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Some of these cards were recent purchases, some older stacks of cards that I haven't looked through in forever. There are cards from the local hobby shop, trades, group breaks, retail purchases, eBay purchases...you name it. Honestly I don't even know what made it into the bag for the most part. Now that things have quieted down a bit, and I've got a vacation from work looming on the horizon, I am going to start getting through these cards, cataloging and organizing them. There are probably 150-200 cards in the bag, far too many for one post, but I came up with an easy way to show some of them here.

As a kid, one of my favorite parts of a trip to the hobby shop was the grab bag. You know, the brown cardboard bag taped shut and sold for just $1 or $2, filled with a few dozen cards that "could be anything!", but usually ended up being a bunch of '80s commons or some junk wax packs. I don't recall ever pulling anything fantastic from one, but I guess I was a sucker for the intrigue of not knowing what awaited me inside. Since I enjoyed these surprise packages so much, I figured the grab bag approach would be a good way to post some of these cards from my cleanup. For each post I'll just grab a small handful of cards from the bag and throw them up here on the blog. Here are 5 random choices to start things off...

First up is a 1994-95 Topps Finest refractor of Wade Redden. A few years ago I picked up a single wax box of '94-95 Finest hockey. I certainly could have done a little better with my refractor. Wade did enjoy a decent career, but there are just so many better names on the checklist for this set. I don't recall whether or not this was the only refractor I pulled in my box.

Like the early Topps Finest baseball refractors, there is no marking on the back of these to actually confirm that this is a refractor parallel, but it's very easy to tell in the right light.

Here's another Finest refractor, Chris Terreri from the '95-96 set. I picked up a '95-96 Finest wax box right around the same time as my '94-95 box. I ended up liking the '95-96 set a bit more, although they did this annoying thing with the checklist where they broke it down into bronze, silver and gold cards, with gold falling at just one per box. End result is a set that's very tough to complete. Chris here is a bronze refractor...

The refractors were also clearly labeled on the card backs in the '95-96 set, right above the card number. You can get a sense of what I'm referring to with the complicated checklist on the back here too. Is there a need for a "theme" number to go along with card number? I don't think so. Here's another refractor from that same box...

This is my personal favorite refractor out of what I landed in the two boxes. Really nice looking card and Potvin was one of those players I was happy to pull back in the day.

For some reason, even though Potvin's card is identical to Terreri's, both are bronze refractors with the "Defenders" theme, his "theme" is listed as D32, whereas Terreri's was D25. What does this mean? I have no idea. I guess I didn't read the wrapper closely enough.

Now for a couple of baseball cards. The two that I grabbed both happened to be relic cards of Will Clark.

This one's from the 2005 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Classic set. I am pretty sure this was an eBay win from literally years ago. Not a bad card but not particularly exciting. I probably only bid because it was dirt cheap.

The back of the card clearly states that this is a piece of jersey worn by Will in an actual MLB game. I hate to nit-pick, but it specifies that it was worn during his time with the Giants, yet Will is depicted with the Rangers on the card. Oh well.

Finally, we have another relic card of Clark, this time featured with the Giants, from the 2005 SP Authentic set. I think this one looks nicer, and it's serial numbered to 199.

This card, unlike the one above, actually gets it right in that Clark's depicted with San Francisco and the jersey swatch was used in a Giants game as well.

So there you go, 5 random cards from the bag in my closet. Do any of you gravitate towards the grab bag? I guess maybe retail repack packs are pretty much the same thing nowadays...]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/4013577364555070957/comments/default 0 1953 Topps Project – Hank Thompson http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/05/1953-topps-project-hank-thompson.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/05/1953-topps-project-hank-thompson.html#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:05:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=6a3acde3a91365cbc61ec09920793574

...Yankees' shortstop Phil Rizzuto...

...Hall-of-Fame lefty Warren Spahn...

...and the iconic Satchell Paige card, which to this day is one of my most prized sports cards. After that fast start though, things definitely died down. I posted just 4 of these in 2009, another 5 in 2010, and then none since. I've still picked up a card or two towards the set from time to time, but the posts stopped 42 cards in, back in the summer of 2010.

Now that my pursuit of the '80s Topps hockey run is nearing the end, I've turned my focus back to working away at this classic baseball set. I've picked up a handful of '53s over the last couple of months alone, including a couple of key cards, so it's high time I got back into the swing of things here.

Today's card is #20 in the set, Henry Thompson of the New York Giants.

Hank played his first professional season in 1943 at age 17, for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. In 1944 he was drafted into the Army, and fought for a couple of years in World War II as a machine gunner. He returned to the Monarchs after being discharged from the military in the summer of 1946.

Hank's first big league experience would come in 1947, the same year that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and appeared with the Brooklyn Dodgers to begin the season. On July 17th, 1947, just a couple of months after Jackie's first game, Hank took the field for the St. Louis Browns. He was the first African American to play for the Browns organization, and was one of the first African Americans to appear in an MLB game period. Unfortunately, his numbers were not that great, and after hitting just .256 with 5 RBI over 27 games he was cut by the team. Thompson returned to the Monarchs, but not for long.

On July 4th, 1949 Hank was called up to the New York Giants. A few days later, on July 8th, he and Monte Irvin debuted for the club, and together they became the first African American players to appear for the Giants. Since he had played with the Browns a couple of years prior, Thompson actually became the first African American to play in both the American and National Leagues. He would go on to appear in over 900 career games over the span of 8 seasons with New York.

This particular card is especially cool, because 1953 was arguably the best single season of Hank's career. He hit .302 (the only time he would top the .300 mark in a season), belted 24 home runs and 74 RBI, and recorded an impressive .567 slugging percentage that year.

Sadly, Thompson did not live a long life after his baseball days were behind him. He was convicted of armed robbery in the early '60s and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled after just four years, but died in September of 1969 after suffering a seizure. He was just 43 years old.

Set Progress: 43 of 274 (16%)]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/5247121598815135737/comments/default 0 The Ultimate Hockey Card Set – Card #53 http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/05/ultimate-hockey-card-set-card-53.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/05/ultimate-hockey-card-set-card-53.html#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=64679345497c0b04b0c58842d65c7944

I've mentioned quite a few times before that I have a soft spot for '89-90 Topps/O-Pee-Chee. It was the very first set that I collected as a kid, in fact I still have my original white 3-ring binder with all the cards sorted out by team. Unfortunately for Guy here, there were just too many better #53s in my monster boxes. Besides, I just selected the Sakic rookie from '89-90 Topps in my last Ultimate Hockey Card Set post.

Card #53 in the inaugural Upper Deck flagship set belongs to Dale Hawerchuk. This card got some consideration for a number of reasons. First of all, I definitely want to include a '90-91 Upper Deck card at some point because it was a pretty ground-breaking set at the time. Secondly, I would like to cover as many teams as possible in the set and I haven't yet chosen a Winnipeg Jet. Finally, Dale Hawerchuk is a Hall-of-Famer and is probably worthy of inclusion in the set as well. Despite all of these facts though, this card just comes up short.

I have quite a few #53s that feature teams of the past, like this 1981-82 Topps Whalers team leaders card...

...or this 1977-78 O-Pee-Chee WHA card featuring Dennis Sobchuk of the Cincinnati Stingers. Man those old WHA logos are great.

I really enjoyed hand-collating the 2008-09 Upper Deck Masterpieces set a few years ago, and it's got a pretty strong #53 on the checklist in the form of Guy Lafleur. Guy is certainly worthy of inclusion, but I'm confident I can find a better Lafleur card than this in my collection.

This shiny Sergei Fedorov is card #53 in the 2001-02 Topps Chrome set. I'm a big Fedorov guy but today is not his day...

Now we get down to the final three. Capturing the bronze is this Ron Francis base card from Upper Deck The Cup. Certainly one of my thickest cards, but not as nice as the two cards that beat it out. Besides, I already selected Francis' O-Pee-Chee rookie for this set.

