2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 21.1 - The Usual

I'm back at a very familiar place today, and for the next couple posts with Dollarama repacks. I'll start with the first half of a baseball 80 card hanger.

2017 Chronicles - Matt Holliday - Off an running with a very wordy base card from Chronicles.
2017 Topps - Albert Pujols

1990 Topps - Joe Oliver - The happiest player ever on a baseball card?
1991 UD - Sil Campusano

1991 Topps - Jerry Don Gleaton - Or is he?
1991 Score - Mike Witt
1989 Fleer - Daryl Boston
1989 Topps - Eric King

1987 Fleer Update - Andre Dawson - I guess someone at repack HQ picked up a boxed set of 1987, as this was the first of six in this repack.
1990 Donruss - Luis Quinones
1989 Fleer - Steve Farr
1988 Topps - Harry Spilman

2009 Topps - George Kottaras - Cancon!
2003 Elite - Gary Sheffield

2005 Bowman Heritage - Roy Halladay - An appearance of Doc is enough to make this a great repack, especially as a Heritage card.

1991 Topps - Walt Weiss - One of the classic card photos from that era.
1992 Donruss - Steve Olin
1993 Select - Andy Stankiewicz

1995 Stad. Club - Midre Cummings - Part of Stadium Club's continued legacy of interesting photos.
1989 Fleer - Jeff Pico

1989 Topps - Wil Tejada - Expos content!

1987 Fleer Update - Albert Hall - #2
1990 Donruss - Ken Phelps
1989 Fleer - Eric Davis
1988 Topps - Reds Leaders
2017 Bowman Chrome - Kyle Freeland
2011 Topps - Johnny Cueto
1991 Topps - Herm Winningham
1994 Coll. Choice - Terry Steinbach
1990 Topps - Gary Wayne

1991 Topps Traded - Devon White - Jays card #2.
1989 Fleer - Steve Lake
1988 Topps - Shane Mack
1987 Topps - Kirk McCaskill

1987 Fleer Update - John Mitchell - Mets card #1 brings the 3rd card from '87 Update.
1988 Topps - John Farrell

1989 Fleer - Jimmy Key - Jays card #3.
2013 Topps - Carlos Gomez
2017 GQ - Corey Kluber

2012 Bowman - David Wright - Visible card #2 was Mets card #2. Although I've got several copies of the card, this made it the repack I had to go for.

Another 40 next time!

Saturday Sampler

I've got a trio of packs to show off today. The first two are from the LCS, while the latter was marked down at Wally World.

Baseball stands alone in this threesome, so here are those. There were problems set wide for cards having dinged corners coming out of the pack, and those are visible on the Bregman and DeGrom. Dinged corners or not, that's still a nice Mets card for that PC, with it joined by David Wright's (regular) cardboard finale. The star-spangled parallel has a matte finish to it.

And here's the back of the card. I like that Wright had his final season stats, abbreviated as they were, on his.

No hits out of the Select, but a coupe of parallels. I didn't know this until he showed up at a game in Toronto wearing his jersey, but DeAndre Jordan's brother plays for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Thomas parallel is /249, and will likely be one of only a handful where he's pictured with Denver. I'm really surprised he's only played on 6 teams so far.

The Select backs.

My favourite basketball card may have come from the Excalibur as the first card out. Even though that might be the only photo Panini has of him on the Sonics, it still features a classic uniform.

I won't scan everything in the pack, but here's a sample of the base cards. Some nice photos, some nice legends. A good mix.

To end this post, my two promised Camo Crusades. Pinstriped Shaq? Yes, please!

There you have it!

Expo Recap Part 8: Ending with the Beginning

Strangely enough, I'll end this with the first thing I purchased on the day after dropping off my submissions at the COMC booth.

How did I not know this existed?

I'm having another day where I'm not really feeling that verbose, so get ready for a wall of scans.

 

And #55 (technically NYM55) in the set, but #1 in your hearts:

That's a nice $10 set.

Mucho Mets from BWTP

Time to recap one of the two envelopes that showed up last week. I'll start with the easier of the two with a quintet of Mets.

A simple relic starts this off. But you get a little more as this includes a nickname to go along with a plain gray swatch.

