One more post to close out this crappy year.
I did end up getting some cards for Christmas* - two megaboxes of Topps Heritage and a megabox of UD hockey. (Did I pick them out myself, pay for them, and wrap them? perhaps...)
*the only Christmas card I received from outside the family arrived yesterday. D's friends have sent photocards in the past but I guess they don't see a reason to send one here without her.
I don't know why I took a picture of the packs but not the cards. There wasn't anything great in here - I already had one of the Young Guns rookies and didn't pull any notable Devils or superstar inserts. Just slowly plugging away at the base set as I've been doing for 35 years with Upper Deck hockey.
One of my Goals For 2026 will be to fill in the missing years in my UD base set collection. I stopped after 2015-16 and didn't resume until 2022-23. There are probably some Extended sets I'm missing, too.
Topps Heritage might be the best value of all recent sports card sets. I got a huge stack of cards with shiny parallels, a couple inserts, and some SP's for less than the cost of a single megabox of Topps Chrome basketball. 272 of these, or 42 of these? Heritage all day!
This stack is going to keep me busy for a while. And so will this book my brother in law gifted me:
This was a very cool surprise. I asked if he met Mike Eruzione, but he didn't - this was an eBay purchase. If you haven't seen Miracle I highly reccomend it - even if you're not a hockey fan.
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Nice stack of Heritage! I may have that book myself, I'll have to see, but I don't think I've read it so I'll be curious to see what you think. And the Eruzione is very cool! I did enjoy that movie.
ReplyDeletea. I've heard a lot of complaining about 2025-26 Topps Chrome basketball being overpriced. Considering there's blasters sitting on Target's website, I'm guessing basketball fans are waiting for them to be discounted.
ReplyDeleteb. Love that Eruzione card! I picked up a puck signed by him at the flea market years ago. If I ever build my dream man cave, it'll definitely go on display.
Nice Eruzione!
ReplyDeleteHeritage is definitely my brand of choice this past year, it matches my collecting style. I could never collect NBA chrome. 6-card packs with 3 parallels in each, that set hates set collectors.