Free Stuff Friday giveaways are making a comeback on the blogs and I was selfish enough to partake in one such offering by the always generous Kerry of Cards on Cards. I had picked up a low-numbered Portland Trail Blazer on COMC for him several months ago, but due to a combination of their incompetence and that of the US Post Office I.. still have not shipped it to him. I guess I can blame the weather and/or my own laziness for that, too. Either way, I probably had no right to claim any cards...
...but I did anyway, because Kerry offered up some 1993 football inserts including these Rookie Sensations. I bought a ton of 1993 Fleer but I don't remember pulling any of these - perhaps they were only available in jumbo packs? Coleman and Coryatt are two of the 20 cards in the Rookie Sensations set. There aren't any big names (the 1992 Draft was far worse than '93) but the cards are sharp. I might be tempted to add this set to my 1993 wantlist one day.
I'm much more familiar with the NFL Prospect inserts from the '93 Fleer set. These weren't tough to pull (I'm guessing one out of every 12 packs?) but they were a welcome sight among the grey-bordered base cards. And they were the first cards to picture 1993 NFL Draft picks if I remember correctly. There are 30 cards in this insert set but they were not all first-round picks; top-ten draftees Rick Mirer, Marvin Jones, and Willie Roaf were not included (perhaps because they hadn't signed NFL contracts yet?)
I also claimed a 2020 Donruss LaDanian Tomlinson base card. Kerry included five Red Sox singles to fill out the PWE but my brand new scanner decided to stop scanning after these four football cards. It got stuck on saving the images to my desktop and wouldn't actually finish the task. Then when I tried to unplug and reset 'er the connection was lost or some such garbage. So I'll save those for a future post at The Collector.
Kerry, thanks for the great cards! I will ship your relic as soon as possible. I hope it's worth the wait.
Thanks for reading!
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