With all the teams Rickey played for, at least this includes a nice pinstripe to make it more likely than not that this is a Mets swatch.

And three more Mets swatches to end the relic portion of the envelope.

Only one autograph among the 5 cards, but it is of someone still on the team. That's no mean effort this season with all the injuries. If you throw out the first pitch and you get it to home plate with two or fewer bounces, you might find yourself on the depth chart this year.

And a great way to end a post is a 1/1 plate. And it is of the ol' perfessor! Now, since this is unlicensed, it doesn't specify which New York he is with at the time, but the photo looks like it might have been recycled from his 1962 Mets card. That's close enough for me!

Thanks for all these goodies, Matt. I've been reloading, and should have something on its way by month's end.

Not A 2*3 Package - Part 1 of 2

Back to the mailbag for Part 1 of a package that showed up from Jeff @ 2*3 Heroes. This will be the variety post, as a variety of PCs will be hit with the cards in this post.

First up, my Mets collection. I'd been waiting for this card for a bit, ever since being able to hunt down a Patrick Kane autograph at the Expo. It might have come sooner, but Canada Post was being questionable, and I put a moratorium on mailings. That said, this one was worth the wait. Who can't love an on-card autograph of a guy on the same team he cheered for growing up?

How did I not already have that Wright/Strawberry card? That said, my favourite here is the Gallery card, since that also hits my love for drawn cards.

As we move into the hockey, here's two new cards for my 2/14 collection. The Hejduk is another one I was certain I had, but my zistle list told me otherwise. Marian Gaborik is lurking in the upper right corner of this card. Considering I have football team leader cards where 1/4 of the card is dedicated to a 2/14 baby, why shouldn't this qualify?

Just one card, but still welcome in my Kitchener Rangers alum collection. Even though this technically wouldn't be an alumni card.

Staying with the Rangers, this time the New York version, here's a /100 gold parallel from 13-14 Rookie Anthology, a set I've busted a lot of, but it really does pack a punch for the value.

More mask cards. The Miller, complete with all the classic Canucks colours, might be my favourite card from last season. But Portfolio really did have a lot of strong contenders for that. Still, the simple paint job works perfectly on the mask to go with the uniform, and you do have to check the card twice to make sure it isn't a Kirk McLean.

Here's a bunch of Sens cards, all new to my collection.

And a parallel and a hit. The Sens picked up 4 jersey cards among the checklist in this set, and now I'm only an Erik Karlsson away from completing that.

And there's part of the envelope. The majority of it in terms of volume was for my pre-2005 masks binder photo, and I'll hit the highlights from that in my next recap post.

PWE Chronicles

And now, a couple of PWEs that risked Canada Post's labour situation (as opposed to just general incompetence) to send me some cards.

This was the card I was most excited to receive, having it show up in a PWE from Shoebox Legends. I'd sent out an alert that I really wanted this card, but shipping from the states on ebay was well beyond what I wanted to pay. If you're wondering why this was such a want for me, it is because Bloomberg is a 2/14 baby. He's now the 180th different person in that collection.

The rest of the envelope saw some more cards for my other collection. Sure, this shows as a Nationals card, but it is still an Expos card for me. In fact, it was Sledge that brought down the curtain on the Expos in Montreal, as he was their final out at Stade Olympique, popping up to third to end the game.

Sens content? Sure!

David Wright content! Also quite welcome.

Even some golden Jays content.

But, to wrap things up, here's some Bills autos for the collection.  And two of these guys are still on the team (Easley and Gragg)! Bonus!

The first PWE started with a 2/14 card. I might as well do the same with this one. This is the 33rd Drew Bledsoe card in that collection, placing him in 4th place overall (behing Jim Kelly's 58, Alshon Jeffery's 42 and Steve McNair with 41).

Boy, those two mid-round draft picks that the Bills got in exchange for Beast Mode really turned the franchise around. At least Chris Hairston played some games for them. As for Tank Carder, he played as many downs for the Bills as I have. But he was named Tank, so there's that.

Shiny Joey Bats!

And a pair of colourful Sammy Watkins relics to end this post. Thanks to Shane and Mark for these great PWEs!

And now, I await the start of the regular season.