2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 32.1 - Cubism

 

Time for another repack cube directly from the source. While in the past I'd break these down into 4 stacks worth of cards, I'm doing them as five this time since it seems perfect for a series of posts I'm starting on a Monday.

2012 Prestige - Mo Williams - Here's the starter and first visible card.

2001 Maximum - Michael Olowokandi

2018 Prizm - Jalen Brunson - Jalen was 2018's "Rookie, Right Team, Wrong Player" representative. A perfectly fine player, but not Luka.

1989 Hoops - Rick Mahorn

1993 UD - Popeye Jones - Popeye is now officially one of my "Fun player to pull a card of, no matter what release" players.

1992 Ultra - Tony Bennett

1994 Stadium Club - Tony Smith

1994 Choice - Tom Gugliotta

1990 Fleer - Alvin Robertson

2012 Hoops - Lionel Hollins

1996 Skybox - Walter McCarty

1990 Fleer - Rik Smits

1993 UD - Corey Williams

1994 Ultra - Michael Williams

1992 Topps - Gary Grant

1991 Fleer - Tree Rollins

2009 Press Pass Fusion Gold /50 - James Worthy - This will be the lowest numbered card in the cube. Nice that it is of a HOFer too.

1991 Skybox - Tony Brown

1999 Focus - Doug Christie

2009 Panini - Jarrett Jack - Back to back Raptors, and both were needs!

1993 Fleer - Scott Skiles

1998 Hoops - Michael Finley

1992 Ultra - Don McLean

1994 Choice - Vinny Del Negro

1993 UD - Bill Laimbeer - At his derpy photographic best!

1992 UD - Doug Overton

1993 Fleer - Jerome Kersey

2016 Complete Silver - Arron Afflalo - Another parallel, albeit unnumbered this time. 

2013 Prestige - Phil Pressey

2016 Prizm - Jose Calderon

2013 Pinnacle - Timofey Mozgov

1992 Stad. Club - Gerald Glass

1993 Topps - Mark Aguirre

1990 Skybox - Bill Wennington

2018 Hoops - Anthony Davis

1990 Fleer - Charles Shackleford

1991 Fleer - Xavier McDaniel

1992 Topps - Fat Lever

1993 Hoops - Fred Carter - How did I not already have this 2/14 card?  I had the 5th anniversary parallel, but not this. But I now have my 5th Fred Carter card.

1996 Hoops - Bob Hill

1995 Hoops - Muggsy Bogues - Bogues has been a part of that "always a fun pull" club for awhile.

1997 Fleer - Rex Chapman

1991 Fleer - John Paxson

2018 Hoops - Al Horford

1989 Hoops - Dan Majerle

1991 Hoops - Kevin Edwards

2009 Topps - Matt Harpring

2000 Heritage - Kendall Gill - Heritage really can't go back 49 years like baseball, so here's a '71 flashback.

2000 Legacy - Sean Elliott - Just a nice design for a base card.

2002 Topps - Tim Thomas

2006 UD - Earl Boykins

1999 Ultimate Victory - Antoine Walker

2003 Bazooka - Jerry Stackhouse

1993 Classic - Derek Chandler

1991 Skybox - Lionel Simmons

1991 Skybox - John Starks

1997 Finest - Brevin Knight - Do I dare to peel?

1993 Stad. Club - Shawn Bradley - Coming off the draft, this would have been a notable card at release.

1992 Skybox - Marlon Maxey

1990 Fleer - Glen Rice - 1 group down. 4 to go!

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.

Another Raptors Post

 Any excuse to return to my recent COMC mailer, and a small bunch of Raptors cards.

Opening up, here's a card from their first season. John Salley seems way too pleased to be a member of an expansion team.

I pulled a card from this set out of one of my recent repack adventures. I figured I liked it enough to add a Raptors card out of it to my collection. 

Court Kings is always a "when in doubt, add one to the shipment" decision. 

McCaw might not be a Raptor here, but I did want one of his autographs for my Ring Recipients collection. He probably won't get one in Toronto colours, so this will have to do unless Panini does a sticker dump.

A one-colour swatch, but it is Chris h, so it is a nice little addition to the binder, since he will be the first HOFer in team history that you think of for their time in Toronto.

