Roberto Alomar Collector's Thread

[mrmopar]

I think one of the hardest things about collecting a player, team or even set is that once the issue becomes "old", everyone kind of forgets about it. When an issue is new, everyone is busting boxes and trying to sell what they pull out. Eventually that supply dries up and in most cases, dry up is an understatement.Then rthere are people like me who don't get rid of much of anything. I bought boxes back in the day, won lots off ebay for a card or a few and have probably ended up with little gems that people are looking for, but they are buried away.

That is one of my post retirement goals (when I get there), to finally finish sorting and then combined 40+ years of collecting and boxing so that it's all stored in a way I can find anything quickly. I might end up having (3) 5000 boxes full that just have players who's name starts with A, but at least I'll be able to find ALL my Roberto Alomar cards in one place.

 

[banjar]

What I look for is the giant "90" text in between horizontal lines of "UPPER DECK". That's the hockey one.

I need to go through my cards again, hard to imagine I dont have a hockey one in the 1700 1991 Upper Deck Andre Dawsons I have. Maybe I didn't really know what I was looking at when I went through them

 

[banjar]

The 2003 Topps set had these "Prime Cuts" inserts, with bat slices from the handle, trademark and barrel areas. The barrel ones were the rarest at 50 copies each.

I never thought much about it, but over the years I realized I never saw these things surface. So I looked at baseballcardpedia and when I saw the pack odds my jaw dropped. The Series 2 Prime Cuts inserts were hard to pull, but the Series 1 inserts were unbelievably hard to pull. For the barrel versions, you'd have to open 481,858 Series 1 hobby packs to expect to find a certain player, or 65,871 Series 1 HTA jumbo packs. I'm not making this up.

So this week I finally landed the elusive Series 1 barrel card, which completed the 6-card run (Alomar was in Series 1 and 2). So here they are.

 

[nosterbor]

Love those! I have 3 Juan's numbered to 50 and 7 each of the other 2.

 

[MrMet2.0]

The 2003 Topps set had these "Prime Cuts" inserts, with bat slices from the handle, trademark and barrel areas. The barrel ones were the rarest at 50 copies each.

I never thought much about it, but over the years I realized I never saw these things surface. So I looked at baseballcardpedia and when I saw the pack odds my jaw dropped. The Series 2 Prime Cuts inserts were hard to pull, but the Series 1 inserts were unbelievably hard to pull. For the barrel versions, you'd have to open 481,858 Series 1 hobby packs to expect to find a certain player, or 65,871 Series 1 HTA jumbo packs. I'm not making this up.

So this week I finally landed the elusive Series 1 barrel card, which completed the 6-card run (Alomar was in Series 1 and 2). So here they are.

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Such a Mets collector! I love it! lol

Heather said a bunch of her coworkers got buried under snow, you get slammed up there?


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[banjar]

M-E-T-S Mets Mets Mets!

My town got a little under a foot last week. Broke a few branches etc. But it's in the 60's now, and the snow is almost melted. Spring is here baby.

 

[Dilferules]

Eric Chavez was in that set but I only have the two smaller relics, not the big huge bat /50 (he also has an auto version of that one /50). Great cards. I do have this one from 2002:

 

[banjar]

I wish Alomar had an autographed version. I'm not really into game used cards, but a big slice of bat with an autograph right on it, yeah, I can get behind that.

 

[banjar]

Speaking of getting behind things - or not - here's this. William Shatner meets Henry Rollins. And it's fantastic.

 

[banjar]

This just in. An autographed jersey card SN15 from 2005.



It's an alright card, but I just can't get into the 2005 Absolute set.

No sir, I didn't like it.

 

[banjar]

And now, in lieu of any smashing new pickups, here's something from the wayback machine. 1990 Topps TV All Stars!

For some reason this has always been one of my favorites. A one-off Topps oddball issue that was only released in complete sets, packaged in a little box like a deck of playing cards. I really miss stuff like this.

 

[banjar]

Here's a card from one of the best sets of all time, IMHO, 1993 Upper Deck. The "Future Heroes" insert:



It's a cool card. I like the design. As a bonus, the front photo has an A's logo in the background, while the back talks about Robbie's HR in the 1992 ALCS against Eckersley. Sorry @Dilferrules

But if you thought that was it for this particular card, you'd be wrong.

There's also the UD certified autograph version, SN 1000:



And the Future Heroes Checklist:



And, because I'm a pervert, the mini version, aka a scissor cut version from a 93 UD wax box: