Friday, January 29, 2016

Quarter Box Quartet - All-Time Greats

While I put the finishing touches on a trade post that I don't want to rush, today you get to experience my inability to stay focused in the form of a quarter box quartet.  As is generally the case, all of these came from the miscellaneous quarter bins at my local card shop.

Pretty timely that I randomly pulled this one from my backlog stack just a couple of weeks after Monte passed away.  I grabbed this one, and any other retired players I could find from this Topps rip-off set during a quarter box dig a long time ago now.  An excellent, classic baseball photo.

There was no way this card was not coming home with me.  For a fan of '90s cardboard, what's not to like here?  One of my all-time favorite players in an obnoxious Mighty Ducks sweater against a backdrop that looks like a bad acid trip.  Oh, and it's shiny.  I really need to get back to this card shop soon, it's been too long.

I dubbed this quartet/post "All-Time Greats", but that wasn't entirely honest as this is the one card of the four that doesn't pass that litmus test with me.  Still, I couldn't pass up a rookie card of a very good pitcher from a set that I love for a quarter.

No questioning this guy's place in the history of his sport.  Is there a hockey collector in existence that wouldn't have grabbed this card if they didn't have a copy already?  For me, the gloves are the highlight.  I really wish Panini would get a hockey license again.  Topps too for that matter.  Two hockey cards in this post, neither of them from Upper Deck.  Just sayin'.

5 comments:

Jeff Jones said...

Yeah sucks hockey and baseball are one trick ponies

Mark Hoyle said...

Love Gordies gloves.

Mark Kaz said...

Those hockey cards are both killer!!

Tony Burbs said...

Love the old Mighty Duck sweaters - as a 90's kid, that's what they're supposed to look like! I wasn't much of a hockey fan, but I always had a thing for the Ducks. Probably because of the Emilio Estevez movies and the cartoon about hockey playing, anthropomorphic ducks that Disney ran ever so briefly (am I the only one who remembers that?).

Greg Zakwin said...

holy crap that Selanne is killer! I just added it to my next COMC shipment haha....thanks for the heads-up on its existence!

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