The runner-up is Wayne Gretzky's base card from the 1987-88 Topps set. I've got the O-Pee-Chee version as well, and it's certainly a nice looking card. I'm sure at least one or two more Gretzky's will be selected for this set eventually, but today Wayne has been beaten out by a card that's just plain better than this one. Here's your winner, card #53 in The Ultimate Hockey Card Set:

1986-87 Topps - #53 - Patrick Roy (RC)

This card was one of the top additions to my collection over the past winter. Patrick Roy's rookie is one of those cards that I've always coveted, even more so in the past couple of years since I decided to focus heavily on completing the run of Topps hockey sets from '79-80 through '89-90. When I had a little extra tax money in my pocket a few months ago, and found this one at a price I was satisfied with, I finally pulled the trigger.

Roy was one of the best (arguably the best) goalies to ever put on pads, and the rookie card of the Hall-of-Famer and Stanley Cup champion is one of the more instantly recognizable hockey cards out there. I can't think of another card #53 that could supplant this one, can you?

The Ultimate Hockey Card Set, now at 15 cards and counting, can be seen here...]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/7236073150056403128/comments/default 0 My Best Pack of 1978-79 Topps Hockey http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-best-pack-of-1978-79-topps-hockey.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-best-pack-of-1978-79-topps-hockey.html#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:56:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=87b7315ae2a358b713dae6dc3d13c604

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 - Brad Maxwell

#186 - Ross Lonsberry

Lonsberry is probably best known for his time with the Broad Street Bullies Flyers teams of the mid-'70s. At this point you may be asking, "this is the best pack you opened?". It gets better, trust me...

#206 - Maple Leafs Team Checklist

The Leafs finished a game over .500 in '78-79, good enough for third place in the Adams Division and a playoff spot. They were ousted by the eventual Cup champion Montreal Canadiens though.

#154 - Ron Greschner

Ron's '78-79 card lists him as a Pittsburgh Penguin, but he played his entire career with the New York Rangers, all the way through the 1989-90 season. He never played a single NHL game with any other franchise, the Penguins included. Was this just an error? Anyone know?

#188 - Rene Robert

Rene recorded exactly 100 points in 1974-75, the first 100 point season in Sabres history.

Canadiens Sticker

My one-per-pack team sticker was of the Montreal Canadiens. I guess this is one of the better stickers to pull given that the Habs won their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup this season.

#124 - Wayne Cashman

One of the better cards from the pack, Wayne was a lifelong Bruin and a member of both the 1970 and 1972 Stanley Cup winning teams.

#128 - Gerry Meehan

When his playing career wound down, Meehan worked as an executive for the Buffalo Sabres in the late '80s and early '90s.

#105 - Glenn Resch

#71 - Bob Kelly

As was par for the course during this era, nearly every photo in this pack was taken in a game against the Washington Capitals.

#115 - Mike Bossy (RC)

Here's the reason that this was far and away the best of my 17 packs. The hope of pulling a Bossy was one of my primary reasons for purchasing these packs. The shop owner was honest and admitted that one had already been pulled from the wax box before I purchased what was left, so the odds weren't great, and I was ecstatic to land this one. Best of all, this card is in absolute mint, grade-able condition. There was a pattern with nearly all of these packs where the cards in the top half, before the team sticker, were almost all badly off-center. The cards in the bottom half, after the team sticker, were really well centered and in much better shape. Luckily for me, the Bossy came in the latter half of this pack, and has four sharp corners and great centering and eye appeal.

Here's a look at the back. I really like Bossy's signature.

#35 - Pierre Larouche

Larouche actually went on to play some games with the Hartford Whalers in the early '80s. That's a wrap. Sure, I could have picked up a complete '78-79 Topps set for probably less than what I paid for these packs, but pulling a mint Bossy rookie from a wax pack that's older than I am was one of the highlights of my collecting experience so far.

