Thursday, March 17, 2016

A New Vintage Super Trade

Mark Hoyle, as we have come to know, is the bestower of great vintage of all shapes, sizes, and flavors.
But he also can surprise you from time to time with the new stuff. A PWE hit my mailbox this week with some 2016 vintage goodness.

 In 1967, This card featured Killebrew and Bob Allison - I hope 500 Homers are in the cards for Sano as well, but I won't put all that on a guy entering his first full season in the big leagues.
 John Hicks was a Mariner last year, so it makes sense to pair him with one on this card. He's a "veteran" rookie, and he'll probably spend most of 2016 with AAA Rochester, only coming up if John Ryan Murphy or Kurt Suzuki get hurt (or traded).
 I like Manager cards. The action shots are the best, but this is ok too.
 Good write-up too.
 Your 2015 AL Triples leader, Eddie Rosario, and the Twins only lefty starter, Mr. Tommy Milone. He's, how you say? Crafty.
Stickers! Always fun to pick up Twins from the stickers set, one of these years I just might get a book from Target and build a set. Seems like a fun diversion.

Thanks Mark! As Always, a great bunch of cards!

7 comments:

  1. I grabbed that Molitor off JC, glad I get to keep it. Probably gonna build the managers set

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  2. Manager cards are drastically underrated. I wish they'd start showing back up in the Flagship set too.

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    1. Absolutely- but that means fewer Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, and Madison Bumgarner cards - gotta have 12 per set, right? :P

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  3. The 67 set is my favorite set. Been working on it for a while. One card to go. The Seaver rookie. Bought a hand collated Heritage set this year to accompany it. Grabbed a few packs to send out some cards

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    1. oh darn I just sent you a copy of the BoSox Heritage team card, everything else in the envelope was from prior years, though, but still hopefully new to you! Thanks again for these.

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    2. It's all good. I always like to put together a separate Sox set.

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