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Like 'em? Hate 'em? Indifferent?
At first when the whole "fad" started I thought they were dumb....why would i want a manufactured patch that was never touched by the player?
Recently, however, I've started to view this thing a little differently. Unless we are lucky enough to pull a game-used patch, most of these "game-used" pieces we get are the same old same old (unless we're talking vintage players, of course). At times if we don't pull a jersey/bat/whatever of a player we like, it's treated almost like a common base card.
I remember in my younger collecting days how they were no game-used. Instead, the "hits" were creative, well-designed inserts. The manufactured patches bring back a little bit of this creativity in the patch design. And, in some cases they are much more eye-appealing than a plain one-color jersey of a player I'm not interested in.
I pulled my first manufactured patch from a 2010 Topps blaster yesterday. At first, I wasn't impressed but I'm beginning to like it. I'm definitely happier with it than I would be with a jersey of a backup player.
At first when the whole "fad" started I thought they were dumb....why would i want a manufactured patch that was never touched by the player?
Recently, however, I've started to view this thing a little differently. Unless we are lucky enough to pull a game-used patch, most of these "game-used" pieces we get are the same old same old (unless we're talking vintage players, of course). At times if we don't pull a jersey/bat/whatever of a player we like, it's treated almost like a common base card.
I remember in my younger collecting days how they were no game-used. Instead, the "hits" were creative, well-designed inserts. The manufactured patches bring back a little bit of this creativity in the patch design. And, in some cases they are much more eye-appealing than a plain one-color jersey of a player I'm not interested in.
I pulled my first manufactured patch from a 2010 Topps blaster yesterday. At first, I wasn't impressed but I'm beginning to like it. I'm definitely happier with it than I would be with a jersey of a backup player.