Here's a look at Mike in his new home, an Ultra Pro One Touch holder. Truly a classic card of one of the best pure goal scorers ever to lace up a pair of skates!]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/5211188103391885842/comments/default 0 The Very First Topps All-Stars! http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/very-first-topps-all-stars.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/very-first-topps-all-stars.html#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=284d0f2d9690d6e18f8529fd17df4182

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 got back into collecting a few years ago I decided to chase the 1958 Topps All-Star subset.

1958 was the inaugural year for the All-Star subset, with the final 21 cards of the flagship set (cards #475-495) devoted to Sport Magazine All-Stars. All in all, the set featured 10 AL players, 10 NL players, and a coaches card. The design, as you can see on the Eddie Matthews card above, is pretty basic but classic in my opinion. The color scheme of red (AL) and blue (NL) backgrounds is fitting, to me these are everything that great 1950s baseball cards should be.

I decided to try for this subset for a couple of reasons. First, the historical significance of the subset. After this first release in 1958, Topps would include All-Star subsets in its next 4 flagship sets, through 1962. There weren't any All-Star cards from 1963-1967, but then they came back in many (though not all) Topps sets after that. Secondly, this set seemed attainable. Just 21 cards on the checklist, and even the Hall-of-Famers can be had for a relatively good price compared to many of their other cards from the '50s.

Anyway, I've been working away at this one since 2007, sometimes focused on it, other times not picking up a card or even thinking about it for a year or more. Recently I landed the final card I needed though, #486 Willie Mays. Here are all 21...

The subset starts off with the All-Star Managers, featuring Casey Stengel and Fred Haney. Casey is the first of many Hall-of-Famers featured...

The first NL card is none other than Stan Musial. This card is significant because it's the first time that Musial ever appeared on a Topps card! Apparently he agreed to do so based on Topps' contribution to a charity.

Moose Skowron may not be in the Hall-of-Fame, but the long-time Yankee was an 8x All-Star and 5x World Series Champ.

Johnny was a solid second baseman and lead-off hitter. He's a member of the Cincinnati Reds Hall-of-Fame.

Nellie is in the Hall-of-Fame, but not thanks to the BBWAA. He never got the 75% of the vote needed from that group (came tantalizingly close at 74.7%), but the Veteran's Committee righted that wrong and elected him in 1997. All I have to say is that that is one of the highest-worn hats I've ever seen in my life.

As of now, Mathews is one of only 25 guys to club 500+ career home runs. I'm not sure what is going on with his eyebrows on this card though.

Frank Malzone is one of three Red Sox players featured in this set.

Ernie was one of the first cards I picked up from this set, way back in January of 2008. I've always liked Banks and have found him to be a sympathetic figure. How can you not like a guy who played over 2,500 games, clubbed over 500 home runs, won back to back MVPs, yet never sniffed the post-season? I've been casually poking away at his run of Topps cards from his 1954 rookie through his final 1971 card for some time now. I'm only missing a handful now, but unfortunately one of those is the '54 rookie. This card in particular is cool because Banks was the NL MVP in 1958.

If you're counting, we're up to 6 Hall-of-Famers at this point. Luis was lightning fast, could hit, field well (9x Gold Glove winner) and steal bases. He was one of the premier shortstops of his era. The next 5 cards are really the meat and potatoes of this subset though...

Rookie of the Year, Gold Glove winner, World Series champion, World Series MVP, All-Star Game MVP, AL MVP, NL MVP, 9th all-time with 586 career home runs. What more can you say?

This is the only vintage Ted Williams card that I own (I don't count his 1971 Topps Senators coach card). I really need to make it a point to add another to my collection.

Willie was the final card I needed to finish off the set. He just arrived in the mail a couple of weeks back...

This is my only vintage Mickey Mantle card. If you are looking for a vintage Mantle on the cheap, this is a good option. Even in a PSA 6 you can sometimes find these for under $100. If you're not strict on condition you can find them for under $50.

