COMC and the 2/14 binder

Back to back posts with nothing but 2/14 content contained within!

As with the PWE barrage from yesterday, there was only one basketball card in the mix. But this does add another relic into the hits portion of the collection. I still want a mask relic.

Here's a first for my collection - my first Operation Desert Shield card! As for the other one...

The bi-lingual greatness of O-Pee-Chee!

The big winner here for baseball was Scott Scudder, who has jumped to 51 total cards with these 4. The 1990 Topps is also an OPC version, bringing twice the French-ness into this group. The UD card is the gold hologram parallel as well. 

My first autograph of Ryan McKenna, a Sky Blue parallel, and a Bowman Heritage Chrome card help push him into the double digits. He was placed on the 40 man roster in the previous off-season, but is still in the minors, such as they are this season.

I have three Garrett Fugate cards in my collection - all autographs. He does have base cards in this Sage release. 
 

Settle down, Beavis.

Start with a hit from a player with red, white and black uniforms. Let's end with the same. Chronology did have a really deep checklist of random retired players and I was pleased to see Sean Hill on the list. I grabbed the 'canes spot in a couple group breaks. While that did allow me to get some Whalers content to send to Shane @ Shoebox Legends, I didn't land a Sean Hill until getting it from COMC.

And there you have it!

PWE Chronicles

 Thanks to Canada Post, this PWE recap post has been waiting for a long time to be posted. About a month ago, Joseph/CrazieJoe let me know that a trio of PWEs were on the way. Two arrived promptly, but with a third expected I opted to wait until they all showed up.

#3 showed up yesterday.

I'd been waiting so long, so this can jump the queue and make its appearance today. The best thing about this is that all 3 were filled with 2/14 content.

The best thing about Kelly Stinnett's cards is if they are dupes I can add them to my Mets collection. But, this is my first acquisition of this card for the 2/14 collection.

There was only a single basketball card among the 3 envelopes, but fortunately it was a need for the collection, and it does feature a great photo from the backboard. 

With all the mid-range football base cards from sets with 100 card base sets and a bunch of inserts that I've already added the inserts of into the collection, they all start to run together at some point. That made me think that I'd already added this David Garrard into my collection. My TCDB audit tells me otherwise. This is my 87th card of Garrard.

But I did know this shiny Justin Miller was new!

When Joseph was breaking a box of 04-05 Pacific, I noticed this card come up and immediately put my claim in for it. This is a somewhat rare-ish red foil parallel. I've already got the regular base card, and just need the blue /250 to complete the small rainbow.

And here's a sampling of the rest of the hockey in this. The Svoboda is a card that I was certain was already in the binders, but again, the TCDB check showed otherwise. There was also a 1991 Score of Dave Lowry that also fell into that category, but I decided I like the horizontal Score card better for scanning purposes. The Milan Hejduk content in this extends his leading numbers in the collection to 220 cards.

There you have it! If you didn't get enough 2/14 stuff in  this, I'll summarize the 2/14 stuff in my COMC shipment next time.

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 27.1 - Another Hanger

80 cards for $4, split over 2 40 card groupings. The usual.

2010 SP Authentic - Roberto Luongo - A nice start with Luongo, even on a pretty dull design.

2015 UD - Steve Mason - The first Rangers alum in this portion, and the only one that was a dupe.
2014 UD - Rich Peverley
1990 UD - Brian Leetch CL
1990 Bowman - Trevor Linden

1992 UD - Paul Coffey - I was actually surprised that this Rangers alum was a need when I cross referenced it with my binders. I'm in the process of adding my Rangers alum collection at TCDB, so that will be less so eventually.
1990 Pro Set - Joe Sakic AS
2002 MVP - Micki Dupont
1994 Premier - Patrick Roy AS
1995 Topps - Craig Martin
1991 OPC - Paul Fenton

1995 UD - Ales Pisa - He was 7 years away from his NHL debut when he got this World Juniors card.
1991 7IS - Ethan Moreau
1991 7IS - David Matsos

1991 7IS - Dominic Belanger - The most obscure player in this repack. This would be his only card.
1990 Score - Jeff Hackett
1995 Pinnacle - Tim Cheveldae
1992 UD - Yan Kaminsky
1993 Stad. Club - Valeri Kaminsky
1998 UD - Paul Mara
2008 UD - Mike Komisarek
2001 OPC - Joe Nieuwendyk
2007 Ultra - Ryan Malone
1991 Stad. Club - Kirk Muller
1990 Score - Randy Cunneyworth
1991 OPC - Alexei Gusarov

1991 Platinum - Scott Stevens - Alum #3.

1992 UD - Anatoli Semenov CL - Interestingly, he didn't get a regular base card from UD with Tampa. He'd join the team in the expansion draft, play 13 games for the Lightning, get traded to the Canucks, and then join Anaheim in the following year's expansion draft.
1990 Bowman - Gord Murphy
1990 Bowman - Steve Kasper
1990 Bowman - Brad Shaw

1993 UD - Shawn Burr - Alum #4.
1990 UD - Paul MacDermid
1992 UD - Tomas Forslund

1993 Premier - Patrik Carnback - I'm scanning this because Canback is a fun name to say out loud.
1991 Score - Tom Chorske
1993 UD - Shawn Burr - Technically, there was another dupe for the alum collection.
2018 UD - Marcus Kruger
2018 UD - Nolan Patrick

2017 UD - Brandon Sutter - A 2/14 ending! Great! And while I have this with the set, I didn't have a dupe for that collection.

