The All Star break in hockey has given me a nice break from the Panthers. I haven’t been obsessive about them this weekend and that’s a good thing. Yesterday I was at a card show in Cobourg, Ontario with my Dad. He did well selling some older hockey cards. I did not sell one card. This is because I usually trade what I have for set needs and I guess I’m not cut out to be a dealer.
I have posted about receiving some baseball autographs I purchased from a member on The Bench a couple of weeks ago. Here are the cards I purchased:
2007 Bowman Jarrod Saltalamacchia auto!
2007 Bowman Kasey Kiker Blue parallel 223/500!
2007 Bowman Miguel Montero Blue parallel 292/500!
2006 Topps ‘52 Rookies Franklin Gutierrez!
That doubles the number of 2007 Bowman autographs I have from 3 to 6. In my 2008 collecting goals post I had wanted to get five of these autographs so I’m on my way to completing that goal.
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As per www.blowoutcards.com:
Week of January 23rd:
Basketball:
2007-08 Topps Chrome: If I wasn’t planning on collecting Bowman then this is the set I would collect. I really like the chrome cards that Topps makes. For about $65 you receive a box of 24 packs of 4 cards per pack. This is the 50th anniversary of Topps basketball so the company has made a 1957-58 Topps parallel where the original design is used for today’s players. I like ideas like this. I wish I had some of the 2006-07 Fleer parallels in the 1986-87 Fleer style. There is an autographed refractor of a rookie in every box. There are 40 different autographs so you are more likely to get a scrub over someone like Greg Oden. Kevin Durant is an Upper Deck exclusive player so his autograph is not in the set. There are the usual number of refractor parallels in the set. The case hit is a 1957-58 variation veteran or rookie autograph refractor. This is a good set for both a set or player collector and I think it will do well even though last year’s product’s prices fell a couple of months after it was released.
Week of January 30th:
Basketball:
2007-08 Fleer: Okay, I might collect this instead. For around $70 you receive a box of 16 packs of 15 cards per pack. There are 4 memorabilia or autograph cards in a box. There is 1 rookie card per pack. There is a 200 card base set and rookie variations based on the 1986-87 and 1987-88 Fleer design. The entire 200 card base set has a 1987-88 design parallel. I really need to go back and get this set from last year to collect that parallel set. There are 3 Michael Jordan “missing link” memorabilia cards in each case. I can’t find an autograph list but Durant and most of the other main rookies would be in this set. So do I collect 2 basketball sets for this year? Maybe. I love the retro parallels idea.
2007-08 Bowman Elevation: For around $135 you receive a box of 12 packs of 5 cards per pack. There are 2 autographs, 6 “relics” (or jerseys), 4 rookies and 2 parallel cards per box. The case hit is an Elevation autograph patch numbered to 29. The set is broken up between 50 veterans and 50 rookies with 5 different parallels numbered from 99 to 1. The regular rookies are numbered to 999. All of the autographs have 4 or 5 different parallels. This is a set for player collectors or collectors that are looking for a hit. Is it the best product? Probably not. Wait for the singles you want to hit Ebay and buy them there.
Hockey:
2007-08 Upper Deck SP Game Used: For around $150 per box you receive 6 packs of 3 cards per pack. There is 1 autograph or jersey/patch card in every pack. At least 1 auto and 1 jersey/patch card will be numbered to 100 or less in each box. There are 2 rookies numbered to 999 in every box. There is a 100 card base set with 2 parallel sets numbered to 100 and 25. There are more subsets of jersey, patch and autograph cards to list. The basic jersey card is found in every second pack. The highlights of the set are letter marks numbered to 50, number marks numbered to 25 and “by the letter” which are one of one for each letter in the player’s last name. There are also multiple player jersey cards including 8 patches on one card numbered to 5. This has been a hit or miss product in the past. I don’t buy packs of this product but I have a couple of Panthers patches from last year’s set and I like their design. I will probably pick up some Panthers patches and autographs off EBay or through trades this year. I think David Booth has an autographed card in the set so I will definitely pick that card up.
I have left football off the list so far because I don’t know enough about the football side of the hobby to comment on it. I have some more cards coming in the mail so hopefully we have a couple of more mailday posts later this week. I have the Nigel Dawes auto patch to scan in and I have a Shea Weber multi-coloured patch coming in the mail so it’s good times here.
Thanks for reading.
