A new 1 of 1 for the ole collection

I didn't even realize it's been a little bit since I posted. Work has been quite crazy these past few months. Thankful to be in the industry I am that everything seems to be humming along even with the craziness going on. Back to more important things, like baseball cards. I was able to add this Topps Vault card to the collection recently.

2014 Topps Heritage. I was pleased with the year. I went really hard after parallels that year for the Howard collection and I have quite a few of them. Wouldn't mind finding all the one of ones from that year. I now have this one and the base topps.

My favorite parallel from this year is probably this card though..

The acetates are really cool cards in person.

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Go Phillies, still undefeated!

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The Game that never was ..

The Phillies officially offered refunds for individual game tickets this past week. You can request the refund and get it credited back to your card mid-May or you can do nothing and roll a credit into a game this year or next year. I decided to just go ahead and process the refund. I now have an interesting souvenir. I always preferred actual tickets then the electronic or print from home tickets. There's something nostalgic about them in their original form. I opted to pay the 2 bucks or whatever it was to get the tickets mailed to my house for Opening day this year.

Here are the tickets that never were. I was trying out some new seats this year and spent a little more for them.

Lower level, near the foul pole in right field. Would've been a cool view. (Or directly behind the foul pole I'm not entirely sure). I've gone to 4 or 5 Opening day's in a row and that streak unfortunately has come to an end. Until the next streak!

Phillies still undefeated!

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A couple of Patches!

This was the other biggish card I received in last week. I really like the look of it and design so I sniped it on ebay. There was 2 on ebay, I ended up getting this one for about 60 dollars less then the previous one. Pretty happy about that.

Without further introduction:

Rhys Hoskins and Bryce Harper Dual patch relic numbered out of 10 from 2020 Topps Tribute. I like the picture, how it looks like they are sword fighting with baseball bats. New sport to hold us over while they figure out how to play Baseball again in this post pandemic world.

Cataloging is going well. It's slow but steady. I imagine its going to be a multi month process and ever evolving. Working on the team sets portion is going to be interesting. Won't be so difficult for the 50s when there isn't so many sets that I'm chasing but when we get to the 90s I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to break it down. 

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A BIG 'wood' mini!!

This is one of the big little cards I was talking about in my previous post. A friend on the blowout boards who knows I collect Ryan Howard shot me a message and asked if I was interested. He wasn't 100% on selling but asked approximate value I would give it. I gave my opinion he gave his and he said he was willing to wait for his price (not much higher then mine) I said in so many words no worries I'll take it! Shrewd negotiation I know. It's one of a kind and I wasn't going to let a different Ryan Howard collector take it. Looks nice in the case!

Graded PSA 10, from the World Series year. It's a super sharp looking card. Numbered 1/1 on the back in blue ink. Since they did those by hand back then for a number of years. Sometimes even forgetting to number them, in this case that was not forgotten.

I recently started inventorying my collection. I have 55 Ryan Howard autographs on cards and 96 relics. I'm still working on the numbered cards and cards of note, so far up to 191. I know I have a few more to list. I'm skipping regular base cards and some random inserts. I am including rookies and things like that.

I plan on doing the same for my Phillies collection, my HOF rookie collection and then my miscellaneous stuff. It will be nice to have it all in one place and easy to add/subtract too. I realized memorizing the whole collection is hard, I got most of it down but I do occasionally forget I have something and buy it again. Sometimes I buy stuff again because I like the card, but hey that's just me.

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2020 Topps Opening Day!

A good Samaritan on blowout cards was kind enough to send me these team set for free! I generally don't open packs of opening day so I was happy to knock the Phillies off the ole want list.

A pretty nice collection of pictures. All action shots. Have some scans to do tomorrow, pretty psyched about the 2 cards I received this week.

Always happy to check off a team set in one fell swoop!

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A Trio of Hoskins!

I did not receive all of these cards recently but I am looking to keep up this 'set' going forward as long as the cards are made. I like the look of the cards and the fact the autos are on-card make it appealing as well.

Picked up this one recently:

2020 Topps Heritage blue auto. If you saw my earlier posts we opened 2 boxes this year and did quite well. 2 Autos and 2 Relics (1 of the relics being Hoskins!) so I have zero complaints about Heritage. Even though we didn't see the autos until the base cards were being sorted. Better to be lucky then good!

This card goes well with it's previous year brethren:

2019 Topps Heritage blue auto.

And last but not least the rookie auto.

For a brief minute I considered doing this in the red ink and then I looked at the rookie prices and thought blue ink works. I now am up to 9 Hoskins autos! Pretty good!

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Shiny Hoskins!

I recently grabbed this nice Hoskins card for not too much money. Like everyone else in the baseball card world I like shiny baseball cards. I believe there is 70 of these but they are not officially stamped by Topps. Still nice though.

 

I still hold out hope that baseball will happen in the near future. I also have a ticket to the National and that still has a small chance of happening. Still staying active on the collecting front and trying to add some cool pieces. I have one big Ryan Howard one coming in that I purchased tonight and I'm pretty psyched about it. Hopefully will be here next week sometime!

Go Phillies, undefeated!

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