A Prize For My Prescience, part 3

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Ryan at The Great Orioles Autograph Project sent me a whole bunch of cards for picking the Cardinals to win the World Series, and it is of course my duty to show you the cards and link to his blog.

Once again, I'll start with some set-completion needs:

2011 Topps Opening Day - Presidential First Pitches #PFP-4 Ronald Reagan

2011 Topps Opening Day - Presidential First Pitches #PFP-6 Woodrow Wilson

2011 Topps Opening Day - Spot the Error #3 Jose Bautista

Clearly, the error is a Canadian team in the American League. Though I guess it'd make even less sense in the National League.

2011 Topps Opening Day - Stadium Lights #UL-6 Chase Utley

2011 Topps Opening Day - Stadium Lights #UL-1 Joe Mauer

2011 Topps Opening Day - Stadium Lights #UL-10 Ryan Braun

2011 Topps Opening Day - Mascots #M-21 Fredbird 

He's missing a bat. This would have been a good Spot the Error card. Oh well.

Here's the full list of 2011 Opening Day Ryan sent:
1 Carlos Gonzalez
24 Andrew Cashner
27 Andrew McCutchen
40 CC Sabathia
45 Desmond Jennings
51 Ben Revere
64 Miguel Tejada
78 Garrett Jones
79 Heath Bell
81 Jay Bruce
103 Jose Bautista
104 Victor Martinez
105 Roy Oswalt
113 Wandy Rodriguez
147 Josh Hamilton
160 Carlos Lee
161 Jose Tabata
168 Tim Lincecum
173 Joakim Soria
176 Jason Heyward
181 Josh Beckett
190 Elvis Andrus

And now, more Ozzies!

1993 Score #562 Ozzie Smith

1994 Topps Stadium Club Team #301 Ozzie Smith

1994 Select #30 Ozzie Smith

1990 Kmart #4 Ozzie Smith

1988 Donruss - Bonus MVPs #BC-22 Ozzie Smith

1992 Donruss #432 Ozzie Smith

1993 Pinnacle - Cooperstown #9 Ozzie Smith

1994 Bowman #424 Ozzie Smith

1993 Upper Deck #146 Ozzie Smith

1994 Topps #320 Ozzie Smith

That's all for this installment. Believe it or not I think there's probably at least 2 posts-worth more cards to go.

2011 Topps Opening Day

I've purchased 10 24pks of Opening Day, and received 1 card as a bonus in a contest win, for a total of 241 cards.  I counted my stack, and that's actually exactly what I have.  Often the packs vary a little bit, or I pick up some random cards here and there, so I'm surprised.  The set is 220 cards, and I'm hoping to make some trades and complete the base.  I'd be amazed if I could do it from just the 241, but that would be awesome.  Of course I'll also trade other things for them.  See my Want List and Trade List.

Not only are these inserts I'm not particularly collecting, they're also duplicates!

Topps Opening Day Needs
Base Set
1,3,6,12,13,24,25,27,30,35,38,40,43,44,45,46,51,52,54,57,61,64,68,70,71,75,78,79,81,84,85,91,92,
101,103,104,105,109,112,113,115,117,119,120,125,126,133,138,141,144,147,149,150,156,157,159,160,161,162,164,165,168,170,171,172,173,176,179,181,182,190,191,192,194,197,
200,212,217


Topps Opening Day To Trade
Base Set 2,5,11,16,19,21,22,26,31,33,39,41,50,56,59,60,67,83,88,90,95,98,102,106,114,116,118,129,130,131,135,143,177,188,198,213,219,220
Mascots
M-1,M-2,M-5,M-7,M-11,M-12,M-20,M-22
Superstar Celebrations
SC-1,SC-2,SC-14,SC-19,SC-20,SC-22,SC-24
Presidential First Pitches
PFP-1,PFP-3,PFP-7,PFP-9,PFP-10
Stadium Lights
UL-2,UL-4,UL-8
Opening Day Stars
ODS-4,ODS-6,ODS-10
Blue Parallels
4,68,84,94
ToppsTown
TTOD-10,TTOD-13,TTOD-17,TTOD-20,TTOD-23
Spot The Error
4,6,9,10

A long-overdue thanks

RBI Collecting held a contest that ended June 3 (original post), and I won!  He got 3 Oakland A's autographs when they were in town, and we had to guess the signers.  I had a tongue-in-cheek "strategy", but it actually panned out.  I figured relievers get bored pre-game, so I chose 6 of them for my 2 entries.  I even mentioned in my entry that I should have considered the rotation and which starters would have also been free those days.  As it turns out the answer was 2 relievers and 1 starter, so I won.  The prize was my choice of 2 Gypsy Queen or 2 Heritage packs, and I chose Gypsy Queen.  Let's see what I got:

Pack 1:

Ike Davis (SP)
Mark Buehrle
James Shields
Lars Anderson
David Ortiz
Barry Larkin Mini Parallel

Not bad, but not as cool as Pack 2:

Lance Berkman
Reggie Jackson
Jimmie Foxx
Rogers Hornsby Home Run Heroes
Orlando Hudson Sticky Fingers
Yadier Molina Mini

And the Yadi is a Red-back mini

And, just for fun and because I'm a cards fan, he threw in these two:

I don't know what Red Schoendienst's reputation is nationwide, but he's a legend in St. Louis.  He's managed the Cards a few times, was a bench coach for years, and still stars in the best spring training commercial I've seen.

He even lent Matt Holliday some pants!  That's kind of weird!  I'm trying to complete the Opening Day set as well, so Carpenter was a nice bonus.

Thanks again for the great contest!