Those cards are lovely Flynnie
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Yeah, I’m excited to get them. Like you, I’m feeling a little jaded about the current state of cards, but the old ones seem to have entered my price range as a result of attention finally shifting away from them in favour of the next Tatis or Acu?a hit.
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Patrick Thistle I wanted to make sure you were aware of this:
https://www.homage.com/collections/t...y-gwynn-padres
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The whole Topps collection looks pretty nice. I may have to splurge on the 1967 shirt and one of the Bo Jackson shirts
https://www.homage.com/collections/topps
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Cheers Incandenza
I think I'm in a minority of Gwynn collectors (possibly a minority of 1) but I don't like that card at all. For one thing he's wearing the wrong number (it was a picture from spring training in 1982) and secondly, it's mainly a picture of Tony's bum.
Topps had form for producing cards of Tony that didn't show his face, name or number for his entire career.
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Well...
https://twitter.com/SABRbbcards/status/1428442740082290692?s=19
I'd have more empathy for Topps if they weren't so fucking lazy with their licensing monopoly.
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It is allegedly exclusive with the players' association, but as yet does not include anything with the clubs, which would mean no club names, logos or uniforms (which has happened before)
MLB of course has an interest in Fanatics, which would lead one to expect that will not be an issue once the Topps licence expires.
I haven't seen anyone who thinks this is good for fans or collectors.
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Well I've just spent some money to acquire another 100 or so Tony Gwynn cards that I don't already have. Not sure the exact number of new cards I'm getting* but I know it will take me well over 800 cards in total.
*since I originally did the deal I have added a handful of the cards to my collection.Last edited by Patrick Thistle; 23-08-2021, 10:50.
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To someone who grew up with only one company making cards and no player having more than one card a season, that number remains staggering.
I think that my understanding of what a "baseball card" is was cemented at too young an age, too long ago for me to ever be comfortable in this version of the hobby.
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Just for fun, I looked up Willie Mays on COMC and only 100 cards or so of 1,788 are actually from his playing career. Topps did have some other stuff (coins, temporary tattoos, the Giant cards, a couple of which I own) and they weren't exclusive early in his career (Bowman actually have his real rookie card).
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In further news to make ursus arctos uncomfortable about modern life, a friend sent me a brand new card released this year. He'd got it in a joblot. It's a particular blue parallel version, one of FORTY TWO parallel versions released for that set.
Seriously, 42 different versions of the same card design. It's blinking ludicrous!
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