Sports!

We've got baseball players! Football players! Basketball players! 

 

In all likelihood, this is the last blog post here at Cards on Cards that will be auto-posted to my Twitter feed. I'm gearing up, mentally at least, to leave behind the most popular and most obnoxious social media platform, even though there's a huge card collecting community over there. You can always contact me via TCDB, Bluesky, e-mail and, of course, through the blog here itself. I don't know what the future holds in terms of my participation in social media, but I'm long overdue to make some changes for the sake of my own sanity.

With that out of the way, let's check out my end of another stellar trade exchange between buckstorecards and myself.

If I was into the NFL enough to be a set collector, the 2005 Topps set would probably be at the top of my list. I remember these packs having the same promotion as the 2006 Topps baseball set, where they would insert some old "vintage" cards in each (rack?) pack. This Reuben Droughns card is from the 1st Edition version of the set, though. Those packs probably didn't have any old cards in them.

This card had me stumped, and it wasn't just because of Mr. Nunez's signature. I'd actually just never heard of him. I'm not sure what prompted Panini to get signed cards of an A-ball non-prospect pitcher into one of its premium sets, but I'm certainly not complaining. I love the obscure corners of my team collection, and I'm glad that this card made me do a quick Google search on its subject.

On the decidedly less obscure side is this Jordan Walker card from last year's Topps Heritage Minors set. The Springfield logo very much looks like it was Photoshopped. The photo was most likely from the previous season, where he was in A ball.

I can almost always count on a CFL card or two in buckstorecards mailers, and my first ever Boseko Lokombo did not disappoint. It makes me wish I followed the former Ducks players pro careers in other leagues besides the NFL a little more closely.

More CFL goodness here with a throwback to an '80s Duck who played before I went to school there.

"Rolls Royce" is a far more contemporary Duck. This is a really nice patch on his Rookie Threads Donruss Optic card. It's numbered to just 50, most likely because they included one of the more interesting parts of the jersey he might have worn at one point.

Royce is here again with another entry into the lackluster signature department.

I'm sure I've said this quite a few times over the years, but part of the reason that younger players tend to have such skimpy signatures is that there's just no real life practical use for signing things anymore -- besides silly sports cards, that is. It's rare to find someone these days with a good looking auto because, well, why would they practice that?

 

Ducks hoops was well represented as well, with a four-pack of Chris Duarte RC logo adorned cards from Panini Chronicles. The lower left one is a silver Prizm parallel.

Last but certainly not least is this trio of dudes from the Philadelphia Eagles. Pretty much all of my pro sports teams fell on rough times in the past year or two, but not the Eagles. They're soaring!