It’s true. I’d only spent $6.50 on cards this month until tonight. 😦 Oh well, guess I’ve got a blog to post then. Here’s what I got:
2009 Tristar TNA iMPACT! retail
Pack 1
80 Sting & Kurt Angle (Champions subset)
3 Daniels
25 Kurt Angle
76 AJ Styles (Champions subset)- Keeper!
22 Jay Lethal
Pack 2
78 Daniels (Champions subset)
11 Samoa Joe
5 Bobby Lashley- I really hope he becomes a big MMA star, and not just to justify the topps Vault WWE Heritage Chrome proof I got of him on the ol’ eBay many moons ago.
52 Traci Brooks
82 Awesome Kong (Champions subset)- I’d like to remind everyone, and especially the previous Traci Brooks card that Kong Kills Bitches Dead (TM that one dude from 411mania). Thank you.
2008 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks & Prospects
Pack 1
BDP38 Jonathan Van Every Red Sox RC
BDP32 Brooks Conrad A’s RC
BDPP9 Adrian Nieto Nat’s 1st Yr
BDPP16 Shane Dyer Rays 1st Yr
BDP23 Eric Hurley Rangers Chrome RC
BDPP59 Scott Green Tigers Chrome 1st Yr
Checklist Decoy
BDPP44 Bryan Shaw D’Backs Gold 1st Yr
Pack 2
BDP10 Mitch Boggs Cards RC- That’s some good Boggs, lol.
BDP44 Edgar Gonzalez Padres RC
BDPP6 Eric Campbell Mets 1st Yr
BDPP53 Devaris Strange-Gordon Dodgers 1st Yr
BDPP103 Gerardo Parra D’Backs Chrom 1st Yr
BDPP86 Jesus Montero Yankees 1st Yr- Heya Sooz. 😉
Checklist Decoy again- Fail…
BDPP49 Brent Morel White Sox Gold 1st Yr
2009 Allen & Ginter retail
84 Justin Upton
142 LaShawn Merritt
17 Manny Ramirez
306 Cliff Lee SP- Hello there, ball.
LMT7 Medusa Creatures of Legend, Myth and Terror- Sweet, I finally got one of the harder to pull inserts! Keeper until I get a good offer for it.
NP10 Jose Reyes National Pride
Now for the main event…
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2009 TriStar Obak retail!
Pack 1
76 Mike Coolbaugh- Southern League single season RBI record; The reason base coaches have to where batting helmets…
60 Joe Wilhoit- 69 game hitting streak in 1919.
54 George H. Rawlings Mini- Of Rawlings Sporting Goods fame.
23 Buster Posey- 2008 Gold Spikes Award winner. Rich SOB, lol.
88 Patrick T. Powers- First Presidente of Minor League Baseball.
The info is from the card backs.
Pack 2
74 Alexander Cartwright- US Congress-credited inventor of baseball.
89 George H. Rawlings- Same guy as the mini, but different #… Umm, what?
27 Ted Williams Mini!- Began his pro career with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. Ironic that the 2009 Padres are once again a minor league-caliber team.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
57 Grover Lowdermilk- Set the single season strikeout record of 465, between the Eastern Illinois and Three-I League, in 1906.
38 Ryne Sandberg- He’s Ryne-Effin’-Sandberg! Keeper!
These cards are FLIMSY.
Pack 3
41 Ted Williams- Hmm… same as mini, but with different number again.
33 Stan Musial- Was in the minors from 1938-1941? Even the great ones had to start somewhere I guess.
60 John W. Heisman Mini- Atlanta Crackers President; the guy that college football trophy is named after.
4 Eric Hosmer- Has at least four of the mythical tools apparently.
20 Jesus Montero- Sooz-jo! Hopefully Hip-Hip-Jorge’s eventual replacement.
I’m forever replacing the word mojo with Sooz-jo. Sorry Mr. Hand.
Let me know if ya require any of the above that isn’t being kept or being sent to Sooz.
I have a couple more fat packs of American Heritage for another post. Still no pictures though. I’m really backed up when I get to the scanner too, so I dunno when I’ll be doing what. Sorry.
One other item of note, I received cards from Wicked Ortega today. Let’s just say after that, the number of scans I’ve gotta do went up by 10-15.
Finally, an impromptu prize (and maddest of props if you don’t have to look it up) to the first person to get the reference I made on the Cliff Lee card.
Until our next…
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