2022 Adventures in Repacks - Part 18.1 - Forgotten but not Gone

 

I bought this repack a couple years ago. At least a couple years back. I then put the cards aside, and thought "I'll post them eventually". And I completely forgot I had them. Until I opened up a tin and found the cards neatly put away inside. 

I guess now is that time. I'm not feeling like a bunch of huge posts, so like when I do the 100 card repack posts of 25 each, these are getting broken down into 4 posts as well.

Unlicensed and underway! I still can't imagine how UD thought they could use these photos and get away with it.

If this repack had a theme, it would be 'Update'. Or 'Traded'. That is because there were 18 total cards from those type of releases in this repack. 2 pages worth. There's 3 of them in this first grouping of cards - Castro, Cangelosi and Morgan. 1986 Topps Traded would make the most appearances with 8. That Barry Bonds was probably an interesting pull at one point, but not as much now. Still, I like the way the arm patch seems almost perfectly parallel with the on-card logo.

Mets conent! Expos content! I find the Gallego interesting since it is a posed Fenway photo, but not one with the Green Monster in the background. Also, Gallego is far less important than Randy Johnson when it comes to blurring out background cigarette billboards. 

WOO-HOO! That card of Pete Ladd as Weird Al was a 'want' card for me for quite the while, but I never pulled the trigger on it. I guess for the past few years I always remembered that I had it sitting in a repack that I never got around to posting. That Pat Borders is considered to be his rookie (Like with Ladd, a 'Traded' set card), and he was a World Series MVP, so another cool get from the repack. 

Definitely a fun start to this! Why did I wait so long to show these off?

Michael Jordan's Inspiration

 

If an autographed card of Air Jordan is way out of my price range, at least his idol isn't as wallet unfriendly. And if I'm going to get one, I might as well get it from a super high-end set like Opulence. There's some nice penmanship to go alongside an on-card sig as well.

And there's a Maxie Miner appearance as well on this - with the logo Panini used joining Maxie's appearance on the shorts.

There you have it!

2022 Adventures in Repacks - Part 17 - Hanger and a Hit

 

There's always an appropriate time for one of these. And it is always an easy decision as to which one to pull off the 7-11 hangers when there is one of these holiday parallels is the visible card.

It is a nice grouping of cards when one hits several of my PCs in the group. Tarasco lands in the Expos binder with his card, which appears to have a photo just after a brushback pitch. Morneau lands in my CanCon binder. And since Early Wynn was a radio voice for the Blue Jays in their early years, he naturally counts towards the Blue Jays collection. Why wouldn't he? As I always write, My Binders: My Rules.

From back when Sterling wasn't insanely high-end, a simple relic for my Expos binder. And at least the photo does feature a bat as opposed to a fielding photo to accompany the appropriate relic. 

Another fun group. Pacific seems odd as a baseball product, even when they had releases over several sports in  the time period. We're late in their run, but that's still a great photo of the pillbox hats on the Ortiz. The placing of his hand right next to the stripe on the uniform pants is in the perfect position to make it look he has the freakiest finger ever.

All 3 of my team collections get a card in the last group. In an odd connection of cards within this, you see the Tom Cheek memorial patch on the John McDonald card. Tom Cheek was the radio voice of the Jays from 1977 through 2004, with those first years being alongside...Early Wynn.  Again, that Wynn is a Jays card.

And here is the finale. Both visible cards were ones that looked like flagship entries, but not quite flagship.

And since there were cards with cartoons on the back, I might as well show them off too!

There you have it!

Just One Pack - of 2022 WWE Prizm

 

I've been doing several solo-card posts since returning from vacation - so let's deviate completely from that with an entire chrome-y pack. 

The Empress of Tomorrow is my opener. No complaints here! The colours almost give Asuka's photo a Sportflics like effect. 

And your card backs are pretty much exactly what I'd expect. Given there's no real season with wrestling, I'll forgive the lack of stats on the back outside of the hometown.

These base chrome scans really show off the filth on my scanner.

