― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
derek jeter = the guy from nsync that's always behind everybody else
― ernest, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― chris, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Tracer - no Rich Gedman "love"? Spike Owen? DON BAYLOR? OIL CAN BOYD? The crapitude was a team effort, regardless of the scapegoats. No, wait - it was McNamara's fault.
― David Raposa, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I also have about five thousand Jose Canseco rookie cards, if anyone's interested...
― JM, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kris, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― marcus keeno, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brent, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Leee, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
The oversaturation was also spiked with mania for special ("special") and rare cards called "inserts" that could be found in only a small percentage of packs, which was supposed to justify their double-digit Beckett valuations.
So oversaturation + artificial scarcity = a lot of kids getting ripped off and eventually giving up on the whole deal as a sunk cost of adolescence = my story.
This nails it.
The last thing I remember about collecting cards was buying four or five packs of super ultra ltd edition rare upper deck baseball cards, I think they were 5 dollars a pack for 3 cards, and one out of every 1000 or something would have a card with a REAL BASEBALL JERSEY sewn into the card!!!!! Of course, I probably got nothing but Pedro Guererro and Chris Sabo cards, and gave up the hobby for good.
I still have around 12,000 or so cards in my parent's basement, neatly organized by team. So many people have the same situation that I doubt they'll ever substantially increase in value.
Just before the big bust in prices, I tried to convince my parents to let me sell all my cards, but they wouldn't let me. Their reasoning was that since the value of cards increased so much from the pre-1970s to now, they would continue to increase at a similar pace during the next few decades (RONG). Also, they thought that I'd just blow all of the money I made from selling the cards on videogames (RITE).
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
oh man my best card was a 1960 Topps Nellie Fox and i bought one of the thick plastic holder things with bolts in the corners
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
it's pretty amazing how much cards devalued. i have a shitload of griffey rookie cards which were worth $10 a pop in the early 90s and now they're worth a nickel.
my best card was some 1971 nolan ryan topps card. i think it's in my closet back at my parents' house.
― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
know what was cool was that 1992 Score (i think) Bo Jackson card where he had the shoulder pads AND the bat
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not the most valuable I have by any means, but aesthetically this was always my favorite:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a193/ironsij0287/osmith.jpg
Man, I remember writing an essay in 4th grade about how my hero in life was Ozzie Smith. Then it turned out that my best friend at the time had written about how his best friend was me, and things got really awkward when I said I had chosen Ozzie Smith.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
how uncomfortable for Ozzie, too
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
hahahahahaha I think I'm going to start an Ozzie Smith thread.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
who else had a Beckett subscription? god that was a thrill checking to see if the little arrows went up or down on your top 10
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^^yes
― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^^
― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
My very first pack of baseball cards were Donruss 88's, I opened it up and this was the first card:
http://www.baseballcardproject.com/Donruss/R/1988/443.jpg
It was at this point that I decided that the Mets were my favorite team and Strawberry was my favorite player. I really enjoyed collecting the cards and never really card about value. Good thing about that.
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
it's pretty awesome to think about the players everyone was creaming over during the baseball card collecting peak! omg gregg jeffries! steve avery!! jose canseco!! doc gooooden!! future hall of famers WILL CLARK and DON MATTINGLY!!! DAVID JUSTICE and KEVIN MAAS!!!
― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 278 for "jim abbott" "def leppard". (0.35 seconds)
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Remember the Score Dream Team cards? Those were hot:
http://www.stonekitty.net/%7Elucyscloset/061607/Image001.jpg
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Full bleeds ruined baseball cards. I really liked the wood grain borders of the 87 Topps:
http://www.flapa.com/baseball/cards/KevinMitchell1987_653.jpg
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
The 1987 Topps set is one of the few that I own all of, and of course there were no noteworthy cards, rookie cards or anything from that series.
Somewhere I have an uncut sheet of 1994 Score cards.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
This one kills me, stick figure Barry:
http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/bondstp.jpg
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Awesome:
http://www.johnstoncrew.com/GregMadduxRC.jpg
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I had this exact same binder:
http://i11.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/b8/ag/a7b7_1.JPG
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh the lols:
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/4/8/5/6/9/8/webimg/69023815_tp.jpg
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.collectors.com/Articles/b&bhull2.jpg
― dan m, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
All these baseball card auctions on ebay with no bids are depressing.
