General All Purpose Baseball Card Thread - 2015

[Guest d'Kong76]

Got cards today, dgwphotography... thanks again!

[Zvon]

I had to go 17 deep to resurrect this thread. And I'm also hijacking it for a while, so there.

Had the annual ASG pack party. I've been wanting to get some 2015 Topps Archive. I checked Target & Walmart 4 times since the 1st week in June when they came out and they did not have 'em. Then a few hours before the game one of my brothers calls and says that they have boxes of Archive at Target. So we zipped out there and grabbed some. We also had some 2015 Topps series2.

I knew I would like the Archive cards because I was a fan of the primary designs used: 1957, 1976, & 1983. I may come off as a card collector, and I was in the past, but up until I bought some Archive packs in 2013 I had not bought more than a couple of regular issue Topps packs a year-just to see what they looked like. With the emergence of these Mets pitchers I began buying more packs to try and get their rookie cards. The only one already released was Harvey, and incredibly I got that in a pack (I only bought a few 2012 packs-that was very lucky). So I have a nice little collection of newage Metrookie cards. I'll get back to the Mets in a bit.

These are how the 2015 Archive look and I really like these cards. I'm going to try and complete the set. I love that '76 Kiner.

[fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ubdQIx-1oGg/VacJj_zJLPI/AAAAAAAAcSI/JOe3GLA6dik/s598-Ic42/57BJ.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IopDVGVt7v0/VacJkUN59aI/AAAAAAAAcSM/YyzHWXMsvjs/s589-Ic42/57WB.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3sQpKqrbJQc/Vacyp5VgHhI/AAAAAAAAcVM/r7wRN5U1OlI/s667-Ic42/57MB.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e-orQmbGT4w/VacJkizx1zI/AAAAAAAAcSQ/3QqsC9SZyz0/s590-Ic42/76RC.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l2OcZwCvsHI/VacrsbExyWI/AAAAAAAAcU0/U29uXtgIGr8/s667-Ic42/83LG.png[/fimg:2jscfi90][fimg=200:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EEfTPQY-ShA/VabwBtdNDOI/AAAAAAAAcOM/jjurW2RO09s/s549-Ic42/76Ralph.png[/fimg:2jscfi90]

The silver border is a limited run of 199 printed. Not a Trout collector but that's nice. Maybe I'll start one. What's his rookie card?

[fimg=400:2jscfi90]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m5mxXepATPU/VacLF4EqPqI/AAAAAAAAcT8/giJUIfQzCKc/s780-Ic42/SILVERtroutWainwright.png[/fimg:2jscfi90]
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Got an autographed Bret Boone. If there are any Boone fans in the audience, I will trade this for a worthy Mets card.

....to be continued (with Mets cards).

[seawolf17]

I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too.

Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175.

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175.

Do you collect every card? Every set? You must have a gigantic collection. You probably need a whole 'nuther room just for your cards.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175. Do you collect every card? Every set? You must have a gigantic collection. You probably need a whole 'nuther room just for your cards.

When I put together those card threads on Mets who played for the current opponent, I discover many regional card sets that I'd otherwise, never get to look at. They come in handy for filling out those hard to find fringy players, or players who were on a team briefly and in the middle of the season -- and would thus, not appear in a major set. I wish some sponsor would set out to make Mets regional sets. Kahn's Meats stopped producing Mets sets about 20 years ago. Those sets used crappy card stock and the designs were basic and uninspiring, but man, those sets were large and very inclusive. Some of my favorite all-time sets were from the manager Art Howe era when Upper Deck produced their 40 man sets and Topps produced their Total (or Topps Total). Those were some large sets. Just about everybody got a card. The fourth reliever? Yep. Seventh starter on the depth chart who spent more time in AAA than with the big club. Yeah.

[seawolf17]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175. Do you collect every card? Every set? You must have a gigantic collection. You probaly need a whole 'nuther room just for your cards.

