Showing posts with label Pop-Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop-Up. Show all posts
Saturday, June 14, 2008
1988 Donruss Pop-Up All Stars
Here's a quick and dirty pack rip from the 25 cent box. You can see previous rips of this stuff here and here.
Stan Musial Puzzle 31, 32, 33
Mike Schmidt pop-up
16 Matt Nokes
41 Gary Carter
31 Wade Boggs top vote getter
57 Tim Raines
24 Jack Morris
Big smile on Stan the Man's puzzle pieces. Wade Boggs gets the special "Top Vote Getter" card. The rest of the base cards spreads the spectrum from Hall of Famer to Matt Nokes. The Mike Schmidt pop-up card makes up for the last pack I ripped with the two checklist cards. Actually it makes up for every crappy pack I've ripped in the past three months. I like Mike.
Stan Musial Puzzle 31, 32, 33
Mike Schmidt pop-up
16 Matt Nokes
41 Gary Carter
31 Wade Boggs top vote getter
57 Tim Raines
24 Jack Morris
Big smile on Stan the Man's puzzle pieces. Wade Boggs gets the special "Top Vote Getter" card. The rest of the base cards spreads the spectrum from Hall of Famer to Matt Nokes. The Mike Schmidt pop-up card makes up for the last pack I ripped with the two checklist cards. Actually it makes up for every crappy pack I've ripped in the past three months. I like Mike.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Sox Or No Sox: 2-5-08
Welcome to the Magical Pack Genie edition of Sox Or No Sox.
A mysterious package came to game show yesterday. This package has the potential to be the highest ratio pack of Sox Or No Sox history!
The rules are simple. We take one unopened pack of baseball cards that was randomly selected by yours truly. We then go through the pack card by card looking for those hard to find White Sox cards.
Our player in tonight's game is a 1986 Donruss All-Stars pack. The pack contains 3 cards, 1 pop-up card and a puzzle piece and features a see-through cellophane wrapper. Very cool. Let's begin.
#1: Carlton Fisk - pop-up - White Sox
The 22 year old packaging tore everywhere, except where it should open. The little tab thing on the back ripped right off. Fear not, I had scissors. Like Mel Brooks' Rabbi Tuckman, all that was needed was a little snip of the tip. And let me tell you, I was rewarded!
#2: Dave Stieb - 55 - Blue Jays
A future White Sox pitcher, from 1986's standpoint. Plus, a pitcher that I loved before he became a member of the White Sox.
Halfway through the pack. 1 White Sox Hall of Famer and a future White Sox pitcher!!! This is turning out to be more of a ringer pack than the Eight Men Out pack, which wasn't so much a ringer. 2 more cards in the pack. Dare I say it? Let's find some more White Sox cards!
#3: LaMaar Hoyt – 9 - Padres
An ex-White Sox Cy Young award winner!
#4: Carlton Fisk - 17 - White Sox
Another Fisk!! My luck is changing! Thank you Magical Pack Genie for making the 300th post in A Pack A Day (according to blogger.com) extra special!!
A mysterious package came to game show yesterday. This package has the potential to be the highest ratio pack of Sox Or No Sox history!
The rules are simple. We take one unopened pack of baseball cards that was randomly selected by yours truly. We then go through the pack card by card looking for those hard to find White Sox cards.
Our player in tonight's game is a 1986 Donruss All-Stars pack. The pack contains 3 cards, 1 pop-up card and a puzzle piece and features a see-through cellophane wrapper. Very cool. Let's begin.
#1: Carlton Fisk - pop-up - White Sox
The 22 year old packaging tore everywhere, except where it should open. The little tab thing on the back ripped right off. Fear not, I had scissors. Like Mel Brooks' Rabbi Tuckman, all that was needed was a little snip of the tip. And let me tell you, I was rewarded!
#2: Dave Stieb - 55 - Blue Jays
A future White Sox pitcher, from 1986's standpoint. Plus, a pitcher that I loved before he became a member of the White Sox.
Halfway through the pack. 1 White Sox Hall of Famer and a future White Sox pitcher!!! This is turning out to be more of a ringer pack than the Eight Men Out pack, which wasn't so much a ringer. 2 more cards in the pack. Dare I say it? Let's find some more White Sox cards!
#3: LaMaar Hoyt – 9 - Padres
An ex-White Sox Cy Young award winner!
#4: Carlton Fisk - 17 - White Sox
Another Fisk!! My luck is changing! Thank you Magical Pack Genie for making the 300th post in A Pack A Day (according to blogger.com) extra special!!
OK, our pack opening is complete. THAT WAS AN AWESOME PACK!!! How impossible is that to get two White Sox cards in a pack of 3 cards and a pop-up! Plus the other two were on the White Sox in the past. Plus, a puzzle piece (28,29,30) of the true Home Run King, Hank Aaron. This is the pack that White Sox dreams are made of.