What a run of cards. The last 5 guys are all Hall-of-Famers, all members of the 500+ Home Run club, and are 5 of the best outfielders to ever play Major League Baseball. I think Hank Aaron's card may be my favorite.

Jackie was actually the 1958 American League MVP!

Bailey was elected an All-Star numerous times, and is regarded as one of the top backstops of his day.

Lollar enjoyed a fine season in 1958, belting 20 Home Runs and 84 RBI in just 127 games played for the White Sox.

Friend won 22 games in 1958, good for a tie for first in the NL with Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves.

In addition to being elected an All-Star in 1958, Turley's 21 wins earned him the Cy Young Award (only a single award was given out for both leagues before 1966). Oh yeah, the Yankees also won the World Series, and Bullet Bob was elected World Series MVP. Not a bad season right there.

Spahn had an amazing season in 1958, and had separate Cy Young awards existed for each league then as they do now, he would have garnered some consideration for the NL award for sure.

The final card in the subset, and the final card in the 1958 Topps flagship set, is Herb Score. Score looked amazing when he broke into the league as a youngster in 1955. He struck out 245 in his rookie year, a record that stood until 1984. His second year was even more impressive, as Herb went 20-9 with a 2.53 ERA, and 16 complete games. He also threw more shutouts (5), and had more strikeouts (263), than anyone else in the league that year. Unfortunately, the following season he caught a brutal line drive to the face. He was never the same pitcher, and after suffering a couple of additional injuries his career came to an end with 4 appearances for the White Sox in 1962.

So there you have it, the very first Topps All-Star subset. There really is something for almost everyone within these 21 cards. It was fun putting this together and extremely rewarding to finally have it completed. Now that I'm done with these I think I'll shift my focus back to my 1953 Topps set for a bit...]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/9185657501317958895/comments/default 0 "Extreme Value" Hockey Repack Box – The Finale, Finally… http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-finale.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-finale.html#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:42:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=80c09b6d0da4d1ef0a3c480986f0ce16

Another pack of 2006-07 Upper Deck, this time Series 2. The biggest card in this series by far is Malkin's Young Guns rookie. I'll spoil the suspense right now and let you know that I did not pull one. Here's what I got instead...

Dupe.

I pulled a Tim Thomas from my Series 1 pack the other day, and the Bruins lost. Maybe Patrice will bring some better luck, as the B's take on the Caps in Game 5 of their opening round series just a few hours from now.

Hey, maybe this wasn't such a dud of a box after all! Potential trade bait was one of the main reasons I picked this up, and this two-color swatch is now sitting in the small pile of cards that's slowly building up for 1967ers.

Okay, this pack has to be a good omen for the Bruins.

Each pack contains one Victory card, I pulled Brandon Prust. Prust is now a member of the Rangers, and has appeared in all 82 of the team's games for each of the last two seasons.

Let's take a look at the rest of the 100 bonus cards...

1994-95 Score is one of the ugliest designs ever to grace a hockey card.

Dupe.

Dupe. Pretty brutal stretch of doubles right there...

Appropriately, the final card is yet another 1990-91 Bowman. I have to say that this repack box is pretty much exactly what I expected, not too extreme. All in all though I can't complain for $10. I got around 85 new cards for my collection, pulled a Maple Leafs hit to send off in a trade, and got a healthy stack of dupes for the trade box. Not bad for $10, but at the same time I'm looking forward to getting back to some different posts.]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/2546705928887680366/comments/default 0 "Extreme Value" Hockey Repack Box – Part 4 http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-4.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-4.html#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:47:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=018705fddb4c52d7b3661b805354c772

Today's pack is definitely a step up in terms of quality. This 2006-07 Upper Deck Series 1 pack could potentially have a decent card inside. Sidney Crosby's second year card was in this series, as well as Young Gun rookies of guys like Anze Kopitar, Phil Kessel, Jordan Staal and Shea Weber. Would I pull any of these? Hell no.

I got David Leneveu, who's NHL career consists of around 20 appearances with the Coyotes and one single appearance with the Blue Jackets. At least he made it onto an Upper Deck card, which is pretty cool.