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Davis Schneider, cornerstone of any serious collection
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:30 (ten months ago) link
On a whim yesterday I ordered a 2024 Topps hobby box. I haven't opened a pack of cards since I was in hs (c.1998), and for years I've rued the amount of money I pumped into what had become a form of gambling aimed at 10-year-olds. But I've recently become obsessed with videos of people opening junk wax. It's funny how many of those old cards I immediately recognize...
The modern sets seem pretty confusing (tons of parallels?), but I'm giddy about opening up some packs again.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 21 March 2024 09:04 (ten months ago) link
Yes but what did you get? Show us!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 21 March 2024 10:17 (ten months ago) link
Insert culture is kind of a drag (it thwarts my twitchy collectivitis - you literally cant get them all) and many of them are stupid looking! That said when they hit they hit
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:40 (ten months ago) link
Are they still tearing off little jersey shards or have they moved on to DNA samples?
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:24 (ten months ago) link
Yeah its wack
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:27 (ten months ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:30 (ten months ago) link
Going to buy a magnifying glass so can check that!
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:39 (ten months ago) link
No no, it’s a special big card, yours is just a normal one sorry 😭 I’d keep a card with a piece of a base for myself, sorry
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:41 (ten months ago) link
The worst are the ones where there is a “player worn” swatch, not even game used
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:49 (ten months ago) link
Not baseball, but I think I'm going to buy my friend's son a basketball box for an upcoming birthday. There are a couple, Panini or Donruss, and both are $40 for 90 cards. I guess that's not bad.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:05 (ten months ago) link
https://www.mlb.com/news/fan-beau-thompson-collects-million-cubs-cards
Really? "ONE MILLION unique Chicago Cubs cards"--even with the glut, that doesn't sound right. For the first 70 years of baseball cards, you've basically got one or two companies producing them. 70 years x 30 cards x 2 companies = 4,200 unique cards. Double that to account for promotional cards locally produced: 8,400. Round that up to 10,000. Which leaves...another 990,000 cards since 1980.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 18:39 (ten months ago) link
Best rookie cards I own. I eliminated PED guys (A-Rod, Manny, etc...except one) and Alomar. None are authenticated, but I think they're all near-mint. Drives me up the wall that that matters.
https://i.postimg.cc/W3Ch8k4p/01.jpg
Arenado - 2013 ToppsBagwell - 1991 Stadium ClubBeltre - 1997 ToppsBonds - 1987 Donruss (seems to have retained some value)
https://i.postimg.cc/N00Fw49f/02.jpg
Freeman - 2011 ToppsGriffey - 1989 DonrussJeter - 1993 ToppsJones - 1991 Bowman
https://i.postimg.cc/0yk2pfCd/03.jpg
Johnson - 1989 ToppsKershaw - 2008 ToppsMaddux - 1987 LeafPedro - 1991 Upper Deck
https://i.postimg.cc/fWCPVfJh/04.jpg
Piazza - 1993 ToppsScherzer - 2008 ToppsThomas - 1990 ToppsVerlander - 2006 Topps
Wish I'd bought a dozen Kershaws when I could have--$4 or $5 online.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:24 (ten months ago) link
No Betts or Trout or Pujols or Cabrera, unfortunately.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:25 (ten months ago) link
Card show! Toronto has a big one at the International Centre twice a year--made the drive in today to meet my collector friend for dinner (he helps one of the vendors there) and buy lots of junk. First one I've gone to in a few years.
Should have brought my camera; there really is kind of a Hunter S. Thompson in Las Vegas feeling when you step inside, a universe unto itself. The three most expensive things I saw, all the same vendor: game-worn jerseys from Tim Horton and Rocket Richard, both $150,000 (I'd say half to three-quarters of what's in there was hockey-related), and a Nolan Ryan rookie card for $130,000. I know it would require a miracle for someone to steal this stuff, but why would you even risk that? Are you hoping for a walk-up sale on such items? ("$130,000? Sure--is there an ATM in here?")
Gretzky rookie cards everywhere, graded from 1 ($500) to 9 ($30,000--except I swear it didn't look like it was in that great shape...do people counterfeit grading?). In the scoundrel department, an O.J. rookie card (5.5) for $750, and an issue of Playboy with Trump on the cover for $450. Every booth had its name displayed. Best one: Vandelay Industries.
