Posts Tagged ‘olympics’

So, the first card show of my unofficial season was disappointing. Some of my favourite dealers were MIA and in their place were dudes with crummy cards from the past year. I was ready to go down there and spend some cash but instead only picked up a handful of things. Blah. I would have thought with Brad Park signing autographs, the show would have lots of hockey, vintage or otherwise. Oh well, I did manage to pick up a few things.

Down to only four for this set. The picture they used for Helios is terrible; could they not find something a little less pixelated? Obviously Dionysus is the bee’s knees of this lot.

Three down, three to go. I’m starting to cool on this set. It’s not like I’m crazygonuts about Virgil, Billy Shakespeare, or John Bunyon. In my opinion the only killer card is the Dostoevsky.

These four complete my set. Wait, what? Yeah, COMPLETED SET ALERT! Also, I like Drake and his snack cakes.

I bought all of these from one dealer and in his binder, he had some of last years A&G minis and the National Heroes set intrigued me. I didn’t pull the trigger on any singles, but now I am wondering if I want to build it or not. These minis are so damn addicting.

Also from that dealer was this random card…

He actually had a stack of vintage non-sports cards and this was my favourite of the bunch. I had no idea who Chiang Kai-shek was, but after reading the blurb on the back, he sounds like a HARD dude. I mean, it takes a lot to be compared to Hitler and Mussonlini; just ask G.W. Bush *eyeroll* Anyways, I really dug the colour on this card and the artwork is pretty cool in that wartime, propaganda sort of way. This was the least bloody one of the bunch and I’m sort of regretting not getting some others. Oh well.

Now, onto some of the bigger purchases of the show. These all came from a dealer I have bought from before. He usually gives me a decent deal and today was no different.

1981-82 O-Pee-Chee #106 Wayne Gretzky

A third year OPC Gretzky in great shape for $40? You betcha!

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1995 Signature Rookies Miracle on Ice #25 Mark Pavelich

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1995 Signature Rookies Miracle on Ice #44 Craig Patrick

These two put me at four to complete my version of the set. Just need Silk, Broten, Suter, and Brooks.

The best thing I picked up was also the last thing I saw and it was this…

I have been wanting this for a while and a guy had one for $14 so I scooped it up. I will crack it open tomorrow and put it on my desk at work and then have high school students wonder who the hell it is.

So that was the show. One (barely) vintage card, some Miracle autos and a bunch of A&G minis. Oh, and I picked up some tobacco sized semi-rigids. Not exactly what I was hoping for or wanting in a show, but what can you do? Overall, I give it a…

The big Shriners show is in November and I’m just going to save up all my card money for that and go bananas foster all over it.

Picked up a couple of the Signature Miracle on Ice cards on eBay the other day.

First is Eric Strobel, a bit player during the run. He put up three points in the Olmypics (1 goal, 2 assists).

Next is Bill Baker, another bit player. He only had one point, a goal, during the Olympics. According to the back of the card, it was a fairly important one as it was a last minute slapper to beat  Swedish phenom Pelle Lindbergh and gave the US a tie.

I am now down to four players (Silk, Broten, Pavelich, and Suter) and the two coaches (Patrick and Brooks) to complete my version of the set. If I want to completely finish it, I’ll need to get the second autograph version of each card. Up until today, I had zero desire to do that, but as I close in on finishing the set, part of me wants to complete it in it’s entirety.

Should I?

One can never have too many autographed cards of the 1980 US Olympic team, right?