Affordable Breaks: 2020-2021 Donruss Basketball (Multiple Teams)

 2020-2021 Donruss Basketball: Make sure your tuned into Affordable Group Breaks on Facebook and his blog Cardboard Collections. Game 5 tonight...go Bucks!  I ended up with multiple teams, some of which were discounted.  I grabbed the Hawks, Mavs, Clips, Nuggets, Bulls and Magic, Nets and Pacers.  We'll kick it off with this guy.  I pulled three of his cards which is never a bad thing.

Great photo on that Doncic card.  The design isn't bad.  Won't knock your socks off but I won't complain.

I liked these inserts.  The 80s Miami Vice vibe works for me and some pretty good players help.

That's a Green and Yellow Laser parallel.  They aren't numbered.  The backs are blah but that is to be expected with Donruss.  

Added Gordon and Sabonis to the PC.  Didn't grab Sabonis' base card though.  

Another good looking insert. 

Fun bunch of cards and plenty of guys I can add to the collection.  As I will never see these in the wild I was really happy to see these come up on Affordable Breaks.  Plenty of great deals across the sports there.  He's on a bit of a break as he is in the process of moving but make sure you keep checking in.

BREAKDOWN:
60 – Total Cards
11 – Rated Rookie
3 – Franchise Features
2 – X-Pectations
2 – Power in the Paint
1 – Fantasy Stars
1 – Green & Yellow Laser Parallel

Affordable Breaks Multiple Baseball Breaks

 I'm a big fan of Cardboard Collections: Affordable Breaks & Giveaways on Facebook. Colbey also has the Cardboard Collections blog.  Check him out at both spots.  The prices are great and he has plenty of fun sets to choose from.  I like the ability to "stack" my breaks and finally had my baseball cards sent to me. So many cool cards.  I'm going to just show off a lot of the cards and let them speak for themselves.  This is a 1996 Leaf Preferred Tony Gwynn Stare Masters insert which is #/2500. Definitely one of my favorites.

 While I tend towards my Braves and Red Sox the prices allow me to chase favorite players as well.  I hit with Mike Trout inserts in a few breaks.

 I love those Angels unis and Tim Salmon is a PC guy for me. 

 I had everything from metal cards, die cuts,  inserts, numbered cards, posters, 1/1 - pretty much anything you can think of.  

 Plenty of A's from those nineties A's that I really like including PC guy Mark McGwire.

 I think this captures all the different breaks I was a part of that got me these cards:  2020 Diamond Kings, 1997 Pinnacle Express, 2004 Upper Deck Play Ball, 1991 Studio, 1995 Topps Bazooka, 1995 Donruss, 2002 Donruss, 2002 Donruss Super Estrellas, 2005 Rookie Cup, 1996 Leaf Preferred, 2017 Honus Bonus, 1995 Upper Deck SP, 2003 Upper Deck Standing O!, 2020 Big League, 1992 Fleer Ultra

 Great photo on that Carlos Correa card.  These are both new offerings.  The majority of the breaks are from older sets but these are just as fun.  

 Colbey is a Braves fan so I don't get a chance at picking Atlanta but being the great guy he is he threw in some for me anyway.  

 This is the 1/1 I mentioned earlier from the 2017 Honus Bonus set.  Kimbrel is a PC guy for me so this is a really awesome pull.

 That Eckersley is a silver parallel.

This is a very small portion of what I received.  Going through these was a lot of fun.  Never know what you'll pull and the prices make grabbing extra teams so easy. Thanks Colbey!

Affordable Breaks 1995 Stadium Club Football

1995 Stadium Club Football:  Colbey over at the Cardboard Collections blog also runs the Affordable Breaks on Facebook.  If you aren't a part of these you are missing out.  He allows stacking (saving up cards from multiple breaks prior to shipping) which is a huge plus.  These came in a box with a bunch of baseball cards which I hope to share later in the week.  Bottom line is the cards are fun and prices are great.  I grabbed five teams in this one.  Falcons and Bills are my teams but the Chargers, Saints and Broncos allowed me to pick up some personal collection guys as well.  That includes this sweet John Elway MVP insert.  This is card is diecut.  That white to the left of Elway's photo is actually cut out.  Really cool card.

