nosterbor
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Nice pick ups.
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Here's the card. Little bit of chipping on the front, mostly on the top edge.
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Got some neat cards in recently, so why not post a few here in the good ol' Alomar collectors thread...
Wow, a 1991 Bowman card. What a score! I know, it's a junk era common. But the real story is even more pathetic. I learned about the 1991 Topps and Bowman glow backs here on this board, and so I immediately sorted my commons and found I had both of the Topps variations, glow back and non-glow back. But for Bowman I only had the glow back. It was a low priority, but I picked up a couple cards here and there hoping they would be the non-glow back versions. But no luck.
Then I splurged and bought 18 copies of the card from sportlots, plus a couple others. But in the meantime I had put my UV flashlight (which I bought for this purpose) in the basement. The basement is now completely full of my and my friend's crap, so now I couldn't find it (don't ask, it's a long story, but it does not involve a domineering girlfriend who hates my stuff). Anyhoo, I finally ordered another UV flashlight from ebay, only to find that all of the 18 cards I bought from sportlots were the same glow back that I already had. However, one of the duplicates I already had turned out to be the non-glow back version, I just missed it the first time around. Damnit. So I probably wasted $15 on getting the stupid 1991 Bowman non-glow back variation card. I know you all will understand this though, that's why I'm telling you, my therapists.
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I know exactly how you feel, I've been trying to find the 1991 non-glow back version of one of the Kelly Gruber cards (#369) and I haven't had any luck after several sportslots orders. I've also never had any luck finding the INC. version of the 1992 Leaf Gold card either.
I've actually become convinced the 1992 Leaf Black Gold INC. card does not exist for Alomar. If I remember right it was because the INC. version is only for series 2 and Alomar is in series 1 (and so is Gruber).
Today I had one of the most random PC finds I've ever had. I don't know what inspired me to do this, but I looked at COMC at the 2016 Tek Pattern 2 listings (cubes/buckles), to see if perhaps somebody had mis-listed one of the infamous and elusive arrows patterns. One in a million shot right?
Well there it was, in all its undiluted glory:
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A cool $0.75 later and that sucker was mine.
Here's a weird twist, every Cal Ripken Jr card on COMC seems to have INC. and he's from series 1 :-/
https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/1992/Leaf_-_Base_-_Gold/52/Cal_Ripken_Jr/2005211
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Wicked sweet, congrats
Wow, this is great insight! I just glanced through the other Blue Jays players in this set on COMC and several series 2 cards have INC. but none of the series 1 cards. I think I'm convinced. I know that the Mark Grace collector hasn't been able to find one either and sure enough Grace is also in series 1: http://www.markgrace.com/backvariations.html
I guess I can stop buying up the Gruber cards from this set now. Thanks!
As of Pacific was difficult enough, the stamp on the back would make it near impossible