If there's three things that I've learned from my years of blogging, it's that a). People go wild for basketball card posts, b). "Look what I got" posts generate more comments than any other kind of post, and c). Analytically speaking, there is no better day of the week to publish a post on than Sunday... Sundays are absolute money!
So it's with this great insight that I'm presenting part 2 of my order from the Baseball Card Store...
I received an unexpected package from Kerry a few weeks ago (which I of course haven't gotten to yet), in it was, well, a lot of stuff, but one of the main attractions was around 40 or so cards of Uncle Cliffy. I've been focusing quite a bit on Cliff in recent months (mostly just picking up rare-ish items on COMC), so I found this package to be rather timely, and believe it or not, was the impetus for my finally giving the Baseballcardstore a whirl.
Most of my card stuffs are currently covered in, or are blocked by, toys, but having just recently finished sorting all of my basketball cards, I had a pretty good idea of what I currently own, and now with a new unsorted stack of Cliff's in hand, I decided to see if the site had anything of his that I didn't. They did. Around 15 cards I'd say, which not surprisingly ended up leading to a much larger order.
I don't normally chase early 2000's stuff, but with me not collecting at the time, I'm finding that I need (or want) an awful lot of cards from that particular era, so it was nice to be able to find some of them listed on the site. The SP Authentic is a really nice card, but the Finest sure looks snazzy in person (side note: I'm glad that Topps stopped using those dumb peels at some point).
Oh, and just for the record, Kerry's package arrived about two weeks before Cliff's passing, and my order was finalized a little over a week after that.
Since I was already looking up one Blazer, I figured that I might as well search for a few more of my past favorites. I already had the '89-90 Fleer (it's in a set), but needed another one for the Kersey collection.
Found a cool trio of Buck's too! It's hard to tell from the bad scan, but the Metal is a Silver Spotlight, which is something that I never see in the wild anymore, and haven't for a long time.
One of the other things in the package from Kerry (geez, I really should've done that post first!) was a pair of 1994-95 Pacific Crown Collection Dan Majerle's, a set that I never even knew existed! Other than the fact that the set contains twenty cards, I still really don't know anything about it. I'm terribly curious to know how it was distributed, seems like it would've been done so as a set, but I could also see them coming in 2-3 card cellophane packs as well.
More Thunder Dan. He's another one that I've been focusing more on in recent months, basically all of my childhood favorites are being bumped up in the collecting hierarchy, something that I should've done much sooner, but dumb me, I had to be wasting all of these years working on sets, sets that somewhere in the back of my mind I had to of known were never going to get finished.
I have a lot of Shawn Kemp's, and with him I couldn't remember what I did and didn't have, at least as far as the base cards go. These three were he only ones that I was absolutely sure of.
Ditto for Stock. Like Kemp, I have a lot of his cards, all of which are in a binder that would've been difficult to get to, so I had sort of guess on these.
David Robinson gets almost no hobby love (these kids today don't know anything), so it wasn't a surprise to see a couple of pages of his cards on the site.
There aren't a lot of inserts to be had on the site, at least not that I've seen, but I did find one in the form of this 1996-97 UD Choice Miniatures, a card that I thought that I already had at least one of (but wouldn't have minded more of), turns out that I didn't though.
Holy horizontal grandmamambo's, Batman! Yeah, I know, I'll see myself out (you know in your heart of hearts that it was a pretty clever LJ reference though).
Hopefully the few of you who actually made this far today, were able to find a few things of interest. In case you hadn't figured it out at the beginning, posts like these, on this day of the week, are akin to blogger suicide -- but I don't mind playing to the ghost town crowd, it sort of serves as a voluntary humbling, which I believe all of us are in need of from time to time.
Thanks for taking a moment to look at my page.
