2018 Sportlots purchases: running it back a couple more times

I didn't plan on posting cards of four running backs over three consecutive posts--that's just how they worked out this time.  In what amounts to my penultimate write-up of this latest series we'll look at two more Michigan RBRBs--record-breaking running backs!

As of this post, former Heisman runner-up Chris Perry ranks 7th in career rushing yards and tied for 6th in running TDs.  For whatever reason my options didn't abound this time, but five new cards is still a decent number, especially when two of those were fun college issues.  A SAGE HIT base from his rookie year of '04 is joined by Press Pass' always fun Big Numbers (in this case the Collectors Series version) produced the same year.  The die-cut versions of the latter are especially cool and I continue to add them as I see them.

Base cards from 2005 and '06 Score and Topps' 2005 Chrome Draft comprise the rest of the quintet.  While that year's Draft product didn't excite me as much as the previous two versions I was still glad to score something from a product I admired, and a Chrome version at that.

Chris' PC moves up to 114 cards and counting, with a fun little addition from COMC soon to be posted here.

The A-Train put up even loftier numbers than his eventual successor in the backfield.  Thomas left Ann Arbor in 2000 atop the record books in career rushing yards, though he'd eventually be topped by Mike Hart and Denard Robinson.  He also holds a strong grip on second in career rushing scores at 55, second only to all-time great Willie Heston from the turn of the 20th century and "three yards and a cloud of FORWARD PASSES AREN'T ALLOWED" in the rulebook (a crazy 72 TDs).

In a fun twist Thomas also managed to one-up Perry on the score sheet here with six new cards, though none of the Michigan uni variety.  Donruss Elite base issues from 2002 and '03 bookend a trio from the former year filled with variety:  Pacific's Exclusive (seen elsewhere in this series), SP Legendary Cuts, and Ultra.  You may remember me describing that last card's design as very Stadium Club-like.  And if you thought Exclusive was typical Pacific, don't forget 2002's die-cut Atomic, a look I sure wouldn't mind seeing these days in place of the same old, same old.

That gives A-Train a new count of 147 cards with a mini milestone looming, though no immediate help is forthcoming.

Might I actually go according to plan and finish up by the end of the month?  Stay tuned here over the next few days for one last post starring the player with the biggest PC jump of the bunch.