I am in Arkansas for work for a couple of days and the internet here isn't the fastest thing in the world, so I haven't been able to keep up on writing posts. I will try to post a couple of times while I'm gone, but they'll probably be short one-card deals like this one. This particular card have been sitting in my draft queue for a long time. There isn't really any reason for that. I just haven't had anything to say about it.
I still don't have a lot to say about it. It comes from 2013 Panini America's Pastime Baseball and features a sticker autograph of Josh Reddick, one of my PC players. This is the Red parallel of the Impact Ink autograph set and is numbered # 4 / 5. Last year I picked up the base # / 25 version of this card. Jumping back and forth between the scans on my computer I can't actually find a difference between the cards outside of the serial numbering. Maybe the foil is a different color and I just can't see it in the scan? I don't know. There might be dumber things out there than parallels that aren't different from each other, but I'm not sure what that might be. Anyway, it's another autograph of a PC guy and I am happy to have it in my collection.
I wish more Pirates were in the Pastime set because the secondary market prices are so cheap. That Reddick is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem like you can get many of these cards for low prices. They're decent enough cards. I think the lack of licensing hurts them, as does the fact that many of these Panini throwback-style releases all look a bit alike and tend to run together.
DeleteI'd love to get a little serial numbering machine. I'd just randomly number all my various junk dupes and revel in the scarcity I created.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember reading about a guy who did just that. He would stamp regular cards with his logo and numbering and market them as a special set. I may have stumbled across a couple of his auctions. I wish I could remember all the details.
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