Watch our for the Avalanche

A good day to talk about team collecting. As a team collector, every pack I open, there is always the hope of getting a Blue Jay card, or a Maple Leaf card - even more so than non-Toronto inserts. Any collector that opens a pack goes through the same exciting "what if" - what if the pack has my guy, my team, my chase card, whatever it is. When you get a couple cards out of the same pack, it is icing on the cake.

The highlights:

If I was an Avalanche collector, this would be a great pack. Still, a nice couple cards which highlight today, though would have been that little bit better if they were Leafs.


The rest
Keepers:

A little late now, but I think I have been counting the Pogs as base cards, when I probably should include them like McDonalds as odd/food issue which I lump with parallels and inserts.

Traders:


More of the usual suspects including the glasses design of Gridiron. As always, any interest in anything here, just let me know.

Through 10220 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 Base and 1957-58 Variations Basketball  #112 Kevin Durant (Rookie)

- 2009-10 Topps #321 Stephen Curry (Rookie)

	Hockey	Baseball	Basketball	Football	Austin Powers	Other
Toronto	162	19
Inserts / Var Kept	344	49
Error	16	2
Keep	1997	312
Doubles/Sell	1659	228	1577	3037	299	41
Doubles Inserts / Var	124	4	138	212