John, from
Johnny's Trading Spot, held a
contest recently celebrating his 900th post and his 4-year bloggiversary. I haven't been writing much lately, but I have been reading and commenting when the mood strikes. So, I decided to enter.
Contests,
winning and
P-town Tom are three items which you won't often see intersecting within a Venn Diagram. Yet, my name somehow floated to the top of the randomizer. Strange, but true.
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1987 has been done... a lot... but these are SHARP looking! |
This whole year for collecting has been really weird for me. I would label myself as a team collector and set builder, but I really haven't done either in 2017. I
have picked up any card which makes mention of the 2016 World Series. But honestly, that's about a dozen or so cards and most of them were in Series 1 or Heritage, which were the two of the first releases. I also have added over seventy new Dan Vogelbach cards, which has pretty much dominated my cardboard acquisitions the last three months.
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Sepia! Look at the color sneaking in at the bottom! |
So, you can imagine how pleased I was to receive some new and shiny cardboard to add to my Cubs player collections!
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Refractory goodness! |
For the record, these are the first non-Cubs Topps Chrome cards I've added to my collection. The updated Chrome score is Cubs - 5, Vogelbach - 20. Yep, twenty
different Topps Chrome Vogelbach cards and I know I'm still missing at least four.
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Probably my favorite Future Stars card, behind the '87 Bo Jackson. |
Oh, the bemusing life of a super collector on a budget!
Thanks for the cards, John! I love me some shiny cardboard!
Wow those '87's really do look sharp. Like, they could slice a hand off levels of sharp.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a little on the fence about the '87 wood grain design but I like the way they photographed there. How wood-grainy are they in hand?
ReplyDeleteThey have the wood grainy pattern, but they are definitely more reminiscent of a gold parallel at first glance.
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