1991 Impel U.S. Olympic Cards Hall of Fame Edition

I've got some last minute projects I need to finish, but I wanted to get this post out tonight. Here's another baker's dozen for this 90 card set from Impel. There's a little more info and a pack break here if you're so inclined.

25 Edwin Moses

How is it even possible to win 122 straight races? If we hadn't boycotted the Moscow Games, he'd probably have 3 gold medals.

36 Eric Heiden

Five gold medals at Lake Placid. Only the Miracle on Ice was more amazing at those games.

18 John Naber

Four Golds for swimming at Montreal, and the only reason I posted this is for the photo. Heh.

4 Al Oerter

Won the discus in four straight Olympics from 1956 to 1968, and broke his own Olympic record each time.

29 Sugar Ray Leonard

Got-DAMN I love this card. That is just a cool card right there, even with that dude staring up at the bottom left corner. All these Olympic sets are going to cause me to go on a boxing card bender if I'm not careful.

41 John Davis

One of the strongest guys ever. Olympic weightlifting is hard as hell too, you have to be stronger mentally than physically.

WARNING - THE NEXT CARD IS NASTY - YOU MAY WANT TO SCROLL THROUGH REALLY FAST

Nope? Ok, I warned you then.

40 Charles Daniels

Ugh. One of the most unfortunate photo choices for a trading card. He and his package won a truckload of medals though.

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27 Mary Lou Retton

Was there a more famous Olympian in the '80s? I should have scanned the back because the '80s hair is FABULOUS.

28 Alvin Kraenzlein

This is the oldest Olympian I had from the set. Alvin won four Golds for jumping and hurdles in the 1900 Games in Paris.

60 1964 US Olympic Basketball team

A nice photo of Bill Bradley and Lucious Jackson (no, not that one) on the card. The back has a list of the 7 players from the team who played in the NBA - Jim Barnes, Bradley, Joe Caldwell, Melvin Counts, Walt Hazzard, Jackson and George Wilson. Hazzard and Caldwell were stars for the Hawks.

8 Johnny Weissmuller

Five Gold medals for swimming but he's better known as Tarzan, King of the Apes.

17 Eddie Eagan

Eddie won a Gold medal for boxing in 1920, then won another in 1932 for bobsledding.

76 Leroy Walker

Leroy was the president of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and became the first black president of the United States Olympic Committee. Plus he just looks happy on this card. I like the happy.

Sticky Sunday - it's Sunday somewhere edition

All right, here's the 1991 Upper Deck Sticker just as I promised last week. As you can see, it looks identical to the '92 version except it's silver instead of gold. One per pack as well, so with a couple of boxes you can wallpaper your room with shiny hologram stickers. Don't expect a complete set out of those boxes though, because the collation for these stickers was terrible. One box I ripped had nine stickers each for the Twins, Pirates, Cardinals and American league. Blech. Luckily there were 18 billion boxes of this stuff out there and enough was ripped so these stickers are still fairly common. One thing I don't understand is why Upper Deck took horizontally oriented logos like the Braves here and squished them on a vertical card. Flipping the card on its side would have made a bigger and better sticker. As it is this is a pretty boring sticker. It's barely 3-D and they didn't put stars or anything in the background like on the White Sox sticker to avoid vast wastelands of boring nothing on top and bottom. At least UD had the correct logo. Up next week: 1990 Upper Deck stickers, assuming I can find one of the things.