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A few weeks back I received an email from Chris at the blog The Collector letting me know he had a few cards that were on my want lists.  I sent him a few vintage baseball and hockey cards, and in return I received a super envelope full of cards that hit all kinds of needs.John Ogrodnick’s Detroit Red Wings team leaders card from the 1983-84 OPC set was the sole card from the set, but it reminded me just how much I miss cards such as this.  Companies are so focused on inserts/parallels today that they forget what really worked back in the old days.  Hey Upper Deck, instead of pumping out the same short printed cards of veterans each year in your OPC set, how about team leaders and league leader cards?  Would be fine by me….A handful of 84-85 OPC cards also came my way, and seeing them reminds me just how big a mistake it was to see my completed set in the past.  It was a different time for me then, and I did need the $$ that it brought, but in hindsight I’m sure I could have found a way out of my difficulties without getting rid of one of the best 1980’s hockey sets.  A Hurricane sighting!!  Eric Staal’s Hot Commodities card in the upper right corner finally breaks the ice (bad pun) for Carolina in the SNIH set, as all 30 teams are now represented.  The old and the new titanium cards are also welcome additions, as I have never really bought any of that product over the years.  However, the next scan is indicative of the cards I really like for the SNIH set…Serial #’s and die cuts = another weakness for meI love the die cut cards!  Pacific did come up with some good gimmick cards back in the day, especially the Titanium all-star card of Fedorov on the left.  I hope that Doug Weight knows what he’s got himself into as coach of the Islanders, because in my opinion they made a mistake in the off-season not resigning their free agents.  To me it destroyed a bit of the chemistry they had, and now they’re paying the price as they’re going to have to come from the back of the pack to make the playoffs again this year. This is the smaller half of the envelope, as tomorrow I’ll show off the stack of Blue Jays cards that came in the envelope.  A healthy stack…Thank you the cards Chris, they really are appreciated!!  Hopefully we’ll see some posts from you soon.Thanks for reading, Robert

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I’ve had these 5 cards sitting on my desk for quite a while now.  I received them before the start of the New Year from Doug who keeps churning out posts at the Sportscards from the Dollar Store blog on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong here.  I love the look of these cards.  Something a bit different, with the rounded sides and arch at the top of the card.   But boy, was it a bit of an adventure trying to get them to stay straight on the scanner bed…In the end, I don’t think I fared too badly with the final scan.  But boy oh boy, was it tough to settle these down, especially the upper row since I use the top edge of the scanner to line up the cards when I scan.I love the blue serial numbers and borders (top and bottom).  The word “Contours” is almost impossible to see however, and the Upper Deck logo scanned quite dark.   No matter, as my favorite part of these 5 cards is….I’ve heard of everyone of these guys! The Serial Numbered Insanity set, hockey version, is coming along quite nicely.  I’m up to about 10% now (I’ve almost got everything scanned and displayed), and all but one of the teams has been represented so far. (Hurricanes, where art thou?)It’s progressing a lot quicker than I thought it would, but that’s what is great about the blogosphere.  Just when you think you have it figured out, people start firing stuff at you that you don’t expect.Maybe expect the unexpected should be my thought process going forward.Thanks for reading, Robert

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I had a pretty good time at the monthly card show this past weekend.   I spent a total of $80, 20 of which was on the Brett Hull RC I showed yesterday (which my be counterfeit now, I’ll have to do some research and follow up with that–thanks to Coast to Posts for the info).The other 60 was spent on a lot of other goodies, which I’m going to cram about 90% of them into this post.A few more Leafs for the collection, including a couple of my favorites past and present, Darryl Sittler and Morgan Rielly.  I’m hoping that Rielly’s injury that he suffered tonight isn’t serious and he’ll be able to come back soon.I grabbed a couple of star cards from a pair of mid 80’s OPC sets on the cheap.  I still have a very long way to go for both of these sets, maybe later this year I’ll hunt for some cheap lots on eBay to try and knock the want lists down for both the 84-85 (Francis) and 85-86 (Coffey) sets.I found a trio of star cards for the 1990 Leaf set that I’m trying to put together.  It seems that the last couple of shows I’ve attended I managed to snag a Nolan Ryan card or two each time. For $4 I was able to snag a ’71-72 OPC John Bucyk all star card for that set.  Each of the past couple of shows I’ve also found a card from this set.  The border is definitely off center, but it’s still a nice card with no other flaws, so I just had to pick it upThis was a very happy accident.   I was down to just 3 cards to finish the ’73 set, and really didn’t go to the show looking for any of them.  While sorting through a box of star cards from the early to mid 70’s, I came across this card, and had to stop and look at my phone to see if this was something I needed.  Sure enough, it was, and I now need only 2 cards to finish the ’73 set. I was able to grab these 6 cards for the ’59 set I’m working on, the highlight being the Enos Slaughter card on the lower right which cost me $9. Finally, at a table that had a dollar box, I grabbed 11 serial #’d cards for the SNIH set.  If you bought 15 cards out of the box, he charged only $10, so I got these for 66 cents apiece, right around what I normally like to pay for serial #’d cards.  I was excited to get another Tony Esposito card for the set, the classic Butch Goring helmet that he wore for his entire career was also another cool pickup for me.Let’s do the math.  $1984- $80 spent at the show leaves the budget for 2017 down to $1904.  If I did an average spent per day so far, the $2K right now would last me until the 354th day of the year, December 20th.Let’s see how that plays out…Thanks for reading, Robert

