Wait, what? Series 1, are you serious? Yeah, kinda. Heritage came out last Friday, and I’m so ticked off at it that I’m actually going to post a now completed team set for Series 1. Why? Because, while flawed at a fundamental level, at least Series 1 has the common courtesy to not bend you over with ridiculous short prints. I’ll get to that.
Actually, more like all of them, and specifically to my personal collection. Well, a couple of them are borderline. A couple of them were also complete mistakes. Let’s start with those!
By “Rookies” I mean both official rookie cards and “early card from people who may/may not suck” and by “Refractors” I also mean parallels, diecuts, sparkles and any other bullcrap a card company can think up. That was actually going to be the title of the post, “bullcrap they thought up”, but this sounded a whole lot nicer.
What better way to start a flood of mediocrity than with this…
Yup. That’s a 1992 Manny. I already had one, but it’s graded, and this will go in my player collection binder. You know it’s all downhill from here people…
The title works in a number of ways. Most as a return to form as well as a call back to cards I picked up at the end of January. For myself, writing has always helped with the stress of things, or being entirely to stressed out to write was entirely a double-edged sword. Also, the shear backlog of stuff is now at the point where I either embrace it and get off my ass and do something about it, or it explodes into a psycho-post of everything all at once and everyone runs away screaming. Lets try and minimize the damage, shall we?
For starters, these next couple posts will be both large, and brief. These are all cards from the card show, and there are a lot. I’ll break them up into several categories. If you don’t feel like slogging through these with me, I totally understand. I hope to see you on the other side once I start talking about things that have actually happened within the same calendar month.
For now, let’s just get this over with and jump right in.
I’ve been busy with work, and scanning stuff from the card show in my non-existent spare time, which I promise to post at some point, but I wanted to toss out a quick update on a set in hope that someone might have the cards I’m looking for.
I’ve been trying to put together the 2014 Topps Olympics set and I’m just 6 short. I have 80+ dupes, and about 50 or so of the various metallic parallels, but I’m still missing the following:
#24 – Patrick Deneen
#33 – Dylan Ferguson
#47 – Lindsey Jacobellis
#51 – Hilary Knight
#88 – Lindsey Vonn*
#96 – Agnes Zawadzki
* I do have a Bronze and Silver parallel of Vonn, but no base version.
If anyone out there built the set (or is currently building), and has dupes of these, I’d love to trade. They’re all available on COMC but they’re about $1/ea, and that’s just crazy talk. I can get the whole 1-100 for $9 on ebay, or a “Pick 10” auction for $2.50. I’d much rather trade with one of you guys. Anyone out there building this?
Last weekend there was a major card show here in Houston. I went and scoured the dime-boxes for hidden treasure. I picked up quite a few but I decided that I wanted to post the “other” pickups I made this month before I flood everyone with posts from the card show. So, these are the random ebay pickups from the month of January. I’ve got hundreds of cards to scan for my cardshow posts, but in a lot of ways these outshine what I was able to find at the show. The show was all about quantity, while my ebay hunting was just cherry-picking the good stuff.
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