This trade comes to us from Captain Canuck in the far North. I sent him some ’09 Ginter needs, and he was supposed to do the same. As you’ll see, he did that and a bit more.

What was supposed to be in the trade were these Ginters:
#50 Pat Neshek
#159 Denard Span
#170 Lance Berkman
#209 St. Patrick’s Cathedral
#214 Adam Dunn
#249 John Higby (the Yo-Yo Dude)

I won’t overload you with scans of the cards, since I’m sure everyone knows what they look like, but I just thought it was funny to look at these two cards next to each other.
Lance couldn’t look happier to be on a baseball card and Denard looks like he couldn’t care less.

More importantly, the Captain also threw in this, for my busting pleasure:
Personally, I enjoy busting open junk wax packs, and I don’t recall ever breaking a pack of ’91 Donruss, so let’s see what we got, shall we? (I only scanned the good ones, which ended up being almost the entire pack anyway.)

#442 Mel Hall – Who?
#490 Kirby Puckett – I always loved Kirby when I was a kid. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that his name was Kirby. I really bummed me out when he died. Sweet card of a HOF-er.
#484 Dale Murphy – It’s funny. When I sent Captain Canuck his cards, I threw in 2 Dale Murphys. Now I get one back. Weird.
#478 Greg Vaughn – I absolutely love that Brewer’s logo. I think it’s so clever. It’s a baseball glove AND it’s an M and a B. Plus Greg looks about as bad-ass as they come.
#472 Ron Darling – Nice. One of my favorite Mets. I need to get me one of them pullover road jerseys.
#389 Fred McGriff MVP – I like these MVP cards. I think this is only my second or third one. Another HOF-er, even if it’s only according to this guy.
#463 Danny Tartabull – That’s cool.
#495 Barry Bonds – I don’t really like Barry. At all. I think all his supposed “records” should be returned to their rightful owners. But what are you going to do? Even though I don’t like him, for some reason, I like getting earlier cards of him. When he wasn’t bloated.
#457 Tim Raines – The Rock. I like getting Expo’s cards. I believe he manages the Newark Bears these days. Maybe if he’s still there next season, I’ll swing by and try and get this bad boy signed.
#451 Cecil Fielder – I’m sure every American League pitcher was scared of this dude back in the day. Do you think there’s any other person named Cecil that people are scared of? Another bad-ass.
#445 Kirk Gibson – How many bad-asses can possibly be in one pack?
#433 Ryne Sandberg All-Star – This is the first All-Star card I’ve gotten from this set. It’s pretty awesome that the back has their All-Star game stats from the previous year’s All-Star game. It would be cool if someone put out an All-Star subset that had the players lifetime All-Star game stats. Another HOF-er, to boot.
#414 Tim McIntosh Rated Rookie – I wonder what Donruss’ track record is as far as Rated Rookies who actually turned out to be good?
#489 Sandy Alomar, Jr. – Aside from Sandy being a 6 time All-Star and Rookie of the Year, I love getting cards of Mets coaches from their playing days.
#483 Mike Scott – He used to be a Met. That’s something, right?

And of course, the obligatory puzzle piece, which this year was Willie Stargell. I’m not a big fan of these puzzle inserts to begin with, but can you imagine a crappier piece of cardboard.

Well, damn, I thought I was just getting some Ginters to cross of my list and I end up getting one of the best junk wax packs I ever opened. Thanks a ton, Cap’n.

Tags: 1991 Donruss, 2009 Allen & Ginter, Barry Bonds, Cecil Fielder, Dale Murphy, Denard Span, Fred McGriff, Greg Vaughn, junk wax, Kirby Puckett, Kirk Gibson, Lance Berkman, mail day, manilla envelope, Ron Darling, Ryne Sandberg, Sandy Alomar, Tim Raines
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