I finally found a blaster box of Upper Deck Goudey in Target yesterday. No promises of relics or autographs in every box (on average) but I was pretty pleased with the selection of cards I got. The cards below are what I got out of the box for my reference collection. In addition to these I also pulled Matsuzaka, Astros Lee and Oswalt, Pettitte, Phillies Utley and Rollins, and Ichiro. The 20th Anniversary card features Nolan Ryan.
Albert Pujols #178While I suspect that the original cards had white borders, they usually give these vintage reproductions yellowish borders to simulate the card looking old. I'm not sure that was a wise choice here because the background colors are so bright. But you can't go wrong with Albert.
Michael Bowden #26
Any rookie card will do at this point. I only got a few of these anyway.
Cal Ripken #20
Probably my favorite pull from the box.
Ron Santo #206
According to Beckett.com, this is a short print. Most of the retired players are short printed, but not the Ripken card.
Hanley Ramirez #282
From the Heads Up subset. This is the only one of these in the box.
Don Mattingly #224
The only Sport Royalty subset card in the box. I always enjoy getting Donny Baseball cards.
Roy Halladay Mini #193
According to Beckett.com, the minis come with 3 different back colors, black, green and Navy Blue. I got 3 minis. The backs all look like the regular cards which is sort of blue. So I'm assuming this is the Navy Blue back.
4-in-1
There are 4 different border colors. I'm assuming that this maroon color is the base. The others have Black, Blue or Gree borders. I have three of these. I chose this on for the reference since it featured 4 catchers.
4-in-1 Blue
Only one of these. It features all Cubs.
Well, we're not seeing eye-to-eye on the Ripken card, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI like the head's up cards and the 4-in-ones are kind of neat. But that's about it.
I didn't quite say I love the set. It pretty much looks like all the previous year's of this set and it's getting boring. I am happy with the cards I got, unlike, say the Piece of Cr..I mean History cards where I didn't like the set or the cards I got.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it is, but for some reason Goudy does nothing for me. Allen and Ginter, Topps 205...I love those types of sets, but Goudy just doesn't catch my eye. I should probably re-visit it sometimes because the blogosphere is raving about it.
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