Super Estrellas - Fin

At last, we've reached the end of the 2002 Donruss Super Estrellas box. Again, I apologize for the lousy scans of the insert cards. Shiny metallic stuff just seems to translate poorly in the scanner. Here are the final 8 packs of the box.

Pack 17:

58 - Jorge Posada

37 - Jeff Bagwell

15 - Pedro Martinez

77 - Andres Galarraga (El "Gran Gato")

7 - Randy Johnson

CP-15 - Rafael Palmeiro Poder de Cuadrangular

- Derek Jeter Poster

Pack 18:

46 - Ben Sheets (I'm never going to get used to him pitching for Oakland.)

51 - Vladimir Guerrero

40 - Mike Sweeney

24 - Barry Larkin

71 - Scott Rolen

ES4 - Sammy Sosa Estrellas

- Chipper Jones Poster

Pack 19:

57 - Jason Giambi

91 - Matt Morris (First Cardinal of the post!)

83 - Freddy Garcia

28 - C.C. Sabathia (Lots of current stars are hanging around this eight year old set.)

126 - Ryan Ludwick Novato (SP) (Nice.)

- Vicente Padilla Nación de Origen

- Barry Bonds Poster (No me gusta.)

Pack 20:

47 - Richie Sexson

42 - Gary Sheffield

19 - Kerry Wood

80 - Jeff Kent

145 - Franklyn German Novato (SP)

- Sammy Sosa Nación de Origen

- Mike Piazza Poster

Pack 21:

20 - Moises Alou

60 - Mike Mussina

44 - Kevin Brown

25 - Juan Encarnacion

55 - Bernie Williams

CP-11 - Shawn Green Poder de Cuadrangular

- Frank Thomas Poster

Pack 22:

3 - Troy Glaus

14 - Nomar Garciaparra

78 - Barry Bonds

9 - Chipper Jones

74 - Phil Nevin (He hit 41 HRs in 2001. Remember him?)

CP-4 - Todd Helton Poder de Cuadrangular

- Roger Clemens Poster (Would anyone want to put this on their wall?)

Pack 23:

49 - Javier Vazquez

68 - Tim Hudson

56 - Derek Jeter

89 - J.D. Drew

147 - John Buck Novato (SP)

- Livan Hernandez Nación de Origen

- Tony Gwynn Poster

Pack 24:

33 - Todd Helton

92 - Greg Vaughn (Devil Rays are scarce in this box.)

75 - Rickey Henderson

72 - Brian Giles

96 - Juan Gonzalez

- Eric Chavez Nación de Origen

- Ivan Rodriguez Poster

So there we have it. If you are interested in any of these cards, please drop me a line. I already have a number of these earmarked for people I trade with, but I should have some extras as well.

Super Estrellas - Numero Dos

It's on to part two of the 2002 Donruss Super Estrellas box. It's been a busy day around Cards on Cards central, with the final day of regular season NBA games concluding as well as my regular Cardinals game watching.

Pack 9:

4 - Curt Schilling

30 - Omar Vizquel

86 - John Olerud

53 - Roberto Alomar

148 - Jeff Deardorff Novato (SP) (This guy who I've never heard of has an unfortunately spelled last name.)

- Roberto Alomar Nación de Origen

- Nomar Garciaparra Poster

Pack 10:

93 - Alex Rodriguez

59 - Mariano Rivera (Closer cards are not always the easiest to find, but they usually make an exception for Mariano Rivera.)

67 - Miguel Tejada

90 - Jim Edmonds (Here's one for the binder.)

10 - Greg Maddux

- Vinny Castilla Nación de Origen

- Albert Pujols Poster (Awesome!)

Pack 11:

45 - Shawn Green

38 - Lance Berkman (Not even a healthy Lance Berkman could save the Astros season at this point.)

43 - Hideo Nomo

76 - Ryan Klesko

54 - Alfonso Soriano (I try to forget that Soriano was ever a Yankee.)

ES5 - Nomar Garciaparra Estrellas

- Robert Alomar Poster

Pack 12:

39 - Carlos Beltran

30 - Omar Vizquel (Doubles are starting to pile up...)

86 - John Olerud

10 - Greg Maddux

120 - Bill Hall (SP) (What happened to Bill Hall's career?)

- Ismael Valdes Nación de Origen

- Greg Maddux Poster

Pack 13:

63 - Barry Zito

62 - Roger Clemens

70 - Pat Burrell

26 - Ken Griffey Jr. (Down with the vest look!)

88 - Bud Smith

- Ivan Rodriguez Nación de Origen

- Jeff Bagwell Poster

Pack 14:

94 - Chan Ho Park

22 - Magglio Ordonez

4 - Curt Schilling (Does anyone want some Curt Schilling cards? Seriously, e-mail me your mailing address right now and I will send them all to you. Bleh.)

76 - Ryan Klesko

54 - Alfonso Soriano

CP-9 - Jim Thome Poder de Cuadrangular (Here's an example of another one of the insert sets. I believe it's supposed to mean "Power of the Homer")

- Pedro Martinez Poster

Pack 15:

21 - Frank Thomas

34 - Bobby Higginson

41 - Adrian Beltre (I took a chance on Beltre this year with one of my fantasy teams. I hope it works out.)

