Random pack opening: 1992 O-Pee-Chee baseball

During my last visit to a local card store, I glanced through a box of random packs they had for sale. I decided to buy a couple of packs. Here is one of them.

Classic wax pack wrapper. 10 cards, one stick of gum. Let's see whose card gets the gum.

Tom Candiotti, come on down!

The gum perfectly covers his statistics, but you can see he played for two teams in 1991.

The bottom of the card back shows Skydome, indicating the Blue Jays.

But this is O-Pee-Chee! Although it shows the Blue Jays team banner on the card, there is the "Now with Dodgers" on the front.

I tried to carefully take the gum off. The stick of gum didn't break, and the back isn't too bad.

I remember when the Blue Jays traded for Tom Candiotti to add a solid veteran to their rotation depth. He pitched well in the regular season, but I seem to have memories of him not being as successful in the playoffs.

The next card up is from the Twins.

I remember the name, but don't remember too much about the player.

I really like the stadium photos at the bottom of the cards.

The Expos provide the next card.

With the Expos having been the closest team to me in Ottawa, we used to get a lot of Expos media coverage. I remember Bret Barberie entering the league, and probably saw him play in one of the games I went to in Montreal.

Seeing the Expos uniform brings a smile to my face.

There's a sight that I'm very familiar with, but I'm disappointed we didn't get a field photograph.

Next up in the pack is a California Angels card.

I don't really remember Ron Tingley.

One complaint with this set is that the position isn't on the front of the card. Seeing on the back that he was a catcher, I wish the card showed hime wearing the tools of ignorance. I so much prefer to see catchers in their gear.

Oh, that photo of Anaheim Stadium really makes me wish I was at a ballpark, watching a game on a gorgeous day.

The Cardinals are represented with the next card to finish the first half of the pack.

I don't have any real memories of Scott Terry, other than baseball cards.

Another photo of the outside of the stadium, but at least you can see the green field inside.

Ok, Blue Jays, you're up next.

Again, being close to Toronto, we got a lot of Blue Jays coverage, and with a lot of my friends being Jays fans, I am very familiar with Manny Lee. He was on the Blue Jays first World Series team.

I remember him being a light hitting, good fielding infielder.

A horizontal Red Sox card comes up next.

I guess if you're going to do a headshot, this is a good way of doing it. A pensive look, with the Green Monster and Fenway scoreboard in the horizontal background.

I prefer action shots, but this can be nice for a change.

I mostly remember Jack Clark from the Giants and Cardinals. 

No Fenway photo. Too many years of stats.

I loved card backs like this when I was young. Make sure you fit all those years in there. I would pore over all those stats.

The seventh card in the pack brought another Dodgers card, although this one has the team banner on it.

I remember remember Jose Offerman being in the league for a fair while, but don't have any real memories of him playing. I think I remember him making at least one All-Star game.

I've been to games in a number of different stadiums, but I haven't been to Dodger Stadium yet. I really want to see a game there at some point.

The ninth card of the pack brings a Baltimore Orioles card.

Oh, cool! I like David Segui. Going from Baltimore to the Mets, and then to the Expos. I remember seeing him play in Montreal a few times.

And a photo of Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. I can't remember when Camden Yards opened, but it has to be soon after this. 

From watching football and baseball games, I really didn't like the shared stadiums for those two sports. 

As for the tenth card in my pack, there was no tenth card in my pack.

I remember this happening now and then, just as I remember getting an extra card in the odd pack.

It's a little disappointing in this case, but what can I do?

I unfolded the wrapper in case anyone wanted to see it. There are a couple of really minor holes in it,  but it is still pretty nice.

I hope you enjoyed my foray into a baseball post.

It was fun to look at some older cards, so I may do this again.

Sportlots purchase - 2007 to current

This post is continuing a selection of cards from my recent Sportlots order. This one will show cards that I purchased for my Browns collection from 2007 sets onwards. It will also finish with a couple of music cards that I also bought in my order.

The 2007 cards start with some Braylon Edwards cards.

The top left card is a Blue parallel, numbered out of 500, from the Bowman set; the top right card is a Series Black insert card, numbered out of 400, from the Donruss Elite set; the bottom card is a Scorecard parallel, numbered out of 750, from the Score set. 

Braylon Edwards is third on the list of players with the most cards in my collection. He is only five cards behind Kevin Johnson, and he has over a hundred cards more than the fourth spot in my collection.

