Highlights:
A few adds to these sets, which is great. The Essenza photo seems off centre - or just emphasizes the stick way too much. I like the Bathgate card if for no other reason than, the write up on the back includes noting he won a Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs...hard to remember that some players actually did that back in the day.
The rest
Keepers:
The Stanley Cup Centennial card is very nice, even for early 90s Upper Deck which was otherwise quite standard. Add in the not often seen 2006-07 OPC and some mid 00s SPx, and these are some decent keepers.
Traders:
More dupe 2007-08 Upper Deck, but my favorite here is the Casey card. This is a great goalie card photo - and more centres than Essensa's card shown above.
Through 7180 cards:
| Specific Accomplishments: |
| - Complete 2003-04 SP Authentic Basketball (90 card pure base) |
| - Complete 2005 Upper Deck Classics (100 card pure base) |
| - 3 Complete 2007-08 UD McDonald's Hockey Checklist Subsets (6 cards) |
| - 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Hockey #30 Bobby Orr (All-Star) |
| - 2004-05 Upper Deck Legends Classics Platinum #64 Marcel Dionne Platinum 06/10 |
| - 2007-08 Topps 1957-58 Variations Basketball #112 Kevin Durant (Rookie) |
| Hockey | Baseball | Basketball | Football | Austin Powers | Other | |
| Toronto | 115 | 12 | ||||
| Inserts / Var Kept | 272 | 30 | ||||
| Error | 15 | 2 | ||||
| Keep | 1506 | 216 | ||||
| Doubles/Sell | 995 | 134 | 1195 | 2115 | 256 | 27 |
| Doubles Inserts / Var | 88 | 1 | 94 | 107 |
I kinda dig the photo on the Essensa card. It's different because of that cropping. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the photos on most cards all are just a blur. It takes something to stand out, like the UD Bobby Ryan and Jamie Benn cards from this season.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem to take more to have a stand out photo, part may also be due to their being so many cards each year these days.
DeleteAlso, it's borderless. That's always a win in my book.
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