Stadium Club Pack Rip #3

Time to rip pack #3 of 1993 Stadium Club. The Pinnacles are a little bit newer and a little bit more exciting to rip, but this SC is still pretty awesome… Here we go with the third pack, first card out of the pack is:
#672 Doug Drabek Houston Astros (The 1990 Cy Young was 5th in voting in ’92 with 15-11 record and 2.77 ERA, not too shabby Doug…)
#737 Rob Natal Florida Marlins (one of several Marlins reserve catchers, nice Play at the Plate!)
#725 Jon Shave Texas Rangers
#665 Greg Maddux Atlanta Braves (Drabek was 5th behind the ’92 Cy Young winner Greg Maddux-GM was 20-11 with a 2.18 ERA for the Cubs. Is this Maddux’s first card as a Brave?)
#687 Matt Mieske Milwaukee Brewers
#619 Richie Lewis Florida Marlins (was 6-3 out of the ‘pen for the Fish in ’03)
#661 Fernando Valenzuala Baltimore Orioles (was 8-10 with 5 complete games for the O’s in ’93 after taking ’92 off)
#626 Steve Avery Atlanta Braves (would go to All Star game and win 18 games in ’93)
#639 Jimmie Key New York Yankees (fun fact: Jimmy was definitely a “key” to the Blue Jay’s stretch run)
#748 Roger Clemens Boston Red Sox MEMBERS CHOICE (these Members Choice cards are pretty neat, nice long bio on the back) #678 Otis Nixon Atlanta Braves (had 10 steals in month of May, 1992)
#644 Tony Fernandez New York Mets
#722 Kevin Young Pittsburgh Pirates
#640 Dave Martinez San Francisco Giants (would be an original Devil Ray!)
That was a pretty good pack. 14 cards, all players, no checklists or goofy stuff. What will I rip next??? Troll out.

Its On!!! Most Iconic Rookie Card of the 1980s, A Contest!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! Are you guys ready to win a really awesome rookie card from the 1980s? Okay, then relax and read on...
I had a lot of plans for this blog. It was my best friend for six months. When I woke up, I read everyone’s blogs, when I got home from school-I posted, when I got home from work-I posted. While I was at work I was writing future posts. I love writing this blog, I have a ton of really awesome folks and pulled off some amazing trades and my collection has really flourished in the time that I have been blogging. I had always planned on having a HUGE contest to celebrate achieving the Collective Troll's 50,000th hit. It always seemed like an impossible or improbable number, but here I am knocking on the door. The only problem is I am without cable, a computer, a scanner and internet access. I have decided however that this blog is important enough to me to try and persevere, to blog on. While blogging on I have passed the 49,000 mark and in theory should be hitting 50 grand in the next week or two. Assuming that I hit that mark I do want to go ahead and have a contest. The prizes won’t be as grand and abundant as I had hoped, but I can still make them pretty sweet. As is typical with my contests (does anyone remember one of my contests?) there will be some voting attached. The vote will be to select the most iconic rookie card of the 1980’s. I am going to start the voting now and it will continue up till 50K and on up to 51,000.
That should leave the contest up for about a month and should allow plenty of people to have the chance to vote. The normal rule that you must follow the blog to enter will apply. You must vote for a card to be eligible, but that is it. No other hoops to jump through. After hit number 51,000 I will close the contest, all of the entrants will be randomized (only 1 entry per blogger) and a winner will be selected. The winner will receive the card that is voted as most iconic rookie card of the 80’s. I picked the 80’s for a couple of reasons-1. It is a hell of a lot cheaper to furnish the prize-I don’t wanna buy a Mike Schmidt (70s) or Steve Carlton (60s) rookie to give it away. 2. I started really collecting in the 80’s and I think most bloggers did as well. 3. The hobby really took off in the 80’s-there were negative side effects like overproduction and crappy product, but the hobby grew to a crazy, almost mainstream level in the 80s. Okay, now who wants to vote for the most iconic rookie card of the 80’s? You need to choose the year, the brand and the player, that’s it. Some year by year suggestions include: 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson. 1981 Fleer Harold Baines, 1982 Topps Cal Ripken, 1983 Fleer Tony Gwynn, 1983 Topps Wade Boggs, 1984 Donruss Joe Carter, 1984 Topps Don Mattingly, 1985 Topps Mark McGwire, 1984 Topps Traded Dwight Gooden, 1985 Donruss Roger Clemens, 1986 Topps Traded Barry Bonds, 1987 Fleer Update Fred McGriff and of course the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. You don’t have to choose from these suggestions, pick whatever you feel is the most iconic rookie. Whichever card wins will be the prize. That is guaranteed. If over 100 people vote I will add a second and maybe even a third prize, but either way someone is going to win a really sweet rookie card. You don’t get an extra entry for advertising this contest, but if it helps get more entrants than it would be appreciated. What are ya waiting for? VOTE GOSH DARNIT!!!