Friday, August 5, 2016

Russelling up some traders

I don't know the story behind it - but 2007-08 Topps included a Bill Russell 11 card insert set. The set is dubbed the "Missing Years" - so I presume they are years for which he didn't have cards produced - again, not interested enough (yet) to look up the reason, though if I complete the insert set, I will. Interesting to have subsets on a single player, though they can absolutely make sense, especially with historic events (ie. Mark McGwire home run record).

Today is highlighted by a few of the cards from that very basketball insert set.

Highlights:

Of course I will also include three new McDonalds cards as well! Thought I had the Iginla already, but it was the following year McDonald set.

The rest
Keepers:

Awesome to get the Cal Ripken Jr. 2005 Classics card for the (soon to be hopefully) set, though I would have gone with an earlier photo from his career. Also nice to get another Masterpieces card of Messier.

Traders:

Almost put the Jordan checklist as a highlight - even if it is just a checklist - it is still Mochael Jordan (and the 90s Bulls were better than current day Golden State).

Through 3460 cards:
Specific Accomplishments:
- Complete 2007-08 UD McDonald's Checklist Subset (6 cards)
Hockey Baseball Basketball Football Austin Powers Other
Toronto 70 5        
Inserts / Var Kept 114 7        
Error 11 1        
Keep 890 102        
Doubles/Sell 325 18 707 836 232 19
Doubles Inserts / Var 28 1 47 47    

1 comment:

  1. Topps did several of those missing years sets. Your theory on them is correct. That was the last one they did. They did a Magic Johnson set in 2000-01 and a Larry Bird set in 2006-07.

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