I've gone in waves. When I was on Jeopardy, I mentioned that I was working on a complete collection of Mets autos; I've cut that back to just the guys who have the most importance to me.

I mostly collect Mets, particularly my favorites (McReynolds and Hernandez) and the hometown guy (Harnisch), and anyone with a Stony Brook connection (except Joe Nathan, because there's just too much out there). I also love the Archives sets.

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175.

I'll start sorting. I can tell you that I got almost two of every card from the 2 boxes I opened. To put it the other way there were maybe 10 cards that I didn't get doubles of out of 160. I will be happy to trade&mail, but first I have to check with one of my brothers who said he might try and build the set. He wouldn't want to do it thru the mail tho, I don't think, and If he's not visiting again til X-mas he'll have to go to the back of the line. In any case, if all 3 of us work together it should be very doable. I'll work on a list.

[Zvon]

These are the Archive Mets I got.

[fimg=400:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AKLYEQBY0N0/VacJp123MGI/AAAAAAAAcTM/LyZeANHa7X4/s831-Ic42/LagsMook.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]
[fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ra3Z8Uug6CY/VabwA21sFyI/AAAAAAAAcOU/7CxolPeYcn0/s554-Ic42/76MUFFY.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk][fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KjlqDieOW_k/VabwB1qnVjI/AAAAAAAAcOI/QP57u4zmmio/s557-Ic42/76deGROM.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]
[fimg=200:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xUhVbeMqRVA/VacJlT2XWGI/AAAAAAAAcSo/e34k1q_Kh4k/s556-Ic42/83Seaver.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]

Got two Farrell's, only scanned one. The other is a 1982 on the Reds.
[fimg=300:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xh1K41XLqJQ/VacyqNClWBI/AAAAAAAAcVU/3M4tjnjzA-k/s655-Ic42/89WF.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]

And I'll need a drumroll for this one. This card has made my season.
I keep fighting getting sucked in to this business where they make a card rare out of the chute with a limited run. If someone else got this I'd be bitching.
But I got it so I'll jump for joy.
83 gold border Tom Seaver, #23 of 50.

[fimg=300:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NqAepwDtYpE/VabwhOWBHII/AAAAAAAAcO4/qBiYKEICAMg/s800-Ic42/TS.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]
[fimg=500:2f3twhfk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tJv61W-BTmI/VabwGCNylmI/AAAAAAAAcOw/9bKI4tR_CJA/s1024-Ic42/TSback.png[/fimg:2f3twhfk]

This type of card is really nice but I'm not out to collect limited cards. That would drive me both crazy & broke. Also, I have a problem with that back. Why would Topps cut off the stats at 1979? From what I can see they did this to retired players with long careers. I don't like it. And Topps continually amazes me with decisions like that. More in my next post, which will show Seaver's actual 1983 Topps cards.

To be continued...

[Zvon]

So now I got a wacky collection of 83t Seavers. I figure I'll end up making one for the blog as well when I get to the '83s.
I am a big fan of this design. I was really out of card collecting alltogether in 83 and hadn't even seen what the '83's looked like til around '86/'87.
Dwight Goodens appearance is what got me back into cards in '85 (from 85 to around 94).
[fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iuAXnBIlEic/VacJnd3aUSI/AAAAAAAAcS0/75JcDdGz-G0/s682-Ic42/83tTSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xoMdp968uAA/VacJnXyeA3I/AAAAAAAAcS8/ND10m8EUU6M/s800-Ic42/83opcTSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W7_X49MYF8c/VacJqVP_bVI/AAAAAAAAcTo/WzFlBzFciAc/s800-Ic42/83tUD-TSeaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk][fimg=200:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xUhVbeMqRVA/VacJlT2XWGI/AAAAAAAAcSo/e34k1q_Kh4k/s556-Ic42/83Seaver.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk]