 So many greats on those Buffalo Bills teams.   Didn't pull a Thurman Thomas but a quick look shows he wasn't in the set.  That's a head scratcher.

 I always had a soft spot for Jeff George.  Such a great arm.  Such a head case.

 Natrone Means was a beast who helped the Chargers to the 1994 Super Bowl before they lost to the 49ers.  He rushed for over 1300 yards that season.  A cool Junior Seau insert as well.

 Jim Everett is another guy I always liked and collect.  That base card photo is a bit questionable and I'm not a fan of the gold numbers on the white jerseys.  I do like the jersey Quinn Early is wearing and Topps redeems themselves with the photo on Everett's Extreme insert.

Oddly enough I pulled two Elway inserts, which is awesome, but not his base card.

This is a pretty cool Junior Seau.  These are some cool cards and really happy with my pull.  Fun mail day.

Mario Bates rushed for ~3,000 yard in his career and got himself a nice Ground Attack insert in this set.

BREAKDOWN:

102 - Total Cards

3 - Extreme Corps

2 - Draft Pick

1 - Ground Attack

February 2019 Affordable Break @ Cardboard Collections

Colbey over at Cardboard Collections did another of his great affordable breaks on Saturday night.  This month's boxes included 1995 Sportflix, 1995 Summit, and 1995 Zenith baseball. He broke the three boxes live via Twitter but has also done them live on Facebook in the past.  I purchased two teams - Boston and Oakland.  Everyone who bought in received a random second team and mine were Milwaukee and Texas though I traded Texas for the Angels. In this post I'll show off the highlights of the cards I received from each team. I'll start with this great looking Summit Nth Degree card of Ruben Sierra.  This card is great in hand.  Seeing it pulled on video I didn't quite get it but I do now.  Great card stock and a sweet look.  This is one of two A's Nth Degree cards I received. 

    These Summit card are on a nice card stock and are my favorite of the three sets.  That's a nice Eckersley that'll go into the personal collection (PC).  So will Rickey but the closed eyes isn't a good look.

  These Sportflix actually scanned better than I expected.  You can almost see the different poses.  All three of these beauties will go into the PC. 

The Zenith are a bit different and you can see what they were going for even if it wasn't the norm for the day.

I always liked Mo Vaughn and I think he is a well liked Red Sox among fans.  Jose Canseco of course was always entertaining if not a head case.  And The Rocket...could have been so much more.  <sad face>

Mike Greenwell was such a good hitter (.303 for his career) and played his entire career in Boston which lasted 12 seasons.

I think all three of these are great photos of the guys in action.

I was so glad I traded for the Angels.  They are usually scooped up by another blogger so I didn't even think about them as an option.  Chili and Tim are PC guys as is Bo though I didn't pull his Summit card.

1994 was Bo's final season in the majors and his only season with the Halos.  He batted .279 with 13 homers and 43 RBIs in 75 games.

J.T. Snow was another good hitter from the era and that is a great photo.  The Garret Anderson rookie is very nice and he had a good career.  Mark Langson and Chuck Finley are also PC guys from this Angels team though I only grabbed a couple Finleys.  

A couple of highlights from the Brewers cards I received.  Colbey threw in some extra packs for the fun of it hence the '87 Topps.  This break was a lot of fun and I'm very happy with the cards I pulled.  I highly encourage everyone to check out Cardboard Collections and his fun breaks.