The card on the left is a Refractor parallel from the Topps Chrome set.

The card on the right is a Copper parallel, numbered out of 2007 from the regular Topps set. For the record, Kellen Winslow is the player that is fourth on the most cards list in my Browns collection.

My purchase only had a handful of cards between 2008 and 2105. Here are two from 2008.

On the left is a Scorecard insert, numbered out of 649, from the Score set. This is the eighth that I own of twelve parallels Cribbs has for this set. I still need the Artist's Proof (out of 32), End Zone (out of 6), Gold Zone (out of 400), and Red Zone (out of 100) parallels to complete the run. There is no 1/1 to chase.

The card on the right is a NFL Icons Blue insert card, numbered out of 250, from the Upper Deck Icons set.

Now there is a bit of a time jump for the rest of the cards.

The card on the left is a Mini parallel card from the 2012 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions set. 

Charles White was a first round pick for the Browns in the 1980 NFL Draft. But that isn't why he would have been included in this set. It would be for being the 1979 Heisman Trophy winner while playing with USC. But as a Browns draft pick, I'll pick up cards like this to keep adding to my collection. (I won't collect any Rams cards of his, as they are from a different NFL team.)

The card on the right is a base 2015 Panini Rookies & Stars card of the Browns first round pick from that year's NFL Draft, Danny Shelton. 

The above cards are all from a collegiate 2015 Ohio State Buckeyes multi-sport set.

Hall of Famer Paul Warfield was the Browns first round draft pick of the 1964 NFL Draft.

Brian Hartline finished his seven year NFL career with his final season in Cleveland in 2015.

Donte Whitner played for the Browns in 2014 and 2015 before finishing his eleven year career with Washington in 2016.

If a player wasn't drafted by the Browns, I will collect college cards of players that came out in years that they played for the Browns, so these made the cut for my collection.

The top left Kareem Hunt card is a base card that I needed from the 2022 Score set. 

The top right Donovan Peoples-Jones card is a base card from the 2023 Panini Prestige set.

The bottom left Bernie Kosar card is the base card from the 2024 Topps Signature Class set. If the card looks familiar, it is because the autographed version of this card was shown in a recent post.

The bottom right Earnest Byner card is a Red parallel card from the 2025 Panini Rookies & Stars set.

There were probably about another dozen base cards in my purchase from the last few years that were from various Mosaic, Optic, and Phoenix sets that I couldn't be bothered scanning. Although I want them for my collections, I'm starting to find them boring.

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I did also purchase two music cards in my latest Sportlots order.

The first is a card out of Tuff Stuff Magazine:

Madonna's card was from a twelve card panel that included a Tyson vs Ruddock card, Bo Jackson, Darryl Strawberry, Larry Bird, Mario Lemieux, Eric Lindros, Adam Oates, Patrick Ewing, Cecil Fielder, Troy Aikman and Warren Moon. (As a sidenote, I remember watching the Tyson fight by pay-per-view at an uncle's house in Regina, Saskatchewan.)

Some pretty big names on that panel, but I'm pretty sure she was the most recognizable name of the bunch.

The second card purchased brings my 1991 Pro Set MusiCards Promos collection a little bit closer to being completed.

This card leaves me needing the Public Enemy promo card, and the error version of the Madonna promo card to finish it.

This brings to an end the posts from my recent Sportlots purchase. I'm sure I'll get the urge for another one in a few months or so but we'll see what happens then.

Sportlots purchase - cards from 2002-2006

This post is continuing a selection of cards from my recent Sportlots order. This one will show cards that I purchased from 2002-2006 sets.

The 2002 season brought hope to Browns fans. In their fourth season back in the NFL, they made the playoffs, and were winning their Wild Card game 24-7 early in the third quarter, in Pittsburgh, against the Steelers. They lost 36-33, allowing a last-minute touchdown to lose the game. It ended horribly, but gave a sense of optimism for the future. Little did anyone realize that they wouldn't make the playoffs again until the 2020 season.

Running back William Green was the Browns first round pick in the 2002 NFL Draft, out of Boston College.

The top left card is a base card from the Bowman Chrome set; the top right card is a base card from the Leaf Rookies & Stars set; the bottom card is a base card from the Topps Pristine set.