And here's the big winner in terms of volume - OG Anunoby. He's yet another late draft pick that has developed nicely for the team. Ujiri truly is a wizard.

And there you have it!

Chronicling New Raptors

With Panini finally realizing that Terence Davis was a pretty good rookie, I opted to get in a break with the new Chronicles release. It is a rookie heavy product, and Davis made a lot of appearances in it.

But first, here's a base card of Kyle Lowry. I kinda hoped they'd use the more newspaperish design of 2020 NCAA Chronicles, but I guess they hadn't used this design yet in basketball.

Much like with Rookie Anthology, they've included some Update cards in this late season release. Some of that includes guys such as Kawhi pictured with their new teams, and some are of rookies like Kendrick Nunn and Davis that were unexpected early standouts.

Even though there are some numbered cards to come, this update Prizm is probably the biggest $$$MEGApUll$$4 card in the mailer. I'm happy to welcome it to my collection. For all intents and purposes, this is a base card, and it still a $50 CDN card.

Here's the first of the numbered card, featuring Davis rocking this year's City jerseys. I'm not going to look too closely to verify that, though.

One of my favourite designs to appear in the Chronicles release(s) is Elements, with its use of two different photos on the front, instead of the standard reusing of the same photo.

But this is the big card for me in this. I've got an autograph of Terence Davis already, even if that is an Ole Miss one. But Chris Boucher is just wrapping up his second full season with the Raptors, and his only card prior to this was appearances in the team set released after last year's championship win. It is somewhat strange that his first pack-pullable card was an auto, but I'm happy to add him to my collection of championship autos.

This card is from Flux, which doesn't appear to have ever been a set. I can imagine a collector of Ducks alum trying to hunt this version down, with the filter used giving the card a very yellow and green look.

There you have it!

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 29.2 - A 100 Hanger

More basketball!    

2016 Optic - Joe Johnson - The visible card on the back.

2013 Hoops - Brandon Rush

1992 UD - Stanley Roberts - Compare and contrast how traded players can be portrayed: Massive text, no colour or logo change, or obvious logo change, microscopic text

1990 Fleer - Mark Alarie 

1996 UD - Cavaliers team

1994 UD - Heat team - The amazing action of the Miami Heat! Not pictured.

1992 Ultra - Tyrone Corbin

1990 Skybox - Bullets Team

1991 Fleer - Sherman Douglas

1990 Fleer - Robert Hansen

1991 Fleer - Tony Campbell

1991 UD - Terry Davis

1990 Fleer - Willie Anderson

1993 Skybox - Chris Corchiani

1993 Hoops - Vinnie Del Negro - Photographic evidence of an amazing fake-out.

1991 Fleer - Pete Chilcutt

1990 Skybox - Jeff Hornacek

2014 Prestige - Markieff Morris

2000 Black Diamond - Larry Hughes

2006 Turkey Red - Shareef-Abdur Rahim

1999 Black Diamond - Vlade Divac

2005 Hardcourt - Peja Stojakovic - We 3 Kings of Sacramento!

2000 Chrome - Kendall Gill

1993 UD - Scott Haskin

1990 Fleer - Jay Humphries

2018 Contenders - Pau Gasol - This side recap started with a 2018 Contenders card, and ended on the same.

That was really bland. The Del Negro was nice, but that's about all this brought.

Throwbacks!

Another trip into my COMC to-be-posted box, and some throwback jersey appearances across several sports.

Even minor league teams can break out the throwbacks, and with there being a lot fewer issues for them, there are a lot fewer chances for them to appear on cards. But here is Zach Nastasiuk sporting an Owen Sound Platers jersey in an OHL game. He was drafted by the Wings, but has yet to see a game in the NHL.

Until they go for the reverse of this with the blue-on-green design, this will have to be my choice for an appearance of the 70s Hawks throwbacks.

If you didn't have any major league team to throw back to at the time, you can always use the minor league team of the same name.

I guess St. Louis can use Browns jerseys if they want a different team, but given those can also be tied elsewhere, so the Stars from the Negro Leagues it is. And you get both the white and grey unis as well. Bonus!

There you have it! Repacks up next!