Dilferules
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Interesting, I went and took a look. The only year Beckett catalogs is 1995, an 8-card set with Van Poppel, these other 6 players below, and McGwire (which I am still missing because it's pricey). I picked up the Van Poppel probably 20 years ago and hadn't seen any others until the below cards popped up on COMC at the same time within the last year for around $5 each. A McGwire also showed up and when I saw it it was around $100 (actually it's still there for that much), but I'm not sure if that was the original price or it was closer to the $5 range and somebody smartly bought it to flip before I spotted it.
Where it gets more interesting is that there are some 1996 Padres CHP cards on COMC as well...and while Beckett catalogs 1995 CHP sets for the A's, Padres, and Angels they don't catalog any 1996 CHP baseball cards. So I thought maybe the Rickey (and Dave Stewart and Tony LaRussa that this same seller has) would be from 1996, but Rickey was on the Padres all that season, Stew's last season was 1995, and LaRussa started managing the Cardinals that year, so with this type of set from that time period it's unlikely it'd be 1996. Stewart was in Toronto 93-94 so it wouldn't be those years. So my thought is that there would be 3 possibilities: '91 or '92 (can't be before '91 given the picture), a second "series" of 1995 cards with a different design, or the seller made some custom cards and is trying to pass them off as a legit undiscovered/previously unknown set. The seller has so far sold two Rickeys and has a third up for auction now...
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). Today I received in the mail my 1300thcard with a Rickey game-used memorabilia relic (i.e. manufactured relics not included). Here's the breakdown ("multiple" indicates that there are more than one swatch on the card, sometimes his... sometimes other players... like the one I just received):
20 Leaf ITG Enshrined Town Printing Plate Magenta. O like how if you look closely, you can see the map detail. 
