2/3/18 card show report: Winter sport Wolverines

My first 2018 card show was a fairly productive one as usual, as you probably saw over on TMV.  In terms of landing some new Wolverines the year started out a bit slowly, though it definitely got better as you'll see in upcoming show recaps.

Here was my small Michigan haul from February's Taylor show:

The football group comprised a nice mix of base, inserts, and a rookie.  Breaston's 2012 Certified Mirror Red (#015/250) parallel, with the former WR pictured with the Chiefs, opened up the inserts, and it's joined by another parallel, Taylor Lewan's 2014 Topps Chrome Orange Refractor from his rookie year, and a new addition to my Denard Robinson PC, a super thick issue from 2014 Panini Father's Day Rookies.

Cowboys rookie sensation Taco Charlton was a fun RC find as I don't pick those up from dime and quarter boxes too often.  Rookie #2 of the beastly DL hails from Panini's 2017 Prizm product, which is why it took me a while to realize it was a base version and not a parallel.

Last up are the base cards, and those represent three pretty well-known Wolverines.  First is QB and current coach Jim Harbaugh from his Colts days out of a 1996 Fleer one-off product called Ultra Sensations.  Then I found 2000 Leaf Limited cards of WRs Desmond Howard (#0986/5000) and Amani Toomer (#0387/3000).  That this set's base cards are numbered and home to many such RCs, including Tom Brady's, makes tracking some of these down at reasonable rates difficult, so it was fun to grab them even though they're "only" base cards.

I also scored a pair of Marty Turco inserts as I continue to build up his PC.  First is 2009-10 Upper Deck Draft Day Gems, another card noting that the two-time NCAA champ was drafted low as he was chosen before his freshman year in Ann Arbor.  The other is a 2010-11 Donruss offering called Donruss Boys of Winter, playing on the baseball version, of course.  If this one, featuring him with the Blackhawks, looks familiar to you then congratulations on remembering that I have a prime jersey version!

Stay tuned for at least three more shows' worth of posts including two from March as I continue to catch up on my 2018 pickups.