These filled a couple needs for helping to complete sets - 1989 Topps, 1991 Leaf, and the 1991 Willie Stargell puzzle. I am missing one or two other pieces for what would be a third completed puzzle - I just figured it was easier to finish than not. Glad to get Rickey as I think he was the biggest star left of what I still needed.
The rest of the cards are 1996 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Blue Jays. Overall, typical looking 90s Upper Deck cards - though I am not a big fan of the vertical names on the front, I find them too hard to read. Good photos though when looking at Joe Carter and Alex Gonzalez - even if they aren't action shots, still quite nice ones.
Thank for the quick trade corozco!
Everyone has probably had the experience - you open a new pack of cards and you get a number of cards of players from the same team. I find that typically, that team isn't one that I am collecting or that I care to get in spades, but sometimes you luck out. Today - is not one of those lucky days for me.
Back when the Tampa Bay Lightning entered the NHL as an expansion team, I didn't think too much of it - it made sense to expand the league, and being in Canada, I understood that everyone, everywhere enjoyed the game (I was young at the time and the fact that the southern US was not already enjoying the league was not something I really thought about - everyone loved hockey, right?). So the expansion made sense.
As far as hockey cards go, it gave an excuse to have expansion teams focused on - be it the Sharks share of the O Pee Chee 1991-92 insert set, or I swear, the overprinting of base cards for players on expansion teams.
Welcome to an excess of lightning...
Highlight:
Well - they are lightning cards and ones I need...seems to be all I can call a high point of today.
The rest
Traders:
Some Topps basketball in dupes and trips, but otherwise, a lot more lightning...not my team or one that does much for me, but any Lightning fan out there who wants these, just let me know!
Through 8320 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 | 136 | 15 | ||||
| Inserts / Var Kept | 298 | 34 | ||||
| Error | 15 | 2 | ||||
| Keep | 1682 | 244 | ||||
| Doubles/Sell | 1201 | 173 | 1343 | 2488 | 265 | 29 |
| Doubles Inserts / Var | 93 | 1 | 101 | 200 |
The Lightning are the #1 in my collection in relation to card totals...my friend who sent me 3000 hockey cards in January 2015 is a big Lightning fan and sent me his duplicates. The Rangers are within 3 or 4 cards of passing them though, and will soon I suspect. I tried to talk him into blogging about his Lightning experience/collection (he sits behind the glass at most home games, and has appeared on TV several times) but I was unsusccessful.
ReplyDeleteVery cool - I'll keep both teams in mind when sending you cards :)
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