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I mentioned in my New Year’s post that the 88-89 O-Pee-Chee set was one of the 3 sets that I wanted to finish in the first quarter of 2017.  I even had it precisely down to picking up the one card I needed, the Brett Hull RC you see above, at the monthly card show.I did just that on the weekend, and now you’re about to see the finished product.  All 264 cards from the “push pin” set, 1988-89 OPC, here for your viewing pleasure.My favorite card?  Mike Krushelnyski, page 25, dead center.  The airbrush job that OPC did makes him look like he’s glowing in the dark. Worst spelling mistake?  Page 26.  Mario Marois, bottom center.  OPC spelled his last name “Marios” on the front and back.   Homage to Mr. Lemieux maybe?I’d forgotten that:Charlie Simmer was a PenguinMark Hunter was traded to the Blues and became a 40 goal scorer there before moving to Calgary.The Calgary Flames were as great a team as they were on their run to the  ’89 Stanley Cup.  There were also Flames players that didn’t even have a card in this set (Gary Roberts, Brad McCrimmon and Jiri Hrdina to mention 3) Darren Pang even has a card in this set!OK, now I’ve just got to finish the ’64 and ’73 sets and the first item on my New Year’s checklist will be complete.Anyone have a spare Mike Schmidt RC floating around?Thanks for reading, Robert

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The annual homage to one of my favorite releases, the Upper Deck hockey set.  I participate every season in the ritual that is buying a few packs, chasing the rookies in the Young Gun portion of the set, and drying away the tears when I end up without any yet again. But, I always love the photography, and the set design is usually sharp enough to keep me entertained.  This year is no different.   I bought 5 packs last week at Target on the day I started getting sick, and I’m finally getting around to posting them on the blog.Pack 1 of 5 had nothing to speak of, save for the Alex Ovechkin base card.  I will stop and watch a Capitals game if I see it on TV,  in hope of seeing one of Ovie’s howitzers hit the net.  First year HOFer in my book.The base set pickups of the Maple Leafs will be relatively easy again this year, with two of them being pulled in pack two.  While James van Riemsdyk on the right is one of the core Maple Leaf players (interesting that the photo was taken in Phoenix), Joffrey Lupul appears to have played his last game in a Maple Leaf jersey.  Must be nice to have that kind of money to burn…I’ve always been a big fan of NHL jerseys, I have quite a few of them in my closet.  One day I would like to own the alternate Colorado Avalanche jersey that is shown he on the Gabriel Landeskog card.  Takes me back to the Colorado Rockies jersey from the late 70’s.   Love it!!These were the only 2 inserts I pulled in the 5 packs that I bought.  Jumbo Joe Thornton featured on the Shining Stars card on the left, and the UD Canvas cards are represented by Jason Spezza from the Dallas Stars on the right.  Both will likely be sent off to COMC to be sold in the marketplace.I’ve always been a big fan of grinding type forwards that like to hit and don’t score a lot.  Leo Komarov fits that description to a ‘T’.  Not that the graceful skating on one leg depicted on his card would signify.  I saw the Jonathan Ericsson card on the right and thought to myself “boy the numbers on his jersey are huge!!”  Forgot that they had these uniforms for their outdoor game last season against the Avalanche.  Guess when you’re that far away from the ice in those football stadiums that the numbers need to be big so you can see them.As usual, no luck with pulling any of the Young Guns cards, and chances are that the 2016-17 set will not be something that I chase.  The cheapest copy that I saw of an Auston Matthews RC was $110, I also saw another auction that was selling a pair of the RC’s for $275.   Yikes.  Even the oversize box toppers of Matthews are going for about $40.  This may be one of the best RC classes for quite a long time, and also one of the most expensive. I’ve got other, more pressing collecting needs at this moment, which hopefully this weekend’s card show will help alleviate.These 5 packs cost me just under $16 (including tax), so I’ll just round up to $16 even.  $2000 – $16 = $1984 left to spend in 2017.Thanks for reading, Robert

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