Not much time today, so let's enjoy another half dozen cards randomly plucked from my latest COMC shipment...
A nice mid-'90s SP insert of Eric Lindros. This is my second card from this insert set, both coming from COMC and both setting me back just $.50. There are 30 of these Premier inserts altogether, so it's doubtful I'll ever finish it.
I'm totally hooked on last year's Bowman Chrome "Bubbles" refractors at this point. I'm hoping I can complete the Red Sox team set of these parallels. I believe there are 9 total, and Lackey here is my 3rd, so I'm getting there slowly but surely.
A nice black refractor, serial numbered to /100, from 2013 Topps Chrome. I thought this photograph of Middlebrooks was one of the more interesting used in the 2013 set, so I pick up different versions whenever I can find them cheap. Cards in the $1-$5 range like this one are where I find COMC to be most effective. In fact, I just checked my purchase history and it looks like this one set me back just $.75!
My quest for Champ's Yellow parallels continues. There are 100 of these one-per-hobby-box cards in total, and Daniel Alfredsson here makes 15 now in my collection. A long way to go, and truthfully probably one of those projects I'll never ultimately finish, but it's rewarding when I do find one I need from time to time.
If you collected hockey in the early '90s like I did as a kid, it's hard not to like these throwbacks from the Fleer Retro set that came out a couple of seasons ago. This Patrice Bergeron is done in the style of '93-94 Ultra, and does a decent job mimicking the original if you ask me. It looks sort of like Patrice has a small third arm growing out from his shoulder, and how about Tim Thomas lurking in the background there?
In closing, a really, really, really shiny Mookie Betts card. When I first stumbled upon this one I did a double take, as I had no recollection of Betts being on the checklist for these inserts when Bowman was released last year. Well, it looks like Topps released these same inserts across a variety of Bowman products in 2014, with this card actually having come in Bowman Sterling.
Alright, that's a wrap!
Presidential Players
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Let's look at some cards in my collection. Except for that one.
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madi...
3 comments:
Great Mookie! I really like those bubble refractors too, I'll keep my eyes open for Sox.
Thanks, Tim!
Nice hockey pick ups. I'm really digging those Fleer Ultra retro cards as well!
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