The best of the rest: part 1

With the possibility of me attending this upcoming Saturday's card show, I thought it might be a good idea to hurry up and finish showing the stuff from the last one.

The title's a bit misleading though, as this post (and the next post) will contain all of the odds and ends that didn't fit in with all of the other recaps that I've already done.

Since I know that lot of you do not like basketball, I've split these posts up specifically for your benefit, so this one will contain baseball, football, and a few other things. Part 2 will be all basketball (mostly 90's), so consider yourselves warned.

These guys are good at the baseball :)

The Dan Fouts up in the top left hand corner is a pretty interesting card, it comes from a 1989 set called All Time Great Quarterbacks which was produced by Channel 4 Television (from the UK). It's only a 20-card set, but they sure are attractive. The Franco Harris Wonder Bread is an upgrade (Anybody want my old one?), and I found a bunch of '83 Topps stickers as well.

I had never heard of, nor seen, 1999 Donruss Preferred QBC before, which seems like a shame, 'cause these are some really cool cards.

It's been a while since I had come across any 2001 Upper Deck Heroes, so finding three that I needed was a pleasant surprise.

It's been almost a month and I still haven't looked into these, they're all serial numbered, and I'm assuming that Curtis Martin is a parallel... but that's as far as I've gotten.

These 1999 Pacific Pro Bowl Die-Cuts are yet another insert set that I had never seen, and at 50 cents a piece, I wasn't about to pass them up. It doesn't show in the scan, but the shininess of the lava is very pleasing to the eye (both of them even).

Everybody likes lenticular cards, right? I had never seen one of the Goodwin Champions Supernaturals in person before, apparently they have different tiers, Thor is a tier 4, which I'm assuming is good?

Here's some random base cards that look like inserts, as well as some actual inserts.

Some miscellaneous football. Lori is a Lime Rock promo. I keep finding the Stadium Club Metalists in Jim's dime boxes, it might be a sign that I'm supposed to be working on the set. The Frank Gifford insert is pretty cool too, even though it's technically not a refractor, but it still has the same qualities.

Ooh, shiny Pacific! Igor (Juan) Gonzalez is from the 1993 Pacific Prisms Jugadores Calientes (if that's wrong, blame COMC), which is a set that I am not familiar with at all.

More random inserts.

A couple of needed 2017 Archives inserts.

Even though I probably won't be keeping it, this is my first astronaut relic. $2 didn't seem too bad for a swatch that supposedly came from Robert Crippen.

This Giancarlo coin, as well as the next couple of cards, came from Jim's 2/$1 boxes. I bought a number of these kinds of things for my blogging friends (some of which have already been sent out), I also plan on starting a series of weekly mini-giveaways on Twitter, which is where this card(?) will be headed.

I don't care what anybody says...

... I really like these patches! I think I have like four or five from the set now, not that I'm actively collecting the set mind you.

This last one was gotten only because I had never seen one before, and I thought it was mildly interesting at the time. And just so nobody has to go look it up, this is a 2004 Upper Deck Play Ball Home Run Heroics. I can almost guarantee you that I will not be keeping this for too terribly long, but since I know at least two Dodgers collectors, and one Rickey Henderson collector, I can't imagine that it'll be very difficult to find someone who needs it.


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