Just One Pack/Box

I had a little bit of credit left over after the Stadium Club boxes. I decided to try this one pack box of 2016 Signatures. 4 autos? Let's see what those are!

3 autos. A relic. And points. Oh well. Forsett has since retired, Hogan is now in Washington after a pair of seasons with Cleveland, and Matthews is still with the Titans. As for the 400 points, what are some 400 point autographs I can get?

I'll leave football behind for my pick:

An ABA autograph? Cool.

An owlish envelope

Time to wrap up the recent envelope barrage with an envelope from Night Owl. Lots of PCs hit in this one.

There was only one Expos item in the envelope, and it was an interesting one. While this appears to be a single card of Mike Fitzgerald, this is more of a pamphlet, and it folds out to show off 5 more pages, with one on each side.

Jason Thompson was easily the most obscure Expo in the group of 10, having wrapped up his career with a handful of games with the Expos. He did get a couple cards out of the deal, with 1986 Fleer Update being the most mainstream.

Here's the Jays one. There's also a Mets one that just joined my COMC inventory.

I never would have realized this was a short-print variation if the note SP wasn't attached to it. Using COMC as a guide, this a warm-up shirt variation. I'm not really up to looking for what other garments also got this treatment.

A Mets photo that is nice enough that it could conceivably be a short-print, but it is just a base card. Conforto did get a variation, but it was just a generic batting photo.

Bills! Bills! Bills!

Wrapping it up, here's a bunch of stuff from the 2017 WWE Women's Division release. I think I busted one rack pack of it, so I'm happy to add some more Bayley and some more Asuka to the collection.

And there you have it!

One Card Only: Who Needs Certification?

My original plans for today were to cover an envelope that Night Owl sent my way. But, that would require scanning a bunch of stuff, and I really wasn't up for that today. This was already scanned, though, so it's perfect to show off. Sure, this isn't a certified autograph, but it is a Mets autograph. And who would forge a Jeromy Burnitz auto just to sell for $2?

I think I'm safe.

Toronto Group Break Goodies

Back to the ol' mailbag today and some group break stuff from the two Toronto teams I root for - the Raptors and Blue Jays.

Here's the base design. Shiny, and I like the contrasting black & white/colour photos combined on the front. Sadly, it only really pops when they're wearing the red uniforms like on OG's card.

Excepting the Norman Powell, I also landed almost a complete set of the red parallels.

One insert.

Two inserts. That is a facsimile autograph on the License to Dominate, but these still count as case hits. So, while I didn't land an actual hit in this, I did land something relatively close.

Off to baseball, and a mixer of various products.

I'll go through this in relative chronological order, and start with some 2016 Bowman's Best. Only a pair of Joey Bats cards in this, but one was a nice shiny refractor. And yes, I did pick up the Topps Now card of his return to Toronto. Mainly because I thought that could be his only Mets card, since nothing is certain with Update. Then he got another Now card days later.

A nice selection of last year's Stadium Club, which like any year's release I can't really get enough of.

ThjA couple cards out of the rather odd Chronicles set, which was sorta like Rookie Anthology in terms of a base set, and a bunch of kinda Update-ish cards from various sets along with other unreleased Panini product lines. Spectra baseball?

The only hit in this post was an auto, with Anthony Alford experiencing some level of sticker woe.

2018 Bowman! Which I've busted a grand total of nothing of, but still have picked up a few cards through breaks and trades. A trio of Vlads? Yes!

And let's throw some parallels in with this. A shimmery parallel in Blue Jays blue is up first, with this one being 47/125.

While red isn't as important a colour in the Jays uniform, it is still there. This beauty is numbered to an ebay 1/1ish 5/5. Nice, but I'd put the odds at 50/50 that it ends up in my COMC sales account at some point. Since a blue Jays card is still nicer than a red. Unless they photoshopped one of the Canada Day jerseys onto Zeuch.

There you go. Assuming the mailman doesn't drop anything off in the near future, only one more envelope and I'm caught up! Yay!

The Condition was not Time Sensitive

Thankfully, as I've been lax on posting this package that arrived from the land where green is the colour, and football is the game - Saskatchewan and Condition Sensitive.

A random Expos to start off this post? Why not? Bruce Chen may have only played 15 games out of the many stops in his career for the Expos, but he still got a few cards out of this. And here's a rather chilly looking one.

And a random Mets card as well.

Diamond Kings might be the one set from Panini where I really don't really notice the lack of licensing.

Some Raptors out of 16-17 Threads. The die-cut jersey cards that have made appearances in several sets might be the best idea for a card that doesn't include a photo of the player.

