During my recent obsession with Fairfield 100 card repacks, I’ve had pretty good luck adding to my wife’s Cal Ripken binder, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Joe Shlabotnik Collection, Inc.
Mrs. S has been a Cal fan since 1983 and enjoys checking out new (to her) cards of Cal, so I seek out inexpensive additions to the collection, plus keep anything that comes my way.
This card was on the front of one of the repacks, and I thought this was the 1992 Leaf card which is missing from the binder, but then I looked at the number on the back and it was “13 of 26”.
I had to do a search to find out that it was a Leaf preview card, and it has a different photo of Cal and Carlos Quintana… check it out:
1992 Leaf #52 – Cal Ripken – Courtesy of COMC.com
I’m going to have to get a copy of the “real” Leaf card; these two will look great together.
Also in that repack, I ran across this 1993 Studio Cal Ripken card. 
SWEEEEEEEEEEET!!! I love this set, and I really need to get more cards from it. For me, this card was worth a good chunk of the $4 I spent on the repack.
Here’s the back of that card… Ladies and gentlemen, the piercing eye of Cal Ripken, Jr.
These next two were from different repacks… I added to my 1980′s Topps Glossy insert collection…
…and got a 1990 Topps Sticker with Cal on the back. I never bought these stickers the first time around, but one thing that I like about getting them in repacks is that you sometimes get two shots at a player you want with each sticker. I couldn’t tell you without looking what sticker was on the front, but the backing card is Cal, so it’s AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL good.
