i was surprised to open a recent package and find a card from former dodger pitcher hyun-jin ryu!
in all seriousness, that card and all of these to follow came from fuji - master commenter and friend to all blogs.
here's a 2001 pacific private stock game gear jersey card of shawn green
this is the "away" version - there's also a "home" version. these cards were the bomb back when they were released. i bought a pack for $20 at twinsfest that year and found a juan gonzalez bat card in my pack. such a novelty at the time!
now we get to the baller part of the package - a couple of 2020 topps chrome ben baller cards. max muncy
and corey seager
both showing their home run strokes.
fuji has a soft spot in his collection for steve garvey, and he shared a 1984 donruss action all-star card with me
it's oversized and is one of several similar donruss releases from the 1980's.
the most unusual (but not unexpected as mark had made a comment on a previous post about sending these cards) were several 1977 topps star wars cards:
these were sent because i had noted that i didn't have any star wars cards in my tatooine collection, ironically. by definition, these are all tatooine cards in that they feature scenes from the movie that were set on that planet. i would really like to find a stormtrooper on tatooine card, since that was the reference point i shared with my brother the first time we saw the 1971 topps brooks robinson world series highlight card back around 1978 - "it looks like he is searching for droids on tatooine" i told him, and an eventual mini-collection was born.
my brother and i collected these star wars sets when they were first released. looking at them now, i think it's odd that c3po is called see-threepio and r2d2 is artoo-detoo. i get "threepio" as a nickname of sorts. back then, i think this matched the action figure packaging so it wasn't weird to us.
thanks fuji! always appreciate your comments and cards!
I have to admit, those Ben Baller cards are a little bit nicer than the regular 2020 Topps Chrome edition. The relics and oversized Garvey are really nice, too.
ReplyDeletei personally am not sure about the ben baller version, but i do like the relics and the garvey!
DeleteThat was a very nice, thoughtful package from Mark. Those cards rock!
ReplyDeletenever a dull package from mark!
DeleteWish I had saved those Star Wars cards from when I was a kid, saved the Baseball but not the non-sports cards
ReplyDeletei have no idea what my brother did with our/his star wars cards. probably sold at a garage sale for cheap.
Delete1977 Topps Star Wars were the first packs of cards I remember opening. I remember begging my mom to buy me packs and storing them in rubber bands... sorted by color. Good times.
ReplyDeletei was using rubber bands as late as 1982 before my dad heard someone at a card show talk about how that was a bad idea.
DeleteI collected both the blue and red border Star Wars cards when I was a kid, almost had a whole set of the blues. Don't know what I did with them.
ReplyDeletein 1978 i gave/sold/traded all of my star wars cards to my brother as i was concentrating on baseball and football that year.
DeleteWere those packs normally $20 apiece? Or were they inflated some because of where you were purchasing them?
ReplyDeletei am guessing there was a markup? i know i paid $19.99 in a card shop for a pack of '99 fleer greats of the game (guaranteed autograph) so maybe $20 was the standard rate. i only bought the one pack after finding the juan-gone relic.
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