Monday, November 23, 2020

Current Lee Seung-yuop cards at PSA

These are the cards that are currently at PSA processing. I really hope I don't get any return N9s. To date, I believe I have added 195 different Lee cards to my Master Set, which also makes up the Showcase I published. If all 25 of these are graded then the total will come to 220. That's a great feeling when you start the set from scratch.

2000 Teleca '99 Korea Japan Super Game #KJ20 Soo-Keun Jung / Seung Y. Lee / Jong-Beom Lee / Ki-Tae Kim / Min-Tae Chung
2000 Teleca '99 Korea Japan Super Game #KJ40 Seung Y. Lee / Hideki Matsui
2000 Teleca '99 Korea Japan Super Game #KJ43 Seung Y. Lee / Min-Tae Chung
2004 BBM 2nd Version Light Pack #558 Seung Y. Lee
2004 BBM Touch The Game #046 Seung Y. Lee
2004 Konami Prime Nine Silver #04TE-182 Seung Y. Lee
2005 BBM All-Star Game #A29 Seung Y. Lee
2005 Konami Prime Nine Team Edition #181 Seung Y. Lee
2006 BBM 2nd Version Light Pack #683 Seung Y. Lee
2007 Yomiuri Giants Jersey #NNO Seung Y. Lee
2009 BBM Yomiuri Giants Silver Signature #G046 Seung Y. Lee
2010 BBM Yomiuri Giants Bat Card #GM2 Seung Y. Lee
2011 BBM Orix Buffaloes #Bs45 Seung Y. Lee
2011 BBM Orix Buffaloes #Bs45 Seung Y. Lee Parallel
2011 BBM Orix Buffaloes #Bs45 Seung Y. Lee Gold Signature
2011 BBM Orix Buffaloes The Great Horns #BsG5 Seung Y. Lee
2011 BBM Orix Buffaloes Jersey Card #BsM2 Seung Y. Lee
2014 Ntreev Duael Superstar Season 2 All Star #004 Seung Y. Lee
2015 SMG Ntreev Samsung Lions Collection #1 Seung Y. Lee
2015 SMG Ntreev Super Star Gold Edition All Star Wave #043 Seung Y. Lee
2016 SMG Ntreev Super Star Black Edition #001 Seung Y. Lee
2018 Epoch Orix Buffaloes Stars & Legends Gold #26P Seung Y. Lee
2019 Epoch Orix Buffaloes Stars & Legends #38 Seung Y. Lee
2019 Epoch Yomiuri Giants 85th Anniversary The Legendary Players #01 Seung Y. Lee
2019 Epoch Yomiuri Giants 85th Anniversary The Legendary Players #01 Seung Y. Lee Parallel
2011-12 Topps Bundesliga Sticker #145 Son Heung Min

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

1984 Donruss blurred circles

I am today years old to realize the 1984 Donruss set had at least 46 cards that had intentional blur in the background. Most of them are blurred with whitish circles over what I assume are fan faces. Was this because they didn't want to be libel for some reason? There may be a full-on explanation somewhere already done but sometimes I like to do this on my own before learning about it. Either way, some of them are pretty artistic-looking and I am considering buying them for that sole purpose.

I was initially searching on TCDB for old Comiskey Scoreboard backgrounds in this set, none of which I saw, but I realized many cards had the intentional blur so I started jotting them down and came up with at least 46, but some with a lesser extent of circles. 1981 Fleer is THE set for Comiskey and Wrigley backgrounds but was hoping to find more in this set. But these are my favorite blurred-circle cards in the 1984 Donruss set:


#121 Dave Concepcion

#138 Glenn Brummer



#184 Gary Redus

#311 Ryne Sandberg



#433 Jody Davis

#470 Ken Landreaux



#529 Ron Reed

#563 Brian Giles


These are all the cards that have more blurred circles, to a lesser or greater extent, on them: 35 59 71 94 121 137 138 155 157 176 184 189 207 223 253 293 296 301 305 311 315 333 367 377 381 383 384 395 399 400 422 429 433 437 459 470 488 494 499 506 512 514 529 541 552 559 563 606 610 633 649

UPDATE: I was just informed by @vossbrink on Twitter that the blurred circles is catadioptric bokeh caused by using mirror lenses. Nick also stated this happened a lot in vintage sets. I don't look at vintage much so this is the first I'm noticing it.