For the fourth time this year it's time for another outstanding trade package from buddy of the blog Doug, proprietor of Sports Cards From the Dollar Store! We both recently sent bubble mailers across the Detroit River and I was excited to find another Wolverine-infused package in my mailbox this past Monday. Between what you saw on TMV this evening and what I'm about to show off Doug even managed to hit all four major sports, as he does occasionally.
Here's the goods:
Starting off with a pair of basketballers we have a 2014-15 Hoops Silver parallel (#280/399) of Trey Burke along with 2017-18 Prestige base of THJ. Hoops is a lot like basketball's version of Score--a simple (occasionally boring but always solid) design that looks nice on a number of parallels.
Football was a fun variety pack that started with two new cards for my Tom Brady PC (now 215 cards strong): a 2013 Rookies & Stars base and a 2018 Classics Award Winners sticker. I'm not the type to peel these and put them anywhere (then they wouldn't be mint condition!) but I do like collecting them.
Next up is RC #2 (out of six so far) of big Mo Hurst out of Panini's 2018 Luminance. The unorthodox font reminds me just a bit of some late 90s Ultra sets. I love that this one rocks a college action photo of the 2017 season-opening win over Florida.
Last up is one more entry from 2018 Classics: a base card of future HOF DB Ty Law. Once again Panini knocked it out of the park in terms of design and--speaking as a totally unbiased collector--player selection!
This pair of football hits got me very excited, especially my very first hit of the aforementioned Hurst, also from this year's Luminance. His Rookie Ink auto is #208/249 and uses a photo a few frames before or after the one used on his rookie above. Welcome to the collection as player #214, Mo!
He was joined by a 2013 Rookies & Stars Dress For Success Prime jersey (#09/25) of blog favorite offensive weapon Denard Robinson. While the swatch is anything but "prime" (I have another one of these and the swatch is pretty much identical) the numbering and player make up for that.
The Michigan Hockey portion was a bit smaller than usual by emphasizing quality over quantity, starting with this trio. Up top are 2016-17 Parkhurst RCs of a couple recent standouts in Connor and Hyman. Connor followed up a stellar one-and-done college career with a 31/26/57 sophomore campaign for the Jets while Hyman, a bit of an offensive late-bloomer in college, improved his numbers for the second straight season in his third year, going 15/25/40 for the Leafs. I look forward to seeing both in the playoffs for years to come!
They're joined by A-A-Ron Palushaj who certainly didn't mess up in appearing on a beautiful 2011-12 Pinnacle RC that's a dufex dream.
That quality carried right on over to the hits. First is a large jersey swatch of the Swedish Chef of hockey, two-time Cup-winner Carl Hagelin from 2012-13 Limited's Jumbo Materials (#60/99). That's my ninth hit of Hagelin and a fantastic one featuring an above-average jersey piece from his original team, the Rangers.
And finally, my second favorite card of the package (that Hurst auto, tho) is my fourth hit of Wolverwing wunderkind Dylan Larkin--with 75% of those generously donated to me by Doug. Considering my collection of the young star is a paltry 13 cards I'm happy to have that many good ones, including this solid jersey swatch from 2017-18 SP Game Used. Hopefully Detroit shows some faith in him and rewards him with a long term contract this off-season because I can see Larkin paying dividends and then some!
Doug, thanks once again for all this great stuff I'm thrilled to be adding to my Michigan PCs. Since I just sent you an envelope it's back to the drawing board once more as I try to pile up some 2/14s, Alfredssons, Bills, and more!
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