card - a perpetual favorite of mine.
2016 Hoops - Archie Goodwin - And that's that.

Some PC cards and some low-numbered cards helped make for a pretty decent repack, even though the Raptors content was sparse. Even with that, it is always fun to go through and sort a pile of cards while looking for interesting items. 

Thursday, 14 January 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 2.4 - Cubism

2007 Topps - Mo Williams - Not the most interesting start to this portion.
2007 UD - Rafer Alston
2000 EX - Generation E-X Jerseys - Shareef Abdur-Rahim/Stromile Swift - But it gets better fast with the only hit in the repack being a perfect card for my Vancouver Grizzlies mini-collection. Twice the relics!
2006 Topps - Renaldo Blackman
2007 UD - Antonio McDyess
2009 Prestige /999 - Jon Brockman - Dear God that's a hairy man - oh wait. Some dude's standing next to him.
2008 UD - Nate Robinson
1992 Ultra - Mario Elie
1990 Fleer - Ricky Pierce
1991 Fleer - Kennt Smith
1990 Skybox - William Bedford
1995 Metal - Cedric Ceballos
1991 Hoops - David Feitl - Those light blue Nets jerseys were ghastly.
1991 UD - Kevin Duckworth
1993 Ultra - Antonio Harvey
1992 Ultra - Byron Houston
1993 Ultra - Terry Davis
1997 Scoreboard - Paul Grant
1993 Fleer - Terry Mills
1993 UD - Derek Strong
1992 Fleer - Chris Ford
1990 Fleer - Maurice Cheeks - Since this was a 1990 Knicks card with the courtside seats viewable, I was scanning for Menendez content.
1991 UD - Tony Brown
1992 Classic - Isaiah Morris
2002 Ultra Back2Back /1000 - Morris Peterson - My first Raptors card of the break, and it was not only a need, but a numbered one as well!
1990 Hoops - Adrian Dantley
2016 Donruss - Andre Drummond
2018 Prizm - Terry Rozier
2018 Contenders - Andrew Wiggins
2018 Contenders - JJ Redick
2018 Contenders - Rudy Gay - Not just two from the same set in a row, but 3.
2015 Prizm - Donatas Motiejunas
1995 Metal - Dee Brown
1992 Skybox - Drazen Petrovic
2018 Prizm - Dejounte Murray
1990 Fleer - Bill Hanzlik
1991 UD - Brian Shaw
1992 Topps - Dikembe Mutombo - I loves me some Dikembe content.
1992 Classic Special Bonus - Christian Laettner
1992 Classic - Adam Keefe
1991 Skybox - Brian Oliver
1991 Fleer - Chuck Person
1993 UD - Derrick Coleman
1998 Topps - Jacque Vaughn
1990 Fleer - JR Reid
1990 Skybox - Paul Mokeski - You could have re-used this photo on Ron Harper's card as a shot of him stealing the ball and it would be just as appropriate.
1990 Fleer - AC Green
1993 Skybox - John Stockton
1992 Topps - John Stockton - Back-to-back of the same HOFer.
1990 Fleer - Jeff Hornacek
1993 Hoops - Kevin Douglas
1992 Skybox - John Salley - I'm showing the back of the card, only because I can imagine John getting upset at a game going into OT, thus cutting into his open mic night at Yuk Yuk's.

And the back of the card ends the 4th portion of the repack. One left!

