General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread - 2015

[Guest d'Kong76]

Brilliant!

[Zvon]

I'm all over e-bay looking to complete this set:

Freakin' awesome. Cept' I wanna play t'ird!

defgav from Baseball Card Breakdown gif'd it up:
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[G-Fafif]

Seo's SuperStripe Expos cap is to DIE FOR!

[Guest d'Kong76]

[dgwphotography]

I took the oldest DGW to the comic book shop to pick up her weekly pull, and picked up my first few packs of the year - Metly cards were David Wright, Daniel Murphy and the Met team card (why oh why did they use a shot with the fugly camo unis?).

Also:

Got an 1973 Bob Oliver card, which was ruined with a "Topps Original 2015" foil stamp;
First Pitch card of 105-year old Agnes McGee throwing out the first pitch in Petco Park;
First card in the first pack was a Stan Musial highlight card - Serendipity, since Musial was my dad's favorite player;

I really think this year's set is Topps' best looking set in a while...

[Zvon]

Just got my first packs of the year. Got a $20 blister box and a smaller box that was $10. Maybe the smaller is a blister box. I don't know what they call these things anymore. Gah! I got a big box and a small box.

DING! My first Met card of 2015 (in the first pack too) is....drumroll please........Zach Wheeler!
That is a good omen.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I bought a rack pack, which I remember buying for 50 cents a piece at the corner store in Massapequa Park when I was a kid. Now they're $5.25 with far fewer cards.

The only Met: Carlos Torres.

[Ceetar]

random selection of cards from a $1 clear pack of cards in a bowling alley vending machine in Hackensack, NJ. 6 "mets"



wait. 8.

[Zvon]

^That is a killing!

[Zvon]

I probably got every Met series 1 card except the one that I was going for.

Wright, Muffy, Grandy, Duda, Lagares [Future Star](excellent!), Wheeler, Colon, Herrera (RC), E.Young Jr (reg and a rainbow looking version), Matzuzaka, and a pretty kool Strawman special: Mets select Straw at #1 in 1980.

No deGrom. GAH!

How does that always happen in bb card collecting? I wanted one freakin' card !
(I collect the other Mets too though, so in a way I did rather well)

seawolf17 wrote: As always, Zvon or whoever, if you buy any '15 and pull any parallels of any of my Stony Brook guys (Tom Koehler and Nick Tropeano and Joe Nathan ALL in the set), let me know.

I'm not totally up on what's what in today's card lingo. Is a parallel card a rainbowey looking one? Or the gold border 00/2015 one? Or the Walmart and Target colored cards?

[dgwphotography]

Parallels = doubles. i.e. more than one of the same card.

Actually, I think it would be cool to set up a card exchange here - we trade our doubles with each other to fill in our needs...

I pulled a deGrom today. If I get a second one, I'll post it here.

[seawolf17]

Yes and no.

"Parallels" in card parlance are variations of the same numbered card with the same photo. Usually color or background. Sometimes numbered (gold, black), sometimes not (purple), but the design and photo are the same on the front. Duplicates are multiple copies of the exact same card.

I'm always up to trade. My needs are here: http://bit.ly/wVFOp3

[Zvon]

My brother stopped by with this news of a 2015 Topps Jeter error card. It's a special card, the one pictured below (archetype sub set). On the error there is no foil name. He said he saw it on Ebay for around 45 bucks. He got one in a pack and put it up for $50.

I knew I got one of those cards so I looked thru my 2015 sub-set cards and the one I have is not the error.
But right behind Jeter was a Mariano Rivera Archetype with no foil name. I was like holy shit and my brother said he was not aware of this card and that there's none up on Ebay.

So this is a Rivera error, no foil name. You think this would be worth more than the Jeter?
I also got 2 Tanaka Future Star cards.
Hey Rogers, if you have any parallel Mets I'm open to trades!

The Eyoung parallel card scanned nice. I'm going for a team set of these rainbow parallels.

[Edgy MD]

How can a Derek Jeter word cloud not include "intangibles"?

Or "cinnamon"?

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: How can a Derek Jeter word cloud not include "intangibles"? Or "cinnamon"?

...or "gift-basket".

[seawolf17]

Those missing-foil cards happen every year. They're curiosities, nothing more. You might get lucky and find a buyer, but it's far from a gold mine.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Do youse buy cards with the intent to sell them down the line for a profit? 'Cause if youse don't, and youse just wanna have the cards youse wanna have just so youse could have 'em, youse all must hate this name missing error thing parallel crap that drives the price of some cards to orders of magnitude higher than the price of a common.

