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Jonny Gomes collectors' thread
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nosterbor
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Fantastic collection. Keep updating us on your pick-ups.
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Thanks, guys!
I thought I'd take another look at this set, after (finally) digging into the 2004 Theo Davis Sons International League Champions Card Set (see post #73), an SGA which appears to have been issued in a similar manner to this one. Given how much information was available about the 2004 set on an archived Bulls set, I hoped the same might be true here. It was.
It looks like this is known as the 2007 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball set, and was given out on July 26, 2007, to mini-plan holders with that game in their schedule. Per the team's archived 2007 promotions schedule, that date was "Law Enforcement Appreciation Night," sponsored by LoJack—appropriately enough, as the company advertises what it calls a "stolen vehicle recovery system integrated with law enforcement." The schedule continues, stating "Show your appreciation for the men and women of law enforcement tonight with Lojack and your Durham Bulls. Come to the ballpark hungry because hot dogs, french fries and popcorn are all $1.00 each." And then it concludes with a "Mini Plan Giveaway: 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball Cards."
Meanwhile, an archived page on the team's 2007 mini plans shows that the Bulls offered 7 such plans that year, for between 5 and 20 games. July 26, 2007, is included in only one of those plans—a 13-game all-Thursday plan, which an earlier version of the page (released before the season, and which includes some errors and different dates) calls the "Family Feast Plan." (This is presumably because, as the promotions page shows, on Thursdays, "hot dogs, french fries and popcorn are all $1.00 each.") Further confirming that this set was linked to that game and to that mini plan in particular, the mini-plan page states "GIVEAWAY — 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball Cards."
The last part gives an indication of why this set is so rare—the one I bought in 2016 is still the only one I've seen. As a minor-league team, the Bulls can't have had that many mini-plan holders to begin with; then, only one of the seven mini plans available that year offered this as a giveaway. It's somewhat surprising that the Bulls would go to the effort of making a full set of cards for such a small offering, but that's what appears to have happened.
This is from set issued by the Durham bulls in 2007 to commemorate their 10th year as a AAA team. Despite being a decade old, and containing two players I collect (Gomes and Matt Diaz), I didn't have any idea it existed until it appeared on eBay a few weeks ago. The set has 20 cards, including players (and a manager) from a variety of years. The full list:
Delmon Young
Brooks Badeaux
Randy Winn
Mickey Callaway
Lee Gardner
Jonny Gomes
Jason Standridge
Carl Crawford
Jeff Niemann
Lance Carter
Aubrey Huff
Matt Diaz
Steve Cox
Kevin Witt
Toby Hall
Bill Evers
B. J. Upton
Jason Smith
Rocco Baldelli
Ryan Jackson
I thought I'd take another look at this set, after (finally) digging into the 2004 Theo Davis Sons International League Champions Card Set (see post #73), an SGA which appears to have been issued in a similar manner to this one. Given how much information was available about the 2004 set on an archived Bulls set, I hoped the same might be true here. It was.
It looks like this is known as the 2007 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball set, and was given out on July 26, 2007, to mini-plan holders with that game in their schedule. Per the team's archived 2007 promotions schedule, that date was "Law Enforcement Appreciation Night," sponsored by LoJack—appropriately enough, as the company advertises what it calls a "stolen vehicle recovery system integrated with law enforcement." The schedule continues, stating "Show your appreciation for the men and women of law enforcement tonight with Lojack and your Durham Bulls. Come to the ballpark hungry because hot dogs, french fries and popcorn are all $1.00 each." And then it concludes with a "Mini Plan Giveaway: 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball Cards."
Meanwhile, an archived page on the team's 2007 mini plans shows that the Bulls offered 7 such plans that year, for between 5 and 20 games. July 26, 2007, is included in only one of those plans—a 13-game all-Thursday plan, which an earlier version of the page (released before the season, and which includes some errors and different dates) calls the "Family Feast Plan." (This is presumably because, as the promotions page shows, on Thursdays, "hot dogs, french fries and popcorn are all $1.00 each.") Further confirming that this set was linked to that game and to that mini plan in particular, the mini-plan page states "GIVEAWAY — 10 Years at Triple-A Baseball Cards."
The last part gives an indication of why this set is so rare—the one I bought in 2016 is still the only one I've seen. As a minor-league team, the Bulls can't have had that many mini-plan holders to begin with; then, only one of the seven mini plans available that year offered this as a giveaway. It's somewhat surprising that the Bulls would go to the effort of making a full set of cards for such a small offering, but that's what appears to have happened.
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Update on Gomes goal #6 for the year (see post #68). Got a few in from a SportLots box order, and a few more (the bottom two rows in the below photo) from the same eBay seller who sold the lot from post #70; nothing particularly rare in the lot this time, although I'm a fan of the 2002 Topps Total with contemporaneous IP auto. The remaining cards were mostly isolated pickups. Other highlights are a 2006 A&G auto, and, also from the SportLots order, a 2003 Topps Pristine R Gold Refractor 57/69 of Gomes's brother Joey.
Weeks 7–9: February 9–March 1
Progress: 17 serial-numbered cards (141 total for the year)
The cards (links to example scans):
Weeks 7–9: February 9–March 1
Progress: 17 serial-numbered cards (141 total for the year)
The cards (links to example scans):
- 2002 Topps Pristine U 199/1999
- 2002 Topps Pristine C Refractor /1999 (3): 645, 1169 (COMC), 1275
- 2003 Upper Deck Finite T1 482/1299
- 2004 Skybox Autographics Prospects /1500 (2): 625, 906 (SportLots)
- 2005 Topps Rookie Cup Green 146/199
- 2006 Bowman Blue 326/500 (SportLots)
- 2006 Bowman Originals 2004 Bowman 92/175
- 2006 Upper Deck Artifacts AL Artifacts Red 163/250 (SportLots)
- 2008 Topps Heritage Chrome /1950 (2): 50 (SportLots), 401 (COMC)
- 2010 Topps Update Series Gold 1116/2010 (SportLots)
- 2011 Topps Heritage Chrome 731/1962
- 2014 Topps Update Gold 1570/2014
- 2019 Topps Archives Fan Favorite Autograph Purple 18/150