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 2.3 - Cubism

2013 Hoops - Brandon Rush - First up with this grouping is a nice photo from the backboard.
2005 Topps Gold /99 - Earl Boykins - Yup. That /100 wasn't the lowest numbered card in the repack - this /99 takes that title.
2018 Contenders - Evan Fournier
2015 Excalibur - Lou Williams
2018 Prizm - Darren Collison
1993 Fleer - Nate McMillan
1994 Fleer - Grant Long
1993 Holojam - Walt Williams - Hologram card! YES! If it weren't for the PC hit to come in the next post, this would be the top card in this. 
1994 Stad. Club - Kevin Willis
1989 Fleer - Doc Rivers
2016 Donruss - Evan Fournier
2016 Absolute - Tyler Zeller
1994 Hoops - Wayman Tisdale - With everything so brightly lit in today's arenas, I appreciate the contrast of a player against a dark arena.
1991 UD - Kendall Gill
1990 Fleer - Tom Hammonds
1993 Finest - Ken Norman
1990 Skybox - Rory Sparrow
2004 Topps Black /500 - Michael Finley - Another numbered card.
1993 Fleer - Johnny Dawkins
1992 UD - Sedale Threatt
1991 Fleer - All-Star Game
1994 Skybox - Charles Barkley
1992 Fleer - Michael Cage
1992 UD - Duane Ferrell
1990 Fleer - Sam Vincent
1992 Stad. Club - Tracy Moore
1993 Topps - Mark Bryant
2006 Topps - Rodney Carney
2007 UD - Richard Jefferson
2008 UD - Udonis Haslem
2008 UD - Ben Gordon - I always find it interesting when cards from the same set show up back-to-back in these.
2006 Topps Chrome - Jared Jeffries - They may scan horribly, but I just want to scan the random Topps Chrome appearance.
2008 Fleer - Jerry Stackhouse
1990 Skybox - Bill Hanzlik
1992 Skybox - Danny Manning
1995 Metal - Malik Sealy
2007 Stadium Club /1999 - Marcus Williams - These really don't scan well at all.
1990 Skybox - Otis Smith
1995 Metal - Greg Anthony - Vancouver Grizzlies card! (Look at the team name)
1993 UD - Mark Price
1990 Fleer - John Salley
1998 Bowman's Best - Shareef Abdur-Rahim - A more obvious Grizzlies card.
1991 Skybox - Winston Garland
1990 Skybox - Sam Perkins
1993 UD - PJ Brown
1991 UD - Herb Williams
1990 Fleer - Kenny Walker
1992 Ultra - Brent Price
1992 Fleer - Tony Smith
1992 Ultra - Steve Hanson
2015 Prestige - Nikola Vucevic - Finished.

There's another 50 or so cards worth of repack content. Vancouver and numbered card content give this a nice upgrade over the previous portion.

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 2.2 - Cubism


1992 Classic - Everick Sullivan - First up, a card of a player who never reached the NBA, but has had a good coaching career at the NCAA level.
1989 Hoops - Brad Lohaus
1998 UD - Seth Rooks
1991 UD - James Edwards
1990 Fleer - Detlef Schrempf
2015 Select - Trey Burke
2018 Contenders - Andre Drummond - There were a surprising number of cards from this set in this repack.
2018 Contenders - Donovan Mitchell
2016 Complete - David Lee
1991 Skybox - Otis Thorpe
1991 Fleer - Mark Price
1992 Ultra - Robert Parish - CHIEF! (McLoud)
1994 Skybox - Hakeem Olajuwan
1992 Fleer - Rex Chapman
1992 UD - Todd Lichti
1990 Fleer - Reggie Theus
1990 Fleer - Ron Anderson
1992 Stad. Club - Andrew Lang
1992 UD - Tony Campbell
2010 Update - Antonio McDyess - He spent a couple seasons there, but I have zero memory of him playing for the Spurs.
2006 Bowman - Leon Powe
2007 UD - Channing Frye
2002 UD - Dan Langhi
1995 Metal - Danny Manning - This starts off a small stack of early 90s era cards.
1995 Finest - Dell Curry
1993 Classic - Chris McNeal
1993 Fleer - Nate McMillan
1993 Finest - Victor Alexander
1992 Fleer - Brian Shaw
1992 UD - Sedale Threatt
1990 Fleer - Edic Leckner
1992 Stad. Club - Rich King - Derp face!
1991 Fleer - Rod Higgins
1991 UD - Randy Breuer
1990 Skybox - Felton Spencer - I miss suit-clad players on their draft cards. Even if he looks like a middle school vice-principal.
1992 Ultra - Marty Conlon
1990 Skybox - Reggie Theus
1992 UD - Johnny Newman
1990 Fleer - Rony Siekaly
1994 Hoops - Lindsey Hunter/Eddie Jones
1992 Topps - Luc Longley
1989 Hoops - Chuck Person - The Pacers need to bring these back as retro uniforms a few times per season. Or enough that they get a couple cards per season.
1991 UD - Kevin Duckworth
1994 UD - BJ Armstrong
1991 UD - Jud Buechler
1994 Fleer - Sergei Bazarevich - Creeper-stache alert!
1990 Fleer - Clyde Drexler
1992 Topps - Terry Mills
1993 Topps - Walt Williams
2018 Prizm - Kristaps Porzingis - That's a nice player to end the run.
1993 Fleer - Billy Owens - Another 1/5th in the books.

That was definitely not the most interesting portion I've ever done of one of these. Better luck tomorrow!