I have bought, traded for or just plain found quite a few new keeper cards lately and I thought I would share just a few. All in all, I think I added about 45 cards to my keeper boxes. Here are nine of them:
Where I got each of them...
Trout - I grabbed this at a card show. Can't remember how much, but it was pretty cheap.
Votto RC - I found this card while going through my non-keepers/trade bait stuff. Which I love doing. I wish I had a million cards to go through and every so often, find something I had overlooked previously.
Ichiro Wave refractor - This came from Madding in his big Spring Cleaning event. I got quite a few Cardinals, Mariners and even Mets! It was great going through them all, and I found a few absolute gems like this Ichiro! I did some research, and even though it is not serial numbered, it looks like the print run on these wave refractors was only 12 each!
Scherzer RC - Came in a trade with Matt @Cards over Coffee. Along with quite a few other RCs, Football RCs and other cards I will talk about shortly.
Posey - Like the Votto RC above, I found this card while going through my non-keepers/trade bait stuff. Cool card, and with Posey retiring, I figured it was time to promote this one to a keeper!
Perez RC - Another one I found in the non-keepers. Perez had a great season, and this RC is actually going for a decent amount right now. Not Trout RC money, of course, but more than I ever thought a Perez RC would.
Griffey - Another great find in the cards from Madding. Love these
Greinke refractor - The rest of the cards from Matt were a bunch of nice Zack Greinkes. I had posted that I was looking for some of these, and Matt was happy to oblige!
Boggsy - The last one I found in the non-keeper portion of my collection. Never loved Boggs as a Yankee, he should be a Red Sox. And the purple is kind of jarring. That must have been why it languished in the non-keepers. But no longer!
Thanks for reading this filler post, I will hopefully have more meaningful content soon!
I was actually going to say that it's weird seeing Boggs as a Yankee on a post-playing career card, and you beat me to it. Then again, I'm sure it's equally weird for Red Sox fans to see Pedro as a Met, but as a Met fan I'd be happy to see that. It's a tough balancing act.
ReplyDeleteThat Ichiro is spectacular! Always a sucker for a nice shiny card.
ReplyDeleteI am posting yours today on Cards Over Coffee
ReplyDeleteThat Ichiro is really fun. I'm surprised that I hadn't any versions of the card on the blogs before?
ReplyDeleteNice Scherzer rookie card. UD Masterpieces was such a great product. And that Ichiro is stunning. I've been doing this huge sorting project and have found a few "keepers" too. It feels good coming across cards you know right away are meant to be in your collection.
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