You can see on the 83tUD back they cover Tom from 1967 to 1982. And I'm sure his last Topps card has his complete stats. Why would Topps not have his complete back on the limited card? Or at least up to that year, 83?
I think they are intentionally trying to piss me off so I talk about them.
DOH!
[fimg=400:13qgn3uk]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iwvVSyDeNzI/VacJpDhmOMI/AAAAAAAAcTU/t05ZL6HOysE/s1024-Ic42/83tUD-TSback.png[/fimg:13qgn3uk]

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175. I'll start sorting. I can tell you that I got almost two of every card from the 2 boxes I opened. To put it the other way there were maybe 10 cards that I didn't get doubles of out of 160. I will be happy to trade&mail, but first I have to check with one of my brothers who said he might try and build the set. He wouldn't want to do it thru the mail tho, I don't think, and If he's not visiting again til X-mas he'll have to go to the back of the line. In any case, if all 3 of us work together it should be very doable. I'll work on a list.

My brother's up for a 3 way. DOH! Get your mind out of the gutter.
I'm going to get one more 19.99 box tomorrow and freeze there. My bro will be down next week. I'll put up lists before then. Do you want to do this here?(does the board mind if we do this here?) facebook? Just thru Email? I'm up for however.

As of now the number 1 card on my want list is Brooks Robinson (83t). Hopefully that's in tomorrows haul.

Looking at your lists. You're going to have an incredible collection (if you don't already).
You don't have the Brooks as of that list. I know my brother got 2 in his box when he was down for the ASG. I hope I get it tomorrow cause then his will be available.
I have a bunch of doubles you can use.

[Zvon]

Come on Topps! Whats wrong w/the pic?

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[stevejrogers]

That's how they've been doing Archives since the brand started. Every so often they'll cross the time streams with card style and card photo.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Yeah. That and that Bench is throwing with his left hand.




The photo's flipped.

OE



Know what's really annoying about the Wagner. The player name font on the Wagner is not like the original '76 font.

[Zvon]

Yea, Bench photo is reversed. Thats a great shot too. No idea if they will correct it (don't even know if Topps is aware of it-Id figure someone told 'em). These days, odds are good that they did it on purpose.

I have a bone to pick with Topps. I'm looking into the details of the Archives set (looking at the checklists)and even though I'm only going for the base set, I will vent about what's being done to what used to be the fun hobby of card collecting. For instance- the Archive set is actually 330 cards. They intentionally make the last 30 cards in the set "short print" and very difficult to get. And they say, meh, it's part of the set and, meh, it's not really part of the set, and bullshit like this.

Topps, suck mah balls, I'm gonna decide what I'll collect and the 300 card "base" set, that is not the entire set due to your shifty practices, is good enough for me. More on that later cause they have all kinds of side dishes that go with this set.

After this set is completed I'm going back to getting only Mets as a protest of what has become of this hobby (I did that back in 1994 too, lol. And now it's ten times worse). If I had the license $$ I would market a set, and it would be a nice simple baseball card set.

Overall I have few complaints about 2015 Archives. Here's one.
Take a look at this card, a Bill Mazeroski from the archive set:

[fimg=300:1gbq29ct]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NR9A1y0zfe0/VabwB-bypLI/AAAAAAAAcOE/kqlx3C9DHqM/s555-Ic42/83BillMaz.png[/fimg:1gbq29ct]

Now there's no way that's Maz from his playing days. It's gotta be an old timers game or something, right?
And that yellow. Why would you use that yellow?. There was a reason you didn't use that yellow back in 1983, you numbskulls.
[fimg=200:1gbq29ct]https://bapple2286.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/dave-parker-g.jpg[/fimg:1gbq29ct]

[stevejrogers]

Mazeroski retired in 1972.

[Zvon]

SteveJRogers wrote: Mazeroski retired in 1972.

So? Teddy ballgame retired way before '83.
The year of the border doesn't matter to Topps.


I don't know that the photo on the Maz card was taken in '83. But that gut tells me it certainly wasn't taken during his days as a player. My complaint is that they should use a good pic of the guy, in his prime (at least from his playing days).