A statistical leaders insert of Jonathan Cheechoo. In a gigantic statistical anomaly, Cheechoo led the league with 56 goals in 2005-06, yet declined so rapidly in production that he was completely out of the league just a few years later. He hasn't appeared in an NHL game in over 2 years.

Nathan has been shut down for the remainder of the year from the fall-out of yet another concussion. I hope he can get healthy and return to the lineup next season.

Maybe this will bring the Bruins some luck and they'll climb out of the 2-1 hole they're in as I post this...

Derek and his Buffalo teammates are probably enjoying some sunshine and golf right about now. Let's be honest, that was not the greatest pack. Here's a few more of the 100 bonus cards...

Dupe.

I have to admit that I had never heard of this guy. When I looked him up online I found out why. 19 total NHL games played, never had a goal, did record one lone assist.

Dupe. I had exactly four cards from this set before buying this repack box, and Doug Crossman was one of them. Figures.

Dupe.

Dupe (I really like this card though).

Dupe.

Didn't have this card. It's from the 1990-91 Score Rookie/Traded set. These cards look weird to me, I'm used to red on the top and bottom of my '90-91 Score cards and the yellow just doesn't look right.

Dupe.

Dupe. This 1986-87 Topps was the oldest of the 100 bonus cards.

I didn't have this card, but it's got a dinged corner. I'm willing to live with that on a card from the '60s. A 1990-91 Bowman though? Not so much.

I can't believe they seriously used that logo for as long as they did.

Two time Norris Trophy winner and Hall-of-Famer Rod Langway. Did you know that Rod was born in Taiwan?

Dupe.

Needed this one. This is my favorite card in this post, which is pretty sad. Just one more of these to go and then it's over.]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/2227418937003756056/comments/default 0 "Extreme Value" Hockey Repack Box – Part 3 http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-3.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-3.html#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:59:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=c67ac47834abbbb48083e96e3cbe0fca 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 didn't like it then, I don't like it now. Needless to say I was bummed that this was one of my four promised packs. Let's take a look at the whopping 5 cards Upper Deck stuffed into this wrapper...

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...oh, I'm sorry, is the pack rip over? I had fallen asleep.

Let's continue the downward slide on the excitement scale and look at 20 more of the bonus cards...

Ashamed to admit I did not have this card. Again, didn't really want it though.

Dupe.

Can't complain about 5 straight cards that I actually needed towards the '90-91 Bowman set.

Dupe.

Another one for the set...

Dupe.

Another couple of Bowmans that I needed featuring some great old school sweaters of the Buffalo Sabres...

...and the Winnipeg Jets.

Three more cards straight from the junk wax heyday that I owned at one time, lost, and now own again. Wonderful.

Dupe.

Needed this one. Only 5 doubles out of this stack of 20, my best luck so far. Two more posts to go and I'll be done with this...]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/7554059009934101072/comments/default 0 "Extreme Value" Hockey Repack Box – Part 2 http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-2.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-2.html#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=55ff440518981be4c5b48885b59035b3

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, but not great either. I'll gladly part with any of them.

This is an insert numbered 71. Apparently this insert set contains 80 cards in total. Excessive if you ask me.

At least with Brodeur and Kane I got a bit of star power in this pack.

So there's a relatively bland pack of 2010-11 Donruss. Off to the trade box for these. Let's see another sampling from the 100 bonus cards...

Dupe. More 1990-91 Score, excellent...

Didn't have this one. Didn't particularly want it either.

Dupe. Cool card though.

Like the '90-91 Bowman Adam Burt in the last post, I actually needed this card for my set. Yes, I'm hand collating a set that you can probably buy for less than $5.

