Discount pack hit

A few days ago I mentioned the cool sketch card I pulled out of one random pack of Star Wars. I shouldn't have been that surprised because I have had pretty good luck in pulling nice relics and autos from this one store that I shop at. I still didn't think I could ever pull something like this.

In addition to getting the pack of Star Wars and I also got a few packs of 2008 Topps Mayo as well as a few packs of Looney Tunes Comic Ball cards.

The comic ball cards are reserved for a Pack to be Named Later. The first of my two Mayo packs produced a pretty good selection of cards.


First card out of the pack was Paul Gauguin.


I love to pull artists and other non-sports people out of cards. Some people hate them, but I think it's cool.


I pulled an Archie Manning.

An Adrian Peterson base card that I still needed.

A Mark Bradley base card that I still needed. He's a former OU wide out.

A nice mini of Steven Jackson. A running back for the Rams.

a couple of lame base cards.

and lastly a really nice white jersey relic of Archie's son:


Peyton Manning. These relic cards are nice. The other relic I pulled was also from this same box at the store. I wonder if their is one more hit left? I almost don't want to buy any more packs from the box as it would be a let down from these two packs.

The other pack yielded a nice Bradshaw base card.

And a Darren McFadden mini.

Yale back. I guess the Yale and Harvard backs weren't serial numbered in 2008 like they were in 2009.

I mainly took a chance on all these random packs because Topps Baseball wasn't in stock and I sometimes like to buy random stuff to see if they will have something cool. This is one of the best outings that I have had finding base cards and hits for my collection. I believe every one of these packs was discounted in some way. The Mayo was buy one get one free.

Thanks for reading. I hope you all will have as good as I have had recently in pulling awesome hits from your packs.

My own Private Rainbow.

I never really had any desire to do the "Rainbow Thing". I've seen some other bloggers go after a particular player or players and they would try for the different parallel borders of a player's card. Bowman seems to be the most obvious choice for this type of thing as they have so many different bordered parallels running through the set. I don't think it's necessarily a bad or weird thing to do, it just wasn't for me.

Up until now that is.

I have my own little "Rainbow" that I've been working on, but unfortunately it has hit a little snag in the form of an unscrupulous Ebay seller that refused to send me the next to last piece in my rainbow.

I had bid and won a relic from the 2008 A&G set, but she never sent it over. At least I got my refund, but I really was hoping to get that piece to my rainbow. I want to eventually get all the Allen and Ginter relic cards of David Wright from 2006-2010.

Instead of focusing on the negative and crying about what I don't have I thought it would be better to continue on with the post and show off what I have accomplished so far.

As you can tell from the scan you can see the obvious rainbow of the different color borders.
David Wright relic cards from 2009, 2007 and 2010. Not a huge difference in 06 and 07 or 08 and 09 as far as the borders go, but when I put the three relics together I noticed that....


...the jersey swatches are all a different color too. Wish I could be lucky enough to grab a swatch with stitching, but I'm still pretty excited to have at least three different color combinations on my three David Wright relic cards.


Looking at the back I was a little surprised that the 2009 card was the 2 variation (AGR-DAW2). This seems to be the most common of the relic cards on ebay and I'm wondering if the two cards have different photos on the front.

I think my favorite of the four has to be the 2007 card. It's my one and only 2007 relic card. I've been wanting to go after getting a relic or auto from the 2006 or 2007 set simply because I wanted an example of one of the white border cards.

Looking at the details in the relic windows and the way the fonts and borders are built around these relic cards makes me yearn for next years Allen and Ginter set. I'm pretty stoked about the new Topps series one hitting shelves, but I still look forward to A&G mostly.

Thanks for indulging me in showing off my relics in another Allen and Ginter post.