(There are only about eight or so Cardboard Appreciations until we start voting for a new entrant into the Cardboard Appreciation Hall of Fame. It's been three years since any card has been voted in! You may see a few more C.A.'s so we can get to voting. Time for another one. This is the 242nd in a series): Have you ever attempted to complete a set through only repack purchases? Neither have I. But I'll bet it can be done. I think so because I'm just a few cards off from completing the 1990 Kmart Superstars set, even though I have never purchased, traded for, nor been gifted, a card from the set, outside of the lone Dodger, Jay Howell, of which I've received many times. Every card I own from that set has come from a repack. And that makes me suspect that the boxed set issued in Kmart stores with a piece of gum in 1990 might be the most ubiquitous boxed set ever made. How else do you explain this? That is 26 cards from the 33-card set. The onl...
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