I had a floating holiday since New Year's Day was on a Sunday - I decided to finally take it today, and of course I took the opportunity to head over to my local card shop. Finding Clemente above was worth the trip alone!
I missed National Baseball Card Day on Saturday, so I decided to celebrate today! The shop had a quarter box with 2017 Archives, Heritage, Stadium Club and Series 2.
I felt like I had purchased a lot of Archives already, but I still managed to find a decent stack of new to me cards.
Not a big Pedroia fan, but that's an instant classic. Series 2 had several fantastic shots as well.
I snuck in one more vintage card in there - this one had about 5 staples in it at some point, which made it very affordable for me!
My first Topps Silk parallel! There was a box of odds and ends with sigs, parallels and relics, ranging from 2 bucks all the way up to 20.
I found this Park pinstripe relic in the same box. Rumor has it that Park and the Twins might be working on a buyout, which would be understandable given his struggles.
I also purchased a pack of Topps Chrome, which netted me this bonus card, so I guess I didn't miss out on NBCD after all! Did anyone pull a Minnesota Twin in their packs? I think Sano was the only guy this year, maybe Joe Mauer was in the checklist too...
Nice Clemente(s)! That '70 Topps was the first vintage Clemente I ever owned: a friend at my day care had a copy, and I think I traded him a couple late '80s Nolan Ryans for it back before either of us knew any better. I still grapple with whether or not I should feel guilty about that trade, but either way the Clemente was and is one of the centerpieces of my collection.
ReplyDeleteIf it felt like a fair trade at the time, then it's OK to say that it was fair. I once traded a stack of 90s cards (Griffeys and Frank Thomas) for a few 1977 Topps commons because I had never seen cards from that year before. Ironically, that's probably an even trade now.
DeleteSweet framed silk! Wish Topps would bring back those parallels.
ReplyDeleteI know that there were some in Allen & Ginter in the last few years , but I don't know if that includes the most recent issue.
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