A couple things I miss since the pandemic began, going to the movies, and going to professional sporting events. I enjoy seeing the coming attractions as I walk up to the theater, the movie posters and cardboard cutouts inside, and the previews before the movies. On the sports side, and in particular, going to NBA… Read More It’s Showtime: 2009-10 Upper Deck Now Appearing
Before you had unlicensed baseball cards from Panini and Leaf that we see today, among others, you had unlicensed cards featuring NBA players and prospects such as 1999 Collector’s Edge Rookie Rage. A pack was included in a lot of basketball packs I picked up off eBay back in December. And I forgot to grab… Read More Kobe Brought His Friends – Opening 1999 Collector’s Edge Rookie Rage
A few posts ago I mentioned a lot of 12 packs I had won around Christmas and shared the first pack I opened. Next up is 1999-00 Topps Gallery. I don’t remember opening many packs from this set around that time. Here are the odds of pulling inserts and parallels as listed on the hobby… Read More Pack Break: 1999-00 Topps Gallery
The Set: 2002-03 Hoops Stars Raising Up Set Odds: 1 in 5 packs Key Cards: Michael Jordan $10.00 Kobe Bryant $8.00 Yao Ming $5.00 Why I Like It: Hoops stars was an exciting set for me to open. The rookie cards are short-printed but not impossible to collect, inserted at 1:4 packs. Serial numbered parallel… Read More Insert Set Flashback: 2002-03 Hoops Stars Raising Up
Welcome to the last portion of the cards I added to my collection during the 2011 holiday season. Today I show off some non-Pacer additions. One is of a player I used to despise, but I have since come to appreciate his greatness and place as an elite scorer and likely future hall-of-famer. I am… Read More Holiday Pickups, Part 3
The Set: 1998-99 Bowman’s Best 24 packs, 6 cards per pack Base set contains 100 base cards, 25 rookies (1 in 4 packs) Refractors 1 in 25 packs Atomic Refractors 1 in 100 packs Veteran Autograph Atomic Refractors 1 in 10,073 packs Rookie Autograph Atomic Refractors 1 in 12,515 packs Veteran Autograph Refractors 1 in 3,358 packs… Read More Wednesday Wax: 1998-99 Bowman’s Best
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