And then there are people like me who are there to buy cheap stuff no one wants (often found in boxes under the tables with the expensive stuff). Some of these were $5, some 2/$5:
1) Blue Jay sets (30 or 40 cards each) put out by Oh Henry! Bought seven, from 1995 to 2001. Not sure if that's all of them--if not, I know I'll start obsessively looking for the others.
2) A nice Blue Jay set put out in 2002, can't figure out by who. Halladay and Delgado are in there.
3) Minor league sets: 1987 Bakersfield Dodgers (best player: Juan Guzman), 1995 Charleston River Dogs (Fernando Tatis), 1992 Calgary Cannons (Bret Boone, Andy Hawkins, pitching coach Ross Grimsley), 1993 Ottawa Lynx (Matt Stairs, Blue Jay broadcaster Joe Siddall!), 1985 Utica Blue Sox (literally no one...Ken Brett was manager, though), and a 50-card Southern League All-Star set from '91 (three Frank Thomas cards, also Luis Gonzalez).
4) Two K-Mart sets: 1990 Super Stars and 1982 20th Anniversary AL & NL MVPs.
5) Other stuff: two Barry Colla sets, Frank Thomas and the 1992 All-Star Game (Colla's a photographer who used to put out his own specialty sets); 1994 Topps Stadium Club "Members Only" (it's embarrassing to even type that...); a McDonald's/Donruss MVP set from '92.
6) 10 loose Topps Heritage cards, including Cabrera on the Marlins, Maddux on the Padres, Beltre on the Mariners and Red Sox, and Rogers Hornsby and Mel Ott.
7) Two unopened decks of Toronto Maple Leafs playing cards. That one's really mysterious.
Also two books, $10 each: Sayonara Home Run! The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card and The Card (about the Honus Wagner T206).
Somewhere in the building, today or tomorrow: Dennis Rodman, William Shatner, and some wrestler (couldn't tell you who).
Good thing I'm two hours away, else I'd probably be back Saturday.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 April 2024 03:33 (nine months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5489541/2024/05/13/bobby-witt-jr-game-worn-cards/?source=user_shared_article
In the second game of the 2024 season, Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles. But unbeknownst to anyone watching (well, almost anyone), Witt was playing with something unusual in his uniform pocket.His baseball cards.“I grew up my whole life collecting cards,” Witt told The Athletic. A day earlier, reigning National League Rookie of the Year Corbin Carroll led off for the Arizona Diamondbacks doing the same thing. He played in his team’s 7-3 win over the Colorado Rockies with his own baseball cards in his pocket. Witt and Carroll thus became — according to trading card grading and autograph/memorabilia authentication company Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) — the first two athletes to experiment with “game-used cards.”
A card graded a 10 is defined as “a virtually perfect card.” That means four sharp corners, a well centered image, and blemish-free on the front and back. At the opposite end of the scale, a PSA 1 grade means, “the eye appeal of the card has nearly vanished in its entirety.”It should come as no surprise that none of the cards Witt and Carroll carried on them through a Major League Baseball game earned a PSA 10. In fact, the game-worn cards are now among the lowest graded examples of each card in PSA’s database. For example, a 1965 card that was taped to a wall and ripped off some of the front when removed, with a thumbtack hole and maybe stained by some marker — that gets a PSA 1. For someone to get, say, a PSA 3 with any card made in the last 20 years — you have to really try to get it that bad. Witt, for instance, knocked down the grades on his cards by sliding into second base on one of his doubles and on a stolen base attempt. But it could have been worse.“I put them in my left-back pocket, and I slide on my right. So they weren’t as banged up as they could have been,” Witt explained, adding that he didn’t check on them during the game.Adding to the damage? “I knew they had sweat marks on them, so they wouldn’t get good grades.”…But even with the wear and tear, Witt’s cards graded higher than Carroll’s did.The final tally:Corbin Carroll 2019 Bowman Draft: 1Corbin Carroll 2023 Topps Heritage: 3Bobby Witt, Jr. 2022 Topps Heritage: 4Bobby Witt Jr. 2022 Topps Update: 2Witt added that he and Carroll talk about cards, but they haven’t discussed the outcomes from the game-worn cards yet.“If one of these had a scuff on it or a bent corner because Corbin was sliding into second, I think that has extra allure to it,” said Hoge. “Collectors will look at how used or how impactful it was for the game-worn aspect.”
