Just One Pack - 2020 Heritage

I guess I'm not really feeling this like I did last year. I can't really say why, I just don't. But I'll still try one pack. Maybe one or two more if I see retail on the shelves. But this might be it aside from singles.

While this is a card of a Met, he's still a National here.  But this is an acceptable start to a pack.

And the back.

And the rest. At least there was a legitimate Mets card in the bunch, with Justin Wilson making his debut in my collection. He did get a card in Topps Total last year, but it is nicer to pack pull one.

And there you have it.

2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 27.5 - A Week's Worth

The fifth and final day worth of Dollarama goodies sees the final 40 cards in the baseball hanger get covered.

2014 Heritage Minors - Preston Tucker - What's an easy way to get me to pick a certain repack? A visible Heritage Minors card will do the trick.
1989 Score - Kelly Downs
1990 Donruss - Tim Jones
1989 Donruss - Ernest Riles

1988 Topps - Ernie Whitt - Jays card #1.
1986 Topps - Darren Daulton
1989 Score - Mitch Williams

1996 Finest - Joe Oliver - And it is unpeeled!
1991 Leaf - Bryn Smith
1995 Ultra - Garey Ingram

1990 Fleer Update - Joe Kraemer - I still haven't decided if this card where Kraemer looks to be peeking around the corner is a great photo choice or an awful photo choice.

1997 UD - Eric Karros - A Tatooine photp (tm: gcrl)
1997 Pacific Crown - David Hulse
2001 MVP - Gabe Kapler
2009 Bowman Chrime - Seiichi Uchikawa

1987 Topps - Gary Carter - Mets content.
1990 Donruss - Greg Vaughn

1999 Stad. Club - Orlando Hernandez - Anything that highlights that leg kick is a perfect photo of El Duque.

1987 Fleer - Bob Ojeda - Another Met!
1991 Topps - Greg Harris
1990 Topps - Bip Roberts
1992 Score - Jeff Carter
1995 Coll. Choice - Chris Gomez
1993 Bowman - Kevin Stocker
1990 Topps - Kevin Appier

2018 Bowman - Mike Soroka - Cancon!

1986 Topps Traded - Bob Tewksbury - Another card from a traded/update set, but minus the photographic quality of the Kraemer.
1989 Topps - Ken Phelps
1990 Donruss - Ozzie Smith
1988 Topps - Ed Hearn
1989 UD - Mitch Williams

1987 Donruss - Roger McDowell - Wow! It was McDowell!
1991 UD - Chuck Crim
1992 Pinnacle Team 2000 - Ben McDonald

1988 Fleer - Tom Henke - The final Jays card of the repack.
1991 Fleer - Mark Thurmond
1992 Donruss - Dave Henderson
1997 Preferred - Paul O'Neill
2012 Topps - Brandon League

2011 Just Drafted - Starling Marte - And to end this - an oddball from a set I'd never heard of!

There's still Sunday to go for this, and I'll be covering one of those Walmart Power Cubes tomorrow.

2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 27.4 - A Week's Worth

Today and tomorrow see a switch to baseball.

2011 Heritage Minors - Andrew Brackman - What's an easy way to get me to pick a certain repack? A visible Heritage Minors card will do the trick.

2018 Bowman - Luis Urias

1986 Topps - TBTC Frank Robinson

1988 Score - Dwight Gooden - Mets content!

1988 Topps - Chris Bosio

1989 Fleer - Tom Candiotti

1988 Donruss - Mike Griffin

1990 Donruss - Dave LaPoint

1997 UD - Charlie O'Brien - The UD base card saluting the debut of the goalie style mask remains one of my favourite Jays base cards.

1992 Topps Gold - Eddie Taubensee - You generally don't see parallels in these.

1991 Topps - Kevin Elster - Another Met.

1990 UD - Floyd Bannister

1999 Ultra - Mike Lansing - Pretty cool photo, even if I don't think he would have turned two on the play.

2001 Rookies & Stars - Tim Hudson

2006 UD Special F/X - Jason Bergmann - Two parallels in the same portion of a repack! Is this wizardry?

2008 A&G - Javier Vasquez

1981 Donruss - Joe Torre - Mets card #3!

1989 All Star Glossy - Frank Viola

1989 Topps - George Bell - And the second Jays one.

1990 Donruss - Mike Harkey

1999 Stad. Club - Craig Biggio - And the second really great photo from the first half. I love how the shadow of the ball is visible just beyond the glove.

1991 Donruss - Ramon Garcia

1990 Fleer - Pascual Perez - First Expos card.

1990 Topps - Walt Weiss

1994 Stad. Club - Jeremy Hernandez

2017 Topps - Trea Turner

1990 Donruss - Brook Jacoby

1989 Topps - Denny Martinez - And here's the second one.

1987 Topps - Dave Bergman

1989 Donruss - Hipolito Pena

1988 Score - Jose Lind

1990 Donruss - Rob Dibble

1991 UD - Chuck Crim

1998 Score Rookie Traded - Delino DeShields - I'd completely forgotten his time with the Cardinals. I also didn't know until I looked at his wiki page that he has a daughter in the WNBA.

1993 Topps - Bill SWift

1991 Fleer - Eric King

1991 UD - Kenny Williams - Jays card #3.

1992 UD - Jeff Montgomery

1991 Donruss - Bob Boone

2012 Topps Texas Rangers - Mitch Moreland - And finished, oddly enough with a team set card.

Because I Got High

If I put together the 1-500 Heritage base set, I might as well put together the 501-725 High Numbers base set. I busted two hobby boxes of the first one to go with various singles/lots to finish Part 1, so let's see what I can do with two hobby boxes of this.

