I Love Cooperstown !!

Not just the city.

Not just the HOF.

But Panini Cooperstown card sets as well.

I love baseball history so the Cooperstown sets fit really well into my collecting habits.

This year I have purchased 7 packs and still have 0 duplicates !

Here's a sample of what I have so far.

 

 

# 1 base card

I really liked last year's base design better.

 

I have the following:

1,7,13,16,17,18,21,23,24,30,43,45,49,55,58,65,66,6970,73,74,78,85,87,91,92,97

 

 

#27 Red Crystal Shard 097/399.

 

 

#52 Matrix  177/325

 

 

#12 Museum Pieces

 

 

#18 Historic Tickets

 

 

#15 Lumberjacks

Wood veneer card.

 

 

Colgan's Chips

Stars of the Diamond

Unnumbered 1909-11 retro set.

 

I have the following :

Carew

Henderson

Hornsby

Hubbell

Schmidt

Vance

( I seem to have misplaced one more !! )

 

 

# 19 HOF Induction.

 

I have the following :

7,19,20

 

 

If you have any I haven't listed and want to trade,

LMK ! I'd love to have more of these !

 

 

Thanks for reading !

 

 

Gorgeous Reds, Even Without Logos

I know a good number of collectors really don't care for the unlicensed cards with no logos or team names. They are a little boring sometimes, but if the photos are done right, they can look pretty good.

 

 

I know it doesn't say "Indians" , but I still like this card.

Gomes has quickly stepped up to becoming our starting catcher.

 

 

And I'm no Detroit fan but this is a nice card.

 

 

However, I will admit that Ichiro

 looks a bit naked on this one.

From the front view, a plain gray uniform is rather drab.

 

 

But, what I really wanted to show today, came from this pack.

 

 

If you want to be an Evil Pack Searcher, you can see the card number of the bottom Red Pulsar through the back of the wrapper. You would have to have a checklist to know who it was, but at least you won't be bending any cards. You may still get some dirty looks from any one else in the card aisle though !

 

 

 

I really like these.

As always, they look even better in person.

 

 

This is a good shot for an unlicensed card.

 

 

Really need a logo on the cap here,

but I'll take it !

 

I have since bought another pack and also have the following Red Pulsars :

 

R/C  Leury Garcia -Texas

Edwin Encarnacion - Toronto

Tony Rizzo - Chicago.

 

All but one will be available if anyone is interested.

Ryan will probably be going into my Sample Collection.

 

I also have a stack of base cards.

Of course, I'm looking for any Cleveland cards !

 

Thanks for reading !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Card Collecting : Fact or Fantasy ! Jim Thome Rainbow

Today's topic is : collecting rainbows.

First let's define rainbow, as it pertains to card collecting, not what Dorothy sings about, along the Yellow Brick Road !

As we all know, the card manufacturing gods have created at least a bazillion parallels the last couple of years. Cards that all look alike, but with a wide variety of colored borders, a rainbow if you will.

So collecting a "rainbow" of your favorite player is a new segment of card collecting.

Fact or Fiction ! ?

 

 

How many said fact ?

 

 

Understandable, but you need to go back to
 Basic Card Collecting 101.

 

 

Let Jim Thome explain it to you.

 

 

Back in the year 2000, when Pacific was still producing baseball cards,
 there were  a lot of really cool inserts and parallels.

Take a look !

 

2000 Pacific Crown Royale

Base card.

 

 

Premiere date.

 

 

Red parallel.

 

 

Proof.

 

 

Now I need a little help.

There is also a silver foil parallel, known as " Limited Series",

and a Platinum Blue version.

I need both of these if anyone can help.

 

Also in 2000 there was Pacific Prism.

 

Here's the base card.

 

 

A rainbow in itself !

 

 

This is a base card, embossed by Pacific, at the

2000 Chicago Sportsfest Show.

 

 

Holographic Mirror

 

 

Tinsel Silver

 

 

Drops Silver

 

 

Rapture Silver

 

 

Rapture Gold

 

Now the bad news.

 

This is a list of the rest of the parallels to this set

 that I still need !!

 

 

Holographic Blue

Holographic Gold

Holographic Purple

Pebbly Dots

Premiere Date

Sheen Silver

Slider Silver

Texture Silver

Woodgrain Silver

 

And you thought Topps was crazy !!

 

Plus, I need most of these parallels

 for all the other Indians in the set !