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
Also, I still need to photograph some of the haul clemenza sent me, I put them away ASAP!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 30 May 2024 17:36 (eight months ago) link
Game-used cards ("used"): what a bizarre concept.
My collector friend told me there's been a scandal or two with the authenticators. Not surprising--it really does seem like a bogus adjunct industry, created solely to drive pricing up. I can see wanting to make sure your Wagner or Mantle card isn't a fake, but at the lower end of the scale, should you really need to authenticate Freddie Freeman and Yordan Alvarez cards?
― clemenza, Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:44 (eight months ago) link
Got some surprise cards from gyac yesterday, all from the 2023 Topps Heritage set. They look great--not sure which of the '70s sets they're modelled on. Four of them:
https://i.postimg.cc/XqZYkxqd/witt.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/bYMJwXVT/bello.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/rwGFjDVn/gallen.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/ZqVYkXy6/kirk.jpg
The Kirk card kills me--that must have been the day we had him at shortstop.
(Notice the classic "Topps All-Star Rookie" trophy on the Witt card.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:48 (eight months ago) link
1974 design
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:53 (eight months ago) link
That's the one, thanks.
https://i.postimg.cc/RZb9XwrT/oscar.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:57 (eight months ago) link
(Sorry, wasn't thinking about the team nickname, just Oscar Gamble.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:58 (eight months ago) link
Oh that rules, it’s nice to see the design template!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 7 June 2024 00:41 (eight months ago) link
Tracer Hand gave me this book for my birthday, honestly it rules. He was like, you’ll love this, and I’m always suspicious when people tell me that but in this case it’s true.https://i.postimg.cc/T1NXG3mv/IMG-2248.jpgThe author is a certified yapper:https://i.postimg.cc/4ydr8R0L/IMG-2251.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/FzBw8n59/IMG-2253.jpgHowever like anything this is forgivable because it’s quite charming, once we get into the actual business of favourite cards and players it’s set the table very well. I can’t really do justice to it myself, so here are the pictures:https://i.postimg.cc/c1bjsj2W/IMG-2254.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/N08qF4T4/IMG-2255.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/sX0ngQnm/IMG-2259.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/NFSPp9mF/IMG-2262.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/9QTsgpxh/IMG-2260.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/wvBfzck3/IMG-2265.jpg
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:43 (seven months ago) link
Oh I’m so glad about you liking it! Isn’t it just great?? I also like his entries on John Roseboro and Choo Choo Coleman
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 17:07 (seven months ago) link
Loved that book when I first read it. There's an entry on I-forget-who where they translate what's on the card into what it means...something to the effect that when the third sentence is about your hobbies, that's not good. And there's the Gus Zernial card they try to figure out:
https://i.postimg.cc/wj3xj88N/gus.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 17:28 (seven months ago) link
Clemenza remind me which continent ur on?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 18:06 (seven months ago) link
The one to the left of Greenland.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 18:16 (seven months ago) link
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― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 18:19 (seven months ago) link
Holy shit, clemenza! Got this envelope this morning and aside from the Canadian HOF magazine (which I loved and will write - or say 👀) more about in my thread later today hopefully), the cards you sent are just…https://i.postimg.cc/HsfHhmyV/IMG-3444.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/MGYSHjrQ/IMG-3443.jpgOh, I don’t know, just a beautiful perfect condition rookie card of my favourite player ever?And what’s this? His former teammate and star of the 2012 Giants postseason rotation?https://i.postimg.cc/Gt8VFBzz/IMG-3445.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/MHn293Z7/IMG-3446.jpgAnd what’s this, showcased by my ragged-edge, need-redoing nails?https://i.postimg.cc/KzvyMvds/IMG-3450.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/mgYxpH45/IMG-3451.jpgThis made my morning. Thank you SO, SO much. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I don’t know if you told me you were sending this because I’ve completely forgotten if you did, but either way, what a great surprise!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 22 July 2024 11:05 (six months ago) link
I've always loved the design of that Topps 1986 set.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 22 July 2024 11:12 (six months ago) link
It’s gorgeous. I love the way A’s looks
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 22 July 2024 11:14 (six months ago) link
Glad they got there. I've gotten a lot of good rookie cards over the years from homeruncards.com--much more reasonable than anywhere else online, especially for older rookie cards of non-HOF'ers. The induction guides that he HOF here put out are really nice.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 July 2024 13:22 (six months ago) link
I got a box I’d totally forgotten about ordering today of Topps 2024 s2 - yeah the neon ones. Am willing to part with some of these, and there are more not pictured & I can check my teams. Will likely keep the majority of these in the first two (other half has first refusal on Astros):https://i.postimg.cc/SQgp0bLY/IMG-4319.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/90K8WbFK/IMG-4320.jpgMost of these am happy to give away except the random Koufax:https://i.postimg.cc/BQjkdLQR/IMG-4322.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/509kpjR7/IMG-4323.jpgI have a ton of Padres, from s1 too, for some reason, but I don’t think they have any fans here.
― Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Monday, 12 August 2024 14:31 (six months ago) link
Wonder if Teoscar is bat-flipping or if he just drew a walk? The crowd would answer that, but they're blurry.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 August 2024 16:25 (six months ago) link
they look like they're standing with arms raised, but it's Dodger Stadium so they're probably just doing the wave.
― omar little, Monday, 12 August 2024 16:55 (six months ago) link
xp I think the former because he’s gazing skyward at the no doubt moon bomb he just launched
― Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Monday, 12 August 2024 19:57 (six months ago) link
randomly, i popped into the local pizza place for a slice - not because i was hungry, but because there was no line and i grasped the opportunity - and they had an autographed Teo poster on the wall. he'd written "8.3 not bad Go Jays"
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 01:29 (six months ago) link
Some more great cards arrived from gyac today--the underground ILB cross-continental baseball-card economy is thriving.
https://i.postimg.cc/HnCq0g2c/yordan.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Y9SGp5gF/soto.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WbZDb6D5/shohei.jpg
Also: Devers, Freeman, Lindor, Votto, Casas, and some retired guy I don't recognize, Peony or something. They're all from the 2021 Bowman Platinum series, with a nice classic uncluttered look. And very shiny, so I'm afraid to handle them. Many thanks!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 19:14 (six months ago) link
You’re welcome! Can I be selfish and ask can you post the others, I know there were two Yordans & at least one was supposed to be sparkly
― Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 20:12 (six months ago) link
I took a photo of all seven, but it's just too blurry--sorry. My camera's not great. Anyway, here's the sparkly Yordan card: it's called "ice foil." There's a gold version, too.
https://i.postimg.cc/C5pTg6vg/ice-foil.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 August 2024 01:04 (five months ago) link
Some guys have all the luck.
https://www.mlb.com/news/mike-trout-and-son-find-his-2009-bowman-rookie-baseball-card
― clemenza, Friday, 16 August 2024 01:54 (five months ago) link
tag yourselfhttps://i.imgur.com/U4qE8Su.jpeg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 August 2024 09:26 (five months ago) link
Colossal look from Tom Hume
― Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Saturday, 31 August 2024 10:58 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SMwcDRn.jpeg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 August 2024 11:20 (five months ago) link
crazyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/sports-memorabilia-collection-discovery.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 14 September 2024 19:20 (five months ago) link
Speaking of priceless* collection discoveries I found ozzie smith, kirk gibson, ron guidry and tim raines RC's in a 15 dollar church basement box
*squishy condition aside.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 11 October 2024 14:31 (four months ago) link
Was I hoping for a Rickey RC, reader you should know I was.
Came home from a stressful trip to the vets to find a parcel from Tracer Hand containing a set of cards for the famously stacked 2024 Portland Sea Dogs roster, of which the most notable:https://i.postimg.cc/wM0sKssV/IMG-1282.jpgKristian “Barry Bonds” Campbell isn’t in this but i had to check and find out he started the season in low-A Greenville before being promoted to double A Portland in June, and then triple A Worcester in August.Zach Penrod and Nick Yorke have both made their MLB debuts already (Yorke was traded to the Pirates and debuted with them), but the top row (the former big three) should all debut in 2025.From left: Kyle Teel (now a White Sox), Marcelo Mayer, Roman “gets on his horse” Anthony.Thank you TH!
― triste et cassé (gyac), Tuesday, 4 February 2025 13:31 (one week ago) link
It gives me great pleasure gyac!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 18:53 (one week ago) link