Anyway, here's eight new baseball PC cards!:
Steve Boros 1984 Topps Tiffany
Up first thanks to the magic of sorting alphabetically by last name is the card I'm actually the most excited about today. This '84 Tiffany of Boros completes yet another player collection for me! That's 16 up and 16 down for the former Tiger/Cub/Red player and A's/Padres manager. It's kind of funny to me that the final two cards of his I needed were 80s Tiffany parallels, not any of his vintage stuff that spanned '58-'65. Check out that album for the full run or have another gander at the checklist here. Up next, I suppose, will be a less-than-half-assed attempted at his three 1/1s or his Topps buybacks. By the way, he's my seventh completed PC.
Jake Fox 2010 Upper Deck Gold (#02/99)
In many ways this 2010 UD Jake Fox parallel is the next most exciting addition for me because I have so few cards of his to chase at this point. After I added a bit more credit trying to score some trade pieces, I had enough left to take a stab at this card whose price had previously kept me away. I was able to make a solid offer and get it accepted, which I'm thrilled about because as with most of Fox's non-base cards, I don't think I'd ever seen more than maybe one other available anywhere! Now that I'm at 17/19 of his run I don't expect to find the other two (#d /25 and /15) anytime soon, but maybe someday I'll get to 100$!
Charlie Gehringer 2004 Sweet Spot Classic Patch 300 manupatch (#216/300)
And Charlie is on the board! This is the first hit of the Mechanical Man to appear in my Michigan Baseball PC. Sure it's just a manupatch, but it's still a fun start--Sweet Spot resulted in some very cool patches featuring logos and other designs. Best of all, I didn't have to throw down very much credit to nab one of the nicer cards in my Gehringer collection. And of course it's always fun to add to the Tiger/Wolverine collection. I do hope to add a "real" hit before the end of the year, though, ideally something along the lines of a cut signature.
Charlie Gehringer 2012 Panini Cooperstown Blue Crystal (#292/499)
Speaking of Gehringer, here's another great card I picked up. I already had his base and Red Crystal versions from 2012 Cooperstown, but now I have what's obviously my favorite of the bunch: blue! The parallels look nice enough that I might try to track down the rainbow over time if it doesn't prove too costly. Meanwhile, Gehringer bumps past the 20-card mark to a new total of 21.
Barry Larkin 1997 Studio Hard Hats (#3817/5000)
Right after Gehringer we have another HOFer, and a much more recent one in Larkin. This acetate insert is one great example of how much we're missing the gold old days of Donruss and some of the inserts they came up with. Hard Hats has kind of been brought back in a couple sports, but they're nothing like the original, which hailed from one of Donruss' finest products: Studio. Numbered to "just" 5000 copies, this is easily one of my favorite inserts of Larkin in his collection.
Barry Larkin 2010 Topps Commemorative Patch manupatch
I have one more Larkin to show off, and like his HOF peer Gehringer, it's a manurelic, my third such card of the SS legend (2011 Reds logo, 2012 World Series pin), two of which honor Cincy's most recent championship back when I was just seven. Not bad for just a few bucks. As always I bow down to the amazing collection of Chris at Nachos Grande (he posted a new one today!), but for my part I'm happy with the 224 Larkins I now own.
J.J. Putz 2014 Topps Red Hot Foil
Putz, who hasn't been the D-Backs' full-time closer since 2012, got into 18 games this year and wasn't terrible effective before being released back in June. That didn't stop Topps from including him in Series II this year, though, so I'm glad to get to chase more of his cards while I wait to see if he makes it back to a Major League club next year. Oddly enough this is my first 2014 Topps issue of Putz, and I grabbed it because the price was right. I may go after the base and cheaper parallels elsewhere, maybe with Justcommons, but I'm happy to take my time tracking down the other 17 cards in the flagship/Mini rainbow. This is my 180th card out of J.J.'s current total of 326, so as usual I still have a long way to go!
Bobby Scales 2009 Topps Chrome Blue Refractor (#040/199)
Last but not least on this evening of shiny pickups is a beautiful Blue Refractor (a.k.a. Best Refractor) of former Cub Bobby Scales. Like Fox (also a former Cub!), he doesn't have a ton of cards for me to chase so it's not terribly often that I find a new one. In this case, the card above had been available on COMC for a very long time, but always at a price that made no sense. Then patience proved to be a virtue when a different seller was asking for less than $1 for his copy. Take THAT, other guy. Also, hooray again for Blue Refractors. This is my 21st of his 31 cards, with more work to be done on this set's rainbow, among others.
All in all, not a bad day for the baseball PCs, not to mention Michigan's athletic department! Stay tuned for a final post covering the football stuff, maybe this weekend.
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