Grab Bag – Hockey Refractors and Clark Relics

A week or two ago I found myself in a situation that may be familiar to some of you.  We were having some friends over for a party and I had quite a few stacks of cards laying around the house that needed to disappear.  I try to keep my colle…

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One of the very first projects I began when I started this blog back in January of 2008 was to collect the 1953 Topps baseball set.  By the end of that first year, I had posted 33 cards from the set including my 3 best cards……Yankees’ shortsto…

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I can’t believe it’s been nearly two weeks since my last post.  Things have been a little hectic around here lately, but despite the lack of posting I’ve still been reading all of the other great sports card blogs out there, and have picked up ple…

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Here’s the final pack I’ll be posting from the lot of 17 1978-79 Topps hockey packs I snagged at the hobby shop well over a year ago now.  This one was by far the best of the lot.  12 cards and a sticker, here we go…#48 – Dennis Hextall#83 …

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I can remember opening packs of 1987 and 1990 Topps baseball as a kid and getting excited when I landed a card from the All-Star subset.  It meant that you had pulled a card of one of the game’s best, that your pack was a success.  So, when I…

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At last we’ve reached the final post from the “Extreme Value” repack box. As promised, I received a bonus in addition to the four packs I’ve featured so far. That bonus was a fifth pack, surprise surprise…Another pack of 2006-07 Upper Deck, this ti…

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I’m enjoying an evening of drinking beer and watching playoff hockey…what better time to post the fourth pack from the “Extreme Value” Target repack box.Today’s pack is definitely a step up in terms of quality. This 2006-07 Upper Deck Series 1 pack …

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Time for the 3rd installment of the “Extreme Value” repack box. I’ll just warn you ahead of time, it’s about to get even less extreme. Today’s pack is 2009-10 Upper Deck Artifacts.I bought just a single pack of this crap a year and a half ago. I did…

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The second pack from the repack box was 2010-11 Donruss. I’ve only opened a single pack of this stuff, so odds are I won’t get many doubles if any. 10 cards…These cards are just bland to me. There’s a reason I never bought a second pack. Not bad,…

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In Target yesterday I stumbled upon this “Extreme Value” repack box, which contains 4 packs of hockey cards plus another hundred loose cards.130-150 total cards for $10 seemed reasonable, plus I figured this would provide a few posts for the blog and m…

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Time for the WHA Card of the Month for April. So far we’ve looked at the first WHA cards released by O-Pee-Chee with a ’72-73 high number as well as one of the logo inserts from the ’72-73 set. After not releasing any WHA cards for 1973-74, O-Pee-Che…

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Here’s a random smattering of cards I happened to scan in this afternoon while cleaning off my desk and watching Josh Beckett pitch batting practice for Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder…A National Trading Card Day Jaromir Jagr card, back from when T…

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Recently I completed another trade with Life and Baseball Cards. We’ve exchanged cards quite a few times now, every so often I send him a stack of Cubs, and every so often I get a stack of Red Sox in return. I like that arrangement! This latest pack…

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There are many opinions out there when it comes to the “relic” card. Some collectors love them, some hate them, others are altogether indifferent. I guess I fall into this last category. I’ve probably got around 30 or 40 of them in my hockey collect…

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A couple of weeks back I opened a very Dodgers-oriented Heritage blaster. Night Owl inquired about the Dodger cards and I shipped them off to him that same week. A few days later I received a return package with some recent Red Sox cards:My first 201…

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A while back I sent some cards over to Brad at Cards from the Crease. I got my return package a few weeks ago and finally got around to scanning in the cards. Here are 10 of my favorites from the package:Brad knows that even though I’m a set collecto…

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It’s a cold, rainy Saturday morning here, perfect day to catch up on the backlog of cards stacked up on my desk.Here’s my third ’72-73 O-Pee-Chee WHA card. Jean Payette was near the end of his career here. He’d play 112 games with Quebec in the WHA (…

