Daniel from
It’s Like Having My Own Card Shop is holding a contest to celebrate his 9th
Blogiversary. To enter is simple, post 9 cards. I chose to go with showing 9 of
my favorite rookie cards in my collection of 9 people I collect. Baseball: Ken Griffey
Jr. (You know I was going to start here) 1989 Upper
Deck #1
Jay Buhner
1988 Score Traded 95T XRC
Basketball:
Allen
Iverson 1996-97 Topps Chrome #171
Gary Payton
1990-91 Kayo #12
Sue Bird
2002 Fleer Authentix #101
Football:
Steve
Largent 1977 Topps #177
Hockey:
Mike Bossy
1978 Topps #115
MMA:
Ryan Bader
2009 Topps Round 2 #119
Other:
Baron
Manfred von Richthofen 1933 National Chicle Skybirds #23
Near the end of October I won one of Sports Card Collectors contests for 10 packs of Panini’s NFL
Player of the Day. I just received the packs, so time to rip.
The base set is made up
of 30 players plus four different parallels, the Rookies set consists of 10
players plus the same four parallels and there are 50 memorabilia cards. There
are also autographs but they are only available as grand prizes in shops, a
national sweepstake and through Panini’s Twitter contests.
I’ll start with my
Seahawks pull of Russell Wilson, who was the POD for the Week 10 2016 win over
the Patriots.
For the Cardinals, I
pulled David Johnson (POD Week 7 of 2016) as well as the player who replaced
him when Johnson went down with an injury earlier this season, Adrian Peterson
(Intro to Saints).
The Rookies backs have
their highlights from college since they don't have a NFL POD 2016 game.
I would like to thank
SCC and Panini for the packs.
All of the prize winner’s
envelopes have been sent out with the shipping of
JediJeff’s Door #3 prize this morning. I just got the address for the last prize so I will be shipping that off shortly.
I am not going to ruin
Jeff’s surprise but here are two of the Door #3 prizes:
Tom/The Angels In Order has selected the 1993 Ted Williams Buck Leonard autograph with the 1st pick Captain Canuck has selected the Dave Prowse Darth Vader autograph with the 2nd pick. Brett Alan has selected the 2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Monte Irvin autograph with the 3rd pick. JediJeff has selected the Door #3 gambler prize with the 4th pick. Matt has selected the 1982 Fleer Cal Ripken Jr rookie card with the 5th pick. I do not have Richard Nebe Jr.'s email address to let him know that he is getting the 2009-10 Panini National Treasure Mikan printing plate. If anyone has his email address or if Richard sees this, please contact me using the email address in the right column.
The way that this draft will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool, winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five and six will continue the process.
Now on to the winners:
First pick winner:
The Angels In Order
Second pick winner:
Captain Canuck
Third pick winner:
Brett Alan
Fourth pick winner:
JediJeff
Fifth pick winner:
Matt from Diamond Jesters
Sixth pick winner:
Richard Nebe Jr.
The remaining prize:
2009-10 Panini National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate
EDIT- Tom/The Angels In Order has selected the 1993 Ted Williams Buck Leonard autograph with the 1st pick Captain Canuck has selected the Dave Prowse Darth Vader autograph with the 2nd pick. I don't have Brett Alan's email address to contact him for the #3 pick, if anyone has it or if Brett sees this please send me an email using the link in the right column.
The prize winners have
been selected and now is time for the draft. I have decided to include a total
of 6 prizes, the first 4 I have already posted but I am adding a 2009-10 Panini
National Treasures George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate and a “Door #3” prize,
which is unknown.
The way that this draft
will work is after I post the winners and the prizes the winners will be able
to select which prize they would like. So, the first winner will select their
prize, the second winner will select their prize from the remaining pool,
winner three will select their prize from the remaining pools, winner four, five
and six will continue the process.
Now on to the winners:
First pick winner:
The Angels In Order (Sorry, I accidently called you Angels in the Outfield in the video)
Second pick winner:
Captain Canuck
Third pick winner:
Brett Alan
Fourth pick winner:
JediJeff
Fifth pick winner:
Matt from Diamond
Jesters
Sixth pick winner:
Richard Nebe Jr.
