My First COMC Order, A New Project and Another Coaching Season Begins

 I found some track and field cards that I wanted on COMC.com.  I didn't check prices guides or anything like that since I only buy affordable cards.  I've been involved in running since the 1970s but I don't know much about the card sets, prices, availability, etc.  I've mostly focused on baseball cards, Sportscaster cards, Kellogg's cards and Starting Lineup figures and cards.

Here is what I picked up.  I will assume they are from the set that was mentioned on COMC.com since I have no other knowledge and no reason to doubt them. 

A few cards depicting persons from the movie Chariots of Fire, which focused on the 1924 Olympics.  I saw the movie soon after it was released on one of the coldest days in Chicago history.  Why is that memorable?  As a student, we walked to the train and spent far too long waiting for it.  

That was a first date that didn't lead to many more.  She wanted to go see a religious movie and I wanted to see a running movie.  She's probably a millionaire banker and I am the one teaching at a Catholic school.  

This Lord Burghley card is from the 1926 Lambert & Butler Who's Who in Sport.  He didn't approve the use of his name in the movie so there is a character in the movie called Lord Lindsay who has many similarities to Burghley.  

This Charles Paddock card is from the 1932 Bulgaria Sports Photos set.  He medaled in the 200

The next two cards are from the 1936 Gallagher Sporting Personalities set.  

Harold Abrahams was one of the featured competitors in the movie.  His coach uttered one of my favorite coaching lines that I cannot use - "you can't put in what God's left out."  Once a runner asked me if she could be an Olympian and before she could finish the sentence I said no.  To this day, when I see her she jokingly says that I crushed her Olympic dream.  She probably should have tried to be the best runner on her own team first.

I loved the scene of Abraham's quad run at Cambridge with Lord Lindsay.  This was deemed to be fictional.  I read that Burghley was the first one to actually complete that run before the last strike of the clock.  

The Roger Bannister card below is from the 1969 Brooke Bond Famous People set.  It looks like it almost could have been a Sugar Daddy card.  I remember getting Sugar Daddy cards, but they somehow didn't survive.  Most of my odd-sized cards didn't survive for some reason.  

The Sebastian Coe sticker is from a 1986 Panini set.  I just wanted to add a card of Coe.  

I look forward to more purchases from this site.  I think I will try to find cards of Athletics medalists that are older than my Sportscaster cards.  Maybe I will start with those medalists who weren't included in the Sportscaster set.  Has anyone done something like this?  Will I find lots of medalists who have no cards?