Hockey Additions

 Here's a good add for the middle of March - some nice hockey additions coming in from the 2026 Lot.

2023-24 Upper Deck comes back with some more new to me base cards - all from the last of the three set releases, but brings the set completion up to 172 of the 750. I am guess I may not be seeing any Young Guns in the lot as they would be too easy to pull out and sell separately, or have made it to the collection of others before these cards got to me, but I do get some great looking masks on goalie cards in this base set.

I mean the Andersen card above is really good...and even Vsrlamov too.

Not too shabby for additions today, not quite half but close enough I'm happy with the success rate. Besides, the traders are here for your viewing pleasure in case I can help with your set needs as well...

Ingram even showing off his mask a bit too - very nice.

Good Problems

Well, the 2026 Lot throws a bit of a curveball today. I don't like keeping track of multisport or mixed sets, and here we have one of the big mixed sets - 2023 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions. It is a 150 card base set - 100 pure base cards and a 50 card subset on top of it.

I don't expect to collect the set, so split the cards up for tracking based on the subject material, if you were wondering, which will be reflected in my tracking at the end.

That being said, let's see who we have here...

It is cool to see names you wouldn't otherwise getting cards in a more mainstream release, like Sharapova for Tennis. It's also a place where you get the odd rookie card, which the set nicely notes on the front in case you were wondering.

I do expect fottball and basketball will likely dominate, with a bit of baseball in as well, but let's see.

No stats on the back, just a solid write up of who the person is. This is definitely a preferred way to go to me because the stats would be so different for each depending on the sport, so I like the way these will look consistent across the set. The colour scheme is nice to, but as a Jays and Leaf fan, I may be a bit partial to blue.

Nice - track and field getting some love as well.

It also appears the set was kind enough to group the horizontal cards together as well - so maybe this set wouldn't be too bad in a binder....

but I am still on the side of "no" for personally collecting it at the moment...we will see how much of this set shows up I guess - I could be persuaded.

Appreciating Blog Appreciation

 A while ago now - I have a bit of a backlog at times as I share the 2026 Lot, but that's okay, we will get to everything in good order - Tom from the blog you may recall The Angels In Order, sent along a PWE of cards as a kind "I enjoy your blog, so here are some cards" gesture.

In no way expected, but very kindly appreciated, let's see what we received...

A few more 2007 Upper Deck First Edition cards, which are akin to Opening Day I guess. Catalanatto is technically a Rangers card as he was no longer with the Jays, but he is in a Jays uniform on the front, so good to call this a Jays card.

The 1992 Classic I cards finish off the four card Toronto team set - best of the bunch has to be the sweet swinging Devon.

We finish the little gift off with a few 2007 Ultra Jays. No completed team set here, but when you get two greats like Halladay and Frank Thomas, has to be a fantastic get and the Jays really did have some great players at this time.

Tom, thank you for the great gift, and thank you for checking in on my little corner of the interwebs!

Not Long Since Long

Well, sometimes it doesn't take long to end up seeing something you already saw. Today, that means more 1991 Upper Deck football from the 2026 Lot. Not complaining really, as it is a really nice set. Just like every set from the era, there are only about a million of each card out in the wild. 

Bruce Smith was such a beast! My Buffalo Bills fandom was at it's peak with their early 90s run - either you can say the disaster of not winning the Superbowl, or their strong teams that consistently went deep into the playoffs. I like the latter way of thinking about it because the former is just too negative and dreary. It was disappointing to live through as any Buffalo fan will tell you.

Yes, speaking of it not being too long, we get Long with Howie again, just like last time! Jim Harbaugh showing up from his playing days as well.

I expect it may not be long before we see more of the set....

Chrome Prospecting

 Prospecting in sports cards is definitely not my thing, but picking up the inserts when the prospects fall off, happy to oblige. Have seen some of these from 2013 already, but nine more keepers here today...

I didn't luck out and end up with any Toronto ones as well, but that's okay. No surprise there isn't any big hall of famer to be names in the group, but that works just fine for me.

Some came with duplicate friends, and though I don't know why I didn't turn the couple first cards I scanned, you can see the numbers of what showed up here.

I picked up a copy of the Ben Rowen card earlier in the lot, but seemed to have come across some of his friends here. Definitely been a handful of heavily populated prospects in this lot, which again, just a statement of what I am seeing, and not a problem at all. Should be able to move some of these to others who like the inserts or team collectors.

Mission Accomplished

 We happily get our first big accomplishment out of the 2026 lot, and no surprise in what it is...

Ovi shows up to complete the 100 card pure base set from 2023-24 Upper Deck Allure. Wouldn't be a set I would ever have gone after completing but happy to have it as these smaller base sets are star filled and the design is nice as far as recent sets go.

I think this is a fourth Marner - all welcome of course. I'll have to track and see if we end up with multiple completed sets, though I likely won't sell them as such, keeping my Leaf cards and all.

There are a few cards that only have had one copy so far, so may be hard to know for sure but here we go, getting to at least recognize one completed set so far in the Lot.

Classic Style

 It may be a set I had a bunch of before, but dwindles greatly away before getting some back to trade now. It may be from the height of excess printing of sports cards, but a set that seems to have a good following of collectors - 1991 Upper Deck football.

It's a classic set and great Upper Deck design. We get the LT Collector's Choice card right off the bat.

Another good base card with Warren Moon.

Howie Long with a nice outside the game shot. He may be best known for his time behind the desk on pre and post game shows on Fox, but don't let that take away from his time on the field.

May not be anything here for me to keep, but happy to move this pretty set to anyone collecting it. Very nice!