After having experimented with buying a few blasters of current product this year, I figured out that buying yet more junk cards brings me more joy. And something that makes me happy in particular are Sportflics. So I bought a bunch, in a few different ways.
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Don Mattingly disc offer. |
One thing I bought was an unopened box of 1986 Sportflics.
I only had a handful of 1986 Sportflics before, and I posted them all (all 4 cards!). It turns out they were issued in two series and I bought a Series 1 box. Of the 36 packs in the unopened box, I opened 6 of them. I'll probably stop there, and keep the other 30 packs in my unopened collection. I'll be showing those cards soon.
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Don Mattingly disc offer back. |
All six of the packs I opened included a Don Mattingly Disc offer, in addition to two magic motion trivia cards and 3 baseball cards. I posted before a Dwight Gooden disc offer that I found among my things from my mom's house; that must have been from Series 2, I suppose. Piecing things together, given that I had 4 cards and one Dwight Gooden offer, I must have opened one pack of Series 2 Sportflics back in the day, and also picked up one more card somewhere.
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AL Second Basemen Tri-Stars: Tony Bernazard. |
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AL Second Baseman Tri-Stars card back. |
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I also picked up one single 1987 Sportflics card, this Tri-Stars of the AL Second Basemen.
I bought this to go with the corresponding NL Second Basemen card that I originally had. I originally had 7 of the 1987 Sportflics, so now I have 8. I'm not especially interested in Marty Barrett or Tony Bernazard (nothing against them), but I'm happy to have another Lou Whitaker card.
The other bunch of Sportflics I bought is the 1986 Decades Greats set. It's an amazing set, which I'll try to do justice to in a series of posts.
Thanks for reading!
I have one of those Mattingly disc offers in my collection solely because of the design. So very, very 1980s.
ReplyDeleteAgree, that design is totally of its time. A little like Max Headroom.
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