Hey, those are pretty good reasons.
And it was definitely fortuitous that he was not a HOF player. They'd still be pumping out hundreds of cards a year for him. But he was fairly well known, so it's more likely that people will post his cards than those of a total nobody. Kind of the sweet...
Guess what? Another early 2000's pickup of negligible value! Just the stuff I like. Seriously...
So 2003 UD 40-man had a whopping 990 cards, each of which had a Rainbow parallel numbered to 40. 111 of those 990 cards also had an unnumbered Red/White/Blue parallel. So in this set, Alomar had a...
In keeping with my recent tradition of picking up early 2000's hole fillers, I just completed the little rainbow from 2004 Donruss Team Heroes (the silver arrived today). There's the base, showdown bronze /150, silver /50, and the gold /10.
Side note: Both 2004 Topps and 2004 Donruss Team...
Just got the "marble gold" parallel in today, which completes this little 2004 Leaf Certified Cuts run. In order there's the base, marble red /100, marble blue /50, marble gold /25, and marble emerald /5.