More Starting Lineup

The previous posts I did on the Cleveland Browns Starting Lineup figures made me start keeping a closer eye out for those figures that I am missing. Over the last couple of months I have added the following figures:



1988 Bernie Kosar

New Browns' first round pick, Corey Coleman, will be wearing wearing Bernie's number 19 this year.

 

1988 Kevin Mack

I tried taking a couple of pictures of the Mack figure, and it kept coming out like this. The pictures before and after were clear and sharp. Technology doesn't like me. (Or, yeah, I don't know how to use it properly.)


1988 Bob Golic

I managed to get Bob Golic's autograph at last year's Cleveland Browns FanFest. He was great, sitting there signing for everyone and engaging in small talk. I think I got his attention when I told him that I enjoyed him in Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

This gives me three of the five 1988 Browns figures, leaving me to find the Ozzie Newsome and Brian Brennan ones.

I also added the 1989 and 1990 figures of Webster Slaughter. It is nice that they used the brown jersey for the second one after using the white one the first time.



1989 Webster Slaughter



1990 Webster Slaughter

I also picked up some more loose Starting Lineup cards that I needed.

While looking around for the Starting Lineup figures I also came across another interesting figure/toy that I wound up buying, but I'll save that for another post.

Additions to Starting Lineup

Since a previous post showing the Browns Starting Lineup figures that I owned, I have added two more to my collection, and also noticed that I had previously shown the 1989 Bernie Kosar figure as a 1990 one, which has since been edited in the previous post.

 

1990 Eric Metcalf



1990 Bernie Kosar - white uniform



The Kosar box is pretty beat up (and was advertised as such), and the cards are sliding out of their bubbles on the packaging, but I won it for a good price. If I find another in better shape at a good price I'll probably buy it to keep sealed and open this one to display Bernie and add the cards to my collection.

It is crazy to see the asking prices on eBay right now for some of the older figures. Well, they can ask what they want, it doesn't mean they'll sell. I guess I'll just have to keep checking to see if any pop up at better prices. Looking at some of the completed sales, I really missed out on a few a while back. I wish I had been watching then.

I really haven't bought much lately, partly from being really busy, and partly to let the wallet recover from the purchases I made in Arizona last month. And the other big thing that I have to do is reorganize my collection after moving everything to make sure they weren't near the leak from the broken water pipe.

My collection is scattered, and I'm not sure if I've mixed cards meant for my collection with some of the doubles. I'm going to have to take the time, and compare cards with the collection in the binders. I'll have fun doing it, but it will take time, which I have to find.

Starting Lineup figures

One thing about being in Canada is that we don't get all the toys that collectors find in the United States.

In the early 1990s, I had heard about Kenner's Starting Lineup figures, but I don't remember ever seeing any NFL ones in stores around me. I think that I had seen a few baseball and football Starting Lineup figures at card shows, but never saw a Cleveland Brown to buy.

Looking online, I found the Starting Lineup Figures website and spent some time looking around. Going through the football sets listed, there are 21 Cleveland Browns figures. I currently own 7 of them, all being the most recent, and am sure it will be tough to track down the rest. I'll consider it a very long-term goal, especially seeing the eBay values on some of the older figures.

I'll list them here, and show the figures that I own.

1988 (Kenner)

Brian Brennan
Bob Golic
Bernie Kosar
Kevin Mack
Ozzie Newsome

1989 (Kenner)

Bernie Kosar

Kevin Mack
Hanford Dixon
Frank Minnifield
Webster Slaughter

1990 (Kenner)

Bernie Kosar - Brown jersey
Bernie Kosar - White jersey
Webster Slaughter
Eric Metcalf
Felix Wright

1994 (Kenner)

Eric Metcalf

1995 (Kenner)

Michael Dean Perry

1999 (Hasbro)

Tim Couch

2000 (Hasbro)

Tim Couch

Tim Couch - Ames exclusive

Ozzie Newsome

Of course, as you can see in each of the packages, the figures come with cards.

According to the Trading Card Database, the 1989 set included a card for Earnest Byner that didn't come with a figure.

The 1990 Starting Lineup figures came with two cards for each figure - one a "rookie card" of the player, the other a regular card.

I own the following loose cards, but don't own any loose figures.

1988 Ozzie Newsome

1989 Bernie Kosar

1994 Eric Metcalf

1995 Michael Dean Perry

1999 Tim Couch