When cheering for our teams, there are often players with the same last name on the team. In the nameplate, they will generally add the first intial to differentiate them. The Browns did their best to confuse the fans in the 2002 NFL Draft.

In the 2nd round, they drafted wide receiver André Davis from Virginia Tech. Then, in the 5th round, they drafted linebacker Andra Davis from Florida.

It continues to confuse me. I meant to put the two André cards together for the scan, and then just botched it. Oops.

The top card is a base card from the Fleer Throwbacks set, while the bottom left card is a base card from the collegiate SAGE HIT set. 

As you might recognize from the earlier William Green card, the bottom right card is a base card from the Leaf Rookies & Stars set.

I'll transition the cards from 2002 into 2003 with cards from the two players that I own the most cards of, Kevin Johnson and Tim Couch.

The top left card is a base card from 2002 Bowman, and the top right card is a base card from 2002 Topps Gallery.

The bottom left card is a dark scan of a 2003 Leaf Limited base card, numbered out of 999. The bottom right card is a base card from the 2003 Topps Pristine set.

In the 2003 NFL Draft, the Browns drafted running back Lee Suggs from Virginia Tech in the 4th round.

The top right card is a base card, numbered out of 1500, from the Fleer Platinum set, while the bottom card is a base card, numbered out of 750, from the Leaf Rookies & Stars set.

The top left card is a base card from the Fleer Authentix set, numbered out of 1250. The middle part of the card is a tab that can be pulled out so that the card could be "upgraded" to one of three different levels: Lower Level, Upper Level and Luxury Box. You can see part of the tab sticking out from the right side of the card. I didn't really pull on it, that is how it was sent to me.

Here are some of his cards in his Virginia Tech uniform.

The card on the left is a base card from the SAGE set; the top right card is a base card from the Topps All-American set, borrowing its design from 1955; the bottom right card is a base card, numbered out of 1800, from the Upper Deck Pros & Prospects set, shared with Virginia Tech alum Michael Vick.

Let's move on to some 2004 cards.

The top left card is a 1st Edition parallel from the Bowman set; the top right card is a General Admission Green parallel, numbered out of 100, from the Fleer Authentix set.

The bottom card is a SAGE HIT card of their second round pick in the 2004 NFL Draft, safety Sean Jones.

The top two cards are base cards from the Playoff Prestige set.

The bottom left card is a Ruby parallel, numbered out of 250, from the Leaf Rookies & Stars Longevity set. The Longevity set is pretty much a parallel set to the regular Rookies & Stars set of that year. I wasn't collecting at the time. I would assume that the regular set might have been like a Retail set, while Longevity might have been a Hobby set, but I'm not sure.

The bottom right card brings a smile to my face that always appears when I add a new Topps Total parallel to my collection. It is a Silver parallel, and only the second that I own out of the 15 Browns cards in the set.

The 2005 cards will start with a couple of the Browns draft picks from the 2005 NFL Draft.

Braylon Edwards was the 3rd overall pick, out of Michigan, while Charlie Frye is a third round pick out of Akron.

The card on the left is a 1st Edition parallel from the Bowman set, while the card on the right is a base card from the Topps Turkey Red set.

The Browns second round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft was safety Brodney Pool out of Oklahoma.

The top left card is a base card from the SAGE set, while the top right card is a base card from the SAGE HIT set. 

The bottom card is a Reflect Blue card from the SAGE HIT set. The number on the card is the same as the base set, but it is a different photo, so it isn't really a parallel set.

The top left card is a Bronze parallel from the Bowman set, while the top right card is a Museum Collection parallel from the Donruss Zenith set.

The bottom left card is a base card from the Score set. Whenever I looked at my wantlists, I was always surprised to find that I needed this card. I wouldn't be surprised if I had left it in boxes before at some point assuming that I already had it. I'm glad to finally own it.

The bottom right card is a base card from the Upper Deck set. One of the many that get missed when players aren't yet in their new Browns uniform.

Since the 2006 cards are starting with Charlie Frye, who played for the Akron Zips, I'm going to tell a story about my roommate.

On a trip to a game in Cleveland, my roommate bought a Zips baseball cap. It is a rare sight to see in Ottawa, Canada. He did once have someone ask him if he went to school in Akron. I don't know who was more surprised, the guy, seeing someone wearing a Zips baseball cap, or my roommate, having someone actually recognize the Zips cap. The truth is, he bought it because he thought it was a cool looking cap.

