Sportlots Success Part 2 – The Ichiros

Here’s the Ichiros I picked up through Sportlots.com last week. Nothing spectacular. He’s only the second athlete I’ve chosen for a player collection after Darryl Strawberry, and I’m thinking Ichiro should be more fun because he’s a current player. Opening packs will have even more of a thrill hoping to pull an Ichiro.

This one is the Target exclusive retro logo grey-back. Are all the Target retros grey-backed or is this a parallel?

And here’s the Walmart dark version.

Grey-back means exactly that. They’re printed on the old fashioned card stock that Topps stopped using for their flagship sets after 1991.

I pulled a Roy Oswalt of one of these a while back and I really liked it. I think its the rainbow foil that gets me.

And finally, the Goodwin. There must be a nighttime version because the listing specified “day”.

Stay tuned for the third and final part of my Sportlots finds featuring Clyde “The Glide” Drexler!

Sportlots Success! Part 1

First off, can anyone tell me if these images are sized ok on this page? I’m trying to blog from my phone and I’m not sure how they really look.

Last week I finally placed my first order on Sportlots.com and I was able to complete 3 sets, 2008 Upper Deck X, 2000 Skybox Metal and 1995 Pinnacle Series 1. These 3 were just a few of the 10 or so I needed to complete the set. It took 3 half-price blasters and a handful of 99¢ packs from the supermarket. The last blaster I bought only gave me two base cards I needed, I was pissed.

A few months ago, I busted a cheap hobby box of these I found on eBay and only needed two more to finish the base set.

Oh wow. Almost two years ago, when I just got back into collecting, I was checking Craigslist daily for listings of free cards, and found this guy 15 miles away with a huge stack of 5000 count boxes to give away and I came away with 3! They were full of cards from the mid 90’s like Pinnacle, Score and Upper Deck. This was the only one missing from this set.

Soon, I’ll post the Ichiro and Drexler cards I picked up along with these.