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Journalist opens a 1986 pack of Topps, chews the gum, and then goes on a journey to meet with all the players in the pack. Read all about it on the Wax Packblog.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Journalist opens a 1986 pack of Topps, chews the gum, and then goes on a journey to meet with all the players in the pack. Read all about it on the Wax Packblog.

I heard about this project from the author himself who came across my Mazzilli bio. Like me he found touching base with the man directly a little tricky!

[seawolf17]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: I love the Archives sets. I have a list of needs, Z, if you pick up more and wind up with doubles (http://bit.ly/wVFOp3), and I have a handful of doubles I can send your way if you need them too. Trout's RCs are in 2011: Bowman Draft #101 and/or Topps Update #175. I'll start sorting. I can tell you that I got almost two of every card from the 2 boxes I opened. To put it the other way there were maybe 10 cards that I didn't get doubles of out of 160. I will be happy to trade&mail, but first I have to check with one of my brothers who said he might try and build the set. He wouldn't want to do it thru the mail tho, I don't think, and If he's not visiting again til X-mas he'll have to go to the back of the line. In any case, if all 3 of us work together it should be very doable. I'll work on a list. My brother's up for a 3 way. DOH! Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm going to get one more 19.99 box tomorrow and freeze there. My bro will be down next week. I'll put up lists before then. Do you want to do this here?(does the board mind if we do this here?) facebook? Just thru Email? I'm up for however. As of now the number 1 card on my want list is Brooks Robinson (83t). Hopefully that's in tomorrows haul. Looking at your lists. You're going to have an incredible collection (if you don't already). You don't have the Brooks as of that list. I know my brother got 2 in his box when he was down for the ASG. I hope I get it tomorrow cause then his will be available. I have a bunch of doubles you can use.

We can do it here, through PMs if you'd like. My wantlist is current. If not '15 Archives, I'm SURE I can find other things you'll want around here.

[Zvon]

I never got that additional box. They were all out at Target. Walmarts card section here in Mayslanding NJ is atrociously horrible and not kept up to date. Target had a few packs so I got them. But 5.99 a pack...thats a shame. But I did good, needed almost all the cards. Still only have 139/300.

Looked into hobby boxes (only online-looks like all the old card shops around here are gone) and the price was way up there because of demand. I think it's peaked and should be coming back down. It better come down a lot. I'm not even sure of the base price but I'm not spending $120 for a box of brand new baseball cards (that was 2 weeks ago-I'll check again later today).

I say do it right here if the board has no problem with it. I'll post my list here or link you to it. I already have yours.

If my brother can't get by in the next few days I'll proceed w/o him.

[dgwphotography]

It's not bad enough that I got the same card twice within one pack, but it was a card I already had....

[seawolf17]

That's odd collation. You might want to eyeball that and make sure one of those isn't a variation.

http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2015-topps-series-2-baseball-variations

[dgwphotography]

seawolf17 wrote: That's odd collation. You might want to eyeball that and make sure one of those isn't a variation. http://www.cardboardconnection.com/2015-topps-series-2-baseball-variations

These aren't variations. The collation in series 1 was messed up, too. I bought the 36 card packs, and kept getting the same players over and over. I've bought 4 of these packs for series II, and there are a couple of guys I already have 3 cards for.

[seawolf17]

Yeah, that sucks. Usually the variation (if there is one) is stuck in the middle of the packs with the inserts, so you know it's something different even if it's not apparent at first glance. I usually use the code in fine print at the bottom of the back side to see if it's a variation.

[dgwphotography]

Topps revealed their 2016 base design today:

[fimg=500:h8dwz07o]http://www.topps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-06-at-4.18.12-PM.png[/fimg:h8dwz07o]

Me likey.

http://www.topps.com/blog/topps-reveals-base-design-for-2016-topps-series-1-baseball/

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mike Piazza Marlins baseball cards and getting outbid on ebay over and over and over.

