Thanks for starting!
For Jonny Gomes:
One non-1/1 off the needs list
One 1/1
One game-used bat
One game-used jersey
The second, third, and fourth, may be doable. The first I probably have about a 15-20% chance of.
Thanks, guys! Still can hardly believe it. To be fair, of the remaining cards I'm missing (listed below), this is one of the few that I thought I had a realistic shot at. But almost every non-1/1 would be easier to find than what's left. In this case, the common saying of rare but...
It's the blue! Holy cow. Been looking for this for 16 years, and have never even heard of someone with it, let alone seen it. It's also the first non-1/1 off my list in maybe five years. And what a way to find it!
That's what I'm hoping! Have been looking for it for 16 years. I'm pretty sure it has to be from Special F/X; the UD is logo is different on the regular Upper Deck issue. Then, it looks too shiny to be the base, and while it looks a bit more purple than blue, I can't make out a serial number...
A lot on eBay popped up a few days ago, listed as a "Lot of 22 Jonny Gomes Baseball Cards - Rookies & Jersey Relic." $15 with shipping; I purchased it almost immediately.
The photo of the lot is below. Anyone see what I saw? (No, I don't mean Yan Gomes posing as Jonny Gomes.) And—if so—do...
Not sure who the Kazmir/Young/Upton/Crawford/Huff collectors of the world are, but this one is tough---six players, on a card numbered to 10.
And then this 1/1 includes Jorge Cantu, whom @r2d2 collects:
Congrats! Must feel nice to check one off the list. I gotta ask: 14 1/1s, a /5, a /10, and then a /50 and /100? Any particular reason for the Phelps and Millwood outliers?
Thanks again, @madbull34. Have just ordered both cards, so hopefully I'll be officially crossing them off the list shortly.
I ended up using Buyee, which Dave of https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/ turned me on to. It's a third party site that facilitates orders from Japan—the sellers...
Thanks, I appreciate you looking. Do you happen to have any ideas on how to see if Gomes has any other cards in addition to those two—whether parallels, or other cards entirely?
Does anyone have any ideas for how to track down copies of Japanese baseball cards?
From what I can tell, Gomes has two 2016 cards from his short stint with the Rakuten Eagles. First, there's what TCDB describes as "2016 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Team Issue." Then, there's the "BBM Eagles...
A good way to figure this out is to look at Getty Images (see here), AP Images, and YouTube. Frequently you can find multiple photos of the same event from different angles, which often lets you see name plates and/or jersey numbers. It's how I figure out who are the cameo players on some of...
Thanks for all the responses! Upper Deck definitely didn't make it easy, what with a bunch of similar cards from 2006 and 2007 Fleer, Fleer Ultra, and Flair. I think those cards are:
2006 Flair Showcase Autographics (LaneyB; magicpapa post 586)
2006 Fleer Ultra Autographics (magicpapa post...
Does anyone have (or has anyone seen) the 2007 Fleer Autographics card of Griffey? As discussed in this thread, I'm trying to find the Gomes; I have two of the printing plates but have never seen the actual card, and the checklist seems spotty. I can find evidence of 11 of the 26 autos, plus...
13 years later, I still haven't seen the Gomes. I just did a search through COMC, eBay, Beckett, and TCDB, to see which of these cards I could find. Found 11 of the 26 autographs, plus printing plates of three cards which aren't on the checklist. And then there's Gomes, for which I have two...
The rule wasn't in place during the 2020 postseason and, though I can't see anything expressly saying as much, I doubt it will be in place for the 2022 postseason either.
With that said, I'm also not a fan of the rule: too many fond memories of growing up watching AAA baseball games that kept...
Just updated the list with what's available on COMC (active/sold) and eBay. It adds 16 further examples, although most are simply additional copies, or a numbered card where a card was previously seen only as in unnumbered form. Three cards had not been seen before.
In any event, there are...
Does anyone know if Upper Deck released printing plates for the 2006 Upper Deck Artifacts Awesome Artifacts set? They're included on my checklist, but I can't seem to find evidence of them. Indeed, they don't seem to be listed on other online checklists, such as Beckett, Baseballcardpedia...