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October - New Arrivals Thread
Today's mail: Love the '95 Select Artist's Proofs, I believe the McGwire finishes off the team set for me. The Dilfer is kind of a long story. Like in baseball, the 1999 Bowman Chrome Gold Refractors were all numbered/25. Suspiciously, I had never seen one up until a few years ago, when a...- Dilferules
- Post #49
- Forum: Baseball
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UNNUMBERD CARDS THAT ARE A MOFO TO FIND
I concur with this choice. I collect Todd Van Poppel (pause for laughter) and of 200 cards listed by Beckett, that is the single one I don't have. I believe they exist, but I've never seen one. *notices that Beckett added 1993 Topps Porcelain to the list earlier this year* Ah poop, TWO cards.- Dilferules
- Post #56
- Forum: Baseball
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October - New Arrivals Thread
Ah Matt Holliday. After playing with the A's for half of 2009, every subsequent contract he signed had a no-trade clause with a single team on it: the A's. Not a big Billy Beane fan. The Gold Star cards are the team set, and the Cespedes is the Century Silver version 16/25. He has three...- Dilferules
- Post #43
- Forum: Baseball
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October - New Arrivals Thread
Lots in the mail today: That was the last of the 3 1998 Longevity Ben Grieve cards I needed, still missing several other A's for the team set. The 1996 Stadium Club Extreme Silver McGwire does complete my A's needs from that set, though. Just missing a Gold McGwire for the full EXTREEEEME...- Dilferules
- Post #40
- Forum: Baseball
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October - New Arrivals Thread
Picked up a 2020 Topps hobby set today and opened the exclusive foil card pack: WOOF. At least I got an A's card for my collection. These also came in the mail: Both were on my large 2020 top priorities list so I'm glad to get them.- Dilferules
- Post #39
- Forum: Baseball
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October - New Arrivals Thread
Nice surprise from Topps today, my Turn Back the Clock Rickey Henderson ended up being a red parallel 7/7!- Dilferules
- Post #32
- Forum: Baseball
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October - New Arrivals Thread
Got back from vacation a week ago and finally worked up the energy to scan my favorite cards that arrived while I was gone. First the stuff directly from Topps: Interesting that they've started to use a different size one-touch for the Project 2020 cards. When did they start randomly...- Dilferules
- Post #31
- Forum: Baseball
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September pick ups/pulls
Last mail day for a couple of weeks, going on vacation.- Dilferules
- Post #45
- Forum: Baseball
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September pick ups/pulls
True, if I were way into the MLB Showdown cards it'd be nothing to pay $30 for it. But as a team collector it's just one of hundreds of instances where it's the last one I need for a particular set, or run of sets, or the last card I need of a particular player. I'll see if it ever pops up for...- Dilferules
- Post #44
- Forum: Baseball
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1997 Topps Stars All-Stars: WTF?
I'm infinitely more interested in seeing a $1 card that a collector is excited to get than a $1,000 gem mint chrome refractor prospect auto investment some BIG BALLER picked up. I'm sure I'm not the only one.- Dilferules
- Post #33
- Forum: Baseball
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September pick ups/pulls
Good thing you can actually see a few cards in one of the packs, or else I'd say worst case is you'll get a box and a bunch of empty wrappers. Interesting gamble! 9/24: Real happy to pick up the '98 Longevity Chavez. The Rich Harden/5 was an auction steal for 99 cents, I'll buy all the...- Dilferules
- Post #41
- Forum: Baseball
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Obscure player collections?
Cool! I have bought some cards of players with names close to mine but haven't actually leapt into collecting them.- Dilferules
- Post #22
- Forum: Baseball
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September pick ups/pulls
9/23: Fleer's Sweet Spot ripoff didn't really have the oomph of the original. The Ginters are complete base (w/inserts) and mini team sets. Jonah Heim made his MLB debut with the A's this season and is the current backup catcher.- Dilferules
- Post #39
- Forum: Baseball
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Obscure player collections?
My five most collected baseball players are Todd Van Poppel, Alex Cole, Bobby Jones (the Mets/Padres one), Tom Goodwin, and Xavier Nady...those aren't exactly the most popular players but I wouldn't consider them "obscure" because they all had somewhat lengthy careers in the majors. Well also...- Dilferules
- Post #5
- Forum: Baseball
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September pick ups/pulls
Wow nice one! I like this year's A&G design. Barry Zito and Tony LaRussa are in the set so I'm going to have to hunt down a lot of those parallels plus a Zito auto. One card today, surprising because they don't usually deliver any cards on junk mail day.- Dilferules
- Post #38
- Forum: Baseball
