Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
Hall of Fame center Leonard “Red” Kelly is my 55th card in the 1963-64 Parkhurst hockey set. I still got a few more of these to show off over the next few days. Plus, there is a show in Chicago coming up at the end of the month–hopefully I will be able to nab a couple of these and keep my set build going.
The back of this card is just as nice as the front–just a bit off-center and the usual discoloring.
Parkhurst Percent Counter: 55%
I was at my local Target yesterday and I have been pretty good about staying away from blaster boxes. But I always look for hockey card “repacks” that contain an autographed card. I found this–something called a “Hockey Cube.” For $19.99 plus tax, you get 2 autographed cards and a bunch of other cards you probably don’t want. So, I weighed the pros and cons of buying it:
Pro:: It has 2 autographed cards. I like autographed cards
Con: It probably has tons of Pro Set.
Pro: It has a Score Rookie and Traded Set that is still sealed.
Con: I already have two Score Rookie and Traded Sets (one for TTM purposes)
Pro: I want another Jeff Skinner from that set. Plus, I might get some good Gold Parallels.
So, the Pros narrowly outweighed the Cons. Here is what was inside the Hockey Cube: Continue reading “Hockey Cube Break”
Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that Lorne “Gump” Worsley is my favorite player from the Original Six era. I was not alive during that era, and Gump retired before I was even born. But I’ve read his autobiography so many times (I actually own TWO copies of that book) that I feel like I would have been a big fan of his if I was alive and following hockey back then.
That said, I was extremely thrilled to finally get my hands on this 1963-64 Parkhurst card of Worsley. It’s got a bit of dirt on the front–nothing that would offend a rough-and-tumble goalie like the Gumper (may he rest in peace).
Parkhurst Percent Counter: 54%
It seems that whenever I buy a box of cards for $100 or more, I am left with:
Of course, I remembered none of that when I bought this box of 2011-12 SPx. I have never purchased this product before, and was itching to give something new a try.
Each box has 18 packs (4 cards per pack) –plus a “Bonus Pack”. Here is what I got: Continue reading “2011-12 SPx box break & Contest update”
Card number 19 in the set, and my 53rd step towards completion. Like the Geoffrion card I posed last week, this card of Punch Imlach is in pretty darn good shape–just a tad off center on the front, and a bit more off center on the back.
Parkhurst Percent Counter: 53%
Why is Doug Gilmour dressed as a metrosexual cowboy?
Anyone who collected hockey cards in 1992 might have asked themselves that question. Of course, this was a good decade before the term metrosexual was even coined. Continue reading “Cattle Thief & Maple Leaf”
Way back in March, I bought a bunch of 1963-64 Parkhurst cards.I posted some of them back then, but not all, as I got busy with school and then the site redesign. But now I have time to do regular updates again.
I now have a full deck of these, as Boom Boom Geoffrion is my 52nd card in my more-than-halfway complete set.
Unfortunately, I’ve picked up most of the “cheapies” from this set, so now all that remains are the stars and superstars.
Parkhurst Percent Counter: 52%
Panini is a company that I generally like, but truth be told I haven’t really cared for many of their products from this season or last season. It’s like they try really hard, but in the end they do a few things I dislike (glossy parallels in Score, making Ice Kings really hard to get, no updates for many of their sets, and so forth). So I am generally cautious when buying any of their hockey cards.
But then I saw this box of 2011-12 Panini Contenders at a local card shop. On the box it said “Three Autographs Per Box”. I haven’t opened anything in a while, i like getting autographed cards and I had a gift card burning a hole in my pocket.
The box had 18 packs, and each pack had 5 cards. Here is what I got: Continue reading “2011-12 Panini Contenders box break”
This card of Marcel Pronovost was the last ’57-58 Topps card I picked up at the Sun-Times Show back in March. It is the 20th card for my set. I still need 46 more to complete the 66-card set.
Jean Beliveau is the 51st card in my now-more-than-half-complete 1963-64 Parkhurst set. You may notice the crease going across the card–right under “Le Gros Bill’s” nose. Sure, creases suck. But the upside is that I only paid $10. For that price,