Final score: 6 points
2 White Sox cards in this game, let's see if we can break that record next time on Sox Or No Sox.
1988 Donruss Pop-Up All Stars
I'm kind of worn out after yesterday's festivities, but I just had to share this pack with you. I got this pack for a quarter and I paid 26 cents too much for it.
Stan Musial puzzle 46, 47, 48
John McNamera Pop-Up
32 Checklist 1
64 Checklist 2
44 Willie McGee
20 Mike Witt
53 John Franco
I knew when I pulled the McNamera pop-up I was in trouble, but good Lord. One checklist is bad but TWO is just cruel. The players are three of the more non-star all-stars you'll ever see. I suppose I could have gotten Ozzie Virgil, Matt Nokes and the card of Oakland stadium, but Willie McGee as the best card in the pack sure ain't great. Even the Musial puzzle piece is lame, I got his right sleeve, oh goody. The only thing I can see a pop-up card of a manager is good for is target practice for your Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot his eye out! Of course even my bad luck is good, imagine if I ripped a pack of some big money product like Sportkings and done this badly. Oh wait, Sportkings is already this crappy, nevermind. Well there you have it, my lousy pack. I gotta rip something while I wait for '08 Topps to come out.
BEHOLD: THE WORLD'S CRAPPIEST PACK
Stan Musial puzzle 46, 47, 48
John McNamera Pop-Up
32 Checklist 1
64 Checklist 2
44 Willie McGee
20 Mike Witt
53 John Franco
I knew when I pulled the McNamera pop-up I was in trouble, but good Lord. One checklist is bad but TWO is just cruel. The players are three of the more non-star all-stars you'll ever see. I suppose I could have gotten Ozzie Virgil, Matt Nokes and the card of Oakland stadium, but Willie McGee as the best card in the pack sure ain't great. Even the Musial puzzle piece is lame, I got his right sleeve, oh goody. The only thing I can see a pop-up card of a manager is good for is target practice for your Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot his eye out! Of course even my bad luck is good, imagine if I ripped a pack of some big money product like Sportkings and done this badly. Oh wait, Sportkings is already this crappy, nevermind. Well there you have it, my lousy pack. I gotta rip something while I wait for '08 Topps to come out.
Monday, October 29, 2007
1988 Donruss Pop-Up All Stars
I found this pack for a quarter and figured what the heck. This set is similar to the Action All-Stars and pop-ups that Donruss had been doing for a few years, but they shrunk the large sized cards to the standard 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. As always, there is a puzzle piece in the pack.
Stan Musial puzzle 43, 44, 45
Dave Winfield pop-up
38 Eric Davis
2 Dave Winfield
59 Tim Wallach
27 Kevin Seitzer
50 Ozzie Virgil
Two cards of Dave Winfield is pretty dang cool. The Pop Up cards are similar to the Batter Up cards of the 30's and the '64 Topps Standups cards except that these have a back that is folded over to help the things stand and maintain structural integrity. The cards look like boring versions of the '88 set. Eric Davis should have been one of the All-Timers, but it wasn't meant to be. Another lost superstar from the 80's. Speaking of lost, what the hell happened to Kevin Seitzer? He was one of the hottest rookies around in the mid 80's and was actually a pretty good hitter truth be told, but no one seems to know who he is anymore. I'll bet if you got 100 baseball fans in a room ans asked them all who Kevin Seitzer was you'd get a lot of blank stares and maybe a "oh yeah, that guy" or two. Even his BR Bullpen page is almost empty! Dude was an all star with 1500 hits in his career. He shoulda juiced up and hit more homers. The pack ends up with Ozzie Virgil looking sharp in a Braves uni. We traded Cy Young closer Steve Bedrosian for this guy, ouch.
Stan Musial puzzle 43, 44, 45
Dave Winfield pop-up
38 Eric Davis
2 Dave Winfield
59 Tim Wallach
27 Kevin Seitzer
50 Ozzie Virgil
Two cards of Dave Winfield is pretty dang cool. The Pop Up cards are similar to the Batter Up cards of the 30's and the '64 Topps Standups cards except that these have a back that is folded over to help the things stand and maintain structural integrity. The cards look like boring versions of the '88 set. Eric Davis should have been one of the All-Timers, but it wasn't meant to be. Another lost superstar from the 80's. Speaking of lost, what the hell happened to Kevin Seitzer? He was one of the hottest rookies around in the mid 80's and was actually a pretty good hitter truth be told, but no one seems to know who he is anymore. I'll bet if you got 100 baseball fans in a room ans asked them all who Kevin Seitzer was you'd get a lot of blank stares and maybe a "oh yeah, that guy" or two. Even his BR Bullpen page is almost empty! Dude was an all star with 1500 hits in his career. He shoulda juiced up and hit more homers. The pack ends up with Ozzie Virgil looking sharp in a Braves uni. We traded Cy Young closer Steve Bedrosian for this guy, ouch.
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