More Forgotten Wax

 

I still have a small stack of those Pacific Plus  packs, and this time, I'm adding in a baseball pack instead of hockey this time. I've also got about 4 more left of those. And 7 Pacifics.

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Starting with baseball. I've started to appreciate accents showing up in player names. Without showing off the rest of the cards, Mel Hall will be the worst person to appear in this post. I'll say that assuming that Sax wasn't convicted of all those murders in New York. Mel is offset by the greatness of Jay Buhner's bubble blowing, and the back of Assenmacher's card.

That's the ticket!

 A photo of someone appearing to be hit by a pitch. What an honour for Van Slyke to be gifted with a cardboard memory like that. Mike Devereaux wins the battle here with a great shot down the line.

It really feels forced to have a Bash Brothers themed card and have Ruben Sierra as one of them. No shame to Ruben, but could UD at least tried to have another nickname for this card? Jerry Browne might have a less flattering photo choice than the Van Slyke.  We're still in the era of random pack collation for UD with Finley making a dupe appearance. Those Homerun Heroes were one-per in this type of pack. 

A few keepers in this! Now to the gridiron!

Pack 1:

Even if it is a dupe, I do have to acknowledge an appearance of 2/14er Harry Colon. We've also got infield dirt, back-to-back Dexters and an appearance of a plyer with their position listed as Wide Receiver, but him certainly looking like he's returning a punt/kick in the photo. A miss for an opportunity at a dual position card.

The second half isn't as interesting, aside from noting the Johnsons had nine months, and the best they could do was 'John', to paraphrase a Bobby Heenan one-liner.

Pack 2:

Bills content! I don't know if it was a bad thing for Cornelius Bennett that his appearance was delayed until the update portion of this set, or if it was a good thing for the Bills that they were so loaded at the time that he had to wait until the high numbered portion of it. The Tom Tupa card has a hint as to his future. 

He'd make the Pro Bowl, and also win a Super Bowl, as a punter - and Pacific had the forethought to include his punting skills as the fact on the back.

Even with three seasons as a Giant to start his career, it is hard to imagine McCaffrey as anything other than a member of the Broncos. There's also a future Super Bowl MVP to close things off, and someone who parlayed that into a position on lists of the worst free agent signings of all time. But those lists won't change his status as the MVP of Super Bowl XXX.

There you have it!

My Latest MST3Ked Movie Autograph

 

From Season 13, The Gizmoplex Season,  it is Doctor Mordrid himself, Jeffrey Combs! 

Combs had done a bunch of B-ish movies and was a fairly regular player in the Star Trek universe. His auto here is from a show called The 4400, which I remembered only the name of and couldn't tell you anything about the plot. 

With his movie resume, I was somewhat surprised that Mordrid was his only appearance in a MSTed movie, especially considering some of the movies used in the Netflix/Gizmoplex years. Dr Mordrid was best remembered for being an attempt at doing a Dr Strange movie, but doing so after losing the rights to actually do one in between the first time pen went to paper for a script, and its actual filming. I wouldn't call it good, but it did actually feel like and look like a movie. Always a plus considering some of the washed out prints that would sometimes be used.

And there you have it!

2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13 - Scans of Long Ago

 It may have been a couple months or so, but these scans have from a pair of Dollarama Value Park been sitting in the folder for too long.

Here's what was in the first one.

The opening card, Brian Wesenberg, is interesting because he'd never play a game in the Ducks system. He'd play in 1 NHL game with the Flyers. Cards of one gamers are always fun. That Rick Green would have been more fun if it was of Bill from the Red Green Show, as opposed to a hockey player.

The Canadian Pack could have provided the best of the repacks, but that Brandon Sutter is a 2/14 dupe.

I realized after looking at the scans for this post, that I neglected to highlight the 1993 Leaf back.

So, here's it courtesy of the TCDB scan. It is easier than trying to find it 2+ months later. Let's party like it is (Expo) 1986! 

Nothing too noteworthy here.

Here's the other one's contents.

The Canadian Pack is a far more interesting than the previous one as there are different sets, uniforms and eras represented. 

Cam Neely is enough to elevate this sorta dull 90s pack over the just plain dull 90s pack earlier. 

Here's that hit! It really doesn't matter who the featured player is, a hit is a better item to find instead of a few toploaders. Being a Hall of Famer is even better. It is also a 'traded' card, as despite the Red Wings photo, the blue on the borders indicate something else. That's another plus for oddness. The colour doesn't matter for the swatch, since both could conceivably show up on a Rangers relic too.

Finally, the second 5 card pack. The only thing of note can be found on the back of one of the cards.

A regrettable 90s hat choice. Berg never made it beyond the AHL, which was too bad for him getting a mainstream card with a less ridiculous photo on it.

There you have it!

The Champs Are Here!

 The Kitchener Rangers won the Robertson Cup this week as the OHL Champions, following a sweep of the Barrie Colts. Surely I have at least one card around that I haven't shown off before to celebrate it. Right?

How about a couple '82s of a pair of future Hall of Famers? That'll suffice!

And if that won't suffice, here's a scanner-bed worth of some of my favourite cards in that mini collection. No repeats! My favorites, naturally, being the combo cards that double-up on the alumni with autos, then relics. I realize that the Coffey doesn't contain either, but how can I pass on an octopus appearance?

There you have it!

2/14 Diamond Content

Back to the 2/14 collection today, and I'm showing off all the new baseball additions to the collection.

Here's the most recent additions to the collection. This was a solo PWE order from sportlots. This is the first contender for next year's "2/14 calendar year" best of  post. It may only be 1/4 Mitch Farris, but that's still enough to count it form the collection. Although I do hope he'll have a less obnoxious candidate.

