Wrappers Of Collecting Past:1997 Fleer Football Retail Pack

As I move along with new posts this May and now marking these 26 straight days with a post, most were pre-written drafts and just needed to be published, I wanted to re-visit some of my past segments and give them one last goodbye on this blog.

The goal this month was not only to put up some new posts to test how this blog can fair still, but it was to also bring back some memories and also maybe give me some motivation and ideas to write on Cards Over Coffee which will/has become my main blog now.

I also really want to hit 3 million views before the month ends so I was hoping using up some old pre-written drafts from all three blogs it would get me there.

So, another segment I wanted to say goodbye to was one I really had to dig back because hasn't been posted in almost 7 years. Most of you will not remember this one.

Here is Wrappers Of Collecting Past.

 

This segment basically showed off what wrappers looked like from my past. This one is 1997 Fleer football retail which I ripped plenty of in multiple sports in those days.

The cards were the ones without gloss but had amazing photos. Picture a rough feeling Stadium Club card.

I do like the design on the wrapper as well, very attention grabbing.

What do you think of this segment? Remember it? Let me know in comments!

90's Card Of The Week:1997 Fleer Game Breakers Drew Bledsoe

Caption This Card!

For those of you that are new to this, just Caption This Card (keep it clean for my younger readers) in comments.

Have fun!

Caption This Card!

It's May and I promised some new posts on Sport Card Collectors, so here we go.

My first one will be the return of Caption This Card!

For those of you that are new to this, just Caption This Card (keep it clean for my younger readers) in comments.

Rodney's Cardboard:1997 Stadium Club Yellow Printing Plate

  Well, now that I am past all of the hard to talk about Rodney Printing plates, I am moving onto two weeks of ones I can have a small discussion about.

Today's printing plate is actually recognized as one. This is from the 1997 Stadium Club set and features Rodney shoving Ray Lewis to the ground. I guarantee this is not something you saw very often when Lewis was on the field.

 

The back of the plate lets us know which one it is. I still have three others to chase. Who knows if they will ever show up.

Thanks again to Wes for this latest add. Quite a nice surprise for the collection.

Comments are always welcomed on these latest adds!

Random Cardboard Of The Day:1997 Metal Universe Jim Harbaugh

Random Cardboard Of The Day:1997 Fleer Metal Marvel Metal Universe Marshall Faulk

Random Card Of The Day:1997 Ex2000 Wade Boggs

Random Card Of The Day:1997 Upper Deck Star Crossed Terrell Davis

Single Card Mail Day:1997 Goudey Rookie Classic Ike Hilliard

My latest trades with @ShaneSalmonson helped me add some fun Giants cards to my collection.

One of the weaker points in my Giants collection, to my surprise by the way, is the late 90's. I don't believe I was collecting the Giants at that point in my life even though I was collecting football cards and have always been a fan. I just never put two and two together.

I also believe at that point in my life my collecting focus was Ken Griffey Jr. Outside of that, cards were just cards.

Much has changed since then and I have been trying to fill in the gaps in my collection from that era and try to keep up with new cards of today.

It's not easy, but when you have friends like Shane, it helps.

My newest add is this 1997 Fleer Goudey Rookie classic die cut insert of Ike Hilliard. The Giants top pick that year.

Not too bad of a design, the card is smaller than I made it look on here. The Goudey football set was a mini set to match the vintage one.

 

There were 20 cards in this set that fell 1:3 packs. Hilliard is the 11th card in the set.

Thanks to Shane for this latest addition. I have a couple more to show off from my trade with him coming up soon.

Thoughts on the Fleer Goudey set, Hilliard or this card welcomed in comments.

Single Card Mail Day:1997 Fleer Metal Universe Marvel Kordell Stewart

As I posted on Cards Over Coffee, I am chasing this set so here is my latest add to it. This time it's Kordell Stewart of the Steelers being paired with Wolverine. I have always been a fan of Slash as well, so this was a double PC add.

Thoughts on today's card welcomed in comments!

Single Card Mail Day:1997 Fleer Metal Universe Marvel Karim Abdul-Jabbar

As I posted on Cards Over Coffee, I am chasing this set so here is my latest add to it. This time it's Karim Abdul Jabbar of the Dolphins being paired with Wolverine. Guess they can't get these comparisons all right....

Thoughts in comments on today's latest card are welcomed!

Single Card Mail Day:1997 Goudey Rookie Classic Ike Hilliard

My latest trades with @ShaneSalmonson helped me add some fun Giants cards to my collection.

One of the weaker points in my Giants collection, to my surprise by the way, is the late 90's. I don't believe I was collecting the Giants at that point in my life even though I was collecting football cards and have always been a fan. I just never put two and two together.

I also believe at that point in my life my collecting focus was Ken Griffey Jr. Outside of that, cards were just cards.

Much has changed since then and I have been trying to fill in the gaps in my collection from that era and try to keep up with new cards of today.

It's not easy, but when you have friends like Shane, it helps.

My newest add is this 1997 Fleer Goudey Rookie classic die cut insert of Ike Hilliard. The Giants top pick that year.

Not too bad of a design, the card is smaller than I made it look on here. The Goudey football set was a mini set to match the vintage one.

 

There were 20 cards in this set that fell 1:3 packs. Hilliard is the 11th card in the set.

Thanks to Shane for this latest addition. I have a couple more to show off from my trade with him coming up soon.

Thoughts on the Fleer Goudey set, Hilliard or this card welcomed in comments.

Museum Collection

The mid to late 90's will always be my favorite time in the hobby. It wasn't about hitting that RPA or landing that hot prospect, it was simply about collecting. And collecting some great looking cards.

There were a ton of parallels that any collector could fall in love within that era. Most of them don't fall one-per-pack like a lot of products from today, there were odds on these and not all were easy. Just look at Topps Chrome, it had one refractor parallel, and that refractor fell 1:12 packs or two per box. Can you imagine that today? Collectors would go nuts.

One of my favorite parallels from the 90's, I know I say that a lot, is the 1997 New Pinnacle Museum Collection. 

This parallel fell 1:9 packs and has a golden dufex touch. There was no better looking dufex parallel in the Pinnacle line than this one.

I recently picked up a group of them from Burbank Sportcards Beckett Marketplace for my 90's collection.

(East Meets West looks great)

(but not as stunning as Aura looks)

I will continue to seek these out and add what I can from any of the sports of them.

Thoughts on these are welcomed in comments.

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Burbank Pickups Of The Month Part 1:Found Some Way

My Charles Way collection continues to build and I am building my foundation through base cards I find at Burbank Sport Cards.

Here's a group I tackled first. Both red Prestige are parallels technically.

A few base, a couple red parallels and a low end inserts makes up this group.

  

And my final card, though it may look like a special parallel, is just a checklist. A checklist!! How can a card that looks this great just be a checklist. May be the greatest looking checklist card I have seen.

Well, that does it for Part 1 of my Burbank pickups. I decided to split up my Burbank mail day into three parts this month.

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Random Cardboard:1997 Score Artists Proof Carl Everett

Random Cardboard:1997 Score Heart Of The Order Bernie Williams

Random Cardboard:1997 Score Blast Master Alex Rodriguez

Random Cardboard:1997 Score Goin' Yard Ken Griffey Jr

Random Cardboard:1997 Score Hideki Irabu