It's been a while since I added any cards to the Frank Thomas collection. To be honest Frank is one of my lowest priority Player Collections. That' doesn't mean I don't love the guy. The first major league game I ever got to attend was at New Comiskey Park and got to see the big guy play. And I also got to see the White Sox come back from a 5 run deficit in the 8th inning to win. That's a story for another time though.
I recently was trying out COMC's new shipping policy. It's getting better. I had picked up some beautiful 1963 cards for cheap, the last two 1971 Topps Brewers coins I needed for my team set, a whole slew of 2012 87 mini's for my set, and I decided to peruse the offerings for Mr. Thomas to see if I could pick up anything cool for cheap. And I did.
First up I snagged a 1996 Leaf Frank Thomas' Greatest Hit's #2. There we 8 cards in this insert set. All die-cut and made to look like a piece of CD. All serial numbered to 5000. Which back in 1996 was a pretty big deal. Back in 1996 this card was probably worth over $100 bucks, now it books for about 12 and I got this one for under 2.
This card commemorates his sophomore season.
Next up is a dual relic card from 2005 Donruss Diamond Kings. If you remember the set there were so many parallels and inserts it was a little overwhelming. I think it could be use as the extreme for parallels in a set. Not only were base cards paralleled, but just about every insert had multiple parallel variations. This card is pretty much a dual relic parallel of the base card.
Offiicially called Materials Bronze, we have a slice of bat and pants with the card being numbered to just 200. I got this bad boy for under 4 bucks. There was a slight touching on bottom left corner, hardly noticable, but I'm assuming that's why it was so cheap.
Welcome to the collection.
And if you read all the way down here, I went out and bought a hobby box of Gypsy Queen last night. I'll have the write up tomorrow.
And if you read all the way down here, I went out and bought a hobby box of Gypsy Queen last night. I'll have the write up tomorrow.
Ive been trying to piece together that 96 Leaf CD for years....of course, I only have one of them that I pulled from a 96 Leaf box, they were too expensive for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThose Leaf cards are super cool. I miss that type of ingenious card design.
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