New Sportlots shipment - pre-expansion cards

I recently received a nice Sportlots shipment of some orders that had been stored for box shipment.

The next couple of posts will cover some of the cards that I bought. This first post is covering cards from before the 1999 expansion Browns teams.

This a card from the 1987 Hygrade Football's All-Time Greats set. It is a 10 card set, with Jim Brown being the only Browns card. There are also five reprint cards, three of which are Jim Brown inserts. I own two of the imprints, with a reprint of the 1962 Kahn's card missing from my collection.

Every now and then I come across a card that I need from some of the various early 1990s Collegiate Collections sets. This one comes from the 1991 Okalahoma State Cowboys multi-sport set.

Jerry Sherk was a defensive lineman that the Browns drafted in the second round of the 1970 NFL Draft. He had a twelve year career, all with the Browns. He started 131 of the 147 games that he played, and had 3 interceptions, 12 fumble recoveries and 70.5 sacks in his career. He played in four Pro Bowls, and was a first team All-Pro once in his career.

 

This 1992 Topps Gold card of James Brooks completes my set of Topps Gold cards from that set. It shows him in his old Bengals uniform which might be why I had never seen him in any Browns cards lots that I had bought over the years. It took a long time to find this.

Of course, now I can start working on the different letter and asterisk variations of this card if I want to.

This Dan Footman card is a Gold parallel from the 1993 Classic Four Sport Draft Pick Collection set. This is my first Gold parallel of the four Browns draft picks in the set.

Footman was a second round draft pick of the Browns, out of Florida State, in the 1993 NFL Draft. He spent six years in the NFL, three with the Browns, one with the Ravens following the move to Baltimore, and then two with the Colts.

Eric Zeier was a third round pick of the Browns, out of Georgia, in the 1995 NFL Draft. He wound up starting four games for the Browns in the 1995 season before their move to Baltimore.

The card on the left is from the 1995 Classic Five Sport Multi-Sport set, while the one on the right is from the 1995 Signature Rookies Fame and Fortune Multi-Sport set. The card is dark, but it has gold print in different areas that don't really appear in the scan.

A couple of months ago, there was a Blog Bat-Around going on where people showed players they liked on teams they didn't like. I started a blog post on it, but didn't finish it. I have a big cheat. Many cards from 1996 show players I like still in their Browns uniforms, but on cards with the Baltimore Ravens team designation.

These three cards show Michael Jackson, Antonio Langham, and Rob Burnett, and finish off the cards I've been looking for from 1996 Topps.

I'll finish this post here, and get started with expansion Browns cards with the next post.

In person trade with TCDB member sandyrusty

 A month ago, I heard from TCDB member sandyrusty that he was going to be in Ottawa and had some Browns cards that I wanted.

After a bit of back and forth, I had a bunch of football cards coming my way, and found a bunch of baseball cards to give him.

First up was a nice 2011 Upper Deck World of Sports card of Eric Metcalf. It may be celebrating his Texas Longhorns career, but that led to him becoming the Browns first round pick in 1989. I collect college cards of Browns draft picks, especially when they become one of my favorite players for the Browns team that they were on.

Next there were a couple of cards from the 2018 Score set.

Denzel Ward was the 4th overall draft pick of the 2018 NFL Draft, out of Ohio State. It was a good pick, and he is the star of the Browns secondary. He's made five Pro Bowls in his eight seasons.

Former Notre Dame QB DeShone Kizer was a second round pick of the Browns in the 2017 NFL Draft. He wound up starting 15 games for the Browns that season before being traded to the Green Bay Packers.

There was also this Nick Chubb Blitz insert card from the 2020 Panini Playbook set.

Chubb has the third most career rushing yards for the Browns franchise, behind Jim Brown and Leroy Kelly. His yards per game average of 80.5 only follows Jim Brown and his 104.3 average.

Also from the 2020 Panini Playbook set were these two Harrison Bryant cards, his regular card and its Orange parallel.

After four seasons with the Browns, Bryant signed as a free agent with the Raiders. He played one season with the Raiders before moving on to the Texans for one year. He signed with the Seahawks in April of this year.

You may be surprised to see two 1990 Pro Set cards in the trade. They are corrected versions of these two Chargers. In the error cards, Bernstine is listed as TE on the back, and O'Neal is listed as a LB and DE on the front.

For 1990 Pro Set, I still need a number of error or corrected cards. For the complete set, I need the Pro Bowl Eric Dickerson card that was removed from the set early due to a contractual dispute.

I also received a couple of small stacks of 1989 Pro Set cards and 1991 Fleer Stars 'n' Stripes cards that he had. I know I have other cards from both sets in boxes somewhere so I picked them up for future set builds.

Thank you, Bruno, for the trade, and it was great meeting you in person! I look forward to the next time.