Today, a solid bunch more cards from 1996 Collector's Choice. The best part being - it's all series 1 - most of the cards thus far have been series two.
With that, most of them are new for me.
Another great stat leader card with saves being featured. Jose Mesa had a career year in 1995. 46 saves was the most he ever had in a season, which stood for the rest of his career as well. He also was 3-0, and had a career best ERA that season at a lights out 1.13, and no surprise, his best WAR for a season at almost 4 games above replacement.
A nice crime dog card and a few Marlins...
You don't necessarily get a base set that screams 90s with this, but that Fantasy Team card Piazza....yeah, whole lot of 90s look to that one!
Though an ugly background, the Nomo checklist is neat with the little write up on the back about Nomo as well. Nomo was such a huge deal coming over from Japan, and rightfully so as he proved. I didn't realize it had been 30 years since a player came over from Japan (as the card notes, the last before Nomo was Masanori Murakami in 1965.
We end with a few 2005-06 Upper Deck Victory hockey cards, a set of which I only have 3 cards, all Leafs. The set is only 200 cards...and looks like tomorrow may be a solid post on these, so gonna keep these four for now and see how that set goes.
One Jay addition with Lance who was in Toronto for the final season in his MLB career.
The few dupes for today to end...
We end today with a quick TCDB trade with althib, who I have traded with before. Some error cards and variations and Jay dupes for the collection...
This was more about getting to file someone else's needs with cards, so wasn't a big deal what I was getting back - so I pulled some nice Toronto dupes for the most part. Those pop-up Black's Leaf cards are really nice.
Since I like the Donruss Diamond King cards, I quietly and slowly are getting the Inc / Inc. variations covered there as well, and a couple duplicate 1989 cards for error binder purposes as well.
As I say, nice little trade and much appreciated!
I don't remember these but a pretty good design. Easy to forget how dominant Mesa was that year. The Ivan Rodriguez is my favorite. Forgot Parrish ever played for the Blue Jays. Good post.
ReplyDeleteParrish as a Jay - yes, one I easily forget at times.
DeleteThat Score Bob Rouse is interesting. Is that a pull tab? Was that an insert?
ReplyDeleteYes - Black's Photography had a Leaf set which were like to Jays Post Cereal one of 1993 - you have a little pull tab to allow the player to "stand up". A neat concept, but my like for pristine cards, I don't pull them, though I probably have a few that have been "pulled".
DeleteVery cool. Thanks for the information. I remember the Post Cereal pull cards... so can imagine how these work. I'm also like you... where I like my cards to be clean, so I wouldn't pull it either unless I had duplicates laying around.
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