Sportscards From The Dollar Store

 The newest addition to my "Autographs of the MSTed" collection.

Bob Herron! He was in two MSTed movies (possibly three) albeit in uncredited roles. He was in episode 108 - The Slime People as one of the titular Slime People, where he also did stunts. Bob was also in episode 803 - the Mole People, as one of the Mole People. Since footage of The Mole People was used in The Wild Wild World of Batwoman (ep 515), he might have been shown in that as well. The Mole People was also that episode where Robert Smith made a guest appearance alongside Pearl during a host segment, so that's the second auto connected to that episode.

 Giant Tiger is a discount store in Canada, and in a recent trip there, I noticed these on the shelves:

They're just like the ones that I'd found either direct from the company, and at 7-11 stores as well. Gotta try a couple!This was definitely the least interesting of the two, but I'll get to the other one later. While I didn't find a card within worthy of the snap holder, it still allowed another one to move from a top loader and the ability to use the top loader for a future outgoing mail.As expected, the HOFer is an early 90s base entry. Karlsson has got to be a shoo-in for this repack to eventually contain a second Hall of Famer.I finally saw a Sens representation in the final repacked pack. A couple nice photos accompany it as well. 

 With one of two packages I'd been expecting from COMC arriving, I'll start showing off the new names in the 2/14 collection, since all of the new names for the binders were contained in this one.

The die-cut nature of this is puzzling, since I have zero clue what the shape it is supposed to represent. I wouldn't want to wear a jacket shaped like that, and it doesn't seem to be shaped like any letter you'd associate with Anthony Hill, the Texas Longhorns, or even Upper Deck. But it does allow Anthony Hill Jr to enter my collection. He's definitely the guy I'll be watching for collection purposes during the draft, as he's tabbed as a late first rounder or early second rounder. An autograph of his from Bowman is already sitting in my inventory awaiting another shipment.
NCAA addition #2. Brayson (or Bray, as he is on some cards) Hubbard does appear to be returning to the Tide for his senior year, so I won't have to worry about NFL cards for him. Yet. A blue parallel seems odd for a parallel of a set that literally had 'Crimson' in its name, but this was all that was available.The biggest name in the class of '25, at least in terms of volume, is Bhaysul Tuten. He was a 4th rounder out of Virginia Tech, and even if RB has become somewhat of a less glamourous position over the past many years, he still got a bunch of cards. Even if he didn't get the Rookie Premiere invite and instead had training camp photos on many of his rookie cards. And hey, since V-Tech is tbe closest I have to a NCAA rooting interest (due to Bruce Smith fandom), it's a bonus niceness.
If I wanted to add Jay Higgins to my collection this year, I had to do so with an autographed version, as he had no cards that weren't autographed. Nothing. But that does seem to be the norm when companies don't want to waste a spot in a limited base set for someone that went undrafted and might not make the team that they were listed. But the Iowa product did make the Ravens roster, and appeared in 11 games for them.24-25 Upper Deck CHL provides the two final newcomers to the collection. While Belanger is the better overall prospect of the two, I have to give the nod to Bleicher based on the great Owen Sound Attack logo (even though it will trail Sudbury's as my OHL favourite logo).

 I'm opening up the mailbag today, and will be doing Part 1 of 2 recapping a recent PWE pair from Kerry @ Cards on Cards. Most of the content was Raptors-related, but there were a few outside of that category. So, anything non-Raptors in those envelopes gets shown off today.

I always include random St. Louis Blues cards in my mailers sent westward. So this time, the favour was returned with 5 needs for my Sens collection. I was legit surprised that I didn't have either of those MVPs in the top row.Jamal Murray always seems to show up in these as well. And the hometown gets a shout-out on the back of the card as well, and surprisingly the alma mater isn't mentioned. As for the points record, SGA has had a 55 point game this season in order to make it a tie for that record.Even though it wasn't part of the envelopes, following a Jamal Murray show-off does seem like the perfect place to show off a second Kitchener resident's debut in my collection. He'll need 159 cards to tie Jamal Murray's numbers in my PC.

 Since there looks like there is going to be a season this season, I can commence acquiring cards of the Toronto Tempo. While I'll have to wait until free agency and the expansion draft, I can still start with one team member who is known.

Their coach!And since the Miami Sol had a pretty nice logo, let's show that off too. Hopefully, the Tempo last longer than that team. 

 But I am going to keep this Justin Herbert item.

Seeing as you have to peel the stickers/stamps, sending the Justin Herbert portion, and only that portion would be a challenge.

 

With the addition of this card, I've now completed the 2022 Heritage, 2022 Heritage High Numbers and 2022 Heritage Minor League set. Nothing better as a set builder than putting the final card into the binder.

Only about 4 years or so after starting it. 

And worth every second of the wait!

So, these were the repacks contained in the repack.I was expecting an early 90s card to be the 300 HR card. So, Pujols out of Prizm was a nice surprise. Another nice surprise -  that Bankhead was an O-Pee-Chee entry! 
2015 Heritage was not the set I'd expect to make two appearances in the first repacks, but there we are. 1989 Fleer on the other hand - I wouldn't have been surprised if that was the first one to make two appearances instead of one in the repack. Luis Rivera shows up on a really cool photo, although for the sake of George Bell I hope he landed safely. Tom Niedenfuer is sporting a definite fashion 'Don't', in terms of looking uncomfortably warm for a summer's day, and also looking really goofy.At least there wasn't entirely early 90s  stuff in 90s pack, with that Grieve stretching into 1999. A random minor league card is fun to see as well.
I could not have told you with any level of certainty that Juan Gonzalez played for the Royals. It was only a part of a season, but he seemed to get way too many cards out of that brief stint. Gripp never made it above AA ball. Hawpe does get a nice photo, although it would be elevated if you actually saw the ball in the glove.

 Another MST3K-related card!

Here's David Hartman, whose thinly-disguised TV movie San Francisco International was used in Experiment #614. He was the pilot of a plane that had to have its take-off delayed for convoluted, movie reasons. Mike & The Bots got a lot of riffs out of David's face.I'm sure his Fan Club President in Glendale was quite upset by that.

Blue Jays content will wrap up my show-off of the content of the latest TMV mailer.I'll start with a mascot card. BJ Birdy preceded Ace and Diamond taking over the role. I'm amazed it took the team as long as it did to realize the name could be viewed as slightly filthy. 20 years long, to be precise.Just a single, solitary base card among the Jays stuff. But it was from a mid-range set, and Bo is rocking the powder blues. I guess these are technically base, but since they're stickers/stamps, I won't group them with the Bichette. My collection. My rules. That's Dave Stieb, Otto Velez and Damaso Garcia on the top, with John Mayberry and Alfredo Griffin on the bottom. There were also Mets versions of these, but since it wasn't a complete group, lacking Mookie Wilson. I added that to my COMC inventory, and will show it and the rest off when it shows up. Considering I haven't hit ship yet, that will likely be August.Just like last time, there was an All-Star program from the 2001 that featured Mike Piazza as a cover boy (there were several versions), one was also included this time, featuring the only time Toronto hosted the game. It was fun to look back at the time where a retractable roof was considered to be innovative, and the program includes an article marveling at it.The cover opens to a 4-page thread covering team histories. That's a little unwieldy to post here, but the summary inside is just right. There's also a baseball card article that I might scan and post on a day I'm not feeling too verbose.