2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 15.1 - Basketball Cubism

I will probably get started next week on at least one of those repacks that showed up last week, but first I have to get through this:

As usual, I'll divide these up into 4 piles of about the same height, and list everything.

2015 Hoops - Bojan Bogdanovich - And we're off.
1996 Hoops - Chris Morris
1993 Fleer - Dale Davis
1993 Hoops - Dennis Scott

1992 Hoops - Stacey Augmon - The first of several drawn cards in this - this was the only one that was not a checklist.
1993 Stad. Club - Victor Alexander

1996 Hoops - Damon Stoudamire - The first Raptors card comes early on.
1992 Stad. Club - Oliver Miller

2005 Topps 1952 Style - Alan Henderson - And the first hit of the cube. The card itself is a bright green swatch, even though this looks like it has been laundered several dozen times.
1996 Topps - Loy Vaught
1991 UD - Dennis Scott

1992 Stad. Club - Alex Strivins - One of the fun things about Topps' return to the basketball card market was that their Stadium Club 'rookie on the back' was mostly the flagship release. But this is one of the self-referential ones. This card itself was the only card Strivins would see in his career.
1993 Fleer - Felton Spencer

1999 Force - Nazr Mohammed - Maybe not the first shiny card, but the first foil one for sure.
1991 Fleer - Orlando Woolridge
1995 Skybox - BJ Armstrong

2004 Hot Prospects - Mickael Pietrus - The pride of Guadeloupe!
1992 Hoops - Bob McCann
1989 Hoops - Jerry Sloan

1992 UD - Dan Schayes - I love the Boston Garden in the background here. One of those instantly recognizable buildings.
1993 Ultra - Buck Johnson
2015 Prizm - Channing Frye
1990 Fleer - Jack Sikma

2016 Excalibur Battlements - Hassan Whiteside - Insert!
1993 UD - Todd Day

1996 Score Board - Antoine Walker - I'm counting this as a Celtics card. As always - my binders, my rules.
1990 Skybox - Michael Smith
1992 UD - John Salley
1992 Topps - Michael Adams

1998 Finite - Allan Houston - The first of quite a few numbered cards in this. This one was numbered to a somewhat odd /4050.
2018 Hoops - Dante Exum
1995 Metal - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf
1991 Skybox - Terry Catledge
1991 Fleer - Danny Manning
1991 UD - Glen Rice
1990 Fleer - Bill Laimbeer
1993 Hoops 5th - John Paxson
1990 Hoops - Thurl Bailey
1999 Force - Rick Fox
1992 UD - Adam Keefe
1992 Stad. Club - Mike Sanders
1992 Ultra - Buck Johnson
1992 Stad. Club - Clarence Weatherspoon
1989 Hoops - Ricky Pierce

2008 Topps Signature - Paul Pierce - Here's another numbered card, going to /2325.
2005 Slam - Brad Miller
2015 Prizm - Victor Oladipo

1993 UD - Jon Koncak - The block doesn't get enough photographic love on cards.
1992 Ultra - Rick Fox
1991 Fleer - Sam Mitchell
1994 SP - AC Green

1989 Fleer - Frank Brickowski - Brick is a rather unfortunate part of a basketball player's name.
1993 Hoops - Mark Jackson
1992 Stad. Club - Paul Pressey
1989 Hoops - Steve Colter
1997 Skybox - Juwan Howard
1994 Hoops - BJ Armstrong

2015 Donruss - Tyson Chandler - One of my favourite recent Donruss designs. I love it when the border colours match the team's.
1989 Fleer - Jeff Hornacek
2016 Donruss - Damian Lillard
2013 Panini - Danny Granger
2010 Hoops - Jonas Jerebko

1990 Skybox - Nate McMillan - There were a lot of 1990 Skybox in this, but I think this one uses the concept of the design best.
1991 UD - Rony Siekaly
1993 Hoops - Duane Ferrell
1990 Fleer - John Salley
1992 Stad. Club - Bryant Stith
1992 Hoops - Chuck Person

2016 Excalibur Crusade Camo - Hassan Whiteside - Panini got a lot of mileage out of this photo in Excalibur.
1994 Ultra - Tom Hammonds
1990 Skybox - Fred Roberts
2018 Hoops - Markelle Fultz

1991 Fleer - Pat Riley - Ending on a coach.

Definitely a solid start with the hit, some solid photos, and a couple team PC cards. It gets better next time with a set I definitely was not expecting to find in a repack.

Opening some Opening Day

2020's Opening Day might be unknown at this point, but there's always time for opening some new product.

The box promises an extra, exclusive Jays card per three packs. I guess this is my first opening Day card for the season then. These parallels are exclusives to Canadian Walmarts, and I guess this rookie is the one you want to pull.

Kershaw was the first pack-pulled card from the set. This does set a theme for the break through, as Jays and Dodgers were the most common teams in the packs.

But first, here's the only Mets card in the packs.

But I'll shift back to Toronto for the first Jays card of the packs.

And the Jays were also represented among the inserts, specifically this one that saluted the actual 2019 opening.

My favourite photo in the packs was this beautiful Matt Carpenter.

If photos that you'll likely see in Series 2 are more your thing, here's my favourite among those with this casual Robles catch.

Back to the inserts, here's a Traditions card. Interestingly, this pack also had the Aaron Judge base card. Yay, collation!

Sticker!

