Bowl Pick 'Em Contest Winnings, Part II

College football will be here again before we know it, so I've got to get my prize from last season's Bowl Pick 'Em contest at Cards on Cards posted! My prize for a second place tie was a very generously sized box of cards, so I felt a bit overwhelmed even sorting through them. I finally sorted them out by player, and, as usual, I'll plan to post them all eventually, but I might quit halfway through, we'll see.

Part I

1991 Stadium Club #379 Gerald Perry
1992 Stadium Club
#10 Joe Carter
#58 Rich Gedman
#103 Luis Alicea
#338 Gerald Perry
#386 Omar Olivares

I have less old Stadium club in my collection than I expected, but now I've got a half-dozen more. I think Joe Carter a buffer card stuck on the outside of a stack of Cardinals, but it's in decent enough shape to go into my collection too.

1992 Fleer Ultra
#563 Cris Carpenter
#566 Rich Gedman
1992 Upper Deck #478 Omar Olivares
1993 Leaf #438 Omar Olivares
2015 Topps
#628 Peter Bourjos
#678 Sam Freeman

I think I've said this before, but Cris Carpenter was the cause of much confusion on my part when the Cardinals brought in Chris Carpenter in 2004, and I thought they had reacquired Cris. I figured Cris had to be ancient by that point, though he was actually only 39.

Bourjos and Freeman are the first cards in my collection from 2015 Series 2, which is sort of splitting hairs because I do have some Series 1.

Tis The Season Winnings, Part V

Sometimes, I procrastinate posting and sorting some cards. Normally I don't pay too much attention to how long a particular item has been sitting on my desk, but given that this one was the Tis the Season contest from 2013, I've probably had it in my possession for a little over a year now. But, even with the long delay, I still want to throw Jeff at 2 by 3 Heroes some referral traffic while I show off my prize.
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Today I've got even more of the miscellaneous Cardinals, Red Sox, and Yankees.

1992 Leaf #152 Scott Sanderson
1992 Score #420 Kevin Morton
1992 Stadium Club #522 Scott Terry
1992 Topps #724 Kevin Morton
1993 Select #142 Kevin Maas
1994 Collector's Choice #592 Jeff Reardon
1994 Collector's Choice #550 Roger Clemens
1998 Pinnacle #54 Hideki Irabu
1996 Topps #131 Tom Pagnozzi

In somewhat of an odd coincidence, I just posted another copy of the Score Kevin Morton card last week, and now I have a second copy of it, and another Morton.

Scott Terry wore my favorite number with the Cardinals, #37, a number which has almost always belonged to a pitcher on the team since Keith Hernandez left in 1983.

1992 Topps #498 Gerald Perry
1994 Upper Deck #223 Brian Jordan
1994 Collector's Choice #296 Bob Wickman
1994 Collector's Choice #432 Melido Perez

Here we have the horizontal cards from this bunch, two Yankees pitchers, and two Cardinals. Perry's stats don't look all that impressive from his Cardinals years, but I remember him as a key bench player. And Brian Jordan was one of the most talented athletes I've ever seen play in person. He could hit, steal, and field pretty well too. I even bought a Jordan jersey t-shirt in late 1998, which naturally was right before he ended up leaving for the Braves. I still have that shirt and wear it from time to time, along with my #4 Fernando Vina I picked up at a thrift shop looong after that number was handed over to Yadier Molina.

eBay Wins #153

Today I've got some of the earliest "premium" cards, 1992 Stadium Club. As with most of my eBay penny lots, it's a decidedly non-premium selection of players.

1992 Stadium Club
#202 Rance Mulliniks
#283 Manuel Lee
#532 Dan Plesac

Manuel Lee, normally called Manny, played 1 game for the Cardinals in 1995 to end his career, starting at 2B on opening day, playing for 3 innings, and getting a hit, before being injured and lifted for Jose Oquendo in the top of the 4th. He never made it back to the majors after that.

The other two players here, Rance Mulliniks and Dan Plesac, played a combined 34 seasons. Manny was no slouch either, playing in parts of 11 seasons including that half-game with the Cardinals.

These 3 cards bring my eBay Bargain total to exactly $51, which sounds amazingly low considering I've made 153 posts out of it so far. Of course, at 3 cents each, I could have made 1700, so I suppose it's not as crazy as it could be.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	3250
Total Spent	$51.00
Per Card	1.569 cents
Change	-0.001 cents

eBay Wins #69

This time around on eBay, I picked up 33 more penny cards. They are decidedly junk wax, with perhaps 1 exception.

1988 Donruss
#5 Danny Tartabull
#110 Wally Joyner

There were 11 1988 Donruss cards. I'm in the camp that loves the Diamond Kings, so that Danny Tartabull is worth the price of the lot. And just for fun, here's Wally Joyner too.

1990 Donruss #222 Lonnie Smith

This was the only former Cardinal in the lot, and the one of 20 1990 Donruss cards in the lot.

1991 Donruss #573 Mike Kingery

This was the only 1991 Donruss card, so I figured, what the heck, let's scan it.

1992 Stadium Club #686 Bryan Hickerson

Finally, inching out of the junk wax era, we have 1992 Stadium Club. Those full-bleed photos felt revolutionary at the time, but somewhere along the way Topps seems to have decided they need distinctive borders again.

eBay Bargain Tracker
Total Cards Bought	2344
Total Spent	$42.29
Per Card	1.804 cents