Like many of you I got a large flat rate box from Johnny this week. A large flat rate box stuffed with over 20 cards!
Some Yankee stickers, mostly Panini. Someday I should get the old Panini books, I've accumulated quite a few of these. I had '88 and '89 when I was a kid.
Some newer Yankees, including some very festive cards.
Some minor league autographs of guys who did play in the bigs for the Yankees and were briefly under-the-radar fan favorites. (Whenever I see Jose Pirela I think of the drawn-out way John Sterling used to say his name.)
I always love shiny cards! Andujar was really good before he got hurt. The other two were major Yankee flops.
A large flat rate box with only a couple dozen cards? Surely there must have been something else in there. Yes there certainly was. One more card which was randomly inside the other thing, I don't know if that was intentional or accidental. I actually have the whole '76 Isaly set except for Nolan Ryan so this Thurman Munson is available.
As for the other big thing, that will be another big post, but here's a teaser. See you on the other side of the blizzard!
I've thought more than once about buying the Panini albums and boxes of stickers to open and stick. 1988-1990 would be the sweet spot.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff, as always.
ReplyDeleteI had fun completing an 89 panini sticker book a few years ago
ReplyDeleteBlizzard? Stay warm. I was impressed with Andujar during his stint with the A's. Hope he's able to continue to produce in San Diego.
ReplyDeleteI think in a lot of ways collecting Panini stickers from the junk wax era is way more fulfilling than collecting cards.
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