Thursday, August 28, 2014

Fairfield 100 Hockey Cards Pack

 It's the dreaded 100 random cards pack from Fairfield. I find these card packs fun to rip especially hockey. With me being out of nowhere and not being in hockey area I find packs hard to rip especially pre-1990s and late 1990 to early 2000 stuff. With packs of these you can get bunch of random stuff with few gems here and there and stuff I never seen. I got two cards that aren't hockey related.

One random card from baseball and basketball. First one is 1992 Classic baseball featuring Mike Groppuso who made it to AAA. Second card is from 96-97 Score Board Shaq card which I never heard or seen. On to hockey....

 
88-89 Topps: Clint Malarchuk - One of reasons I enjoy ripping these as I get a card from late 80s. Topps fire slapshot into the net with this design.

 
89-90 O-Pee-Chee: Derek King
90-91 7th Inning Sketch: Jocelyn Martel - 7th Inning Sketch would produce cards of junior league hockey from 89-90 to 91-92. Martel spent one pro season and didn't play again except for two games in 96-97.

90-91 Topps: Tom Kurvers, Rob Murphy, Keith Brown

 
90-91 Bowman: Joe Nieuwendyk, Sylvain Turgeon, Kelly Chase, Ed Belfour, Ilkka Sinsalo, Paul Gillis, Larry Murphy, Geoff Smith, Glenn Anderso, Doug Bodger, Chris Govedaris - Got plenty of Bowman.

90-91 Pro Set: Doug Wilson, Alan May, Dave Andreychuk (All-Star), Todd Ewen, Mike Richter - the overproduced and error filled Pro Set cards. First pack of hockey cards I saw on sale at store.


90-91 Upper Deck: Paul Fenton, Jimmy Carson, Bob Carpenter, Guy Carbonneau, Geoff Courtnall, Shayne Corson, John Cullen (All-Star) - Upper Deck join the hockey foray along with Topps, Score, and Pro Set. Over 20 years later Upper Deck still remains while Score came back with Panini.


90-91 Score: John MacLean, Brian Bradley, Dino Ciccarelli, Darren Turcotte, Wayne Doucet, Shayne Stevenson - Score hockey debut as it produced cards til 97-98. It got reincarnated 2010-11 with the same design under Panini banner.

91-92 7th Inning Sketch: Jon Duval (WHL), Patrick Bisaillon (QMJHL) - final set 7th Inning Sketch produced with cards from two junior leagues WHL and QMJHL. Duval made it far to ECHL for two seasons while Bisaillon spent most of his career at QSCHL.

91-92 Pro Set: Mike Donnelly, Martin Lapointe

91-91 Pro Set Platinim: Ken Hodge - Pro Set version of glossy cards to compete with Topps Stadium Club

91-92 Parkhurst - another Pro Set produced set under Parkhurst name which produced the earliest hockey cards in Canada.

91-92 Score: Patrick Flatley
91-92 O-Pee-Chee Premier: Tom Barrasso

91-92 Topps Stadium Club: Perry Berezan

 

91-91 Upper Deck: Jiri Slegr, Doug Gilmore, Andrei Lomakin

 92-93 Classic Prospects: Ed Ronan

92-93 Pinnacle: Dimitri Yushkevich, Todd Elik

92-93 Score: Per Djoso

92-93 Parkhurst: Ray Sheppard - last Parkhurst set produced under Pro Set before going bankrupt

92-93 Upper Deck: Mark Osborne, Jamie Leach

92-93 Topps: Jimmy Carson

93-94 Topps Stadium Club: Mark Tinordi

93-94 Classic Hockey Draft: Maxim Bets - played 3 games in NHL before spending much of his career in Russia

93-94 Topps Premier: Gary Leeman

93-94 Leaf: Jeff Brown

93-94 Upper Deck: Mats Sundin, Kent Manderville

93-94 Donruss: Jozef Stumpel, Sergei Zubov - Donruss hockey debut producing til 97-98.

94-95 Upper Deck SP: Paul Coffey

94-95 Fleer: Teemu Selanne - I will always say this. The 94-95 Fleer design looked great on hockey unlike the mess on baseball and basketball.