The top left card is a Blue parallel, numbered out of 500, from the Bowman set, while the top right card is a White parallel, numbered out of 125, from the same set.

The bottom card is a base card, numbered out of 1199, from the Topps Triple Threads set.

The next cards was the only memorabilia card that I bought in the purchase. It is of the Browns 3rd round pick from the 2006 NFL Draft. He was a wide receiver that played four games for the Browns, with two receptions in his career, both for first downs.

There is a simple white swatch on this Player Timeline Jerseys card, numbered out of 250, from the Donruss Gridiron Gear set. It shows Wilson as both an Oklahoma Sooner, and as a Cleveland Brown.

I own 75 different Travis Wilson cards.

Here are a couple of new Braylon Edwards cards to my collection. The card on the left is a Membership Bronze insert card, numbered out of 1000, from the Donruss Classics set. I actually bought two of these cards, figuring to send the second one to Michigan.

The card on the right is a Retail version of the Playoff Absolute Memorabilia set.

I'll finish this post with some more Topps Total parallels, and another smile. 

The top two cards are Red parallels, while the bottom card is a Blue parallel from the Topps Total set. This brings me up to seven of the Red parallels, and 13 of the Blue parallels, out of 19 Browns cards in the set.

Sportlots purchase - cards from 1999-2001

Continuing with my Sportlots order, I'm going to post a selection of the cards that I bought for my collection, mostly from older to newer cards.

This order didn't have many cards from the 1999 expansion year. Here are four of them.

I only have one player with more than 500 cards in my collection, and that is Tim Couch. As the first overall pick, and a quarterback, he had so many cards and inserts. I'm sure I'll be adding more for the rest of my collecting days.

Top left is a Gold Ingot parallel from the Collector's Edge Fury set; top right is a Protential insert card, numbered out of 1999, from the Fleer Mystique set; bottom left is a 20th Century Superstars insert card from the Upper Deck Legends set.

The bottom right card is the base Upper Deck Black Diamond card of wide receiver Leslie Shepherd. It is the last base card that I needed for the team set. I previously had owned the die-cut parallel of this card. I'm happy to finally have the base card.

Moving on to some cards from 2000, here are four different players' cards from my purchase.

The top left card is a Bowman base card of Damon Dunn. It shows him in his Berlin Thunder uniform, and notes on the back that he was allocated to NFL Europe by the Browns. This is only my second card of Dunn, joining a Pacific card in my collection. 

The top right card is a Rookie Masters insert card of Dennis Northcutt, numbered out of 2000, from the Collector's Edge Masters set. It is one of four Browns cards in a thirty card insert set. I now have three of the four, still needing JaJuan Dawson's card.

The bottom left card is a Finest base card of Travis Prentice. It is numbered out of 2400.

The bottom right card is base card of Darrin Chiaverini from the Fleer Traditions Glossy set. There are separate sets of regular and glossy cards, and I picked up four needed glossy cards with this order. By scan, you can't really see the difference, but they are very noticeable in hand.

The following cards are more Travis Prentice rookie cards.

The top right card is a Scorecard parallel, numbered out of 2000, from the Score set.

The other two cards are from the Playoff Prestige set. The top left card is his base card, numbered out of 2500, while the bottom card is a Draft Picks insert card.

I can't say that I've ever really been a fan of numbering the base card rookies in sets. It seemed, back then, that numbered meant that I would probably never see those cards.

In the 2000 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns made Courtney Brown of Penn State the first selection overall. Here are some new cards from his rookie year to joing my collection.

The top left card is his base card from the Playoff Absolute set, numbered out of 3000; the top right card is a Big Numbers insert card from the collegiate Press Pass set; the bottom left card is his base card from the Upper Deck Gold Reserve set, numbered out of 2500; the bottom right card is his base card from the Upper Deck Legends set, numbered out of 2000.

While looking through the available cards in Sportlots and comparing them to my collection, I was rather surprised that I needed the Big Numbers insert card. I probably would have passed it up if I had seen it in a box at a card show. As it turned out, it was familiar because I already owned the die-cut version of the card.

TIm Couch wasn't ignored among my 2000 season purchases.

The top left card is a PS2000 insert card from the Pacific Private Stock set; the top right card is an Extreme Team insert card (with the X in foil that blends into the scan) from the Playoff Absolute set; the bottom left card is a base Upper Deck Encore card; the bottom right card is a Center Stage Act 1 insert card from the Upper Deck Ovation set.

