Over to my COMC to-be-posted box for some hockey content today, and either stuff I acquired through e-packs, or stuff I picked up cheaply on COMC.
Despite the photos being more interesting than the base cards in general, the Canvas inserts are kinda dreaded among those that only buy individual packs, since they could replace a potentially $$!$! YG rookie. This might have been the first base one that was popular among collectors, which is solely the result of his serial killer impression on the card.Here's a couple horizontal entries. Ullmark's card commemorates the goal he scored, and is one of a handful of cards in the GDM hockey releases that still have something resembling value at this point at COMC. Audie is no longer the goofy being that cheers on Utica's team, but has since been replaced by Naudie. To end, here's some entries out of Compendium. I love how the extension of the photo works perfectly with the stick position on the Jagr and LaDue entries, and the celebratory goal-scoring line always works photographically for a card.Sportscards From The Dollar Store
Monday 18 March 2024
E-Pack Stuff
Sunday 17 March 2024
Many Mets
Back to the TMV box, and the Mets portion of it.
The only hit in this portion. Coming out of Upper Deck's "We can just hide part of the logo!" era. In retrospect - a VERY bad idea.Everything in the box was grouped together, which saved me the sorting time. But for some reason, all the Mike Piazza stuff was in the area with the misc. "guys i collect" portion. Was that a sign that I should scan them separate? I guess. Now that's how you get around the lack of a MLB license. The "Colorized" card comes from an unlicensed set that also salutes the respective state quarters. Did you think I was exaggerating with the term 'Many' in the title? It is hard to pick favorites in this stack of cards, but I'll pick the two 'Subway' themed Pete Alonso cards. I had no idea these existed before adding them, but now I can totally see myself, like an idiot, adding the other 28 in this set to my COMC cart at some point. It's such an inspired design choice for a card featuring a New York player.Friday 15 March 2024
2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 8 - Another Hanger and Hit
Another one of these, specifically this one:
Tuesday 12 March 2024
3901. 3902. 3903.
I'm going to continue my quest for 4000 cards in my 2/14 collection with a trio of new faces.
All three come from the hockey world. But in any portion of the collection, Enrico Scardocchio would be the most aggressively Italian name in the collection. He represents the long gone Saint Jean Lynx of the QMJHL. No, they didn't French-ify Saint John New Brunswick. They played out of Saint-Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec. And did so until they moved to Rimouski, where they remain the Oceanic.
Despite a very good effort with a last name like Paolucci, he didn't have a chance. His Hull Olympiques also don't exist any more, but that's because the city itself was renamed Gatineau.Monday 11 March 2024
Another Raptors Mega-Post
Nothing but dino jerseys in this group! AWESOME!Here's the PWE finale. There's the base version of the Tabak parallel. Stadium Club during the Raptors' first season just used simple headshots of the players on the new team instead of bad airbrushing. That's probably for the best. It is really just a coincidence that I ended this part with a pair of Scottie Barnes appearances, since after all those trades, it really is his team now.
Saturday 9 March 2024
"No boy's ever brought me literature before!"
First time - and likely the last time - I'll use a Kelly Bundy quote as a post title.
But there's method to this madness.You see, in addition to this box of goodies in my most recent mailer from Too Many Verlanders' Dennis, was this!
Thursday 7 March 2024
Series 1! Finally!
While others are out chasing their Bedard dreams in Series 2 UD, I'm perfectly happy with one retail hanger of Series 1 baseball. You got start somewhere if I opt for a set build!And my first card is a guy whose name I would barely recognize if it weren't for the fact he had quite a few RCs in sets last year.My first (and as of yet, only) Jays card of 2024 actually doubles as my favorite photo in the pack. If they'd managed to align it so the glove was perfectly between the E and the J, it could be an all-timer.First 2024 Mets card and my first Rookie Cup card of the year as well.As for my favourite thing about this year's base cards?The small player photos that are on the reverse of the Team Leaders cards.
1989s? Maybe if the border were a little more off-white than white to salute the feel of the cards, I'd like them more to note that at least these haven't been done to death like 1987s.Not one, but two parallels! WOO-HOO? I guess if I were trying a set build (and TBH, I still might depending on the price point of Heritage) I'd wouldn't be as excited. While the Thomas is the more standard rainbow foil parallel, the Diaz blue holofoil is /999. If I'm expecting zero numbered parallels and land one, I guess that's a win!
Tuesday 5 March 2024
A Penmanship Posting
Back to the ol' penmanship binder, which simply means I love something about this person's signature, regardless of anything else.
With Van Jefferson and Cam Akers in 2020, and with Tutu Atwell in 2021, the Rams went on a good run of drafting players with nice handwriting for their signatures. While some might balk at his using a lower-case letter for the first letter, it does allow for the single line to be used to cross his Ts. And if you're actually taking the time to make such a quality signature, you can at least cut corners in one place.Usually, a player will use the initial for the first name and do a little more for their last name. Rodolfo Castro went the other way. And it looks really nice, especially how he uses much of the space allotted for his signature.