Two huge additions to the O'Neill PC!

It is nice to end 2009 with a bang. These are probably my biggest pickups of the year. It is great and unusual for a player collector to acquire such high-end cards through trades so I was especially excited about these. If I were to buy these, it would have cost me anywhere from $150-200 total, an amount that is far beyond my hobby budget putting me out of the running for these.

2000 Stadium Club First Day Issue /150 (with a Bernie cameo)




2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition Auth Pinstripes Jeter/Williams/O'Neill/100
The first of two HUGE trades. Thanks to boomo for working out a trade and ending his listing for this card. This is an old-school hand numbered card, with astronomical pulls back in 2000 and easily one of O'Neills hardest cards to find. It features three of my favorite Yankees and so this is by far my favorite GU in my PC.





2002 UD Piece of History Batting Champs Jersey Signatures PO /24
Finally, the best pickup of the year and my #1 favorite O'Neill card. I would like to thank two great members who helped me acquire the card. First, David K. for an awesome contest prize, a Chipper Jones auto /10 that I could trade for this sweet PC card. My tradebox is usually devoid of such high-end stuff and otherwise I would have had to pass up on this card.

And then I'd like to thank RGBII for offering me this card and working with me on a trade. He is a very dedicated set builder and has been working on the 2002 UD POH set. He was gracious enough to give up this awesome auto from his own PC to help out a player collector. Thank you again Richard for the awesome trade and helping me land a huge PC card!

I was excited enough to have an opportunity to trade for this card since I had never seen one available before. This card as yet to surface on eBay since I have started collecting O'Neill in 2005. Today when I opened the package I found another huge surprise...I realized that it was serial numbered 21/24!!! (I had seen a scan of the card but the 21 was hidden by O'Neills wristbands and hadn't caught my eye.) 21 is O'Neill's jersey number! So this is my first O'Neill card numbered to 21. Usually I don't pursue those but this one fortuitously found it's way into my collection.



Thanks for looking!

Incredible pick ups! I love the triple jersey. I remember how that was such a wanted card back in the day.

All 3 very nice cards!

WOW great stuff nevermore :shock:

Those are Sweet

Ending the year with a bang indeed!!!

Thank you guys! Up until now I didn't have an overwhelmingly favorite card in my collection but the POH Auto is now my #1. I have always liked the set for its design and checklist. The POH set has only 15 autographs in the entire set and each one numbered to 24 or less with some having less than 10 copies. The autograph line up consists of players like Ripken, Griffey, Banks, Arod and even the elusive Koufax. To land a copy through a trade and have it turn out to be 21/24 is unbelievable for me! Needless to say, I will be updating the signature very soon.

Very nice, congrats on the pick up!