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    Happy New Year to all. I wish everyone a happy, healthy, and successful 2011. May all your packs contain hits and SP's this year.

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1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier

   Hello all. I was visiting the Vend-O-Pack and there was one lonely pack sitting in one of the rows amongst some bad non-sports stuff. It looked like it was being punished being isolated from the other baseball packs so I had to liberate it from the machine. (Being 50 cents didn't hurt either)

1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier

#79 Fred McGriff (Padres)

#10 Mike Boddiker (Royals)

#40 Howard Farmer (Expos)

#71 Jimmy Key (Blue Jays)

#12 Barry Bonds (Pirates)

#87 Chris Nabholz (Expos)

#57 Kelly Gruber (Blue Jays)

Kind of fitting that a pack of cards made in Canada had more then half Canadian teams (4 of 7)

A couple of the backs.

BY THE NUMBERS:
Total Cards: 7

Teams Represented: 5
Rookie Cards: 0
Sub Sets: 0
Parallels: 0
Inserts: 0
Hits: 0
Keepers for Me: 1 (Bonds)

MY RATINGS:
Front Design: 6.5 out of 10 Good on field photos,  nice design, no team logo.
Back Design: 6 out of 10 OK design, colorful, not much information, big team logo.
Player Selection: 6 out of 10  Fair, after Bonds and McGriff it's so-so the rest of the way.

FINAL OVERALL RATING: Fly Out to shallow right field. One keeper and a fair player selection doesn't get it done for me. The set does have some appeal to me though.

2010 Panini Rookie and Stars Football

     Hey all. I was in Rite Aid today picking up some stuff for the house so I checked the card rack while I was there. They had only one baseball (a value re-pack which I grabbed) so I grabbed a couple of football packs.  I was very happy when I opened one of them so I decided to go back to back posts with NFL packs. You'll see why.

2010 Panini Rookies and Stars

#108 Louis Murphy (Raiders)

#134 Danny Amendola (Rams)

#105 Chaz Schilens (Raiders)

#8 Tony Gonzalez (Falcons)

#42 Brandon Marshall (Dolphins)

#136 James Laurinaitis (Rams)

#78 Davone Bess (Dolphins)

#35 Josh Cribbs (Browns)

#75 Thomas Jones (Chiefs)

#1 Beanie Wells (Cardinals)

#91 Drew Brees Game Used Jersey (Saints)

 That's right, a hit! If you count also you will see 11 cards, not the usual 10 as promised. My lucky day.

A couple backs.

BY THE NUMBERS:
Total Cards: 10 11 (Extra card)

Teams Represented: 8
Rookie Cards: 0
Sub Sets: 0
Parallels: 0
Inserts: 1 (Brees Jersey) 
Hits: 1 (Brees Jersey)
Keepers for Me: 1 (Brees Jersey)

MY RATINGS:
Front Design: 6.5 out of 10 Good pictures but I prefer the background from the in game pictures, good design, team logo.
Back Design: 7.5 out of 10 Nice design, team logo, good use of team colors, only last year and career totals for stats, good player factoid from 09 season, team logo.
Player Selection: 7 out of 10 Good, young talent and veterans.

FINAL OVERALL RATING: Touchdown in the second quarter. (Solo Home Run). The jersey card from one of my favorite teams gets it into the end-zone. No other keepers hurts a little but a Brees jersey card rocks!

Thanks for Reading!

NFL 1996 Pacific Crown Royale

    Hello again all. Today I go NFL with a pack from Pacific. The odd part is that the die-cut are the base cards and in this pack the regular shape is the insert.

1996 Pacific Crown Royale

#CR-86 Scott Mitchell (Lions)

#CR-54 Brett Favre (Packers)

   The old school team logos are great looking.

#CR-92 Charles Way (Giants)

#CR-56 Kevin Hardy (Jaguars)

  Charles Way was a big fan favorite here in NY. He was a fierce lead blocker who was very good at catching passes out of the backfield.

NFL Regime #NR20 Drew Bledsoe (Patriots)

A couple of the backs.

   Over all a cool looking set. The die-cuts look great and are quite sturdy. I couldn't find a check list to check for rookies so I am not sure. Hardy may be a RC and Way also but I can't say for sure. 

BY THE NUMBERS:
Total Cards: 5

Teams Represented: 5
Rookie Cards: ?
Sub Sets: 0
Parallels: 0
Inserts: 1 (Bledsoe NFL Regime) 
Hits: 0
Keepers for Me: 1 (Charles Way)

MY RATINGS:
Front Design: 7.5 out of 10 Good pictures, nice design, in game photos, great die-cuts, good foil work, old school team logo.
Back Design: 6 out of 10 Nice design, no team logo, good player factoid, no stats
Player Selection: 7 out of 10 Good, All good players and 1 sure to be HOFer.

FINAL OVERALL RATING: 12 Yard First Down Pass (Single). I very much like the fronts of these cards plus 1 keeper makes a first down. With 3 of the 5 cards being QB's it had to be passing.

Thanks for Reading!

2005 Topps Bazooka Hobby Edition

Back today with another Bazooka release from Topps circa 2005. As usual, any non-keepers are available. 

2005 Topps Bazooka Hobby Edition

#26 Kerry Wood (Cubs)

#186 Felix Hernandez (Mariners)

4 in 1 Sticker #11 of 12 (checklist) Victor Martinez, David Wright, Justin Morneau, and Jason Bay

Mini #60 Lyle Overbay (Brewers)

Gold Chunks #88 Carl Pavano (Yankees)

#159 Brad Wilkerson (Nationals)

#199 Jeremy West RC (Red Sox)

#167 David DeJesus (Royals)

A piece of very stale gum, although bigger then the usual size.

Some backs.

BY THE NUMBERS:
Total Cards: 8

Teams Represented: 11
Rookie Cards: 1 (West)
Sub Sets: 0
Parallels: 2 (Gold and Mini) 
Inserts: 1 (4 in 1 sticker)
Hits: 0
Keepers for Me: 2 (4 in 1 [Wright] and  gold Pavano)

MY RATINGS:
Front Design: 6 out of 10 Decent in game pictures, nice design, no team logos, some players in wrong team uniform.
Back Design: 6 out of 10 Nice design, colorful, no pictures, no team logos
Player Selection: 6 out of 10 Good but not great.

FINAL OVERALL RATING: Infield Single. Two keepers with one being Wright plus one insert and two parallels just ekes out a single.

Thanks for Reading!