No buybacks this time with the box topper, just a pair of oversized cards.

Topps didn't bury all the big names among the short prints this time, meaning that I did get 2 of pretty much the entire 200 card regular set. That means a pair of Vlads.

That also means a pair of Polar Bear Petes. So, if you're one of my regular trade partners, don't go out and get a base set from this of the regular base set, as I'll be hooking you up in some sort of future mailer.

You really can't look for amazing photography in Heritage, but you do get a nice sidearm photo for Cimber and Scott Alexander looking like one of Joe Walsh's roadies.

This is pretty intimidating, but it is a shame this is hidden among the SP portion of the set.

This kinda-shiny Bryce Harper was in the first box.

The second box had this really shiny Danny Salazar. That's it in terms of numbered parallels.

Back to the first box, which had two other parallels in it. The Senzel is the action variation, which fall at a rate of about one per box. Hiura is the team name colour variation, which is 1:154 packs. And such an exciting variation it is!

I completely forgot to scan the action variation in the second box of Byron Buxton. Here's an ebay link if you care what it looks like.

My favourite of the inserts is the one commemorating Hank Aaron's famous home runs. I'll give this the nod over the one commemorating #500 since Brewers cards of Hank are far less common in my collection than Braves appearances.

That's despite Mets appearances among the inserts.

That's also despite a second Vlad Jr appearance highlighting his first plate appearance.

Hit time! The first box should probably have been Wisconsin-bound, with the Hiura variation, and the relic both being Brew Crew cards.

The aim was far better for the second box and its hit. A Mets auto! It might not be an Alonso, but the squirrel has been having a pretty solid season as well, being at or near the top of the batting average leaderboard for much of the season. It's always great to land a keeper!

And there you have it! I'll probably do some repack stuff next post.

Just 8 Cards

Only 8 cards, but these were the 8 I needed to put the last nails into the coffin of the base set of 2019 Heritage.

Bring on High Numbers!

2019 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13.4 - Straight from the Source

1992 Score - Jocelyn Lemieux - Starting off the final batch of cards with a repeat appearance of Chicago's 75th Anniversary jersey.
1990 Score - Dave Taylor
2005 Black Diamond - Marc Denis
1990 Topps - Mark Messier

2006 Going for the Gold - Luc Bourdon - There were a lot of GftG cards in this. Here's another one, featuring the late Luc Bourdon.
1991 OPC - Brad Jones
1992 Topps - Keith Primeau
1992 UD - Markus Ketterer

1995 Choice - Samuel Phalsson - A Players Club parallel of someone who had a decent career on this side of the Atlantic. Things got better for him when they started spelling his name right.
1991 UD - Paul Coffey
1990 Bowman - Al Secord
2015 UD - Connor Murphy

1991 UD - Marty McSorley - This photo sure captures the nature of his style of play.
1991 Stad. Club - Mark Hunter
1991 UD -  Shawn Antoski
1994 SP - Alexei Zhamnov
1995 Choice - Joé Juneau
1996 Choice - Alexei Zhamnov

2006 Going for the Gold - Joe Thornton - I would not be surprised if I end up pulling this entire set through repacks, although this was a dupe.
1991 UD - Sergei Makarov
2005 Ice - Tuomo Ruutu
1993 Donruss - Pat Peake
1995 Topps - Mike Vernon
1990 Pro Set - Kevin Stevens

2006 Going for the Gold - Jason Spezza - As close as I'd get to a Sens card in this.
2001 UD Mask Collection - Jeremy Roenick
2011 Score - Chris Vande Velde

2016 Artifacts - Lord Stanley's Legacy Relics - Cam Ward - The final hit, and the only relic.
2015 UD - Joe Vitale
1995 Parkhurst International - Landon Wilson

1991 UD - Ralph Barahona - This issue appears to be his only NHL card.
1991 UD - Doug Weight
2011 Victory - Ryan Clowe
1992 Score - Dave Snuggerud
2017 UD - Kris Letang
1990 Bowman - Michael Pivonka
2006 Victory - Mark Parrish

2016 UD Shining Stars - Johnny Gaudreau - Another insert.
1996 Choice - Doug Weight
1990 Pro Set - Vincent Riendeau
1993 Stad. Club - Evgeny Davydov
1991 UD - Glenn Healy

1998 UD - Al MacInnis - The Rangers alum actually photographed in a defensive position instead of in the motion of delivering a slapshot.
2006 Black Diamond - Justin Williams
1992 Score - Geoff Sanderson
1990 UD - Miloslav Horava

1992 UD - Tim Hunter - That nose!
1997 UD - Keith Primeau
1993 UD - Tom Fitzgerald

1993 Parkhurst - Russ Courtnall - Your best example of derp face in the repack!
1991 Score - Andy Moog
2017 UD - TJ Oshie
1991 UD - Tyler Wright
1992 UD - Niclas Andersson
1995 Ultra - Danton Cole
1993 UD - Derian Hatcher
1993 Donruss - Stephan Lebeau
1991 Platinum - Kelly Kisio
1992 Score - Jeff Hackett

2006 Going for the Gold - Kris Letang - The final GftG card, although a second dupe.

2001 Heritage - Gary Roberts - The chance to use the Heritage label on a hockey post! Awesome!
1990 Bowman - Greg Adams
1993 Pinnacle - Sylvain Cote

1993 Premier - Vladimir Malakhov - It isn't just the Maple Leaf or Stars & Stripes for patriotic cards.
1995 Ultra - Bobby Holik
1991 Pro Set - Mark Hunter

2014 UD - Alex Galchenyuk - Fin.