Lots of PC content make this group a winner!

Mailbag: Football

Bring it home!

I'm not sure why I'm starting with the loudest, most obnoxious card in the mailer. But there was only one Steve McNair card for the 2/14 binders in there. Maybe that's the reason?

Also gaining 1 card, but a far rarer one, is Jadeveon Clowney, seen here on a Bowman printing plate from 2015.

Alshon Jeffery was the big winner here in terms of volume with these 4 cards.

Only two Jim Kelly cards, and he's now 4 short of the 200 mark in the binder. But it does lead perfectly to the Bills portion of the TMV mailer.

There was what had to be the entire 1992 Pro Set team set of the Bills with about 30 cards worth saluting playoffs and highlights.

I'm guessing all of these Wolverines turned Bills were dupes. They've got a good home now.

But here's a few without Wolverines connections (unless they played them at some NCAA point).

That's a nice big swatch, definitely worthy of the "Immense Materials" subset.

And let's throw in an autograph to end it.

Thanks, Dennis & Kerry, for all these cards over the past four posts. I'm still setting cards aside for future mailers that will head stateside.

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 26.3 - Hockey Cubism

Time to start the second half.

1990 7IS - Sean Basilio  -  I had no idea what trophy that was in the picture, but it is the OHL's FW 'Dinty' Moore Trophy for the Lowest Rookie Goals-Against Average.
1991 UD - Russ Courtnall
1994 Parkhurst - Garth Butcher

2007 McDonald's - Marian Hossa - These are the shiniest cards in this.
2001 UD - Petr Sykora
2007 MVP - Anze Kopitar
1993 Ultra - Scott Mellanby
1989 OPC - Gary Suter
1990 Bowman - Keith Acton
1990 Score - Steve Leach
2017 CHL - Thomas Gregoire

2017 Team Canada - Brett Ritchie - This portion's patriotic entry.

2016 Premiere - AJ Greer - Here's the second hit in the cube. Greer's been more AHL than NHL, but a hit is a hit!
1990 Score - Bernie Nicholls
2013 UD - Sergei Bobrovsky
2009 UD - Chris Higgins
1991 UD - Rob Zettler
2011 SPA - Keith Yandle
1990 Score - Gerald Diduck
1993 Premier - Boris Mironov

2004 Franchises - Jean Beliveau - All these are getting scanned. No exceptions. Even for dupes. Which this isn't.
2011 UD - Drew Doughty

1993 Leaf - Ed Belfour - Here's another '93 Leaf back!
2017 SPA - Darryl Sittler
2015 UD - David Backers
2018 UD - Adrian Kempe
1990 UD - Rick Bennett

2015 UD - Alex Killorn - One of the contenders for best photo in this portion.
2013 UD - Semyon Varlamov
1991 UD - Jassen Cullimore
1990 Score - Cam Russell
1990 Score - Dana Murzyn
1991 Score - Dale Kushner

1993 Parkhurst Emerald - Matthew Barnaby - Do coaching alumni count for my Rangers collection? Yup!
1990 UD - Andrew Cassels
1990 UD - Mark Osborne
2011 Score - Erik Gustafson
2016 Showcase - Jaroslav Halak

1997 Coll. Choice - Martin Lapointe - And this is the other contender. Both horizontal cards, too!
2014 UD - Joe Colborne

2015 MVP - Nazem Kadri - A more traditional alum.
1990 Score - Carey Wilson
1989 OPC - Harold Snepsts

1991 Score - Craig Wolanin - And another.
2015 UD - Victor Rask

1992 Topps - Petr Svoboda - 2/14 content.
1992 Parkhurst - Grant Fuhr
2016 Parkhurst - Evander Kane
1991 Topps - Donald Audette

1990 Bowman - Rob Murray - A rare interesting photo in this pretty dull release.
1993 Stad. Club - Darryl Sydor
1992 7IS - Tony Bella
2007 MVP - Chris Drury
1991 UD - Trevor Kidd
1990 UD - Martin Hostak
1991 7IS - Jeff Walker

2006 OPC - David Printz - Even if he didn't have the most amazing career, SP rookies are still unexpected in this.

2004 Franchises - Elmer Lach - Yup. All of thse are getting scanned.
1990 UD - Vincent Riendeau
2016 Parkhurst - James Van Riemsdyk

1986 OPC - Chris Nilan - The oldest card in the repack.
1993 Pinnacle - Vladimir Malakhov
1992 Score - Kevin Todd
1990 Score - Kelly Hrudey

2007 Rookie Class - Curtis McElhinney - One of those "Are we sure this isn't a metal album cover" masks.
1990 OPC - Jamie Macouon

1993 UD - Matthew Barnaby - And we end on the second Barnaby in this portion.

1 more stack of cards to go!