Hip hip hooray! My first full week of summer break starts today and I have a game plan in place regarding cards and the blog. I have two major goals. The first one involves going through several Sportlots and COMC packages and hopefully clearing out a few set builds I'm in the middle of.
The other goal is to open up the plethora of care packages that are piling up in my office and finally documenting them here on the blog.
This morning I opened up a few PWE's from fellow bloggers, so let's show off the goodies...
PWE #1: Torren' Up Cards
2021 Epoch NPB #040
Kenny sent me a new Roki Sasaki card for my collection. If you haven't heard of this guy yet, you probably will by next year.
He's one of those Japanese pitchers who has made a name for himself over in the NPB and there's a good chance he'll be coming to the MLB in 2025.
PWE #2: A Penny Sleeve For Your Thoughts
Back in May, Jon asked me if I needed these two Kenner SLU football cards:
1998 Kenner SLU HOF Legends #NNO
1999 Kenner SLU Classic Doubles #NNO
A few years ago, I added a sealed copy of Vince Lombardi's 1998 Kenner SLU HOF Legends figure. One day I'd love to add the Bart Starr figure and the Ray Nitschke from that series... to my Green Bay Packers PC.
Last October, John sent me four PWE's filled with some cards for some player and team collections. One of them contained these three cards from one of those online exclusive Topps products:
All three are part of the Bestias Del Juego subset, which according to the back of Gwynn's card means "Beasts of the Game".
2022 Topps X Juan Soto #46
2022 Topps X Juan Soto #47
2022 Topps X Juan Soto #50
I actually opened up a few of these boxes and with the help of eBay completed the entire base set, so these three cards are headed into my player collections.
The next two PWE's contained a variety of Japanese athletes including some members of Japan's national football team:
Even though I have grown to appreciate the sport, I don't follow soccer too closely. The two exceptions are the World Cup and Olympics. The 2024 Olympic men's soccer kicks off in nine days and Samurai Blue is part of Group D along with Israel, Mali, and Paraguay.
The 4th PWE contained cards from another soccer team I casually follow:
2019 Topps MLS
I have had the opportunity to see all four of these guys in action. Unfortunately... none of them have played with the San Jose Earthquakes in a few years. Chris Wondolowski retired in 2021 as the MLS all-time leading goal scorer.
Thank you Kenny, Jon, and Johnny for sending me these PWE's. I apologize to all of you... especially Johnny for taking so long to open these up. But better late than never, right?
Happy Monday and sayonara!
7 comments:
I like those SLU cards, especially the Starr. I've heard of Roki Sasaki and look forward to seeing him in MLB soon. Also know next to nothing about soccer but it sounds like Japan got a favorable draw (unless Paraguay is really good?)
Goodness, makes me wonder how much more you've got to open, lol.
Hooray for mail days! I also love SLU cards, those are great. And I'm looking forward to seeing more too!
Those Topps X cards are pretty cool!
Alstott was a great player. Wish he was in the Hall of Fame. Could just bowl guys over and got so many needed rushing yards for Tampa during his time there and was one of the key reasons they won their first Super Bowl.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but the design on those Topps X cards isn't... all that bad.
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