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During my health funk, I mentioned that I didn’t care about trading. It was all a part of being generally ill. You know what it’s like being sick. You don’t feel like doing anything, even the things you love the most.But I’m afraid I might have scared …

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Been a while since I did one of these posts. Today we’ll choose card #113 for the franken-set of my all-time favorite hockey cards…Not surprisingly, #113 is not exactly a number that belongs to All-Stars or Hall-of-Famers in most sets. Most of my #…

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Time is not my own today, so all I could do was grasp at some cards that had something in common and declare it a post.Viola! You’re reading it! Mission accomplished.I’ve noticed a flurry of Matt Kemps entering my collection lately. This is very good, …

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Earlier this month Wax Stain Rookie had a post about an Al MacInnis rookie that, while not exactly super valuable, was hard for him to come by for whatever reason. I commented on the post at the time that I was having some similar trouble tracking dow…

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Cards are piling up around here faster than I can catalog them and post about them. In an attempt to catch up, here are 7 random hockey cards purchased on eBay that have all arrived recently…1988-89 Topps – #66 – Brett Hull (RC)True, there’s a heavy…

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I’ve got a few trade packages backed up here that I need to post, so today I’ll continue with a few more cards from 1967ers’ recent package. So far I’ve shown some 1971 and 1972 O-Pee-Chee Red Sox cards…here are the 1978 O-Pee-Chee Sox that were in …

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Last week Steven Stamkos netted goals 49 and 50 of the season against the Boston Bruins. It’s certain that he’ll capture the Rocket Richard trophy as the NHL’s goal leader, and unless Evgeni Malkin goes ballistic over the Penguins’ final few games Sta…

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Alright, so I broke down and bought my first packs of any kind so far in 2012. I’ve just had an itch to open a few packs, and since they had Topps Heritage baseball blasters at Target when I stopped off for a few things, I scratched. Eight packs, nin…

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I’ve really tightened up my focus so far this year when it comes to collecting. When I’ve ended up with some card money burning a hole in my pocket I’ve been staying away from packs and random stuff, and instead have been trying to knock items off my …

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Today I arrived home from work to find a much awaited package from Amazon in my mailbox. Inside was a book I’ve been dying to get my hands on since I learned about it from Casey over at Drop the Gloves:I’ve been on a huge WHA kick the past few months,…

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I’ve got more to show from 1967ers’ recent trade package, and aside from that I’ve received two additional packages in the mail over the last week from from Cards from the Crease and Life and Baseball Cards. Before I get to all of that though, here ar…

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I think most everyone who was collecting cards in 1993 went completely crazy for Topps Finest baseball. The shiny cards were one of the first “premium” sets that I can remember, and the one-per-box refractor cards had the hobby in a buzz. To this day…

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In honor of Milt Schmidt’s 94th birthday, here’s the most recent addition to my steadily growing Schmidt collection:Nice looking card huh? This is my third Milt Schmidt auto, but unlike my first two, this time Milt signed his #15 as well as his Hockey…

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Here’s another card from the recent package from 1967ers. While the package was mostly baseball, there were a couple of hockey cards included as well. This particular card was very much appreciated…In January, my WHA Card of the Month was my very f…

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Yesterday I showed a couple of 1972 O-Pee-Chee Red Sox cards from a recent package sent by 1967ers. Today, let’s go back one year…here are four 1971 O-Pee-Chee beauties that were also in Chris’ package:First up we have the AL Batting Leaders card. …

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Sometimes when I receive a trade package it takes me months before I finally get it posted here. That’s because I’m OCD about certain things and feel the need to scan in every card, add each one to my collection on Zistle, put them in their proper spo…

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Well, last month was the least busy here in terms of number of posts in almost a year (and I had an extra day even!). I want to start March off on the right foot, but don’t have a lot of time, so here’s a recent addition to my collection that arrived …

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In last month’s installment of the WHA Card of the Month, we looked at a card from the first series of WHA cards released by O-Pee-Chee, which were actually just a high series addition to the flagship 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee set. This month’s WHA card is f…

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