Wave 2.2 - Winter Sports

The Third Wave arrived today - my first order from Baseball Card Store in Canada. I'd been hoping for a CardBarrel type website that sells cards for all sports - and this could be it. 

But before I dive into that shipment there's plenty left from the Second Wave - my 400+ card trade with TCDB user Randylaw. This post will focus on winter sports because it frickin' snowed last weekend. (It's 83F in Jersey today.)

Ladies first:

I've really been slacking on adding to my Women on Cards binder. This is my first Lindsey Vonn card.

Erin Hamlin was selected as the flag bearer for the U.S. delegation at the 2018 Winter games - which prompted speed skater Shani Davis to have a Twitter temper tantrum. 

A pair of fantastic figure skaters. Gracie Gold has struggled with an eating disorder in recent years but she's making a comeback and doing well on and off the ice.

As for that other ice sport..

It's getting tough to find Devils cards I don't have from 1990 to about 2008. I actually had the Sean Burke already. Oh well.

I have no plans to build the 1989-90 O-Pee-Chee (or Topps) set but I don't mind picking up HOFers like Yzerman and near-HOFers like Nicholls and Barrasso. The airbrushed Randy Cunneyworth is pretty weak though. 

Oh Ca-na-da! Darin Madeley counts as a New Haven Senator. Guy Carbonneau is a Hall of Famer; Theo Fleury is not. (It pays to be Montreal's captain.)

More from the junk wax era - though Bowman doesn't count as "junk". My LCS overpriced these singles back in the day so I had very few at the time. Nothing but HOFers and borderline HOFers here. On that note:

SPx and SPa including a pair of P.K. I'm not much of a Jonathan Quick fan but he is a CT guy, born and raised in Milford (the town next to mine and home to the card shows I attend when I visit my mom.) Is Marc-Andre Fleury a Hall of Famer? I kind of think he is, but goalies are tough to judge. Curtis Joseph and Tom Barrasso are still waiting for the call..

..and so is Mike Richter, though his career was cut short by injury. I really miss Topps hockey cards; it's a little surprising to me that I didn't collect more Heritage hockey.

This trade reminded me of just how great those sets were. (I also miss the Thrashers.)

Basketball isn't considered a winter sport - but the NBA season is played in winter so I'll count it for this post.

I still have dozens of duplicates from my 1992-93 Fleer Ultra box, and I was able to swap a bunch of them to Randy for some 1993-94 needs. This stack of 40 singles brings my set build to about 85% completion. 

1991-92 Skybox was one of my favorites as a kid. The vibrant colors were a huge improvement over the initial Skybox set. I have no plans to build the set but it's easy to add these singles to any trade.

Some popular '90s Nets.. and Tate George, the first UConn star of the Jim Calhoun era. Aguirre and Potapenko were substitutes for the 16 cards Randy didn't have. 

Chrome cards are another thing I look for in dime boxes and trades. 

Season Ticket stars. I always overcompensate when I'm short on a star player such as Nikola Jokic. I'll have to re-calibrate and see what other stars I'm missing. (As soon as I'm done with scanning the new cards coming in I'll explore this further.)


I'm not sure how I'll scan and discuss the rest of the cards I received in this trade with Randylaw. Perhaps I'll complete the trilogy with a baseball and football post, or perhaps I'll mix them in with cards from the Third Wave. Either way, I'm getting closer to my goal of 100,000.


Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!



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