I picked up this package back in January but just got around to cataloging the cards. I'll keep buying these things as long as they keep producing cards I want. Recently I've seen a trend toward more recent cards and away from late 1980's junk. Which is fine with me.
1981 Topps #291 Aurelio Lopez
The oldest card in the pack. Early 1980s cards are always welcome. Whatever possessed Topps to put pink borders on baseball cards?
1991 Topps #675 Tom Brunansky
If memory serves me, 1991 was the first year that Topps had a mixture of horizontal and vertical oriented cards. This is a good example of a horizontal card.
1991 Upper Deck #783 Devon White
There is almost always a selection of early 1990s Upper Deck cards in these packs. Someday I will have an entire set of 1990, 1991, and 1992 Upper Decks simply by buying repacks. Good running bunt photo.
1992 Pinnacle #367 Brian McRae
Another good bunt photo. This looks like it ended up as a pop-up.
1992 Topps Gold Winner #120 Alan Trammel
In 1992, the base Topps set had two parallels, Topps Gold and Topps Gold Winner. Topps Gold came randomly inserted in packs. Gold Winner was obtained by a mail-in redemption. These were the first regular Topps cards to feature gold foil.
1993 Fleer ProCards #203 Glenn Hubbard
I've never seen a card from this set. That's another thing I like about the repacks, getting stuff I don't have that would otherwise be hard to find. This goes right into the Reference Album.
1997 Sports Illustrated #176 Hideo Nomo
This is only the 3rd card I've gotten from this set and the other two I bought on eBay. This is a nice card for 4 cents.
2004 Just Prospects #2 Josh Anderson
Another minor league set I didn't have any cards from. And as I bonus, Anderson was in the Astro's farm system.
2005 Bowman Heritage #164 Rodrigo Lopez
I completely missed out on 2005 Bowman Heritage and only have a handful of cards from the set. Lopez was one of the top players in The Matrix.
2005 SP Authentic #1 A. J. Burnett
A main-stream set I didn't have any cards from. Another for the Reference Album. I actually have a Ryan Howard relic card from this set but no base cards.
2010 Topps #305 Juan Francisco
Another good example of a horizontally oriented card. I like the way the card design accommodates the photo.
2011 Topps Team Sets #ATL8 Nate McLouth
As far as I could tell, Topps did not produce these team sets in 2012. I used to always get the Astros and Phillies sets. You could always count on 1 or 2 players in the team set who weren't in the regular set. And sometimes, you'd get a different photo. This is the same photo as the base set.
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Topps mixed vertical and horizontal in 1973-74 (with 1971 as well). 1991 was the first time in a long time they did that. They gave done it mostly ever since.
I picked up a Fairfield repack this morning, and it also contained the Josh Anderson card from the same set, albeit a silver parallel.
What are the odds?
If I got that Nomo card out of a repack I'd be jumping up and down for 3 hours. Very, very nice. Love that card.
I've gotta find me that Nomo for my collection. Huge Fairfield score. The Hubbard coach card is pretty cool too.
Wow. That is a pretty good 'repack'. A 2005 Bowman heritage as well -superb set.
@jacobmarley, thanks. I remembered that it was a big deal that the 1991 set had horizontal cards but couldn't remember if it was because it was the first time ever or the first time in awhile.
@nightowl and @fuji, yes the Nomo is sweet.
I've got two more of these repacks sitting on my desk waiting to be opened.
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