After Tim Couch in my collection, the player with the second most cards is his fellow rookie expansion team member, wide receiver Kevin Johnson. I have 350 cards of Johnson. Here are some of the new ones to bring me to that number.

Not that you can really tell from the scan, but the top left card is a Gold parallel, numbered out of 199, for the Pacific set. It is the first of the sixteen Browns cards from the set that I've managed to find a Gold parallel for, so I was pretty happy to find it listed for sale.

The top right card is a base Pacific Vanguard card. I also picked up a Tim Couch from the set at the same time.

The bottom left card is a base Playoff Contenders card, while the bottom right card is an Extra parallel card from the SkyBox Dominion set.

I've always seem to like a lot of the secondary receivers on a team. Maybe it is part of cheering for an underdog, or maybe it is to say that everybody knows the number one receiver on a team, but how many know the twos, threes and fours?

For that reason, I liked getting the Darrin Chiaverini card earlier in the post, and I was really happy to find a number of JaJuan Dawson cards when I made my purchases of 2001 cards.

The top left card is the 2001 Fleer Tradition Glossy base card. Unlike the previous year's Glossy set, they actually add the word to the logo on the front of the card. This is one of four cards from the team set that I bought in this purchase.

The top right card is from the NFL Showdown 1st & Goal set. I believe this set was an expansion to the regular NFL Showdown set for the year.

The bottom left card is a Retail LTD parallel card, numbered out of 299 from the Pacific set. I think it is a great action shot that will look nice sitting beside the base card in my 2001 binder.

The bottom right card is an Infinity Green parallel card, numbered out of 100, from the Quantum Leaf set. The base card from the set has a blue background.

The following scan shows two different versions of the same card, both based on the regular Score set.

The card on the left is from the Score Select set. The difference between it and the regular Score card is the Select below the logo.

The card on the right is a Trump parallel of the Score set. It appears to be a trump card for a pack war game on the back of the card (upper right of the card) that you can play with football cards. Regular base cards from the Score set have EE, TT, PP or BB in that area. I know nothing about it, but TCDB shows a card that has an explanation for the game. The Score Select back shows the Score Select logo in that spot of the card.

Here are two more of the Fleer Tradition Glossy cards that I bought, both of rookies for 2001.

James Jackson was a third round pick from Miami, while Gerard Warren was the third overall pick of the draft from Florida.

Both cards are numbered out of 2001.

Here are some more cards that I picked up of 2001 Browns rookies.

Here are some more James Jackson cards that I needed from collegiate sets.

Top left is a Torquers parallel from the Press Pass set; top right is a Gold parallel from the Press Pass SE set; the bottom card is a SAGE HIT base card.

For these Gerard Warren cards, the top left is a Gold parallel from the Press Pass SE set; top right is the base card from the SAGE HIT set; bottom card is not a collegiate card, but the base card from the Upper Deck Top Tier set, numbered out of 1500.

Quincy Morgan was a second round pick for the Browns out of Kansas State.

The top two cards are the base card, and a Gold parallel from the Press Pass set.

The bottom left card is the base card from the Press Pass SE set, while the bottom right is a Rarefied parallel, numbered out of 2001, from the SAGE HIT set.

And here are more from 2001, starting with cards from Pacific Private Stock.

The top two cards are Retail parallels from the main set, while the bottom three cards are all PS-2001 inserts in the Pacific Private Stock set.

The top left card is a base card of Tim Couch from Topps Gallery; the top right card of Kevin Johnson is a base card from the Topps Reserve set; the bottom left card is a base card of Dennis Northcutt from the Upper Deck Rookie F/X set; the bottom left card of Courtney Brown is also a base card from the Upper Deck Rookie F/X set. The Upper Deck Rookie R/X set mixed various Upper Deck designs throughout the set.

The top two cards show Rickey Dudley, a free agent signed by the Browns from the Raiders. They are base cards from the Playoff Contenders and Upper Deck MVP sets.

The bottom left card of Courtney Brown is a Gold parallel from the Upper Deck Victory set.

The bottom right card is a base card of Curtis Enis in the Upper Deck MVP set. Enis was a free agent from the Bears. He didn't end up playing any regular season games for the Browns.

This post is long enough, so we'll end it here and pick up with 2002 cards in the next one.