94-95 Flair: Steve Duchesne

94-95 Leaf: Slava Kozlov - shorten from Vyacheslav still playing to this day

95-96 Donruss: Todd Elik

95-96 Parkhurst: Dean Evason, Peter Forsberg - another hidden gems. I never seen this Parkhurst set. Research have me believe they were European released.

95-96 Pinnacle: Manny Fernandez

95-96 Upper Deck SE: Ulf Dahlen

95-96 Upper Deck SP: John LeClair

95-96 Upper Deck: Jan Tomajko, Timo Salonen, Andrei Petrunin, Niklas Anger, Patrik Wallenberg - none of them played in the NHL

95-96 Pinnacle Zenith: Peter Bondra

96-97 Leaf: Scott Stevens, Jeremy Roenick

96-97 Topps Finest: Michael Nylander

97-98 Leaf: Ray Bourque

2007-08 Upper Deck Artifacts: Chris Pronger

2009-10 Upper Deck MVP: Patrik Berglund

2010-11 O-Pee-Chee: Dan Boyle

2010-11 Upper Deck: Joni Pitkanen

2010-11 Upper Deck Artifacts: David Backes

20011-12 Panini Contenders: Patrick Kane

2011-12 Upper Deck Artifacts: Brian Boyle

2011-12 Upper Deck: Alexander Burmistrov, Vincent Lecavalier, Zenon Konopka, Martin Erat, Patrice Bergeron

2012-13 Upper Deck: Michael Del Zotto

2012-13 O-Pee-Chee: Kevin Bieska

This ends scan heavy pack. Like I said these are fun to rip getting various cards within 20-25 year span.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Presstine 20 baseball card pack


Nothing say 20 random cards from Dollar Tree. I'm becoming a sucker for those. This will be sorted by year.

1983 Topps: 209 - Mike Moore

1991 Upper Deck: 552 - Lance Parrish; 790 - Wally Backman
 
1992 Upper Deck: 587 - Larry Andersen; 307 - Brett Butler; 269 - Dick Schofield; 160 - Felix Fermin; 25 - Kenny Lofton

1993 Upper Deck: 534 - David Cone; 124 - Andy Van Slyke; 147 - Chris Sabo - interesting AVS card as he gets down to first base after being beaned on the elbow

1995 Leaf: 208 - Tm Raines - one of best card designs in the 90s

1995 Fleer Emotion: 170 Denny Neagle - Fleer being experimental with this card. Like how background matches team colors. I believe pack of these cost $4-5 at the time

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1995 Upper Deck Collector Choice: 404 - Manny Lee

1998 Fleer Metal: 217 - Larry Walker - Fleer hits homerun with this experimental design. Impressive comic style illustration from Dan Lawlis of Larry Walker

1997 Upper Deck Collector Choice: 118 - Kevin Brown

  
2001 Topps Heritage: Victor Hall - Never made it in the majors. I remember watching him play when he was then-Diamondbacks AA affiliate El Paso.

  
2002 Topps Archive: 199 - Bert Blyleven

2011 Topps: 182 - Jeremy Bonderman; 585 - Dan Johnson

Not bad for $1

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

2013 BBM Japanese Baseball

 During one of my trips I found a pack of this at card shop. Consists of 10 cards with names in english while rest in Japanese. Selling point is that Tanaka card.


230 - Nobuhiko Matsunaka - cards are glossy with super sick photography. The back featured player photo, stats, team logo, and the league they belong in. I assume bold black numbers meaning the player lead the league.

284 - Toshiaki Imae

 308 - Steve Hammond - American player. Made to it AAA ball before heading to Japan.

168 - Naoki Miyanishi

19 - Yoshitomo Tani

325 - Shinnosuke Abe (MVP) - MVP of league card. One of players featured heavily on World Baseball Classic sets. He was one of players I always get in those 2008 Bowman packs.

381 -Motonobu Tanishige -  A card of Golden Glove winner.

351 - Hisashi Takeda - I assume the saves leader for 2012.

CW56 - Masaru Takeda (Crosswind) - Front and back of this card. Not sure if this insert set.

CW37 - Takahiro Arai (Crosswind) - second Crosswind card.

Good look at BBM Japanese baseball league cards.