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.
ReplyDeleteNot bad pulls at all. Just hopefully he can come back to the court
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