Last week Thursday I went to Walmart to check to see if they had any 9 pocket sleeves that I could use for my `07/`08 & `08/`09 Upper Deck Basketball sets. Unfortunately they didn't have any sleeves & with a fellow collector named Craig Rush helping me with my 2025 Topps baseball set by making it for me this year I tried to steer myself away from this years Topps cause I didn't want to crack any opened other than the 2 fat retail packs & 1 Hanger that I picked up a couple of days before my little brothers passing. So I picked up 2 blasters of the `23/`24 Hoops Winter to crack open. I was happy to pull these 2 cards out of the blasters. I at anytime can pull a big name rookie or star that normally is out of my price range to get later on right from the start is a great thing. I recall back in 2006 when I bought an `05/`06 Upper Deck Series II Hockey blaster the first pack yielded me a Victory Update of Squidney Crybaby (Sidney Crosby) RC the 2nd pack yielded me a double Alexander Ovechkin the first was the Victory Update RC but the card right after that was his Young Gun RC stay tuned to more about Alexander the Gr8 on a future post. So back to the present day I pulled the Wemby times 2 so that one less big name I need to worry about as time moves on as I make this set plus I have future trade bait if anyone else is making the set as well.
I can only hope the next time I go to a different Walmart that they have some fat packs or more blasters for me to get so I can get more cards & get closer to completing this set. Until then I am reminded of Rogers Hornsby once said about signing Autographs for little kids "Any ballplayer who doesn't sign Autographs for little kids ain't an American, he's a Communist."
Congratulations! Based on what I hear on the radio, this guy can be one of those top tier players. Hope he can stay healthy.
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