I took a trip away from the craziness of the MN State Fair to visit the 2nd location of Three Stars Sportscards in Bloomington, MN. For showing up, a pack of Topps National Baseball Card Day 2018 was mine. For spending $10 on Topps products, I earned the Rhys Hoskins you see above.
I think I will keep Rhys, and I plan on sending Kiermaier to France as part of the next Triple Break / trade with The Card Papoy, but the rest are up for trade.
How did I earn the Rhys? I bought a jumbo hobby pack of Topps Chrome.
Bregman and Bradley are different versions of refractors, Didi and Max are the European representatives in the pack.
I actually pulled a refractor auto! It's a Marlin, though. I have now pulled three autos in packs in 2018, and they've ALL been Marlins. Let's hope that the third time is a charm and it won't happen again.
I always like to dig through the various boxes they put out at the store, scoring this die-cut Bartolo Colon from 1995 Classic.
There was a 3 / $5 auto/relic box, and I found several things to my liking, along with a fair number of cards to add for future trades. The Jesse Crain auto graph is numbered to 99, I think it is a variation because the stained glass is not colored in like the other cards I've seen from that set . . .
There was a stack of oddball box sets, and I picked up three Kraft Singles Sets- 1993, 1994, and 1995. I'm fairly certain I already have the 1994 Puckett, but the others are new to me, and again there's some more trade bait. The sets were all American League only.
Wow. Bartolo looks so young. And thin.
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DeleteOne of the reasons I like Bartolo is no questions how/why he doubled in size like the sluggers at the turn of the century.
Didn't know they had a store in Bloomington. I haven't been to their Roseville store in years.
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