Monday, February 24, 2025

1991 Panini Baseball Stickers

 

Happy Monday, everyone! Let's check out some old stickers. At roughly 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, the 1991 Panini baseball sticker release is one of the smallest versions of this annual set that you'll find. I also found it to be much more elusive than the stickers from other surrounding years.


I ended up picking up a bunch of these at a recent card show, knowing that I was missing the majority of the Cardinals stickers for my team collection. 39 cents? What a value!


257 - Chicago White Sox - We start things off with a foil team sticker. In 1991, the White Sox had just changed their logo to the throwback look that you see here, which to this day I believe is still their primary logo. Considering how they've performed recently, it might be time for another change.


219 - Tony Pena - The regular player stickers come with a little bit of stats on the bottom, but strangely no indication of what team they play for. I guess you'd need the sticker album if you weren't totally sure which team Pena plays for from the photo.


145 - Mark McGwire - Large Mac is clearly an Athletic here.


119 - Sid Bream - Bream is the answer to a certain trivia question based on a big moment he had back in the day.


23 - Charlie Leibrandt - Atlanta is also represented here in this pack.


99 - Tony Gwynn - We finish things off with a little more star power. Gwynn's all-star status is noted on the sticker, but again, there's no mention of the Padres here for whatever reason.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

2025 Topps Hobby RIP Night

The final pack is the 2025 Topps Hobby RIP Night pack which look different then last year's as these are cellophane clear packs so not as nice as the 2024 counterparts IMO.  plus the set is only 15 cards and looks like only Blue and Red parallels not sure they are number either.  see the pack and the cards I received on the back of each card is the checklist so that is different as well as no individual checklist card.

2024 Topps Hobby RIP Night

Here is the second of the 3 packs I got at the Topps RIP event yesterday,  This 2024 Topps Hobby RIP Night September 2024 pack which contains 4 cards.  These packs must have inserts or chase cards in them as EBay unopened packs are a few bucks each my pack contained only 4 base cards and are numbered from 30-40.  Looking on TCDB this set is 40 cards and then has Red, Blue /10 & Gold /1. versions as well.  Of course the big card was any Paul Skenes card.



2024 Upper Deck National Card Day

I went to a LCS for the 2025 RIP night event and they had some packs and were giving away some packs from last years events along with this years so I picked up 3 different packs and will do 3 separate posts for them with the first being this 2024 Upper Deck National Card Day pack which contains 5 cards plus a checklist that shows a total of 31 cards.  There is a card in this pack that isn't on the checklist so thinking there are some inserts mine was a Mascot #'d M-8. the other cards have numbering of NHCD-# (1-31).  See below for a picture of the pack and then the total of 6 cards I received in the pack.  Looking at the names I believe Connor Bedard would be the hit from these packs.




Saturday, February 22, 2025

Hello Kitty And Friends Stickers

A trip to Party City going out of business sale netted me a pack of Hello Kitty and Friends stickers. Who doesn't like these infectious Sanrio characters? You have to open the cardboard from behind to get the pack

Here are the five stickers
Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty and her crew featuring Chococat, Pompompurin, MyMelody, Cinnamoroll, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, and Tuxedosam
Pompompurin
Tuxedosam
MyMelody who is my niece favorite character.

I didn't get a Kuromi