But this here was actually a pretty big hit for the packs. The Walk this Way insert, which commemorates walk-off homers, falls at a rate of 1:369 packs, so they're pretty rare pulls. As one can tell by the jersey, this would be the Dodgers walk-off homer on Jackie Robinson Day, making it one of the more perfectly timed walk-offs from last season as well.

And there you have it!

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 14 - One Last Pre-Parkie chase?

Unsurprisingly, these didn't last long on the shelves at Wally World. I guess I lucked out walking into one that still had 4 of these on the hangers. And I got all of them to hunt Pre-Parkie autographs.

But first, here were the pack contents.

Although I'm sure I've pulled both before, I will still highlight a Senators card and a 2/14 baby.

The insert/parallel content in the the Parkhurst packs was pretty horizontal, but the vertical card was easily the best since they didn't silver/chrome out the dejected Ovechkin cameo on Halak's card.

Another Sens appearance among the Gold Rush parallels in the Score packs.

And it was all over the place for inserts/hot rookies in those, with 4 different ones represented. If I recall somewhat correctly, the Team Future were among the tougher pulls in these releases.

Series 1 of the flagship release provided a pair of super-dull Portraits inserts, but I did get a Young Gun (even if Greenway seemed to follow me around last year), and a great Jagr insert saluting his handful of games with the Flames, so it balances out.

And your inserts from Series 2. Pretty blah here, but at least there were no Portraits cards.

And let's see the hints.

Repack 1:

Like before, we head back to the earlier days of relics, with this Samsonov coming from a 2000-01 release. Fistric did have a decent career, and Future Watch autographs are always fun.

Repack 2:

Really?

Repack 3:

That's a nice way to break a streak. Iggulden only played in a dozen NHL games, but I was not expecting to see any sort of autograph from the Cup in this, even of a short-term player. Gilbert did carve out double-digit seasons in the NHL, and has been overseas the past few years.

Repack 4:

I guess this finally paid off. Fortunately, I noticed that there was a smaller than usual card in this repack before I noticed the third Samsonov relic, otherwise its appearance might nave broken me. That's Howie Meeker on the autograph, and as I type this, he's probably the only member of the pre-Parkie checklist still alive, having turned 96 this past November. He was also born in my hometown of Kitchener, so there's a local tie to this auto.

I can't imagine seeing these repacks again, but that auto was a nice way to go out.

Wrestlemania weekend!

Wrestlemania goes this weekend - and I largely am uninterested this time around. That's 100 percent due to the environment this year - no audience and pre-taped matches will do that.

But here's an autograph for the show anyhow. Rather regal penmanship, if I do say so myself.

Mailbag!

Packages are still rolling into, and out of Chez Buckstorecards. I didn't have to wait until next year to get the latest one from Tom at WTNY.

The package was mainly Mets, but there was a lone Blue Jay with this Vladdy insert.

Does this card of Michael Conforto count as a Mets card? Yes. My binders. My rules.

The same holds true for this bat sliver.

Vintage! I really can't wait for '73 to makes its appearance in Heritage form.

I did bust quite a bit of Stadium Club in 2018, but didn't get this red parallel of Cespedes in my box/pack busting adventures.

I flat out had no idea which set these cards were from. Turns out this is the Mets content from the 1986 Topps Woolworth's Super Stars box set. I also now realize that I have to have the Gorman Thomas card from that set, since my collection really needs a badassery boost.

A nice mix in the David Wright content.

And here's a scanner bed worth of the rest of the Mets. Love that Seaver! Those Platinum cards are likely my first cards from that set.

And one last hit to wrap up the Mets, but not the package.

Tom knows I love me some repacks. So, these were in the package as well!

Two 80 card baseball repacks! These are especially welcome as these seem to have vanished from the Dollarama for the time. I'm a little backlogged in my repack show-offs as of late, but they'll go into the box and get to busting these once I get through some hockey and basketball.

So, thanks for all these goodies Tom, and I'll definitely look for Cubbies to fill up future PWEs.

One Card Only: The Parkhurst Follow-up

Why not follow up the Parkhurst break with one more on-card autograph of a retired player from a defunct team?

And there's my first Kansas City Scouts auto!

2006-07 Parkhurst Box Break - Part 4 of 4

And a fun box comes to an end with these 6 packs:

Pack 19:

As is typical for this, there's players who make frequent appearances in recent products (Hextall), those that show up here and there (LeMaire)and those who rarely show up (Pronovost). That's why this set is so great.

Pack 20:

I love the appearance of defunct teams in sets, such as with the Plett. Some nice tough guy content as well on the bottom, with them combining for over 4000 minutes worth of sin bin time.

Pack 21:

Well, there's the final autograph of the box, and it has to be my favourite of the four. An on-card autograph of one-third of the more famous brother combinations in hockey history, and unlike with Peter, there really aren't too many of them out there.

Pack 22:

I may have commented that a previous pack was a Bruins hot pack with a few cards, but top this one! The odd-man out is a Kitchener Rangers alum, so even that is a great card. Judging by the lack of scars on the mask, I guess that Cheevers was early in the season.

Pack 23:

There's the final non-NHLer card in this with legendary host Ron MacLean. Surprisingly, this is card #1 in the set numbering scheme.

Pack 24:

And there we have it. And my final card, in the final pack, is one of the greatest names to say out loud in hockey history with Reijo.

And that's that! A really fun break, with the only complaint being the dupes of the /3999 portion of the set. I've added my remaining needs to my set builder wantlist, so help me out if you can!