The four remaining prizes:
1982 Fleer Cal Ripken
Jr. rookie card
2004 Topps All-Time Fan
Favorite Monte Irvin
2009-10 Panini National Treasures
George Mikan Cyan Printing Plate
Door #3 prize- This
prize is unknown but will include at least 2 cards, may be autographs, relics,
vintage, rookie cards, non-sports or other. The cards will be collectible (so
no base cards, dupes or a dump of junk wax), but other than that you will have to be
a gambler to find out.
I will reach out to each
of the winners to let them know that they have won and we will then begin the
draft. Once all winners have made their selection and I have gotten their
address I will mail out the card in bubble mailers over the next week,
Thank you all for joining my 2,000-post contest. There
are 33 people who joined and I tonight I will be running the list through
random.org and I will post the winners tomorrow.
The process will be the top sport on the first
randomizer will select what they want from the prize pool, the first person on
the second randomizer will select what they want from the remaining prizes and
so on until all the prizes have been selected.
My #2000 post contest
ends tonight at 11:59 pm PST. If you have not posted that you are interested in
taking part of the contest you can go to the original poste <HERE> and
say you are interested in the comments section.
EDIT- 5:00 PM PST
We just hit 31 people signing up for the contest so here is another prize. If we get to 40 people signing up I will add another prize.
This David Prowse Darth Vader autograph is now part of the prize pool along with the 3 prizes I originally posted.
It has taken 8 years, 3
months and 12 days but today is my 2,000th post on Pack War.
My first post was on
June 6, 2009 and I started with a simple post about some ideas that I had for
the blog, I honestly did not even consider the future of the blog. When I started
I had been reading a couple of blogs regularly and I liked the way that
collectors were interacting with each other and I wanted to be able to share my
story too.
I hadn’t even realized I
was this close to 2,000 posts until I was writing up a couple of Question Day
posts that I save as drafts and looked over and saw I was at 1,991 published
posts and I started wondering if I should just post #2,000 and not make a
mention about it, just add it at the end of a regular post or should I do
something special? I decided to do
something, a giveaway. Nothing big but I wanted to make it special.
Here is what you need to
do to be part of the giveaway:
1.Post
here by Sunday 9/24/17 at 11:59 pm PST
That’s it
The prizes:
1982 Fleer Cal Ripken
Jr. rookie card
1993 Ted Williams Buck
Leonard autograph
2004 Topps All-Time Fan
Favorites Monte Irvin autograph
Awarding of the prizes:
When the contest closes on
Sunday 9/24/17 at 11:59pm PST I will run the entire list through Random.org three times with
the #1 person on each randomization winning a prize.
The person in the #1
position on the first randomization gets first choice
The person in the #1
position on the second randomization gets the second choice
The person in the #1
position on the third randomization gets the remaining card
Additional:
If it reaches 50 people
joining I will add at least 2 additional prizes in which case I will follow the
same rules with the awarding of the prizes but with two additional
randomizations with the person in the #1 position on each of those
randomizations being the winner of a prize.
I close with thanking everyone who has visited Pack War and read my posts. I really do appreciate it.
I joined in on two Big Fun Game recently with Gavin’s being last month. I just got the cards and he included some additional cards in to
the package. The big hit was the 2005 Topps Retired JR Richards autograph,
Topps did such an amazing job with these Retired Autograph sets. The selection
also included two of Gavin’s customs; a Day/Boggs card from Always Sunny In
Philadelphia and the second is the Giancarlo Stanton box bottom cut card.
Like Wes, Gavin is a generous person and his customs are
just the bomb. In addition to a couple of Mariners cards for my collection he
included four custom cards that are very welcome. The first is AJ Lee, and even
though she is retired she is still one of the most popular wrestlers with
collectors. Her autograph is one of my gray whales but they are still demanding
a premium because they are still pretty rare when you compare them to some of
the autographs from current popular female wrestlers like Bayley and Sasha
Banks.