This was an interesting card I don't recall having seen before. I have a feeling I can possibly identify this moment on cardboard. This is a 1994-95 Upper Deck card, meaning the photo is most likely from the previous '93-94 season or older. You can see a Pittsburgh Penguins player near the left border of the card. Since the Kings and Pens play in opposite Conferences, they saw each other only two times in 1993-94. The first of these two meetings was November 6th, 1993 in Los Angeles. This was still in the era where home teams predominately wore white, so it does seem likely that this photo was taken in LA. Donnelly certainly looks like he just scored on this card, and he did indeed record a goal in that November 6th contest. I'd say this photo was taken just moments after. Donnelly did score twice at home against Pittsburgh back in 1991, his only other career goals against the Pens, but I really think it's more likely that this picture's from the 1993 game.

I actually needed this 1991-92 Upper Deck Kings checklist card for my set...

...as well as this Canadiens checklist.

Dupe.

Interesting card of one of the biggest draft busts ever. I used to think this guy was going to be the next NHL superstar. Boy was I clueless.

Dupe.

I need less than 75 cards to knock off the first ever Upper Deck flagship set, and this Neil Wilkinson rookie was one of them!

This Daryl Reaugh was also missing from my set '90-91 set. Double bonus for being a Whaler.

Dupe.

I did not have this San Jose Sharks Ultra card of helmet-less Doug Wilson. I definitely have a soft spot for the first two Fleer Ultra hockey sets.

I didn't have this one, but it's really in rough shape with some damage to the right part of the card. I did much better with this second portion of the bonus stack overall though. Of the 20 extra cards I used in my first post yesterday, I already had 14. Out of today's 20, only 9 were cards I already had. Plus I was able to add a couple of cards I needed towards the '90-91 and '91-92 Upper Deck sets. Any of my doubles from this post are available if you need them, as well as any of the Donruss cards.]]> http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/feeds/7602278293559955273/comments/default 0 "Extreme Value" Hockey Repack Box – Part 1 http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-1.html http://shoeboxlegends.blogspot.com/2012/04/extreme-value-hockey-repack-box-part-1.html#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:23:00 +0000 shoeboxlegends http://baseballcardblogs.org/?guid=bf1c68605b0571f5ba9c665f231d472b

130-150 total cards for $10 seemed reasonable, plus I figured this would provide a few posts for the blog and maybe some trade bait. I'll break this up into a few posts, each with a pack and a few of the loose cards. Just how extreme would my value be? Let's find out...

Today's pack is 2007-08 Upper Deck MVP. I'm not collecting this set, but I do have close to 100 loose base cards that I've accumulated over time. 8 cards in the pack...

Parrish appears to be done with his NHL career. After appearing in just two games with Buffalo in 2010-11, he did not see any ice time in the league at all this past season.

Steve now plays for the Pens, who are surprisingly down 0-2 in their playoff series against Philadelphia.

Another guy who won't likely see in the NHL again. Hasn't played an NHL game since 2008-09.

Dustin now plays for the Kings, who are up 2-0 on Vancouver in their first round series.

One of the players tragically killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash last year. I had forgotten that he played a couple of seasons with Minnesota.

Dupe.

An insert card I don't particularly care for. Nothing too exciting in that pack. Here's a sampling of the 100 bonus cards that were included...

Dupe.

I probably had a dozen copies of this card as a kid, but I can't seem to find one. So, I got at least one card I "needed" from the bonus 100.

Dupe.

Dupe. At least it's a Whaler...

Dupe.

Dupe. One of the better cards from the box though.

Alright, here's a card I didn't have from a set I've never seen. This is a 2002-03 Upper Deck SP Authentic base card.

Dupe.

1993-94 Score is ugly.

So is 1994-95 Score.

Another '02-03 SP Authentic card.

Score! Believe it or not, this 1990-91 Bowman card was actually on my want list. A Hartford Whaler no less!

Dupe.

Dupe. That's more or less what I expected from the bonus cards, 3 straight dupes to end the lot from right smack in the middle of the junk wax era. The Adam Burt was the highlight of this post, which is pretty sad to say the least. I'll be hanging onto that one, but other than that if you for some reason want any of these cards let me know and they're yours.

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