This lovely card, serial number 250 of 299, can be yours if the Price is Right.
In other words, it's on eBay and available.
Showing posts with label 2014 Topps Turkey Red. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014 Topps Turkey Red. Show all posts
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Michael Wacha 2014 Topps Turkey Red Autograph SN/299 for sale
This lovely card, serial number 250 of 299, can be yours if the Price is Right.
In other words, it's on eBay and available.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
My First "1/1" Cards
I've said lately that I was just waiting for my wife to ask how much I had spent on cards. Well, that happened on Monday night. It wasn't a pleasant discussion, but it led me to realize that I have to have more patience in putting my collections together. I can't shake off or eliminate 25 years of not collecting in one month. A quick story should put this into perspective.
At the card show I went to on Sunday, I spent about 90 minutes at one table going through all the dime, quarter, and fifty-cent boxes. For most of that time, a gentleman who must have been at least in his late 70s was sitting behind the table sifting through cards. At times, his look was very serious and disappointed -- he was not finding what he wanted. Then, he found a card he needed. I'm not sure what card it was -- it might have been a card from the 1960s, or it might have been an insert from the 2014 Topps set. No matter. His face lit up. He tapped the table owner on the shoulder gently, as if he felt afraid to hurt her in his excitement. He looked up at her quizzically and said, "This one -- it's $1 too, right? It's the one I've been looking for!"
The woman paused and considered his question for a moment. She couldn't have been very much younger than he was -- perhaps in her mid-to-late 60s. The emotions showing on her face told of being asked this same question by the man many times in the past. After her pause, she bent over slightly at her waist, leaned down to him and acted as if she were about to whisper something in the man's ear. She stopped, and instead said more loudly than she might have wished, "Joe, come on, you know better. Find another card you want in there, and then it's a dollar."
That's a long introduction to the reminder that collecting is a life-long pursuit of fun, excitement, and enjoyment which comes from chasing and eventually finding that one card that you need to complete a set, to add to your player collections, or to add to your collection as the first one ever from a particular year, team, or decade. I can't expect to buy all the cards today.
Sometimes, though, you get the one-of-one auction on eBay and the emotion overrides your logic, your reason, and sometimes even your bank account. For me, at least, the auctions I won only overrode logic and reason. I'm not yet sure about my credit limits on my credit cards though.
But, for less that I would have expected but more than I might otherwise have wished to pay, I am the proud owner of my first two unique cards:
These two blank-back Topps Turkey Reds came up for auction from the Topps Vault on eBay. I really wanted the Jean Segura. Well, I really wanted the Segura, the Ryan Braun, and the Carlos Gomez, but the Gomez and the Braun went for more than I was willing to pay.
The Latos, well, I already mentioned that "oops" here.
At any rate, I am excited to own both of these cards, and I'm really hoping that Mat Latos wins the Cy Young Award this year for the NL Central second place Cincinnati Reds -- while Jean Segura wins the MVP for the NL Champion Milwaukee Brewers.
A guy's gotta have some dreams, right?
At the card show I went to on Sunday, I spent about 90 minutes at one table going through all the dime, quarter, and fifty-cent boxes. For most of that time, a gentleman who must have been at least in his late 70s was sitting behind the table sifting through cards. At times, his look was very serious and disappointed -- he was not finding what he wanted. Then, he found a card he needed. I'm not sure what card it was -- it might have been a card from the 1960s, or it might have been an insert from the 2014 Topps set. No matter. His face lit up. He tapped the table owner on the shoulder gently, as if he felt afraid to hurt her in his excitement. He looked up at her quizzically and said, "This one -- it's $1 too, right? It's the one I've been looking for!"
The woman paused and considered his question for a moment. She couldn't have been very much younger than he was -- perhaps in her mid-to-late 60s. The emotions showing on her face told of being asked this same question by the man many times in the past. After her pause, she bent over slightly at her waist, leaned down to him and acted as if she were about to whisper something in the man's ear. She stopped, and instead said more loudly than she might have wished, "Joe, come on, you know better. Find another card you want in there, and then it's a dollar."
That's a long introduction to the reminder that collecting is a life-long pursuit of fun, excitement, and enjoyment which comes from chasing and eventually finding that one card that you need to complete a set, to add to your player collections, or to add to your collection as the first one ever from a particular year, team, or decade. I can't expect to buy all the cards today.
Sometimes, though, you get the one-of-one auction on eBay and the emotion overrides your logic, your reason, and sometimes even your bank account. For me, at least, the auctions I won only overrode logic and reason. I'm not yet sure about my credit limits on my credit cards though.
But, for less that I would have expected but more than I might otherwise have wished to pay, I am the proud owner of my first two unique cards:
These two blank-back Topps Turkey Reds came up for auction from the Topps Vault on eBay. I really wanted the Jean Segura. Well, I really wanted the Segura, the Ryan Braun, and the Carlos Gomez, but the Gomez and the Braun went for more than I was willing to pay.
The Latos, well, I already mentioned that "oops" here.
At any rate, I am excited to own both of these cards, and I'm really hoping that Mat Latos wins the Cy Young Award this year for the NL Central second place Cincinnati Reds -- while Jean Segura wins the MVP for the NL Champion Milwaukee Brewers.
A guy's gotta have some dreams, right?
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Topps 2014 Turkey Red
Underwhelmed.
I wanted to like the Turkey Red set. I really did. I suppose I was expecting the design to be different -- truer to the original Turkey Reds, which I suppose has been done by Topps already and therefore, in their minds, they needed to update the look. So, seeing these for the first time (I avoided spoilers...) was a let down.
My "problem" with the 2014 Topps Turkey Reds is that they do not give me the feel of being "old time" baseball cards. Yes, the colors are flatter and the photos are perhaps less three dimensional than you get from any of the usual base set photograph but this set could easily have a Stadium Club logo from the early 1990s on it and it would have fit.
I was sucked into the moment and bought six of these boxes. In 6 boxes (and a total of 66 cards), I ended up getting duplicates of 8 cards. I guess the random insertion factor comes into play with the base set boxes -- where I have gone entire boxes of 24 packs without getting a duplicate -- but that too was disappointing when you're paying $20 a box from Topps for these cards.
If you're interested, I got duplicates of Chris Davis, Justin Verlander, Jose Segura, Wil Myers, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes (yup, two duplicate Blue Jays), and Matt Cain. At least I got a Brewer duplicate in Segura, I suppose.
There were a few highlights in these boxes, to be fair. Each box comes with an autograph. Yup, they are the sticker autographs -- sorry all you guys who hate those. My autographs:
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| Michael Wacha, 250/299 |
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| Nate Eovaldi, 78/99 |
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| Onelki Garcia, 461/699 |
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| Taylor Jordan, 279/499 |
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| Joe Kelly, 185/253 |
I'm not enthused by this set, to be fair. I'm pretty much thinking I will use these cards other than one Jose Segura and my favorite PED user (Ryan Braun) as trade bait. The downside: no Rockies, no Braves, and no Padres, among other teams.
I'll post a list of the cards I do have on my Trade Bait tab -- comment or e-mail me and let me know if you think we can work out a deal that involves any of these cards.
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