I was torn which custom to show next but I decided to go
with the Simpsons tobacco cards next. The cards are tobacco era sized but the
Montgomery Burns card has been aged nicely and has a very original feel to it,
I love it. Last year Gavin did a collection of Homer at the Bat cards that I
just loved, he actually sent me a glow in the dark Griffey magnet card, which
is on display with my Griffey cards, so these two a wonderful addition. If you
haven’t been able to tell I enjoy the Simpsons and the Homer at the Bat episode
is one of my all-time favorite.
The final custom is this Ken Griffey Jr piece of art, really
the best way to describe it. The card is set up like a picture or painting and
when you flip it over it looks like the back of a picture frame. It is the
details like this that makes a cool custom become a freaking awesome custom.
Thank you, Gavin, I had fun with the game and you really
produce some magnificent cards.
I took part in three blogger contests recently with Wes’ World Cup of Trading being one of them. He contacted me in May asking if I
could do two sketches for him and when I sent them he let me know I can select
some of the cards he had up for trade.
The three cards I selected were
2013 Leaf Metal Draft Tyrann Mathieu
A Mathieu autograph has been one of my gray whales for a
while so I was very happy to see this available.
2013 Topps Pro Debut Louie the Lumberking
Louie here is the mascot of the Mariners’ Class A team Clinton
LumberKings
2013-14 In The Game Mike Bossy relic
I was born on Long Island and as a kid I remember going to
Islander games with my dad and brothers at Nassau Coliseum and Mike Bossy was
the man. While this was up for trade on Wes’s blog I didn’t even notice that
this is a Vault #1/1. These cards are similar to Topps’ Vault cards, they were
kept in storage and re-released in products later. I have some SportKings Vault
cards but this is my first Vault #1/1.
Being the generous man that he is, Wes allowed people to
pick additional cards when the contest was ending. I asked for the Adam Jones 1st
homerun medallion. Over the years it has hurt seeing the Mariners trade off
some young players who ended up being successful elsewhere but Jones is
probably one of the more painful recent loses.
I also asked about the Topps Strata Clear Cut autographs,
which Wes included them all. I am considering using these as donor cards in one
of my “So you don’t have to” segments.
Knowing I am a Griffey collector he included a nice stack of
The Kid. There were 20 Griffey cards that I needed for my collection and that
was greatly appreciated.
Last month John from Johnny’s Trading Spot held a Big Fun
Game contest and I was slotted #17 out of 21 picks. I ended up stealing a
Highland Mint Rick Mirer Mint Card from Oscar of All Trade Bait, All The Time. Up
until I had seen the Mirer card selected at the #10 spot I was planning on just
picking a number but when it comes to one of my favorite Seahawks QBs I had no
choice.
The card is based on Mirer’s 1993 Topps RC #285, but more
majestic, and The Highland Mint went all out on the package. The card is
enclosed in a plastic clam shell and when opened the COA is folded in a sleeve
on one side and the card is nestled in to a one-inch screw down on top of a
piece of felt.
John included a collection of Mariners from current back to
a 1983 Donruss Bryan Clark and a trading card sized Mariners felt pennant that is now hanging out with my Mariners Moose Funko Pop. The Mariners are sitting at 30-30 after a 5-game
win streak.
Currently Hernandez and Iwakuma are on the DL but that doesn’t stop
shiny cards from shining. Iwakuma will be going through a simulated game on
Sunday and well, Hernandez needs to stop hurting himself while celebrating.
I am a fan of the physical Bunt cards and inserts like this
Cruz Infinite card are the reason why. Cruz is teetering on the DL with
tightness to his calf and is missing his second game in a row.
A pair of 2017 Topps Opening Day Jean Segura (Base and
Rainbow Foil). Segura has found the perfect spot in Seattle and just signing a
contract extension last week. He had a good year with the Diamondbacks last
year but he really looks like he may top it this year.
Brett Boone was loved in Seattle and his second tenure he
was uncontested leader of the team, including the 2001 116-win team. This is a
printed autograph so I still go without a Boonie auto in my Mariners’
collection but I hope to add one before the end of the year.
I end with a 2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Jay Buhner, a card
straight from my Bone Want List.