From the newest to the oldest, and all the way back to 1960 for this Leaf entry. With this 5th card of his, I'm now the top collector of Tom Borland at tcdb. Short of acquiring a buyback, this is probably where my acquiring of his cards is going to end.

TCDB is strange with how it counts variations, so this being listed separately there means that this naturally counts as a separate card from the other, more basic entry in this set. I'm keeping the slip of paper with the card in the binders, since how else will I remember which is which?

Sanchez's cards are among the stranger ones in the collection, since all his cards list his birthday at 2/26, but practically all online sources list it as 2/14. It's a reverse of former Atlanta Falcon Jessie Tuggle, whose cards list him as 2/14, but there are various results from online sources. Both of their cards count for the collection, though. Also, the Tacoma Tigers were not affiliated with Detroit at the time of his minor league entry, but as the colours would indicate, they were an Oakland affiliate. The actual Detroit card is a Tiffany entry.

Nick Pivetta's 2025 move to the Padres earned both a photoshop special in Series 2 of flagship, and a probably-not version in Update. This is the former, which should have rendered an Update base appearance unnecessary. But it does give me a lot more cards to potentially acquire.

Topps Now are always fun additions to the collection. A lot of people were intrigued by Yermin's 5 hit debut, to the tune of 6,571 cards. His early success and later faltering made me pick up this for about 60 cents. The Optic is a "Red Dragon" parallel, and is /110. 

Brooks Lee's content increases by three. That blue parallel works so perfectly with the City Connect jersey. While I do appreciate that they did use different photos on the Fortune 15 card, I wish they'd used an image with a less "D'UH" facial expression with the smaller one.

More parallels here with Nolan Schanuel. The middle is a Magenta parallel, and is the third and final of the serial numbered cards in this post. The third one is an Easter Tin Green Leaf Foil parallel. That's some verbosity!

Dave Dravecky is the king this time around with 5 new cards. Those Topps and Fleer ones were cards I was certain I had in the collection, but tcdb told me otherwise. The postage stamp was listed as an item at tcdb, so it does count. Size-wise, it is about the size of two Topps Micro cards. So, not the smallest, but probably the thinnest.  Maybe the Larry Seiple Sunoco stamp would rival it?

There you have it!

Does Bear Strip in the Woods?

 

Maybe.

But I do hope Bear Woods did remove this jersey to hand over to UD in a more traditional setting.

$3.44 Well Spent

 

There are times I look through my "COMC To Be Posted" box and wonder what I was thinking. 

This isn't one of those times.

And I do appreciate the certification, even if only a weirdo like me would even consider a lack of certification an issue for a Ron Robinson auto.

There you have it!

2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 12 - Another Hat Trick

 Another pick up of one each of the three available Dollarama repacks. One of each from the front of the hanger pegs.

As before, I'm starting with the least expensive one.

The star of this one turns out to be the opening card. With a celebratory photo from the Stanley Cup Finals on the front, this made my usual method of grabbing whatever card was on top a good decision.

The value bundle's contents.

The 90s pack provided two appearances of the same player, albeit on different cards. They both mention John Druce's playoff scoring run the previous season, and his name is still thought of (at least by me) as the namesake for someone having unexpected playoff scoring success.

That's Vincent Damphousse on the checklist sketch cards. That's about all I can think of to say about the cards in this fivesome. That, and the bottom 2 cards were the only cards in this from outside of the early 90s.

A couple interesting photos on top, and a pair of Kitchener Rangers alumni on the bottom. McLlwain is one of four players in NHL history to suit up for 4 different teams in the same season. His card is new to the alum collection - Robinson was a dupe.

The O6 pack provided Red Wings. Nothing really of note here except one providing another reminder not to drink and drive.

When the most interesting thing is getting two different cards of the same guy in a repacked pack, that's a dull repack.

Will the most expensive pack save it?

Here's the opener. It is the first time I've found a true base rookie card in any of these. He's still in the Avs system, but has spent more time in the AHL than not the past seasons, but still saw a few games this past season. 

A pretty generic Canvas insert, but at least you get a good look at the genetic one-and-done "Utah Hockey Club" jersey from that era.

Overtime is a promotional set that you'd get from hobby shops if you purchased a box. These reds are parallels in that set. I'd be surprised by a regular card from those sets, let alone a parallel of a decent rookie from it. Not looking at the checklist for the set, I'll bet Gauthier is one of the better rookies in there, even if that wasn't so in Philly.

More red, which is an odd contrast for a Blues card. All the way back to 2016 for this, and this does seem to be practically a vintage card for one of these, even though I had a 16-17 Canvas card before Older ones will be appearing in future posts, though.

Not the most exciting finale, but still a parallel of a big name. 

So, the mist interesting card was the first one in the least expensive of the repacks. Will that influence future purchase choices?

Highly unlikely 

And there you have it!

Over and Out

 Considering I would have been happy to see them just reach the play-in game(s) this year, I'm happy with the Raptors season in spite of its end.

And like with the Sens after their elimination, I'm showing off the Raptors content in my to-be-posted box.

1 card. That's it. 1 single card.

I did miss the random abrasive designs of Court Kings, though.

There you have it!

Svoboda Stacks

 

Not too much today, just a bunch of Petr Svoboda additions to the 2/14 collection. All cards, aside from this sticker.

I do find it the slightest bit interesting that all 4 teams represented on Svoboda's team on these cards are still in the 2026 playoffs. But I've now got 63 cards of his in the binder. The opening Pro Set is the French version, which I've somehow never come across in repack land. I've had the autographed version of the Pinnacle Flyers card in the lower corner for awhile, and finally used this Sportlots seller to finally add the base version.

There you have it!