Cards On Ice

I had to pick from some real winners to represent the Historical Figures subsets.  Just as an aside to Upper Deck – ‘Historical Figures’ is a rather grandiose term for a subset that is just every single Canadian Prime Minister and American President.
I picked up Jean Chretien, George W. Bush, and Paul Martin among a [...]

Oh yeah, I love dinosaurs.
I was out shopping for a gift for a friend’s baby and came across some sleepers that had dinosaur’s on them – Sweet!  Not so sweet – they put corny names like ‘cute-a-saurus’ on said sleepers.  I didn’t buy them.  I can’t be responsible for that kid not knowing the proper [...]

O Canada is my all time favourite set.  Its got great player selection (Steven Stamkos, Drew Doughty, Jonathan Toews, Carey Price, Marc Staal among many others), and great card design.  I have the complete jersey and autograph sets for the three ‘teams’ – U18, WJHC and Women’s, and also all the dual jerseys that featured [...]

And I have a lot of scanning / sorting to do.  Details to follow.

If anyone is in the area, there is a card show tomorrow in Regina.  Here’s the details:

Sunday, April 25, 2010
10 AM – 4 PM
Eureka Fellowship Society Hall
1165 Pasqua Street
Admission:  $2 (First 25 will receive a door prize)

I will probably be heading out to see if I can knock a few cards off my want list, [...]

Here’s the picture:

And here’s the prize:

You can come up with whatever caption you please.  Please, not tooooooo dirty.  This is going to run for a week or two, I will give you guys a couple of days notice before closing it to get in any last minute entries.  The prize is courtesy of a box [...]

Why a football preview?
Because we have no idea what they are going to come out with for hockey cards, but I am guessing a low-end brand like Score in hockey will probably be fairly similar between the two sports.
This looks to be the low-end of Panini products, with an SRP of $1 per pack according [...]

When you were like 5 years old?
In front of 20 thousand people?
By a multi-millionaire?
I have no idea what Alexander Ovechkin was thinking tonight, but it wasn’t good.

Seems like a bit of a dick move to me, but to be fair – Montreal’s game day staff needs to re-examine the wisdom of having those kids stand [...]

From an email I received this morning:
Toronto, ON 4/21/2010; In The Game announces 2010 Toronto Sportcard & Memorabilia Spring Expo plans.
In The Game is pleased to announce that we will once again continue our long standing tradition of attending the Toronto Sportcard & Memorabilia Spring Expo from April 30 to May 2, 2010.
In The Game [...]