(zvon: you should read this article. There's a money making opportunity here for you.)

[fimg=233]http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20150818-161746/images/foundation/logos/nyt-logo-185x26.svg[/fimg]

Piazza, the Marlin, And a Shared Fixation

By KEN BELSON DEC. 31, 2012

One is a corporate lawyer from Southern California with few hobbies and only the mildest interest in sports. The other is a college student from Miami who is less than half his age and has amassed a stash of memorabilia that matches his love of baseball. Yet from opposite ends of the country they share one peculiar passion: collecting trading cards of Mike Piazza in a Florida Marlins uniform. Never mind that Piazza played just five games for the Marlins in May 1998, a mere pit stop on his way from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Mets. Never mind that he did nothing of note during that stint, except hit his only triple of the season. The closest either man has been to Piazza is waving to him from the stands. Yet for Jerry Dworkin, 59, and Chris Fernandez, 25, there is no greater thrill than finding one of the more than 120 Piazza Marlins cards issued from 1998 to 2005. �I can�t deny it is obscure,� said Dworkin, who lives in Irvine, Calif., and admitted to spending five figures to accumulate more than 100 cards. �I�m not a baseball expert. I�m just a run-of-the-mill guy who got caught up in the oddity of the situation, someone as great as Mike Piazza being on a team for just five games.� Jerry Dworkin said he has spent a "five-figure number" to accumulate more than 100 cards. Fernandez, who keeps 59 Piazza Marlins cards in a cigar box, was more concise: �We kind of marvel at it.� Fans may marvel at their cards if Piazza�s election to the Hall of Fame, in his first year of eligibility, is announced on Jan. 9. Typically, a player�s rookie cards get the biggest boost from Hall entry. Piazza played most of his career in Los Angeles and New York, so the cards from those years are likely to appreciate more than his Marlins cards do, collecting experts said. Yet sports collecting is fueled by an unending flow of players who wear an endless number of uniforms and gear. And when a baseball player makes it to the Hall of Fame, some of his biggest fans will spend great sums to commemorate the moment. Trading cards are the most obvious investments because they have been around for so long and are relatively inexpensive. Years ago, scarcity and a player�s popularity drove demand. The T206 Honus Wagner issued in 1909 is the most famous card in part because few exist. Card collecting has grown immensely since then, and manufacturers have become adept at celebrating even the most obscure achievements, including Piazza�s five-game stretch for the team now known as the Miami Marlins. They recognized the peculiarity of an All-Star like Piazza being traded twice in a brief span and the potential market for his Marlins cards, and flooded the market with dozens of cards, diluting their impact. �They want to create draws for a product and will issue cards in a unique circumstance, but then beat it to death,� Tom Bartsch, the editor of Sports Collectors Digest, said of the card makers. �It�s a tactic they use to get people to buy as much product as possible. But it�s also turned a lot of people off of collecting.� The flood has limited the value of the cards, most of which sell for just a few dollars on eBay and other sites. But the value of the cards is less important to Dworkin and Fernandez than the chase to complete the Piazza Marlins collection. Dworkin saw Piazza play a few times for the Dodgers and was disappointed when he was traded. While Dworkin did not collect cards, he quickly grasped that the Piazza Marlins cards could be valuable, though he insisted that turning a profit was not his motive. �The collection as a whole has a greater value than any part,� he said. Dworkin spends a few minutes every morning browsing Web sites for baseball card traders, and he bids actively on eBay if he finds something he does not own. He has bought cards from traders as far away as Taiwan and spent months trying to buy one-of-a-kind cards, often unsuccessfully. Once, he paid a promoter about $350 to get Piazza, who rarely attends collectors shows, to sign one of his cards. Over the years, Dworkin has found others who share his obsession, but none more so than Fernandez, who began his fixation with Piazza in April 1993. That�s when the newly minted