Alright! First Jays card of the box! That Jackson Cox photo gives the vibe of a photo of that was snapped by a stalker. At least the colours go with the Rockies, and I'm trusting enough to believe that isn't a photoshop job. Kumar Rocker's on-card autograph is probably the biggest name that I landed an auto from in this. It pairs nicely with the Mets card I got of him earlier this year from last year's release. Appropriately, this patch card is a red parallel - perfect for an Angels card.
Monday 31 July 2023
Prospecting on a Budget
Alright! First Jays card of the box! That Jackson Cox photo gives the vibe of a photo of that was snapped by a stalker. At least the colours go with the Rockies, and I'm trusting enough to believe that isn't a photoshop job. Kumar Rocker's on-card autograph is probably the biggest name that I landed an auto from in this. It pairs nicely with the Mets card I got of him earlier this year from last year's release. Appropriately, this patch card is a red parallel - perfect for an Angels card.
Saturday 29 July 2023
2023 Adventures in Repacks - Part 22
Here's the opening card! Spot the Looney!
Thursday 27 July 2023
The Familiar Faces of 2/14 Remaining
I've done baseball and hockey, but don't have enough of the other categories to make a solo post for them. So, they're all in this one.
Picking a Bills card to lead out is an easy decision for me. But when you also have some Jim Kelly cards to choose from, and the film strip gimmick is a good tie-breaker.
Tuesday 25 July 2023
2023 Adventures in Repacks - Part 21: Another Two
Another two packs hanging around the Walmart.
Monday 24 July 2023
The Familiar Faces of 2/14 Baseball
Much like with the recent hockey post, here's some new 2/14 content for that collection, this time with baseball content of people that have been here before.
The only hit in this post is my opener. I'll have plenty more opportunities to add more Ethan Small autographs in the collection as the season goes forward. He has autos in Finest. He's on the base checklist for Chrome. And will probably also be in a bunch more. But it has to start somewhere, and it is with this one from the uncreative Baseball Stars insert.Saturday 22 July 2023
January 11, 2015
What is the significance of the date in the title? It is the date I added this card to my Watch List over at COMC.
I finally added this card, from the 2004 World Series covers insert set, into my collection this past week, after an 8+ year wait. When you wait that long it is worthy of a one-card post.And I might as show off the back of the card as well. I completely forgot that the Jays got none of their 15 runs in game 4 courtesy of the long ball. But they got their power back at the best time possible for them in the series.
Friday 21 July 2023
The Familiar Faces of 2/14 Hockey
I'll be spending time today with the 2/14 binder, and all the hockey content in the to-be-posted box.
I remain the tcdb user with the most cards of Matt Campanale. It really isn't close - with these 2 I now have more than double the number of second place, with 15 cards to their 7. On the left is a black rainbow parallel /100, one of the rarer pulls at the time in OPC. A minor-league card of the now-defunct Elmira Jackals joins it, meaning that both my collection and Mischief's collection now have a card of a team named the Jackals in it. Sure, these e-pack exclusive silver parallels scan horribly, but it is all about the numbers at this point as the possibility of new cards of Brandon Sutter is practically zero.Tuesday 18 July 2023
Sportlots Miscellany
I've been slowly putting together a 1992 Archives Basketball set through Sportlots. As of now - only 1 card to go - the Jordan that I'm guessing flea market sellers pay a premium for to flip as his "rookie" card to gullible buyers. To get to the next shipment threshold, I'd add various cards that interested me. Here are some of them.
Blue Cubbies uniforms! Bat rack! "Now With" on O-Pee-Chee! 3 strikes and you're added into the miscellaneous binder!Now there's some headgear you don't see very much of on cards. Tocchet sported this after a Mario Lemieux shot broke his jaw. He missed one game.I barely remember Jacob Brumfield's time with Toronto. Thankfully, I have garish cards to remind me of that.
Kicker card!Sunday 16 July 2023
Hail Alma Mater
Tre Ford came to QB a program that was horrific in the early 2010s. They had a complete season wiped out after a steroid distribution scandal. When it resumed, they'd regularly lose by 50+ points. But Ford would lead the team into the playoffs in 2018 for the first time in 15 years. In 2021, he'd win the Hec Creighton award (like the Heisman), and would be a first-round pick of the Edmonton Elks.
That's a green & white Elks jersey on the card. It is certainly Tre's name - and the card is on the checklist as Tre.
But that's a Toronto Argonauts logo, and the photo is not Ford's, but that of the decidedly paler and blue-clad Nick Arbuckle. Nick was a teammate of Ford in 2022, so this photo actually pre-dates Arbuckle's time in Edmonton.
To make things worse, Ford didn't get a base card in the set. All he has are relic hits and parallels, like this patch card.
I still love this card - and it counts as part of my Warriors alum collection.
Friday 14 July 2023
New Faces
Coming off one birthday post, here's another, with some of the new members of the collection.
Here's somebody that is likely going to jump from zero well into the double digits as the season progresses. The top wide receiver draft pick this season will probably be making multiple appearances in every release. I've already got a bunch on their way out of a group break of Chronicles Draft where I got the Seattle spot. But that climb has to start somewhere, and this card starts the Jaxon Smith-Njigba portion.Tuesday 11 July 2023
Birthday Girl
Last year at this time, I posted a picture of Mischief for her second birthday, along with a couple of folks that shared the day with her. I then expressed no interest in a birthday binder for her.
It is more of a birthday slider box now. Hopefully, I'll have the fortitude to keep it that way.
But here's the contents of that box. Since Mischief is a little girl, I'll start with the distaff content!
Quite the diverse group. While I do also have a hockey gold medalist in mine (Milan Hejduk), and a Bond Secretary (Lois Maxwell) in mine, I don't have any Nobel Peace Prize winners. I'm not going to read everything, but I don't think I have any cards that include the word 'Plucky' such as on Cheryl Ladd's. The only one missing from this is another Olympic medalist - Hilary Knight, who I'll probably find in a dime box at some point to make a scanner bed friendly 9.Last year, when I posted this, I implored that you not send me any cards that fall into this category - I don't want to make a PC of this. That doesn't apply to folks that would already land in one of my PCs, but those would more likely end up in those. This is my first Jerry Ostroski card either in this, or my Bills collection. Also: O PEE CHEE baseball!The offspring of a Jays legend don't really count. "2014 Will Be First Season as Pitcher" is certainly a more unique phrase on a card than even 'Plucky'.