Payday Pack - Rediscovering Vintage

Let's shake things up from the abundance of 2019 cards. I'll show off some new stuff for the next Payday Pack installment, I promise! I'm a sucker for clearance items. I always have to check out and see what's been marked down. My recent trip to Wally World came up with a some discounted cards. Two 36 card packs of 2017 Series 2 were marked down to $3.49 - less than 10 cents a card! Even though I liked the 2018 set much better (still plenty of that on the shelves BTW), and 2019's set was (at the time) due to arrive soon, I couldn't pass them up. I'm glad I didn't!

3rd Place

2017 Topps - Memorable Moments
#MM-47 Johnny Damon 

There are three versions of this ballplayer. The clean cut Johnny, the #NotMyDamon Yankee, and this version - The Caveman, Jesus in Center Field. His memorable moment was a grand slam dagger to the Yankees in 2004.

2nd Place

2017 Topps - 1987 Topps Anniversary
#87-177 Aaron Judge (RC)

2017 packs didn't last long on the shelves, because of the frenzy that was Aaron Judge's rookie card. I swear someone local was buying up all the packs to get his hands on as many of these as he could. He missed one. 

1st Place

1968 Topps #12 1967 AL Strikeout Leaders
(Rediscover Topps Bronze Foil Buyback)

You know that feeling when you first open a pack and can tell something was different? I had that feeling as I was slowly looking through this pack. That burlap border stood out in the middle of the modern cards we now know.  I didn't get many of the buybacks last year, but this is the first and only vintage I pulled. Now I have to decide if this should go with the rest of my 1968s or not...

Others Not Appearing On Stage
#584 David Price
#457 Brett Gardner
#593 Jose Abreu
#601 Khris Davis
#414 Zack Cozart
#615 John Jaso
#418 James McCann
#445 Alex Gordon
#594 Justin Bour
#392 Pablo Sandoval
#617 A.J. Pollock
#419 Roberto Perez
#535 Lonnie Chisenhall
#631 Zach Wheeler
#353 Felipe Rivero
#666 Rougned Odor
#510 Kelby Tomlinson (Rainbow foil parallel)
#ASM-8 Gary Carter (MLB All-Star Game MVP insert)
#ATAS-48 Barry Larkin (All-Time All-Star insert)
#448 Jose Martinez
#625 Ty Blach
#591 Matt Bush
#588 Kirk Nieuwenhuis
#351 German Marquez
#372 Ryan Schimpf
#640 Cole Hamels
#380 Albert Pujols
#460 Alejandro De Aza
#541 Shawn Kelley
#646 Corey Knebel
#595 Max Scherzer
#405 Max Kepler
#692 Rob Refsnyder
#560 Zack Greinke