 

Roberto Alomar

Bartolo Colon

David Justice

Manny Ramirez

Richie Sexon

Omar Vizquel

 

Lord, give me strength !!

 

 

The Finest Indians, Thanks to Community

Gum that is !

Jon, Over at Community Gum recently had a 4 box break consisting of 1996 Finest Series 1 and 2,
1996 Fleer and 2004 Topps Clubhouse Collection.

I'm not sure how the '04 box got mixed in with the '90's stuff but it worked out OK !

Any Indian fan knows, in recent history, the mid 1990's was the time for the Tribe. And the card companies knew it too !

These are the team breaks I like to get involved in.

Here are the highlights of my share.

 

 

 



 

 

Hershiser, Mesa, McDowell,

Murray, Thome and Martinez.

 

 

 

Manny, Franco,

Belle, Lofton and Baerga.

 

Plus a few dupes.

 

 

 

A couple nice inserts.

 

 

Couple Post-Season Glory inserts.

 

 

 

Pitching and Power !

 

 

Base card on left :

 

"All new, textured Legend matte finish

PERFECT FOR AUTOGRAPHS !"

 

"Tiffany Collection parallel set :

one card per pack"

 

Why do you suppose they used gold foil on base

and silver on tiffany parallel?

 

Seems like it should have been the other way around.

 

 

 

My random team was the Brewers.

 

 

 

All for trade if anyone is interested !

 

 

I got two uncommon silvers.

Both Brewers.

Both Greg Vaughn !

 

 

More trade bait !

 

 

 

More trade bait, Tiffany style.

 

 

And now, the one good reason to end up with the Brewers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alas, even this is trade bait.

I don't think there are any Indians in '04 Clubhouse.

 (except in Heritage).

 

What do you have to offer !??

 

 

 

Chipzzzz and a Very Lucky ebay Seller

The latest way for Topps to get our money.

Of course, no one is going to twist your arm.

2013 Topps Chipz.
Poker chips with baseball player photos.

I saw one other post on these tonight by
McCann Can Triple at A Rookie (baseball) Card Collector .

Here's what I have.

 

Here is your basic chip front.

 

 

 

And back.

Both sides do have a very high gloss finish.

 

 

 

This is a Silver Parallel.

 

 

Note the silverish  flip side.

There is also a Gold version.

In four packs I got one silver and no gold.

 

 

Glow in the Dark parallel !

These have a completely different texture.

The player image has a very dull surface.

 

 

The entire reverse got the semi-gloss,

 slightly rough surface treatment.

 

 

Here it is, glowing in the dark !

Right in the center you can just barely

see a small oval shaped area, slightly

lighter than the background.

 

That's the glow !!

Are you as impressed as I am !?

 

I'll admit, it does look better in person.

And if I was a youngster, I would probably be more excited.

 

 

 

Here is the Magnetic Parallel.

You can see the high gloss in this shot

and right in the center there is a small round impression.

That's the magnet.

All the chipz have a metal core and stick to the

Magnetic Parallel.

 

I do see the point in these. You could stick them on a school locker

( on the inside of course!), file cabinets or any metal surface for display.

 

 

The wrapper says

" 1 Team Sticker ".

The "sticker" comes mounted on a chip

from the respected team.

 

 

It peals right off and is actually

a vinyl cling type thingy.

 

 

There are also "Instant Winner" 1-5236,

 "Relic" chipz" 1- 1,047 and "Autographs" 1- 2,094.

 

Doesn't say what you can win.

 

I forgot to shoot the wrapper and the game board,

you can see them on McCann Can Triple's post.

 

 

They're OK. I definitely want all the Indians.

 

The surface scratches very easily though,

pristine examples may be hard to find.

 

 

On to ebay !!

 

 

 

Nice card, huh !?

Got it for $.01 plus $2.00 shipping.

It came shipped in a folded over team bag in a PWE !!

 

No other protection what so ever.

I was totally amazed that there was no damage.

 

 

Also got these from 2 other sellers.

 

The red in 2 of  25.

 

 

 

Francisco Lindor.

Our SS of the future.

 

 

And finally, a blue border TV

(sorry, very bad photo)

Hank Aaron !

 

I don't really care for these "TV" cards with blue borders.

 

But it is Hammerin' Hank !! 

 

 

Well, the Indians just lost 5-1.

 

Time for bed !!