*sits down on this chilly 5 degree morning with a steaming hot cup of coffee. breakfast has already been eaten so it's time for some cards and coffee*
Posting on this blog is a little different than any other blog I have posted on. I can't post just anything that I normally would. This blog has specifics which makes it a little tough when I get mail days and the thank yous make it to Twitter instead of here.
I can't explain my reasoning on this, it's just the way it is and it has worked on here. It just forces me to have difficulty in posting stuff I sometimes want to.
I am a few mail days behind posting on here and some on Twitter as well. I also have a stack of ideas I want to post, but they don't fit the theme of this blog. I will have to sort that all out at some point so don't take offense if your mail day to me doesn't make the blog. It doesn't mean I didn't appreciate the mail day or that it meant any less, it just means I am a college with twenty superstar applications that I have to narrow down to only seven openings.
For today, I am posting one of those seven that made it in. This mail day has been sitting in drafts for awhile despite showing off the new picture taking background that will overtake the blog soon.
*takes a sip before showing off the cards*
In one of my last trades with blog reader Oren, he discovered a subset that I wanted the set and never knew I wanted.
I don't collect a lot of hockey cards, but those that I do have got to have nostalgia tied in. The 1991-1992 Pro Set Platinum set included some non hockey players in its large base set. 1991-92 was the NHL’s 75th Anniversary, and every team appointed a Celebrity Captain for that season. Pro Set Platinum made cards for 12 of those captains and some you can consider "rookie cards" of.
Some of the chosen captains, I have no idea who they are but others bring me back to a happy place.
Let's take a look. First, some I don't know so well.
Rick Hansen and Burton Cummings
And now onto the ones, I do.
Mr. Rogers. Who didn't watch his PBS program??? I have so many memories of it though I was creeped out by a couple of the puppets. One of those is Lady Elaine Farichilde....now I am spooked and almost spilled my coffee.
Karate Kid!
According to Jim...he had a TV show.
Jim Kelly...he showed the Sabres how to win...except the big game.
Larry King...a voice you heard somewhere in your lifetime.
Marv Albert, the sports voice of my childhood with the NBA and especially my NY Knicks.
Here is the overall look at the checklist for this subset with names and the numbers they represent in the set,
289 Terry O'Reilly - 290 Burton Cummings
- 291 Marv Albert
- 292 Larry King
- 293 Jim Kelly
- 294 David Wheaton
- 295 Ralph Macchio
- 296 Rick Hansen
- 297 Fred Rogers
- 298 Gaetan Boucher
- 299 Susan Saint James
- 300 James Belushi
Thanks again to Oren for the walk down memory lane and another great trade.
*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*
I hope to catch up on the other mail days soon both here and on Twitter. I need to also update my wants list since some of these cards were on my old list I pulled down a couple months ago and I have also gotten a few others as well to take down.
Thoughts on my latest mail day is welcomed in comments. Thoughts on the celebrities and if Upper Deck was to do one of these sets today in their product who you would want to see.
*Coffee Card Blogger Out*