Let's end it with an autograph. Logan Verrett. He's now playing in Korea, but I didn't have an autograph of his prior to the envelope showing up, so I'm still happy to welcome it to my Mets hit binder.

Thanks for the cards. I'll keep putting aside Kings, Bruins, Redskins and Rockies I come across for future mailings!

2018 Adventures in Repacks - Part 25.3

Here's the content:

All cardboard this time.

I have to highlight something from 1990 Pro Set, Gordie Howe in Whalers colours is an easy decision.

I hope to bat .500 when it comes for mask binder cards in one of the goalie packs, and that worked out this time, with the Bester being a dupe and the Melanson being unpainted. Too bad Kidd wasn't the fire-breathing one, though.

I'm surprised the 2010s pack wasn't entirely UD flagship base, so I'll take one of the always interesting Pinnacle base cards from 2011 instead.

Not one, but two junk wax HOFers in that portion of the pack. Normally, 2/14 baby Dave Lowry would be the highlight, but that's a dupe, so the 4th and final card, the Jake Allen, that wins this pack based on it being a set need.

And there you go. I'll be back in town by the time this posts, so maybe I can get caught up on some trade package(s) next.

2018 Adventures in Repacks - Part 25.2 - Short Trip Repack Posts

And the other side:

It isn't as great as the Bob Gibson, but a Pro Debut cards is also a pretty unique card to be visible at the front of a repack.

There's nothing too interesting to make an appearance in the first grouping, so I guess the second minor league card to come from this portion wins this one.

A solid grouping. Upper Deck minors makes a second appearance, along with the first year of the Marlins and Bowman Heritage. Plus a Jays card and more Heritage! WOO-HOO!

Even more minor league fun.  And that's likely my first Pinnacle Performers card.

And there's a great photo to boot, naturally from the 1993 Upper Deck portion.

And the end. I'd probably have enjoyed that obscure Bosio card (from something called 1995 Pacific Mariners Memories) more if he hadn't made the news this past week. Still, it ended with some more Heritage and some Archives as the final card. So all is well.

A perfect use of $3!

2018 Adventures in Repacks - Part 25.1 - Short Trip Repack Posts

The Mets are in town, so I'm auto-posting for a day or so. Sounds perfect for a $3 Dollarama baseball hanger pack. As usual these contain 80 cards, split over a pair of 40-card 'sides'.

Visible card #1 is a super-stylish Bob Gibson. That made grabbing this repack and easy decision. But what goodies lurked behind it?

A Diamond King among the first cards of the repack? I've already got my money's worth in this!

While I'm way too lazy to go back and check, this might be the first time I landed a trio of horizontal cards in a grouping of 8. That Gibson is a classic, and Upper Deck makes the Finn more interesting than any minor league card tends to be.

A pair of Jays1 An Expo! And Rickey Henderson's arse! Such is the randomness of repacks.

It isn't every baseball repack where I pull a card for a hockey binder but that Molina is bound for the mask binder. This group also gets major props for a Topps Total appearance, a turning two photo and a catch against the ivy.

And it comes to and end rather blandly, but there's my second Robin Ventura card on this side. That's repack collation for you.

So, I guess there was interesting stuff lurking behind Gibson. The other side tomorrow!

Redeemed!

This:

became this:

I've got several of Ceci out of RA, but this is the shiniest so far.

Canada Day Raptors

As with last year, I really lacked any overly patriotic cards in my "to be posted" box, so I'll do the same as last year and post some of the cards on their way to the Raptors binder.

A nice red card starts this off. But, Replay? Oh boy. This was a buyback product, with a rookie card or two included. You also got two autographed cards in magnetics. The big chase cards were some Stephen Curry, but mostly, you were getting Shelvin Mack and James Jones. At an original SRP of $230. Ouch.

Technically, not a Raptors card. Malachi Richardson came to Toronto in the deal that sent Bruno Caboclo to Sacramento. I don't think he saw any action outside of with the 905, but this still counts as a Raptors card.

The Wood Rookies are sorta chase-ish cards from Threads. Might as well add a cheap one to the ol' PC.

Finally, a card I'd been looking for since the first release of the season. While Kyle Wiltjer signed with the Raptors in the off-season, he wasn't really in their plans and would likely have spent most of his time in the G-League. He signed overseas, and never played a regular season minute for the Raptors. So, that's a zero-year card. And it still counts.

And the Raptors just re-signed Fred VanVleet! Hopefully, that means he will finally get a base card with the team.