BREAKDOWN:

71 – Total Cards
22 – 1995 Pinnacle Sport Flix (7 Angels, 6 Bosox, 6 A’s, 3 Brewers)
  -- 2 – Rookie

23 – 1995 Pinacle Summit (8 BoSox, 7 A’s, 5 Angels, 3 Brewers)
  -- 2 – Rookie
  -- 2 – Nth Degree Parallel
  -- 1 – Bat Speed
  -- 1 – Special Delivery

19 – 1995 Pinnacle Zenith (6 BoSox, 5 A’s, 5 Angels, 1 Brewers)
  -- 2 – Rookie
  -- 2 - Checklist

6 – 1987 Topps (3 Brewers, 1 A’s, 1 Angels, 1 BoSox)

1 – 1988 Donruss
  -- 1 Diamond King (Mark McGwire)

September Affordable Break @ Cardboard Collections

Another great affordable break by Colbey over at Cardboard Collections.  This month's break included a box each of the 1991, 1992, and 1992 O-Pee-Chee Premier Baseball.  The Braves and Red Sox were already taken so I went with the Houston Astros with my second random team being the Mets.  I was a bit disappointed at first with the Mets but upon receiving my cards realized how many great players were on those teams.  I was very happy with the Astros include some great cards of what was to become an excellent team.  Colbey also threw in some Braves players for me which was a great surprise.  He does a wonderful job with these breaks and I suggest everyone give 'em a try (though I do believe this was the last one for this year).

  This Astros team was still young but it wouldn't be long before these young players would form the base of a team that would go to the playoffs six out of nine seasons and would make one World Series appearance.

Head shots aren't always that fun but you have to like this one of Doug Jones.

Again, plenty of star power from these Mets' teams.

More Braves and Murph!  My favorite design of the three was definitely the 1993 design.  Nice O-Pee-Chee logo and design overall.  The backs of all the cards are nice with plenty of color and a different color photo from the front.  I look forward to more breaks next year.  Colbey comes up with some fun boxes.

Cardboard Collections June Affordable Break '02 Upper Deck Diamond Connection , '03 Upper Deck 40-Man and '03 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam

Another fun and affordable break done by Cardboard Connections occurred in June.  This month had two more sets I was not familiar with.  I grabbed the Red Sox and my randomized second team for this break was the Marlins.  Definitely check these breaks out as it is a lot of fun.  The price is right and he always comes up with some cool boxes to break which helps make seeing some cards you may not be familiar with.  

2003 Upper Deck 40-Man

 Manny Ramirez Top 40 and Johnny Damon All-Star subset cards.  If not for his drug use Manny might be the greatest right handed hitter of our generation.  Man it hurt when Damon left the Sox for the Yanks. 

Some of the base cards and all-time favorite Red Sox.  Wakefield was so easy to like and who doesn't like Big Papi?  Oh wait, Don Zimmer...  I really like this design and can't wait to complete the team set and look for the Braves.  A few less spring training shots would have been nice but that is a minor complaint.  

Nomar was a favorite of mine at the time and I thought getting rid of him was a huge mistake.  Good thing they don't pay me to make those decisions.  

2002 Upper Deck Diamond Collection

The base design on these weren't quite as nice as the other set but it was fine.  Grabbed a Pedro which will be added to my personal collection.  That Nicolas New Releases card is actually from the 40-Man set.  The Grand Slam card came from a pack of the 2003 Upper Deck Denny's Grand Slam Cards.    

A few highlights from my Miami Marlins pull.  Ivan Rodriquez cards are always a win.  

BREAKDOWN:

27 - Total Cards

'03 40-Man

 - 19 - Total

  -- 13 - Red Sox

    -- 9 - Base

    -- 2 - New Releases

    -- 1 - All-Star

    -- 1 - Top 40

  -- 6 - Marlins

    -- 5 - Base

    -- 1 - New Releases

'02 Diamond Connection

 - 5 Total

  -- 3 - Marlins

  -- 2 - Red Sox

Bonus Packs

 - 2 - 1987 Topps Red Sox

'03 Denny's Grand Slam

 - 1