1993 Leaf Baseball Series 1

I'm with a pack of 1993 Leaf and its at whopping 18 cards. This is one of best designed set for its photography on the front AND back. I will post the backside as it feature city landmarks.

198 - Darryl Hamilton - night view of downtown Milwaukee

103 - Bill Gullickson

94 - Bob Welch - sunset view of Bay Bridge

85 - Ozzie Guillen - downtown Chicago and not even near the tracks of Comiskey

3 - Juan Guzman - look in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a World Series ring

115 - Nolan Ryan - Dallas skyline with Reunion Tower

76 - Kent Hrbek - got a view of the Metrodome

67 - Mike Devereaux - looks like they stack two photos of top of each other. You have bay/shoreline on the bottom and what looks to be outside of Camden Yards on top.

58 - Brian McRae

210 - Darryl Strawberry - sunset view of downtown LA

211 - Tom Gordon - a flash in the fountains. Close up shot of the horse statue at JC Nichols Memorial Fountain.

112 - John Franco

123 - Mike Morgan - Buckingham Fountain in the background

134 - Bob Walk - instead a city landmark they went with steel because Pittsburgh is the Steel City

201 - Ken Hill - outside parliament building

40 - Kenny Lofton

21 - Frank Viola - downtown Boston complete with custom house clock tower

12 - Jim Austin

Most of city background shots are taken from the sunset/night. I like how they put "These players and teams represent this city" aspect. Leaf set wins hands down for this design.

2017 Pokemon TCG Sun & Moon: Guardians Rising

Greetings...

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.  Detective Pikachu was released this past Friday, the first live action / CGI Pokemon movie.  I honestly don't know what took them so long to make one.  Anyway, my younger son is all about trying to see this movie...he's talked about it more than Avengers: Endgame.

Anyway, The Wifey got him a box of Pokemon cards that had what appeared to be a Detective Pikachu-themed pack inside.  I had planned to take pics of those cards for the site, but the boy had already opened the packs and their whereabouts are unknown at the moment.  He said something about not trusting me to give the cards back to him.  Like I collect Pokemon cards...I have other things to worry about.

So it was off to the scanned folder to see if I had any saved files there and yep, I had one more pack.  Here's what he got:

11/145 – Litwick

72/145 – Pancham

Litwick is freaky-looking.

The resource page says there's over 140 cards in the expansion set, but the cards say 145.  No idea 

why they don't match.  

31/145 – Snorunt

105/145 – Castform

Snorunt has no qualms about running up your electricity bill.

33/145 – Vanillite

78/145 – Murkrow

The first 6 cards in the pack are the Commons.  

111/145 – Talonflame

Energy

Talonflame is the Rare card in the pack.  Kids must be so bummed to get Energy cards.

110/145 – Fletchinder

95/145 – Sliggoo

113/145 – Bewear

These 3 are the Uncommons.

Anyway, that's the pack.  I don't think any of these guys are showing up in the movie, but I'm sure kids won't be flocking to see this flick to see Sliggoo in action.

Happy Mother's Day to the moms out there, and thanks for reading!

2016 Cryptozoic The Walking Dead Season 4 Part 1

Greetings...

Hope everyone had a good Star Wars Day / Cinco De Mayo weekend.  On a recent Dollar Store run, I checked the card section and saw a box for The Walking Dead key-chains.  I remember them in the Target card aisle a few years ago, and they were probably 3 or 4 bucks a pack.  It was quite surprising to see former retail packs in the Dollar Tree.

The box didn't have any key-chains though; I don't know if someone else already came in and bought them all.  I did however find plenty of Walking Dead trading cards. so here's one of them:

Obviously, the Retail at the bottom means this too was at one time at a Target or Wal-Mart card aisle and also probably ran 3 bucks a pack, so hey, if you were trying to complete the set, head over to your local Dollar Tree.  Here's what I got:

#07 - Quarantine
#42 - Independence

Part 1 covers the first 8 episodes of Season 4, which aired in the fall and winter of 2013.  In terms of the show, this is "Farmer Rick" at the prison, where the group deals with a deadly virus.  The first part of the season ends with The Governor's assault on their settlement.  I'm not sure how Cryptozoic is handling the splitting of the season, since "Carl eating pudding" is from the first episode of the second half of the season.

Here are the backs of the first 2 cards:

Not very descriptive, Cryptozoic.  It's been 3 years since the episodes aired, it's OK to give a better write up.  I'm not sure of the card numbering though...the top number is the card number, per the checklist, but I don't know what the bottom number is.

#28 - Defending the Prison

Cell phone cameo!

Bonus points for the extra picture in the back.  I'm not sure if Cryptozoic is going in episode order either...if this is from the last episode of Part 1, it should be much later in the checklist.

#Z5 - Terminus Puzzle Set Checklist
#43 - Reconciliation

There are 9 cards that make up the puzzle, so it'll look nice on a 9-pocket page.  These come 1 in 3 packs.  Once again, I'm not sure how Cryptozoic is handling the set since the gang deals with Terminus at the end of Season 4.

The Reconciliation card does follow the Independence card, so at least the episode cards are grouped together.

Great summary, guys.

