When 2012 Topps Archives baseball was released a few weeks ago, I was somewhat indifferent to the set. When I finally got my hands on some, I found the cards to be mediocre (yes, the card stock is way too flimsy and glossy). I'm not sure whether I'll collect the base set or not, but there was one card in particular that I knew I wanted to track down. In fact, I've been excited about this card since I saw it on the sell sheet for the set months ago. Well, a few days ago mine finally arrived in my mailbox...
One place where I think 2012 Archives succeeded is with the Fan Favorites autographs. These on-card autos have always been one of the stronger selling points for the Archives sets. When I found out that Will Clark was on the checklist in the 2012 set, I just had to get my hands on one. I think one of the reasons I was attracted to this card is because it's a slight variation on one of my all-time favorite Clark cards, his rookie card from the 1986 Topps Traded set:
This instantly becomes my favorite Will Clark autograph (although admittedly I've only got one other). Now that I have this card, and the Bill Lee auto that I showed a couple of days ago, I'm almost done with this year's Fan Favorites autographs. The only other one I'd like to track down would be a Luis Tiant.
How about you, have you pulled or picked up any Fan Favorites autos from this year's Archives set?
I got the mitch williams and greg luzinksi, just want the john kruk to round out the phillies(besides the schmidt of course)
ReplyDeleteI got two hobby boxes and pulled a Dick Groat out of BOTH of them. Also got Buddy Bell and Jack McDowell.
ReplyDeleteWant to trade them for the five remaining autos (out of ten) from my player collection guys. Need Doug DeCinces 80, George Foster 78, Luis Tiant 75, Mickey Lolich 73, Vida Blue 76.