January 2025 Arrivals

[mrmopar]

Starting out the year with a Rod Carew /15 and a Len Dawson archives

 

[LWMM]

Nice! Like the look of the Dawson.

 

[nevermore]

2017 Topps On-Demand MLB All-Star Game Homage to '87 Rickey Henderson Autograph -- My first pick up of the year. One to commemorate the untimely passing of one of the greats. Surprisingly, Rickey doesn't have many Yankee autographs. Out of a staggering 3594 signed cards, just 249 as a Yankee. Subtracting unlicensed Panini and Leaf releases leaves just 143 cards between Topps and DLP sets. Further removing multiplayer autos and printing plates leaves just 105 cards. Half of which are 1/1s, and all but three are numbered to 50 or less! There are just three unnumbered cards: 2015 Finest Auto, 2018 Stadium Club Chrome Auto and this one from 2017. By my rough math, he has a combined print run of just around 1,000 licensed autographs as a Yankee.

The 1987 Topps base still remains as my favorite (Yankees) card of Rickey Henderson. The action shot in pinstripes elevates it above most of his other 1980s releases. I wish this signature was on-card, but this is an otherwise a perfect card with an homage to the 1987 set. I couldn't pass it up for less than the price of what in-person autographs have sold lately and a fraction of what his premium autographs fetch.

Researching this particular card further, just 1722 on-demand sets were released, with an autograph inserted every other set. With 16 cards on the checklist, comes to just 50 copies or so per player if each of the players had an equal number of signatures produced. Not particulary rare by today's standards, but I am glad the lack of numbering helped keep it under the radar.

 

[Dazed]

Part one of three January arrivals:

My favorite and a redemption I entered on 12/17/2024. Quick turn around!

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[Dazed]

Part two:

My last outstanding redemption with Topps. From 2023 Topps Update. They are listed as /10 or less.

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[Dazed]

Part three.

The LCS still has a few 2023 Heritage blasters on sale, $15 each. I hit the rarist relic of all. The Invisa-relic!

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Obviuosly not invisable. Just not there at all!

 

[Dazed]

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If any recent post deserves it it's this one.

Thanks Topps!

 

[Dilferules]

Let's start this pile off with some Christmas presents from my wonderful wife:


1999 Ultimate Victory Parallel 100 Eric Chavez finishes off that team set. I still need a couple of the lower-tier unnumbered parallels, though. Valo is only my second 1948/49 Leaf card. Then another Chavez, 2008 Topps Heritage Chrome Black Refractor 55/59.


Rickey gets me down to 3 needs for the 2023 Topps 1988 Gold/50 cards. Then a 2004 Certified Cuts Marble Emerald/5 Mark Mulder and a Gold Refractor I needed.


The last Christmas gift, a ticket to the last A's World Series game win at the Coliseum.


A couple of cards I've been searching for. Cespedes is one of those where the /99 "base" card is tougher to find than a /75 or /50 parallel. Stassi was the last A's Bowman Chrome Gold Refractor auto I needed before Matt Olson from 2013, which is too pricey for me right now. As a bonus, of course one showed up for less than half the price after I bought this one.


The Swisher is one of those silly Moments and Milestones 1/1 cards where there are 100 of them that are virtually identical, but I don't think I had a Swisher 1/1 so I grabbed it cheap. Henderson finally completes 1999 Fleer Tradition Warning Track, one of the several "easier" '90s parallel sets where Rickey is the only remaining need. Then a couple of other cool ones.


Last is an awesome pickup, 1999 Bowman Chrome International Refractor 012/100 Tim Hudson RC. Weird story with this one. I was contacted on FB messenger by somebody looking to sell this card (which has about 90/10 rear centering) and initially asked $300. I said I was thinking closer to $150, especially with the rear centering issue. He came back basically saying the best he could do with how much he had in it was $205 Paypal friends and family, I said friends and family was a no go for me since I didn't know him and it was left at that, him saying we were probably too far apart to make a deal. Shortly afterwards it showed up on eBay at $199 BIN/BO, and I ended up getting it for $165 within a day of it being listed. Just so weird because he could had offered it to me for $165 Paypal goods and saved himself some fee money, but he stopped at $205 f&f.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

Still hard to believe that a card in 1998, serial numbered /10000, was considered a great pull (and I grew up and collected during the 90s). Picked this up for only $1.

Unfortunately, this is numbered 04564/10000, and therefore isn’t printed on canvas stock; only the first 500 serial numbered cards for each player were on canvas. Had this been one of them, it might’ve been a little more than $1.

 

[mrmopar]

2017 Topps On-Demand MLB All-Star Game Homage to '87 Rickey Henderson Autograph -- My first pick up of the year. One to commemorate the untimely passing of one of the greats. Surprisingly, Rickey doesn't have many Yankee autographs. Out of a staggering 3594 signed cards, just 249 as a Yankee. Subtracting unlicensed Panini and Leaf releases leaves just 143 cards between Topps and DLP sets. Further removing multiplayer autos and printing plates leaves just 105 cards. Half of which are 1/1s, and all but three are numbered to 50 or less! There are just three unnumbered cards: 2015 Finest Auto, 2018 Stadium Club Chrome Auto and this one from 2017. By my rough math, he has a combined print run of just around 1,000 licensed autographs as a Yankee.

The 1987 Topps base still remains as my favorite (Yankees) card of Rickey Henderson. The action shot in pinstripes elevates it above most of his other 1980s releases. I wish this signature was on-card, but this is an otherwise a perfect card with an homage to the 1987 set. I couldn't pass it up for less than the price of what in-person autographs have sold lately and a fraction of what his premium autographs fetch.

Researching this particular card further, just 1722 on-demand sets were released, with an autograph inserted every other set. With 16 cards on the checklist, comes to just 50 copies or so per player if each of the players had an equal number of signatures produced. Not particulary rare by today's standards, but I am glad the lack of numbering helped keep it under the radar.

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I like that design. I was all about Dodgers Rickey autos myself, but I would have added something like that.

 

[mrmopar]

Cuellar

 

[Philip J. Fry]

Not a card I needed but I wanted it if only because of the middle finger Thomas gives.

They can print that but not “fu** face”, huh?

 

[MrMet2.0]

Not a card I needed but I wanted it if only because of the middle finger Thomas gives.

They can print that but not “fu** face”, huh?

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That’s great…I gott see if I have that one…


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[chippernate]

Nice start to the year

 

[Philip J. Fry]

While I wish Topps would’ve used a pic of Mussina as a Yankee, I couldn’t pass up this /75 insert for less than $4 delivered.

 

[mrmopar]

The other half of that famous moment in time that Dodger fans hate.


I had just won the same card and of course, ended up winning the next one that ended shortly after the first. I can't complain about low print run dupes too much. This is /15.


The other less famous Joe D. The 6 probably kept it cheap. Doesn't bother me.

 

[jmc855]

Lone pickup at a WOEFUL local show today unique #3771....

#d42/50

 

[mrmopar]

Since I started picking up some of the better WNBA player autographs, I learned of this sister dual card. I had to have one and finally landed one at a price I was happy with.


Marshall is a dupe

 

[madbull34]

First pickup of the year. Imanaga A&G Metal

 

[jct11]

Know we're mostly baseball in here but...the new centerpiece of my non-Sweet Spot collection. GU stick, auto, 1/1, HOF...