Six Pack Break: 1991 Upper Deck Baseball

Last month, Brian over at 30 Year-Old Cardboard posted a bunch of needs for his Darryl Strawberry player collection. He had a stack of unopened ’91 Upper Deck baseball packs and was trading away a pack per card! This post was perfect for me because I love junk wax, err.. any wax for that matter, AND I have a couple of hundred Strawberry doubles stashed away for moments like these (to trade). I’m surprised I was only able to find 2 on the list. That’s ok though because Brian also ended up claiming something from my trade bait post so in the end I came away with 6 whole packs. Here are the results:

Pack 1:
69 Dan Peltier Top Prospect
70 Greg Blosser Top Prospect
104 Felix Fermin
118 Steve Olin
217 Hubie Brooks
244 Cecil Fielder
291 Joey Cora
321 Scott Fletcher
385 Dennis Martinez
476 Jaime Navarro
483 Dave Lapping
506 Joe Orsulak
545 Bo Jackson
673 Matt Nokes
692 John Farrell
Indians Sticker

I just learned two things about Bo when I checked out his Wikipedia page. First, I didn’t know he won the Hiesman Trophy in ’85. Second I didn’t know he played semi-pro basketball before returning to baseball after his injury.

Pack 2:
46 Sandy Alomar Jr. Indians Checklist
96 Bobby Thigpen Save Master
128 Jay Buhner
194 Carney Lansford
235 Tim Wallach
267 Lenny Dykstra
268 Bill Spiers
309 Milt Thompson
397 Steve Frey
407 Bob Kipper
452 Dwight Smith
569 Juan Agosto
582 Scott Sanderson
617 1917 Revisited
697 Wayne Edwards
Pirates Sticker

This 1917 Revisited card is perfect for my retro and alternate uniforms collection. I’ve lots of cards with players wearing these but not this team shot. Let’s see how many names I can remember. I see Ivan Calderon… Ozzie Guillen I think… and Tim “Rock” Raines!

Pack 3:
50 Top Prospect CL
89 Kenny Williams
137 Brook Jacoby
185 Wally Backman
203 Lance McCullers
210 Raphael Ramirez
225 Travis Fryman
310 Bob Melvin
366 David Cone
464 Oscar Azocar
495 Bill Long
525 George Brett
526 Greg Vaughn
654 Alex Cole
674 Rafael Novoa

Some more powder blues. And yes, that is a giant piece of cat hair that he’s running from.

Pack 4:

68 Kurt Miller Top Prospect

71 Reggie Sanders Top Prospect

103 Mackey Sasser

119 Alfredo Griffin

216 Doug Jones

243 Jim Leyritz

292 Bill Wegman

322 Dan Plesac

384 Adres Thomas

477 Marquis Grissom

482 Rex Hudler

507 Dana Kiecker

544 Kirby Puckett

672 Reggie Harris

693 Tim Leary

Pirates Sticker

Did you know Reggie Sanders played with a steel plate implanted in his ankle? It prevented him from making clean pivots as an infielder in the minors before he was moved to the outfield.

Pack 5:

49 Roberto Kelly Yankees CL

90 Marty Barrett

138 Candy Maldonado

184 Jody Reed

202 Bob Garen

211 Donnie Hill

224 Dwight Gooden

311 Luis Salazar

365 Steve Avery

463 Omar Olivares

496 Mike Jackson

525 George Brett

526 Greg Vaughn

653 Trevor Wilson

673 Matt Nokes

Indians Sticker

I wanted to show this one because of a little pet peeve of mine. Can you guess what it is?

Pack 6:

64 Brook Fordyce Top Prospect

75 Len Brutcher Top Prospect

123 Cory Snyder

200 CL

213 Jack Howell

239 Lenny Harris

296 Mickey Tettleton

326 Gregg Olson

380 Kevis Gross

478 Marty Clary

481 Lee Guetterman

511 Casey Candaele

540 Randy Ready

668 John Wetteland

688 Stan Javier

Indians Sticker

I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly. How now brown cow how now brown cow…

6 packs, 3 Indians stickers, 2 Pirates stickers, and 1 pack with no sticker. Curses Upper Deck!

And that is that! If anyone noticed, this place has a new look, hope it’s ok. Plus I am officially back on the real internet, and not the mobile phone internet. It almost made me cry tears of joy. Going from blogging from a phone to a business class cable service is… nice! So things should be picking up around here.

1988 O-Pee-Chee Baseball

I bought this one just for the gum.
Sweet George Brett beauty of a card!
This made me cry a little. The gum was stuck pretty well, so there was sure to be a little bit of card stuck to my yummy Canadian gum!
Mmm. It was soo worth it.

Here’s what I got:

#1 Chris James
#19 Juan Samuel
#60 Rickey Henderson
#130 Buddy Bell
#195 Dan Quisenberry
#240 Lee Smith
#312 George Brett

What it cost me: $ .40
Beckett max worth: $1.50
Insert odds I beat: N/A
Most valuable card: #312 George Brett @ $.75