Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Pack Break - 2006 Fleer Tradition (Retail)

Remember the days when you could find baseball cards just about anywhere?  One of the reasons I fell out of collecting for so many years was because I couldn't find anywhere to buy packs.  Once the grocery stores and gas stations quit carrying packs I didn't know where to turn.  This of course was long before this internet thing. Fast forward to now and you can find cards for sale just about anywhere.

While waiting on my wife the other day @ Books-A-Million I found the little spin rack full of trading cards and there was one lone pack of 2006 Fleer Tradition left for $.99.  Why not I thought.  Ugly design, but it's hard to resist a cheap pack of cards.  Maybe I'd lucky and pull something good?  Well.  Was I?  Did I pull anything good?

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As you tell from the 9 cards above nothing really stands out here.  Sure, I got a Braves player (Joey Devine - who never did anything in the majors) but over all I was ready to call the pack a bust.  Then I noticed the last card in the pack "peeking out" looked a little different:

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OK, now I feel better about spending $.99.  Albert Pujols Grass Roots #GR-2. 

5 comments:

  1. Good stuff. I like the design, but I realize that puts me in the minority. I;m getting close to the set now. I found like six packs at Books-a-Million a while back that I still haven't posted. I've mentioned Books-a-Million before a couple of times, especially when I got some overpriced 2008 Allen and Ginter there.

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  2. I don't think I've seen this set. It was when I wasn't collecting at all. I think they're ok - sort of meh for me. Is the Grassroots card textured or anything? That could have been cool.

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  3. Ugly design?! This is one of my favorite designs from the 15 years I was out of the hobby. It may not be at the very top of my list, but it's definitely a set I would love to collect one day.

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  4. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder Nathan!

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  5. I agree with Nathan...I was bindering (is that a word?) my 2006 Rockies last night and that set stood out as the best I had of the year. Upper Deck was too hard to read the names and Topps was too Upper-Decky with too many pictures not matching the team name, not to mention the Alex Gordon debacle. Heritage was the 57 set that I have never liked, but this one reminds me of one of my favorite sets ever, 1981 Topps with the hats.

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