2025 Adventures in Repacks - Part 5 - Another Two-Pack

 Back to the ol' repack pile, and the continued football/baseball alternating, albeit this time, in the same post.

Here's the opener -  a very diagonal Donruss entry.

The first hidden card is a pretty cool one. I think this is the only release that featured Edgerrin James both listed with, and also pictured with Seattle. He'd play 7 games with them. Aside from that, the Drewery is a pretty cool photo showing how every inch matters when you're advancing the ball.

Steve Broussard rocking the Zubaz! 

And here's the hit. I have zero memory of this player, but at least it he was good enough to get an autographed card at one point in Bowman Sterling. That's closer than I'd ever get. It also ties the Colts and Seahawks with 3 cards each in this repack.

Nothing too interesting in the final grouping. I'm getting really bored with all the Quarterback Challenge in all these. They seem like the only constant - seems like the 1990 Bowmans in their older hockey repacks.

A defensive player for the finale is somewhat different when considering modern cards.

I did get shorted a card in all this, but a couple interesting ones with the fashionable Broussard and the Seahawk-shown James help to make up for it.

How does the baseball one compare? The opening card is a little higher end than the opener in the football one. Bowman's Best > Donruss.

Definitely not the most interesting opening cards.

And these aren't much more interesting.

But the hit, coming out of 2019 Topps Tek definitely picks things up. An acetate auto of somebody I'd actually heard of is an improvement over the football one. Mind you, I'm 99 percent sure I only know of Tucker through cards. 

This time, the bunch of cards is a lot more interesting. The angle on Horton's photo isn't a very common one for pitcher photos. That's nicely followed up with a HOFer, and then there's some of the Wrigley Ivy right behind it. On the bottom, 1981 makes an appearance, and it is of the only player drafted first overall twice. 

Oh well. The finale isn't the most interesting, but at least Pena did reach the big leagues (albeit with the Brewers).

From a repack carried by the base cards to one carried by the hit, it was a typical repack experience. And that's all I ask for.

There you have it!