Atleanta Prospects

 Just as it says, the 2026 Lot provides some Atlanta based prospect cards - some insert keepers and dupes for trades, but let's take a look and see how successful they were.....or ideally, continue to be...

Starting with Jonny Venters, he spent a few years in the majors, first with Atlanta, then with the Washington Nationals organization. Most of his career was in the minors, but he did have some appearances in the bigs.

Brandon Hicks had a few years 2010-2014 with some experience in the bigs, Atlanta, Oakland and San Fran, but with a career batting average in the near 300 plate appearances being just over .150 - the infielder didn't last beyond those few years.

Michael Dunn had a longer run in the majors, pitching from 2009 through 2019, with it spread over four different teams, though most with Miami.

Matt Suschak never got to the major leagues, but had a few seasons in the early 2010s sputtering around the minors.

Dave Filak was in the minors for a couple years while Matt Lipka lasted over 10 years in the minors, but neither got to the big leagues.

Jose Peraza had decent success at the highest level a few years with Cincinnati followed by stints in Boston and both NY teams.

A bit of a mixed bag as far as results for prospects go, but I walk away with a few keepers here, and some solid help for a Braves fan!

Sabres, Oilers, Stars and Rangers

 Sometimes when buying lots, there's a bit of random organization t the cards as they come out. Here it seems for the most part to be a couple teams pulled/highlighted from 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum. Platinum was supposed to be a step up in quality and feel a bit more premium, but it was just different - like no stats on the back, but that's okay, I look at it fondly now.

Lots of Sabres, some Oilers and...

Stars (North Stars to be exact) and...

Rangers. I don't mind getting a couple copies of each for trading purposes, but unfortunately, none of these actually helped with my set build. This one is fairly far along - about 87% complete on the 300 card set - but would have been nice to knock off a few. Does mean hope there are more of the set, including those I am missing.

Regardless, the design does allow for the game of "can you recognize the player". Without getting into names, because these are the stars I grew up on, I recognized well more than half myself. Funny because I don't know if I could do that now if you gave me middling players from teams outside Toronto.

Raining Leafs

We can start with some raining Jays as Mike from Not Another Baseball Card Blog send a few early Jays my way.

As it turns out, most of these cards are new to me as I was able to trade over time, much more easily, to get the Topps cards from 1977, but O Pee Chee versions like this have been harder to find. Appreciate the cards as always Mike!

Well, great news for my collection today as we get to add a bunch of Leaf cards. Nothing new unfortunately, but that's okay, the numbers work as we get to see some old friends with 1990-91 Pro Set and all of it's error filled glory!

A binder page of Leaf cards for me today - yay! It's the second series highlighted here, and Todd Gill is probably my favourite Leaf of the bunch. Not sure I noticed how yellowed the Hannan card looks. I think it must be all of them as I am surprised if it were just these two, but I haven't looked too closely before. When I put these away in the collection, I'll see if they all look the same.

As I do have most of the error cards from the set, the set completed otherwise, and of course plenty of Leafs, the rest of the cards today are up for trade, and being the second series for the year, a little lower on star power, though there is still some to be found.

I probably shouldn't be as happy to see this set in lots as I am but I do really like the colour and layout, and with the errors, it makes it more quirky and collectible to me.

2021 Panini Prizm

 The 2026 Lot provides another bunch of shiny cards which happen to be Panini. These ones though, of the football variety. I look at these posts as a fun way to share some cards which are up for trade to anyone out there and interested.

The card design is very much like other Prizm designs for other sports at the time - not a complaint, just statement of fact. I don't mind the front, but they look better in hand as the scans are a bit dark.

I don't mind the smattering of stars from past years like Bledsoe showing up in these sets since it gives me someone I actually recognize compared to many of the current day stars as I just don't follow the NFL like I use to. Actually, a nice Thurman card here as well.

The backs are as expected with the low Panini bar of minimal stats and repeat pictures. Really wish they would do better on these in general.

Bettis - nice and Michael Vick.....no comment.....other than to say, that's 36 football cards up for trade!

Slowly We Close In

 Another 2023-24 Upper Deck Allure bunch of cards from the 2026 Lot, and we do in fact get one card closer to the pure base set completion...

Alex started with Colorado who drafted him, but was traded to Montreal and has played for the Habs the last couple seasons. Not a high profile name, so gives me hope the last few needs are simply ones that haven't shown up in the set yet. A couple that have shown up before, and happy to have them show up again...

Not going to complain about Leaf dupes one bit! Have picked up a few of each now from the lot, very nice, very nice.

The rest of the slightly curvered traders for anyone interested...

Sure, the rookies may have all been taken out from what we have seen so far, but if stars like Auston and McDavid are showing up in numbers, I am not too worried about missing any base cards...just time will hopefully tell - would be nice to finish this set off as a first accomplishment from the lot.

Yes I Still Need These

 Okay, so I may not really need to collect the bilingual Canadian version of 1991-92 Score hockey cards, but I am. I mean, I have the full English set already, so it's not that different, but I keep seeing the cards, and I had a decent start on it, so why not?

Well, the 2026 Lot provided another 28 or so cards from the set to add to my growing base set. There were just as many dupes which are scanned at the end in case anyone is interest, but we start very Flames heavy. Just noticed - in no way a complaint.

It's for these base sets that I keep Bruins, otherwise, I don't usually bother scanning them and stick them aside for local collector Jeff. I do of course count them in my tallies when dupes of course.

It's a very 90s design, and may not be flashy, but get the point across just fine. Oh, and this was one of those sets highlighting that small expansion thing that was going on...

Remember - yay Sharks....they were everywhere!

Some even in my dupes!

A small bump to the percentage, just hope we can hang there around 20-25% - means the lot is definitely worthwhile!

Flying In With Themes

 A trade recap today as FlyingWhales at TCDB sent some hockey and wrestling cards my way in a nice little PWE trade, so let's get to it!

Well, the Allure Auston was a need at the time I entered into the trade, but of course I have copies from the 2025 Lot which have come up. Not an issue at all since I do keep and want duplicate Leafs anyway, so all good. The Metal cards are all new and remain that way, as do the 2024-25 Upper Deck - great Leaf additions all around.

These couple are cards that help toward the 2024-25 Timmies "master" set. I am not looking for all the long odd related inserts, but would love to complete the album at some point.

The rest - wrestling cards, and if you like to see different designs all within the same base set, say thank you to Panini Chronicles and specifically the 2023 set...

I've mentioned Panini isn't my favourite of brands, and this is part of why. I like some of the designs enough, but I don't think we need all of them together to make a single base set.

Of the ones above, honestly, I like the first design best - even if they use the same picture twice on the front, not to mention, once on the back as well.

The Voices of the Ring aren't bad either, and as a subset, I can get a bit more behind it. All in though, love getting more wrestling cards that are new to me, so big thanks for the great trade!