Roberto Alomar Collector's Thread

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So here's one you don't see every day. The 1990 Venezuelan Grandes Ligas sticker.

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If you're not familiar with these, here's the set page on TCDB:

1990 Venezuela Grandes Ligas Stickers Baseball - Trading Card Database

If you're a PC'er, and your player was active in 1989, well, there's a good chance he's in this set. The 1990 Topps set, after which the Venezuelan stickers were modeled, had 792 cards. But the sticker set only had 363 cards, so many players were missing. However as far as the stars go, they're all there.

As far as I can tell, these things were pretty much "unknown" to the mainstream card collecting community in the US until recent years. They've been discussed on a few threads here and there, including this one on FCB:

Venezuela Sticker 1990?

Anyone know anything about the Venezuela Stickers from 1990? There’s a few on eBay right now and I haven’t seen them before. They look a little like Topps cards from the same year. Are they rare or interesting? Thanks for the help. Sent from my iPhone using Freedom Card Board mobile app

www.freedomcardboard.com

I really find this stuff fascinating. Looking through my master checklist, I see 24 different Alomar cards/stickers that were only released in Venezuela. About half of these were from Panini, who distributed stickers there, but the other half are from various independent companies. And this 1990 sticker is by far the rarest, most obscure one of them all. Might be my best mailday of 2024?

PS: Just for fun, for you PC'ers of older players, here's a website dedicated to early Venezuelan cards/stickers:

Topps Venezuelans

Topps Venezuelans

toppsvenezuelan.weebly.com

This stuff is just so fun to find and obtain. I was ecstatic to pick up the Ryno.

 

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Hells yeah!

This stuff is just so fun to find and obtain. I was ecstatic to pick up the Ryno.

 

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More Exhibits. Now missing just 5 from the first series, and 13 from the second edition. Not as close as some of you guys though.

 

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And now for something completely different. A contemporary oddball issue! The 2023 Canadian Baseball HOF card. It's not listed on their website for sale, but they still have some copies available for $2 each. Most excellent!


According to TCDB the print run was 500 copies. The 2023 card is actually a reprint of their 2010 card, issued to commemorate his induction into the Canadian HOF. But it's not an exact reprint. I think they lost - or no longer had access to - the original graphics files, so they recreated the card from scratch. It's basically the same, but with several color and formatting differences. Here's the 2010 card:



They also sold an autographed copy of the 2010 card:

 

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Just for the hell of it, I randomly clicked on a card from the ol' collection. And unfortunately I landed on the 2002 Topps Home Team Advantage Indians Team Card. I really don't have anything to say about this one.

In other news, I hear FCB is now accepting nominations for least entertaining post of 2024. Cast your votes now!

 

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Alrighty...a somewhat more interesting piccup this time. The 1998 Pinnacle Plus Team Pinnacle Gold, foil front version.

Neat card, with two HOF second basemen. And astonishingly hard to find. They are not serial numbered, but if I had to guess at the print run, I'd say 50 each of the foil front and foil back versions. Really glad to have this one. Makes me feel better about missing out on the 1998 Crusade Red that just sold at auction...I was 2nd bidder.

 

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Alrighty...a somewhat more interesting piccup this time. The 1998 Pinnacle Plus Team Pinnacle Gold, foil front version.

Neat card, with two HOF second basemen. And astonishingly hard to find. They are not serial numbered, but if I had to guess at the print run, I'd say 50 each of the foil front and foil back versions. Really glad to have this one. Makes me feel better about missing out on the 1998 Crusade Red that just sold at auction...I was 2nd bidder.

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Maybe it was VintageSnowmobiles that shot you down on the Crusade? Whats a red Alomar going for these days?

 

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Thankfully it was not that guy. It was another Alomar collector. $586.

Maybe it was VintageSnowmobiles that shot you down on the Crusade? Whats a red Alomar going for these days?

 

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How many of the 25 have you seen uploaded? It seems a few players have been massively underpulled at this point. What was Alomar in, the Donruss Update? Maybe you should completely lose your mind, go unhinged and start ripping wax until you get one. I am 0/2 on the endeavor

I think the best Red I have left would be my Miguel Tejada, I bet that would get at least 450 at this point if Alomar is upper 500s

 

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BTW after doing some stock I think my most valuable card isn't even a Crusade, its probably this little guy:

Gaeas Cradle, Urzas Saga (UZ) Price History

Gaeas Cradle card price from Urzas Saga (UZ) for Magic: the Gathering (MTG) and Magic Online (MTGO).

www.mtggoldfish.com

 

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Apparently the Alomar was in Donruss Series 1. Over the last 10 years I think I've only seen three, maybe four, for sale. Two from that jagoff vintagesnowmobiles, which still remain "for sale" after a decade, and two up for auction.

There's now one more, on fanatics collect, but it's graded as a 10 so I will not be throwing my money at that.

That's crazy that your most valuable card is an MTG. Who would have thunk it?

How many of the 25 have you seen uploaded? It seems a few players have been massively underpulled at this point. What was Alomar in, the Donruss Update? Maybe you should completely lose your mind, go unhinged and start ripping wax until you get one. I am 0/2 on the endeavor

I think the best Red I have left would be my Miguel Tejada, I bet that would get at least 450 at this point if Alomar is upper 500s

 

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Apparently the Alomar was in Donruss Series 1. Over the last 10 years I think I've only seen three, maybe four, for sale. Two from that jagoff vintagesnowmobiles, which still remain "for sale" after a decade, and two up for auction.

There's now one more, on fanatics collect, but it's graded as a 10 so I will not be throwing my money at that.

That's crazy that your most valuable card is an MTG. Who would have thunk it?

I can't find the list of which guys are in which product, but I remember plain Donruss had the better checklist of the 4, with R+S having the worst (imagine if the rookies were a better crop, the football version got Peyton Manning!!). I'm 99% sure Griffey was on the Donruss list and there was a good auto set that year.

VintageBlowmobiles can suck my balls for $864.95 but ironically he says that's overpriced.

The scary part about that MTG card is its easily the type you just trade for nothing or sell for a buck back in the day... its just another boring land card that's hard to comprehend as a kid how important it is.