Don’t talk to Bruce Csányi about impossible. The 30-year-old Edmonton native has heard it all too often as he’s embarked on a quest to do something no collector has ever accomplished, or maybe even seriously considered. His goal? Acquire a piece of memorabilia from every one of the 800-plus goaltenders to have appeared in an…
This nine-card standard-size hologram set features award-winning hockey players with their respective trophies for most outstanding performance. The name of the award appears in the left border stripe, while the player’s name and position are printed in the bottom border stripe. The backs have a color photo of the player with the trophy as well…
Armando Villarreal was hanging onto the back of a garbage truck in his hometown of Imperial, Neb., when his phone rang. He quickly hollered to the driver to hit the brakes. Villarreal hopped off and answered the incoming call from Brad Haley, business manager of Schutt Sports, a company that manufactures football equipment. That conversation,…
The 1993 Classic Pro Hockey Prospects set features 150 standard-size cards. The production run was 6,500 sequentially numbered cases, and female hockey phenom Manon Rheaume autographed 6,500 cards for random insertion into the foil packs. Read Less » The 1993 Classic Pro Hockey Prospects set features 150 standard-size cards. The production run was 6,500 sequentially…
The “Holy Grail” Wayne Gretzky rookie card case is going back on the market. In February, Heritage Auctions made headlines by selling a case of 1979 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards, stored away for decades in Regina, Saskatchewan, for $3.72 million. It’s a case that included 16 sealed boxes with 48 packs per box and more than…
This 24-card set of Winnipeg Jets was sponsored by The Kinsmen Club of Winnipeg and all police forces in Manitoba. The cards measured approximately 2 5/8″ by 3 3/4″ and were issued as 12 panels of two cards each. By uniform numbers, the panel pairs were CO/TEAM, 39/ACO, 23/4, 6/10, 16/20, 25/32, 19/22, 8/7, 27/28,…
The 1993-94 Leaf hockey set consisted of 440 standard-size cards that were issued in two series of 220. The fronts displayed color action player photos that were full-bleed except at the bottom, where a red diagonal edges the picture. Below the diagonal was a black stripe carrying the player’s name in gold foil lettering, and…
The 1992-93 Pinnacle Hockey set was issued in U.S. and Canadian bilingual editions; each set consists of 420 cards. While card numbers 1-220 and 271-390 have different front photography in the U.S. and Canadian versions, the subset cards (221-270) depict the same photos. Rookie Cards in the set include Roman Hamrlik, Andrei Kovalenko, and Martin…
The 1992-93 Upper Deck hockey set contains 640 standard-size cards. The set was released in two series of 440 and 200 cards, respectively. Action photos on the fronts are bordered by the player’s name and team logo at the bottom. Special subsets featured include Team Checklists (1-24), Bloodlines (35-39), ’92 World Juniors (222-236), Russian Stars…
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