The first 100 cards of the base set have horizontal formats, with the final 100 being vertical. The final 190-200 are for legends, but there are others scattered throughout the 200 card base set. My familiarity with the NXT UK portion is spotty at best, so they really seem odd here placed between Chyna and The Rock. 

In a nice twist, the orientation of the card back changes to match the front's.

My first parallel. I'm somewhat disappointed by the photo choice. Shanky is billed at 7'3, and he just  looks like some generic guy here. His stare is intimidating, but it would look so much better if they tried the "Andre the Giant standing on a box" look with a photo from a lower angle.

Here's those promised RWB parallels. This pack definitely had collation issues. But as long as these are nice and shiny, the important part of Prizm comes through. I probably should have shown off these patriotic cards on Memorial Day yesterday. Even if the only American in the group is the one who has a name that is a homophone with another country.

And here's a couple inserts to end it. 

A perfectly acceptable pack o'cards, although at the current cost of packs, this is definitely a one-and-done for me. I've done better on epack with AEW anyhow, even if I won't be about to show those off here for a couple months.

Patience Pays Off

 

Just wait, and you'll be able to get a goofy photo of a player with a bunch of gumballs in a container that is a SP variation for a fraction of the price it was originally at. It might not be a rally squttel, but at least this looks tastier. 

A hockey card rarity

 

You don't see fisticuffs too often on a hockey card, but here's Trevor Gillies picking up 5 of his 95 PIM during his one season in the KHL

I'm not sure when the back photo was taken in comparison to the front, so I can't say which player borrowed the idea for the haircut from which - Trevor or his fellow combatant.

Bad Timing on my Part

 

I probably should have scheduled this card to be posted during my trip a month ago

but better late than never!

What's In a Name?

 

When I hear a name like "Crestwell Pratt", I would think of the frat-boy rapist of the week during an episode of SVU, not a Bahamian-born minor league baseball player.

But seeing as I'm not exactly familiar with Bahamian naming conventions, maybe it is just their equivalent of John Smith.

Scorer of a Famous Goal

 

If you're seeing the title of this, and wondering what famous goal Rob Davison scored, it is one not so famous for him being the scorer, but for the goaltender that let it in.

It was Rob Davison that fired the puck down the ice, only for it to bounce in the net and enshrine Vesa Toskala in NHL lore as the goalie who let in what was likely the longest non-empty-net goal in league history. 

That was the third, and final goal of his NHL career.

And now he's in the Leafs system, as an assistant coach for their AHL affiliate.

There you have it!

2022 Adventures in Repacks - Part 16 - Dozens

 

Just a twelve-card hanger kinda day. Times 2.

Here's your opener. Oliver played two seasons in the CHL over here (the first with Sherbrooke), and has since returned overseas. But, he probably the only player I have a card with OO as his initials. 

Here's some junk wax era cards. I kinda waver whether I like or dislike those Parkhurst entries. They're plenty hideous, but that's what you expect from something from the mid 90s.

I swear 2020-21 Extended is going to become the junk wax equivalent showing up in repacks in 2055. There just seems to be so much of it still unopened on shelves. That Ultra is probably the oddball for this particular repack. 

And insert as the finale? Fine by me!

Here's a better look at the second repack's opening card. A rather patriotic card out of a Canadian Tire exclusive release. Kirk looks super young here, but if the photo matches the details on the back, he'd be 23 as this is from the 1989 World Championships.

That Dale Hunter is one of the more legible entries out of that Donruss release, where the only place the player's name would appear is in that silver portion. Hawerchuk's photo is actually pretty interesting, as he takes up only about 1/4 of the photo, but he's still maintaining control of the puck for a unique pic that wouldn't work if it was closely cropped or done horizontaly. DelGuidice does have one of my favourite errors among Pro Set's many errors in their hockey sets.

Since if you forget to change the column headers from a skater to a goaltender, you have the greatest player of all time.

Helmetless mojo! There's a keeper! There's also some pretty intense concentration on that Turgeon to make it another pretty nice looking photo on a card from 1990.

A base card isn't as unexpected an ending as the earlier Victory insert, but it still features a former MVP. 

There you have it!