[dgwphotography]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Do youse buy cards with the intent to sell them down the line for a profit? 'Cause if youse don't, and youse just wanna have the cards youse wanna have just so youse could have 'em, youse all must hate this name missing error thing parallel crap that drives the price of some cards to orders of magnitude higher than the price of a common.

I hate it. This sort of thing is what drove me from the hobby decades ago. I just got back into it, I figured I would buy a few packs every week, and build just the base set. I went to Topps site, downloaded the series one checklist, and the number of subsets outside of the base set just astonished me.

[seawolf17]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Do youse buy cards with the intent to sell them down the line for a profit? 'Cause if youse don't, and youse just wanna have the cards youse wanna have just so youse could have 'em, youse all must hate this name missing error thing parallel crap that drives the price of some cards to orders of magnitude higher than the price of a common.

I can see DGW's point, and I'm not saying I haven't been frustrated by it, but I collect what I like. If it happens that I come up with something that someone places a higher value on than I do, I slap it up on eBay and see what happens. That's mostly why I like collecting the guys I liked as a kid, who don't have any of the big-dollar oddball kinds of things. (And when they do, I just don't collect those cards.)

My challenge is keeping my Stony Brook guys collection strong, which gets harder every year as more guys get closer to making the jump.

[Guest d'Kong76]

After around 2000, I keep it very basic... and only Mets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

These cards sure do get me in the mood for some Clapton Bluesbreakers tunes. And Batman.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

I think that Terry Collins might be the new Mets record holder for most baseball cards as a manager. He's been with the org for quite some time, now.

[Edgy MD]

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I guess the Mets got edged by the Braves for second place in Heritage's standings by virtue of playing 38�38 ball within the division, compared to the Braves' 40�36.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

What the hell kind of lame photoshopped uni is Cuddyer wearing above? Got a Mets patch on the shoulder but clearly a Rockies number 3.

And what's with METS ® and NL ™. Get that shit off my baseball cards.

[stevejrogers]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I think that Terry Collins might be the new Mets record holder for most baseball cards as a manager. He's been with the org for quite some time, now.

Valentine and Johnson were around longer.

[stevejrogers]

According to http://www.tradingcarddb.com/

Note, does include team postcard sets and parallels. The team filter though doesn't seem to count stuff like Valentine's appearances in World Series commemorative sets and the like as well as cards with multiple people from different teams on it (like a Dallas Green card where he shares it with an AL skipper in the 1994 (IIRC) Topps set.

As a Met
Willie Randolph as manager 49 (was in both Topps base and their Allen & Ginter sets)
Gil Hodges as manager 34 (obviously a ton in recent nostalgia based sets)
Davey Johnson 32
Casey Stengel 24 (obviously a ton in recent nostalgia based sets)
Bobby Valentine as manager 21
Art Howe 21
Yogi Berra as a manager 17 (I'm guessing as some of the nostalgia based ones don't have images that can tell if photo is from 72-74)
Jerry Manuel as manager (in as a coach in Met postcard sets and Topps Met Gift Boxes set) 10 (all off the same Topps 2009 base card!)
Bud Harrelson as manager 9
Joe Torre as manager 9
Jeff Torborg 8
Terry Collins 5
Wes Westrum 5
Frank Howard 4
Dallas Green as manager (I wonder how he is as a Met in THB as he is as a Met in this site as the 1990 Wiz All Time Met set) 4 (all team sets)
Joe Frazier 3
George Bamberger 1

Others
Mike Cubbage 3 as a player, 9 (mostly team sets) as a coach
Roy McMillan 8 as a player, 1 (Berra's 1974 card with his coaching staff) as a coach
Salty Parker 7 cards listed, none as a Met

[batmagadanleadoff]

Steve: I don't count cards like that. One image on one template is one card for me. If Topps wants to make 19 variations of the same image on the same template, but, say, with different colored borders, and wants to count that as 19 different cards, that's fine by me. But it's one card in my book. I know that others see it differently. But now you know my mindset when I thought that Collins might be on more mgr. cards than any other Met. I also meant while actively managing, to exclude, for example, the Caseys and Gils that might pop up today, though I wouldn't've expected you to figure that out.

[stevejrogers]

What about card #s? Do you not count O-Pee-Chees since they have the same card image on front but number is different?