BBA:We Had It All The 1990's

Back in the 90's, we had it all in the hobby.

We had the most innovative cards. We had lots of legends and Hall Of Fame players to collect, some of which we will never see the likes of again...yes I am talking especially about you Michael Jordan. We had price guides to price our cards. We had checklists inserted in packs to help us set collectors, some of those checklists were even apart of the set. We had coaches, cheerleaders, and even refs in our sets.

We had it all.

Today's cards will have nothing on what I enjoyed then. That's why I am focusing a lot of adding cards from that era. Maybe even finish some long time sets that have been sitting around.

So, I created this Blog Bat Around to see what era of cards you liked, why, and some new additions you may have added from that era.

I have many to show and will let the cards themselves do the talking. Good luck making a case against these. Maybe some of you will even agree and I will get to see even more awesomeness from this era.

Here are my latest additions,

 

 

And I ended this with a Highlight Reel. See what I did there.

These cards I will treasure, despite the players, more than any others. I don't care about the player. It's more about the card, memory and what it means to me.

Now let me see you beat the 90's. Good luck.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

90's On The 9th:1997 Donruss Preferred Chain Reaction Terrell Davis

It's Super Bowl Sunday!

I will be there tonight to watch and watch the commercials. If it's not already obvious, I am a Chiefs fan tonight. I don't want to see the Eagles nor Saquon celebrating.

Not really caring too much about the halftime show, I don't even know a song by Kendrick Lamar, so will probably skip that and get re-loaded up on snacks.

And coffee. Speaking of which I need a refill now.

*gets up, brews a cup, puts in creamer, goes back to sit*

Speaking of Super Bowl Sunday, I chose a Super Bowl champ to showcase for today's 90's On the 9th.

Terrell Davis is a two-time Super Bowl champ and Super Bowl XXXII MVP when he rushed for 157 yards and 3 touchdowns against the previous champion Packers.

There are no odds on how hard it is to pull a Chain Reaction, but they are printed on a die-cut, plastic card stock with some foil.

 

The back of the card is numbered 3000.

The insert is called Chain Reaction because each player has a superstar teammate to place side by side with it. They connect together.

*takes a sip before closing up today's post*

I hope all of you enjoy The Big Game....maybe with some coffee. Let me know in comments who you are cheering on and thoughts on today's card.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Slump Is Over

It's the day after my birthday, of course I have leftover cake with my coffee this morning. 

*takes a sip*

*takes a bite...followed by another sip*

If my mother-in-law was a baseball player and was a hitter, you can say the last few years she has been in a "slump" when it comes to getting me a gift, whether that's for Christmas or for my birthday. She has been buying me junk wax completed sets from a place similar to Goodwill. Even though junk wax sets are my least favorite thing, I don't complain because she is trying, and she doesn't have to get me anything, but she still does. So, I just accept it, smile and say thanks.

But, just like with any hitter, you get yourself out of a slump. 

And she did just that when it came to this year's birthday present.

 

First, she handed me this cheesebox full of cards. This is from the same place she normally buys the complete sets for me. 

I was a little worried at first this was checkerblock full of 1991 Fleer and 1988 Topps, but it wasn't. It had its expected junk moments, but there were some fun surprises hidden within as well. For once, the good outweighed the bad.

Just check them out,

*but first, a sip and another bite of cake*

Now you can see the cards,

This was just a few of the fun finds. There were other baseball parallels and some holiday base cards for my set chase as well. 

Next, she picked up these two packs from Walgreens.

Sweet!! I only recognize the NPB packs. I had wanted to open some so I could try and land a Yamamoto.

Inside of each package came with one pack each of 2021 Topps NPB and a 2023 Topps Series One Pack.

The results weren't too shabby.

These were the key inserts and then came a surprise....

Vlad Jr manu-relic! I didn't expect this or anything from these packs. I thought one felt a little thicker. 

I don't know much about the Topps NPB packs other than searching for the one player.

And, I didn't pull a Yamamoto. I am not sure of any other names in this set, so if you do, let me know.

 

I did pull this gold parallel. These are dope and fall 1:12 packs. Makes me wish Topps did these for their flagship parallels.

Between the decent cheesebox and the packs, I would say this slump ended for my mother-in-law with a homerun.

Thanks Ma!

*takes a sip before closing up today's post*

Well, I still have to finish rest of the piece of my cake and my cup of coffee before it gets too cold. I still need to sort these cards all out as well.

Hope all of you have a great Wednesday.

Before I close up today's post, I also wanted to remind you of the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame voting and that it needs you guys to nominate cards in. So far, ONLY 3 cards have been nominated!!

Details on the Coffee Card Hall Of Fame can be found HERE. I may add this to every post from here on out for a reminder as I will forget about this too! Haha!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Oren's Christmas Gifts

*tummy rumbling, can't begin the typing process without some breakfast by side.*

*gets up, waits for a bagel to be toasted and buttered*

*done. sits back down to computer, breakfast and of course coffee*

*takes a sip, gets ready for post*

Anytime I get a PWE, a package or a good sized box from friend and reader of this blog Oren, I never know what he has found or will be sending. Even if we are doing a trade.

Which always makes the mystery fun.

This time Oren sent a mystery box of Christmas goodies including the 2007 Topps Santa Claus set I opened this post with.

And the Christmas cards were not done from there.

 

In the box also was the complete 1994 In The Pursuit Of Justice OJ Simpson card set that had its own Christmas card.

 

There was also a Christmas Sweater (the multi color ones are the best ones)

Then came some packages to open, stay tuned for that in a new segment. Fingers crossed on a Danny Tanner from Laffs to replace the one in my set!

A couple of cards for my non-sport PC.

Kurt Warner /99

And Terrell Davis /25 Player Of The Day parallel cards. I have never seen these before, pretty cool side collection adds.

This will always be one of my favorite Wave Of The Future designs with the liquid in the card. I didn't know they made these for baseball, maybe a new chase?

Alias Relic. First one of these in my non-sports PC.

This was pretty cool, Bill Erwin was all across TV and Movies. Including The Drew Carey show, Twilight Zone, I Love Lucy, Perry Mason and even Seinfeld to name a few. This fits perfectly in my Seinfeld PC. This marks my second autograph of a character from the show.

I don't know who Ryan Stasik is, but I may check into his music after Googling him.

Relic, not worn by comedic Genius Mel Brooks, but is a World War II relic worn by someone. I think Spaceballs is probably among one of the best parody movies out there. Though I give Robin Hood Men In Tights the slight edge. Another Brooks parody.

This is a unique addition to the collection, a Max Patkin autograph. Known as the "Clown Prince Of Baseball", he put on 4,000 appearances in his comedic career.

And this wasn't my complete mail day from Oren either. You will have to check out my NY Giants additions over at Big Blue Cardboard. If you haven't yet, go follow that blog and add it to your blogroll.

Thanks again to Oren for the unique Christmas gift.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

This is only the beginning of my Christmas mail day reveals. I have many more left to show off.

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*