Anyway, that's the pack.  I got a couple other packs of other releases so I'll get to them eventually.  Have a great week guys, and thanks for reading!

Panini HOF Class of 2019

At the Ravens draft party the Hall of Fame had a table since Ed Reed is getting inducted this year.  They were giving away packs of cards each pack contains 8 cards one of each being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2019.  See below for pictures of the pack and each card and the back of the cards.

2019 Topps Opening Day Rack Pack

Greetings...

Still trying to sort while job hunting, so here's that rack pack of Opening Day I referred to back when I posted the retail pack.

There's 200 cards in the set, and here's the checklist for those interested.  Here's the pics of the cards I got:

#14 - Rick Porcello
#163 - Will Smith
#98 - Ozzie Albies

Folks have talked about the collation issues in Series 1.  As of now, I've bought 3 of these rack packs and the 1 retail pack I showed off before.  The Easter Bunny also hooked me up with a 3 pack.  So that's a total of 101 cards (foreshadowing).  I have 24 doubles.  An entire rack pack.  No bueno, Topps.

#158 - Gregory Polanco
#65 - Albert Pujols

Both of these guys are on one of my fantasy teams.  That team is 11th out of 12 teams.  I keep picking up Pujols thinking he'll produce, like he's still Cardinals Pujols.

#143 - Sean Manaea
#53 - Carlos Correa
#145 - Luis Severino

Yes, the cards appear out of order, but the Opening Day rack packs don't put their horizontal cards all in a row like flagship, so I got creative.

#26 - Zack Godley
#179 - Jake Arrieta
#54 - Mike Foltynewicz

Here are the inserts.  Oh yeah, my other 2 rack packs had the same 3 inserts in them.  Grrrrrrr.....

#YOF-7 - Sandy Koufax (150 Years of Fun)
#M-11 - Diamondbacks Mascot
#ODB-TBJ - Opening Day in Toronto

The 150 Years of Fun come 1 in 2 packs.  The Mascots are 1 in 2 packs as well.  Maybe I got some Super Short Print of D. Baxter wearing a baseball fez.

If I read the pack right, the Opening Day insert comes 1 in 7 packs.

#29 - David Dahl
#135 - Matt Chapman
#189 - Michael Conforto
#149 - Todd Frazier

#82 - Jonathan Villar
#92 - David Peralta
#113 - Edwin Diaz
#103 - Mitch Garver

Sorry for the bad camera angle, which makes some of the cards look like they're faded.

#121 - Orlando Arcia
#83 - Kole Calhoun

We end on a cool Kole Calhoun bat flip.  Here are the backs

 Bonus card:

#178 - Touki Toussaint (RC)

The 3 pack included a purple parallel, although the pack says "3 Packs Plus 3 Exclusive Cards Inside!"  Geez, another lazy error by Topps.  Not a bad looking card in hand.

Anyway, that's the pack.  Have a good weekend everyone, and thanks for reading!

2019 Topps Series 1 Rack Pack

Greetings...

Hope everyone enjoyed the Easter weekend.  I wanted to file my 2019 Topps Series 1 cards, so before the Easter festivities began in earnest, I took some pics of the cards in the best of the 3 rack packs I've picked up over the last few weeks.

Come to think of it, this may have been the first rack pack I bought.  Anyway, here are the cards, all quick-like:

#349 - Kyle Schwarber
#262 - Mitch Moreland
#131 - Mark Trumbo
#250 - Shohei Ohtani

#210 - Kris Bryant
#164 - Billy Hamilton
#177 - Kohl Stewart (RC)
#38 - Kolby Allard (RC)

Schwarber, Ohtani, and Bryant in the first 8 cards ain't too shabby.  Here come the horizontals:

#180 - Justin Turner
#241 - James Paxton
#73 - Jon Gray
#26 - Angels Stadium

#47 - Yankee Stadium
#245 - Rogers Centre
#276 - Nolan Arenado

Stadium cards are cool.  They would seem to be perfect for Opening Day with the Mascots.

#150-104 - Ichiro (150 Years of Professional Baseball - Greatest Seasons)
#237 - Seth Lugo (Rainbow Foil)
#150-115 - Steve Carlton (150 Years of Professional Baseball - Greatest Seasons) #55/150
#211 - Jeimer Candelario

Just 3 inserts in the rack pack.  The 150 Years of Professional Baseball come 1 in 4 packs.  The rainbow foil come 1 in 2 packs.  The 150th foil stamp version of the 150 Years of Professional Baseball subset come 1 in 247 packs if I read the odds right.

#202 - Sweet Life - Los Angeles Dodgers
#302 - Jose Berrios
#103 - Sean Manaea
#15 - J.P. Crawford

#23 - J.D. Martinez (League Leaders)
#7 - Gleyber Torres
#10 - Clayton Kershaw
#39 - Richard Urena

Still not a fan of the current League Leaders format.

#129 - Kenley Jansen
#184 - Ken Giles
#122 - Zach Davies
#320 - Ronald Guzman (Future Stars)

#2 - Tyler Anderson
#120 - Robert Gsellman
#342 - Wilmer Difo

There we go.  Here's some backs because Easter:

Anyway, that's the pack.  Now I can finish filing.  Boy does the collation stink.  Thanks for reading!