69 - Bobby Abreu (I've got Abreu, too.)

73 - Jason Kendall (In my mind I always say "Jason Ken Doll". It must be his boyish good looks.)

- Vladimir Guerrero Nación de Origen

- Sammy Sosa Poster

Pack 16:

38 - Lance Berkman (Double.)

43 - Hideo Nomo (Double.)

70 - Pat Burrell (Double.)

26 - Ken Griffey Jr. (Double.)

88 - Bud Smith (Cardinal double.)

- Orlando Hernandez Nación de Origen

- Randy Johnson Poster (I figured I may as well end it with a poster of a future Hall of Famer.)

That's it, that's all. Part Three should be up sometime in the next few days, time permitting.

Super Estrellas - Numero Uno

Say what you may about the good people at Cards One, whose slogan is "Renewing the Trading Card Industry", but I actually can appreciate a company who can auction off a crazy oddball box from less than 10 years ago and only get about $4 of my money (plus shipping.) They actually have some reasonable prices for some of the junk that they're peddling, so you might want to check them out. (Once again, you may want to avoid the repack stuff.)

Here are the contents of the first 8 packs of a box of 2002 Donruss Super Estrellas. I had originally intended to only break up this box into two posts, but this post got image-heavy very quickly.

Pack 1:

12 - Tom Glavine (The base cards have a pretty simple design that, at least with the blue bordered cards, is pretty reminiscent of 1986 Donruss only with the modern bells and whistles like UV coating.)

50 - Jose Vidro

82 - Edgar Martinez

18 - Sammy Sosa

97 - Rafael Palmeiro

PL-3 - Randy Johnson Precision de Lanzamiento (Each pack seems to contain two inserts in addition to five base cards. There are several different inserts card sets to choose from, all of which have a dark metallic finish that makes everything look very dark when scanned.)

- Vladimir Guerrero Poster (The other insert in each pack is a poster that is folded into quarters and is printed on something you might find as an insert in a magazine rather than card stock.)

Pack 2:

1 - Darin Erstad

64 - Eric Chavez (Here's an example of the back of the base cards. These are fairly standard looking, with no player photo and a paragraph of text in Spanish.)

32 - Mike Hampton

16 - Trot Nixon

52 - Mike Piazza

PL-5 - Curt Schilling Precision de Lanzamiento (Schilling can't stop talking, so I'm guessing he'll fit in perfect with ESPN's baseball crew.)

- Ken Griffey Jr. Poster

Pack 3:

61 - Orlando Hernandez

17 - Fred McGriff (I always liked McGriff, but seeing him on the Cubs made me like him a lot less.)

99 - Raul Mondesi

98 - Carlos Delgado

119 - Mark Prior Novato (According to Beckett, each card numbered over 100 is a short printed card which fall at 1:4 packs. Novato means Rookie, of course.)

- Bernie Williams Nación de Origen (Here's an example of one of the other inserts. I couldn't find a number on these cards or the posters.)

- Jason Giambi Poster (The backs of the posters either have a complete checklist for the set or a sheet explaining what this set is all about, like this one.)

Pack 4:

11 - Javy Lopez

79 - Tsuyoshi Shinjo

85 - Kazuhiro Sasaki

29 - Jim Thome

87 - Albert Pujols (Here's a good looking early card of the guy who does not want to be known as El Hombre, with good reason.)

- Edgar Renteria Nación de Origen (Back to back Cardinals!)

- Alex Rodriguez Poster (Here's the checklist version of the back of the poster.)

Pack 5:

48 - Brad Radke

35 - Charles Johnson (I have a ton of Marlins cards and no one to trade them with.)

13 - Manny Ramirez

100 - Shannon Stewart

8 - Andruw Jones

ES3 - Vladimir Guerrero Estrellas (Here's yet another insert example.)

- Carlos Delgado Poster

Pack 6:

84 - Ichiro Suzuki (Here's my requisite Ichiro card.)

23 - Adam Dunn

66 - Mark Mulder (There's nothing to do but sigh when you hear his name.)

27 - Sean Casey

53 - Roberto Alomar

ES2 - Ivan Rodriguez Estrellas

- Manny Ramirez Poster

Pack 7:

22 - Magglio Ordonez

39 - Carlos Beltran

65 - Jermaine Dye

27 - Sean Casey

87 - Albert Pujols (A couple of doubles here already, but I don't mind the Pujols double so much.)

PL-4 - Roger Clemens Precision de Lanzamiento

- Juan Gonzalez Poster

Pack 8:

36 - Craig Biggio

2 - Tim Salmon

5 - Luis Gonzalez

6 - Mark Grace

81 - Bret Boone

PL-1 - Pedro Martinez Precision de Lanzamiento (Supposedly there's only 5 cards in the Precision de Lanzamiento set and I've already pulled 4 of them.)

- Cal Ripken Jr. Poster

All of this stuff is up for grabs aside from the Cardinals stuff and anything I may have mentally promised to someone I trade with. I'll aim for getting the next post about this stuff up in the next few days if not sooner.