Friday, June 9, 2017

Excellent 2005 Classics Parallels - Lou Brock

Brock - when I think wrestling, has to be Lesnar that comes to mind when I think of Brock. When it comes to school, Brock University in St. Catharines (since that was where I went to university) - and obviously the namesake of Isaac Brock. With baseball though, only one Brocke would come to mind...

Highlight:

This is the second silver parallel from 2005 Upper Deck Classics that I have. It may not be as great as Nolan Ryan's Retro Rookie silver parallel, but Lou Brock is a great player to get nonetheless. There was a little residue along the left side due to a bad 1991 Upper Deck offtball card getting slightly stuck to it, but I was able to remove the residue for the most part, and since I am keeping this, that is good enough for me.


4th copy of this one - but still a Leaf!

The rest
Keepers:

A couple cards of 90s expansion teams, so there is that they have in common.

Traders:



Typical variety in traders today, including the usual chunk of 2007-08 Upper Deck. Still wouldn't mind if I am getting Dupes,  that there be more 2007 Topps Heritage baseball, as it seems to be an easy set to trade away.

Through 8400 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)
- 2009-10 Topps #321 Stephen Curry (Rookie)
Hockey Baseball Basketball Football Austin Powers Other
Toronto 137 15
Inserts / Var Kept 299 36
Error 15 2
Keep 1700 244
Doubles/Sell 1232 175 1350 2505 266 29
Doubles Inserts / Var 93 1 101 200

3 comments:

  1. Lou Brock is definitely the best baseball Brock - stupid, short-sighted 60's Cubs management! Love that UD Classics set.

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  2. Silver anything always seems to be one of the best looking parallels. The Classics card is no exception

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    1. Hadn't thought of it that way, but I am finding it hard to think of a poor silver parallel...

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