Roberto Alomar Collector's Thread

[MrMet2.0]

Well, @MrMet2.0, I will have you know that there are numerous highly educated, erudite, and learned individuals besides myself who collect Roberto Alomar cards. Many, many, many such individuals do indeed exist. However I am having trouble recalling their exact names and whereabouts. Nonetheless, I assure you that your thinly veiled assaults on our integrity have not gone unnoticed. Indeed this vicissitude of yours has incurred the ire of more than just myself! Good day sir!

lol, is that why I suddenly started getting phone calls in the middle of the night that are just heavy breathing when I answer?!?!


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[banjar]

Yes, that's probably the reason. Alomar collectors are a weird lot

 

[MrMet2.0]

Yes, that's probably the reason. Alomar collectors are a weird lot

I know, I met one once…lol!


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[banjar]

Two more 1998 Tek Diffractors!

And I didn't pay close to $75 each for them. Or even the "quantity" discount of $60 each if I wanted to buy dozens.

 

[banjar]

Got this one recently, the 2002 Topps 206 Bazooka mini parallel /30. This completes the 206 run for me. My recent pickups have been a combination of overpaying for cards I really wanted and feeling guilty about it, and underpaying for cards I really wanted and feeling great about it. This is one of the latter.

Still missing three from the 2003 Topps 205 series, the three Bazooka mini parallels which are numbered to 5, 5 and 1. So for practical purposes, that run is also "complete".

 

[banjar]

So I finally tracked down the last 1991 Upper Deck hologram variation I needed. Homeboy's base card #335 has four variations - the normal 1991 hologram, the 1990 comic ball hologram, the 1990 baseball hologram, and the 1990-91 hockey hologram. That hockey one took forever to find, but I finally have it.

This sh*t is what really keeps me collecting. So here they are just for fun

1991


1990


1990 comic ball


1990-91 hockey

 

[banjar]

Another nice little pickup last week, the 2003 Leaf Green Throwback Logo #264 /25. Card #264 is the "Passing Through Time" subset, which has the same front as the base Leaf card but with the 1993 Leaf card as the back. A neat idea. This completes the entire 2003 Leaf run...except those Beckett Samples and show-stamped cards of course.



Here's the base card #209:

 

[banjar]

Now for something completely different - the funniest thing from Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's a compilation of their made up names for the character David Ryder, from the episode Space Mutiny (one of the best). This makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it.

Even better, I used the name "Big McLargehuge" for a trivia team with my friends last week, and we won the whole thing.

This truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[banjar]

Thanks for all the "likes" guys. It's nice to know at least a few other people out there appreciate this weird player collector OCD stuff.

I think that's why I continue to be a member of FCB. This board is one of the few legit places left on the internet. This site doesn't subsist on corporate lackeys looking to monetize everything to the nth degree, or insecure trolls trying to pump themselves up by putting everyone else down, or other forms of internet losers. It's a place where people who love collecting cards talk to other people who love collecting cards.

Such a rare thing these days.

 

[banjar]

So I've gradually been chipping away at the 2021 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary set, actually released well into 2022, with 19 versions. With Alomar getting his ass banned from MLB, this is probably the last Topps set he'll ever be in. And I like the '52 Topps design.

This one is the Black Red 70th Mini Diamonds Parallel /5. The 70th refers to the text pattern in the frame surrounding the photo with the number 70 in it. The mini diamonds thing refers to the shimmery crystally things in that same frame. Some parallels in this set have the 70th feature, others have the mini diamonds feature, this one has both. Woo hoo.

 

[banjar]

So. This 2004 UD Power Up business.

WTF?

Such an obscure release. I mean, who actually collected these game cards back in the day? Why is there a market for this 20 years later? Why did I chase this run, and overpay to do so?

So many questions. So few answers.

Regardless of these existential questions, I did acquire the purple and pink parallels of dumb set. At stupid prices. However, I also vastly underpaid for the rarest parallel of them all, the blue one. I think I got that one for around $15. So, because of that, I tell myself that it's all OK.

 

[Dilferules]

Nice! I don't go for all the parallels from that set, but I still can't find the dang Tim Hudson sticker. Like you said, obscure and nobody collected it.

 

[banjar]

Thanks!

Not sure what to tell you about the Hudson sticker. Hell, I didn't even know there were stickers issued as part of this set. Chasing this kind of stuff is a sickness, really. But I understand, and I wish you luck.

 

[banjar]

And now for something completely different....a common!

1995 Upper Deck. Just a damn good looking card. As time goes by I appreciate more and more how good a job UD did with their early to mid 90's issues.

 

[Dilferules]

Sweet picture...I got curious about it since around this time the A's wouldn't have had a third baseman with that skin color very often. It looks like this is from April 11, 1994 - the only day game Toronto played in Oakland in 1994. Scott Brosius had started at third for the A's but was pinch-hit for by future A's coach Mike Aldrete in his third at-bat, then Fausto Cruz replaced Brosius at third base. Alomar hit a triple off of Steve Ontiveros, who had entered in the 6th inning, and there's your picture!

 

[MrMet2.0]

Sweet picture...I got curious about it since around this time the A's wouldn't have had a third baseman with that skin color very often. It looks like this is from April 11, 1994 - the only day game Toronto played in Oakland in 1994. Scott Brosius had started at third for the A's but was pinch-hit for by future A's coach Mike Aldrete in his third at-bat, then Fausto Cruz replaced Brosius at third base. Alomar hit a triple off of Steve Ontiveros, who had entered in the 6th inning, and there's your picture!

That’s some detective work!


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[banjar]

That's pretty damn cool. Thanks!

 

[Hawk8]

So I finally tracked down the last 1991 Upper Deck hologram variation I needed. Homeboy's base card #335 has four variations - the normal 1991 hologram, the 1990 comic ball hologram, the 1990 baseball hologram, and the 1990-91 hockey hologram. That hockey one took forever to find, but I finally have it.

This sh*t is what really keeps me collecting. So here they are just for fun

1991
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1990
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1990 comic ball
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1990-91 hockey
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I still need a Dawson hockey hologram

 

[banjar]

Good luck on the search mate.

This guy has a zillion hockey holograms for sale, and it's where I found the Alomar one. Somehow it didn't seem to show up on my searches, so thought I'd post it here. No Dawson though.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/322459554743

I still need a Dawson hockey hologram

 

[Hawk8]

Good luck on the search mate.

This guy has a zillion hockey holograms for sale, and it's where I found the Alomar one. Somehow it didn't seem to show up on my searches, so thought I'd post it here. No Dawson though.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/322459554743

I need to go through my cards again, hard to imagine I dont have a hockey one in the 1700 1991 Upper Deck Andre Dawsons I have. Maybe I didn't really know what I was looking at when I went through them