Marlins made their debut as a franchise against the Dodgers. He recalled seeing Piazza�s name on the scoreboard that day and thinking that it sounded like pizza. A 2004 signed Mike Piazza baseball card from Jerry Dworkin's collection. Fernandez kept an eye on Piazza from afar and was ecstatic when the Marlins traded Bobby Bonilla, Gary Sheffield and three other players to the Dodgers for Piazza and Todd Zeile. But his joy was cut short when Piazza was shipped to New York in a lopsided deal. �When he was traded to the Marlins, I was happy as heck, so I went out looking for cards,� Fernandez said. �I found out he was traded when I got home on my birthday. I cried like an 11-year-old.� He kept collecting Piazza cards and jerseys as well as ticket stubs from four out of the five games Piazza played for the Marlins, only two of which were at home. He has scoured card shows and shops and, of course, bid for cards online. But Fernandez was outbid with an uncanny regularity. It was only after he met Dworkin through a collectors Web site that he discovered who was besting him. �I thought I�d get them cheap, but no matter what I�d bid, he�d win,� Fernandez said. �I found out Jerry was out there and he was the reason I couldn�t get them. Knowing him now, I knew I was never going to win.� The two rivals shared tips about what cards were available, feeding their fixation. �It became a race: I�d go hunt one down and he�d grab it and vice versa,� said Fernandez, who claims to have spent about $1,000 on Piazza Marlins cards. �Most of the better cards I�ve lost out to Jerry, but my wallet thanked me.� Despite their constant contact over the Internet, they have never met or spoken on the phone. Still, �the friendship kept me going,� Dworkin said. �I gained an appreciation of the collector community,� he said. �He was someone I could talk to about it.� Dworkin said he would love to meet Fernandez in Cooperstown if Piazza makes it into the Hall of Fame. Given how popular Piazza was, Dworkin and Fernandez are likely to have a lot of company. Piazza has indicated that he would like to be inducted as a Met, and there is no chance of his wearing a teal and black Marlins cap. Piazza�s agent did not return calls seeking comment from his client about his time on the Marlins. But Piazza appears to see the humor in the tiny cult of fans who savor his time in Florida. At the end of the 2011 season, he accepted an invitation from the Marlins to help close out the team�s tenure at Sun Life Stadium. Standing with Marlins mainstays like Sheffield and Jeff Conine, Piazza smiled and waved to the fans, including Fernandez, who wore a Piazza replica jersey to the stadium that day. �You could see on the JumboTron that he appreciated the joke,� Fernandez said. Chris Fernandez, wearing a Piazza jersey at a 2011 game with his fianc�e, Veronica Trujillo, owns 59 Piazza Marlins cards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/sports/baseball/card-collectors-hold-on-to-mike-piazzas-stint-with-marlins.html?_r=0

[Zvon]

I don't know what you mean by a money making opportunity.

Great article. I love obscure collections like that. I have a bunch of Piazza's but they are all Dodger rookie cards (& of course his Mets cards). Even got his O-Pee-Chee rook. I don't have even one card of him on the Fish (unless it's lost in a card box somewhere).

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

dgwphotography wrote: Topps revealed their 2016 base design today: [fimg=500]http://www.topps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-06-at-4.18.12-PM.png[/fimg] Me likey. http://www.topps.com/blog/topps-reveals-base-design-for-2016-topps-series-1-baseball/

Wow. I like this a lot!

[Zvon]

dgwphotography wrote: It's not bad enough that I got the same card twice within one pack, but it was a card I already had....

Was this an Archive pack?


Chris, my brother finally got with me and we pooled our Archive doubles. There's something going on here with these cards. Is it possible that there are cards from the base set that are only available in hobby boxes (I'm not including #301-330 "short prints")? It seems that some of the base cards are scarce and this is becoming a rather frustrating experience.

I assume the official "short prints" are hobby only because we haven't come across even one of those.

[seawolf17]

SPs are in retail too as far as I know, and no, none of the base cards are short-printed. You might have just gotten bum collation, which happens.