It's high time I published my first post of 2014 here at Whalers Hockey Cards. Since I usually dedicate Sunday to featuring autographs on my other blog, I thought a nice large, on-card signature might be appropriate:
This Daryl Reaugh autograph hails from the 2012-13 Panini Classics Signatures set, specifically the Social Signatures insert set. This is actually the second Reaugh auto I've shown here, apparently Panini is a fan of his as he was also featured in the
Brass Bonanza autograph set from the inaugural Dominion release. I like the bold colors, great photo, giant signature and Whalers logo, it makes for a very attractive card.
Unfortunately, I'm not big on the concept. Apparently the idea is to showcase the Twitter handle of the depicted athlete. I'm not a Twitter user, and the Whalers seem like an odd choice for this set given that AOL dial-up internet and Windows '95 were all the rage when there was last an NHL team in the city of Hartford.
Even the back of the card talks about how Dallas Stars fans clamored for Daryl to "take to Twitter", which I find hard to believe. Oh well, they can't all be winners I guess, and at least I only shelled out less than $10 for this one...
