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.

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.

Mailbag: One! Two! Three Complete Sets! Ah Ah Ah!

The mailbag finally re-opens after waiting for a trio of mailers to arrive.

Courtesy of a mailer from Dennis @ Too Many Manninghams, here's the final card from 2018 Optic.

From the same mailer, here's the final 8 cards from last year's Score football. That's been replaced on the wantlist with the only 2 cards I didn't get in my hobby box, retail or LCS build from this year's release.

The final set builder damage to my wantlist is this, although I'd already checked this one off when Dennis told me it would be in a future mailer.

In fact, with cards currently in my COMC inventory, I've finally finished the base set of Rookie Anthology.

That's 92 rookie/auto/relics out of 249 in hand/COMC, the Filip Forsberg that was actually /125 in hand, a redemption that never got fulfilled (JT Miller), 1 redemption that may or may not come through (Jonas Brodin), and another one:

that also may or may not come through (even though these did go live at one point). I saw a group break and bought the Blues slot specifically to chase this redemption, and BAM it came through. Whether it does or not, I'm still calling this set as complete as it can be.

Whew. It was worth the wait for this.

The Set Build Continues

The 2020 Score set build continues with some retail, with this consisting of a blaster and a hanger pack.

My favourite base card in these items is another one that features a defensive player holding the ball - football's version of a pitcher at the plate photo.

My favourite fun facts in these - anybody for pizza?

Naturally, there are parallels in these. The golds are exclusive to the blasters.

With the reds being available in the jumbo hanger packs.

There are inserts as well that are retail-exclusive. This is likely my favourite, since it salutes the defensive players that always seem to fall off the main set checklists.

Deep Dive? Yeah, this one's pretty out there.

But at least you can see the full photo on the back.

Do the inserts also have parallels? Naturally!

And each blaster does promise a relic card. Freshman Flashbacks is Panini's way of saying that they still had a Brandin Cooks jersey around from his first season, so they decide to relic dump them in this product. Better than nothin', I guess.

There you have it!

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 24.5 - Football From The Source

If you've been bored by 2+ weeks worth of football posts, this should be the last for a bit as I'll switch back to hockey after the finale of this repack.

2014 Rookies & Stars - Storm Johnson - Starting with a fun name.
2010 Score - Austin Collie
2012 Topps - Kendall Reyes
1991 Platinum - Guy McIntyre

1991 UD - Marion Butts hologram - A hologram!
2003 Total - Chaun Thompson

2000 MVP - Terrell Davis - This is a contender for one of the ugliest designs ever used.
1991 Platinum - Bruce Hill

1996 Pinnacle - Aeneas Williams - Video review indicates he did not have control of the football as he went out of bounds. The ruling is an incomplete pass.
1989 Pro Set - Carl Banks

1991 Platinum - Steve McMichael - MONGO!
2011 UD U of Texas - Scott Henderson
2011 UD U of Texas - Ernie Koy

1995 Coll. Choice Silver - Ron George - A parallel!
2015 Panini Draft - Karlos Williams

1999 Focus - Antowain Smith - Another Bills card. I guess the Williams would count as well, but that is a college card.
2009 Platinum - Hines Ward

2004 UD - Az-Zahir Hakim - An interesting photo with him receiving a kick.
2000 Topps - Joe Horn
2007 UD - Ben Grubbs
2001 Certified - Thomas Jones

2000 Topps - Tony Grazini - NFL Europe mojo!
1989 Pro Set - Keith Byars
1991 Platinum - Mike Munchak
1989 Pro Set - Tony Woods
1991 Platinum - Jim Everett

1991 UD - Duane Bickett - Ending with some infield dirt.

Definitely not as interesting as the first part in its entirety, but a hologram and a couple good photos still make it respectable.

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 24.4 - Football From The Source

I'm returning to the 100-card football repack I was in the process of posting pre-Score.

2017 Contenders Draft - Khalil Mack - A Buffalo card of the Buffalo football team I don't collect starts it off.
2013 Topps - Jamar Taylor
2015 Prestige - Latavius Murray

2017 Classics  - Doug Martin - Cartoon on the back! Kinda...
1991 UD - Fredd Young
1990 Fleer - Chris Bahr - Kicker card!

2004 UD - Kurt Warner - A nice entrance photo, and it still acknowledges a new team.
2002 Certified - Rich Gannon
2001 Certified - Keyshawn Johnson
2002 Maximum - Ron Dayne

2005 Legends - Merlin Olsen - "Yeah, here's your loser actor bouquet"

2009 UD - Nic Harris - Bills card!
1991 UD - Jerry Robinson
1989 Pro Set - Tyrone Braxton
1990 Pro Set - Tim Krumrie
1991 Ultra - Mark Rypien
1991 CFL - Darryl Hall

1991 Pro Set - Lemuel Stinson - I have no idea what to make of this photo. It might simultaneously be one of the worst photos ever used on a football card, or one of the most uniquely great.
1991 Platinum - Eugene Robinson

1991 UD - Warren Moon/Darryl Hall - This starts an interesting run of Hall of Famers.

1994 Topps - Barry Sanders - Here's one of the greatest running backs of all-time.

1999 Supreme - Jerry Rice - Followed with the one of the greatest receivers of all-time.

2000 SAGE - Brian Urlacher - How to follow that? A pair of rookie cards of a HOFer. If COMC can be believed, the purple one has a 4500 print run.
2000 SAGE - Brian Urlacher

1996 UD - Marvin Harrison - And this half ends with another two rookies for a HOFer.
1996 Skybox - Marvin Harrison

That was a fun run of cards near the end. Definitely better than I'd expect from a repack. The other half next post!