Crisp and Reddick in Red

After I showed off the oversized Jon Singleton 5x7 Topps Red card I picked up from an eBay seller I went back and noticed that the guy had a bunch more cards listed from the set he was breaking. I put in a couple of minimum bids on some Oakland players I like, Coco Crisp and Josh Reddick. There weren't any competing bids on the cards, so I won them both. It looks like most of that seller's auctions have ended now, but there is another seller offering up team sets for $200-800 apiece, depending on the team. Both of these cards are numbered # 04 / 10. When they arrived the top loader had a ding in the top of it, and the cards were nicked up in that spot as well. You can see the divot in the Reddick card on the left side of the top edge there. That was a little irritating, but I guess I'll live with it. That's about all I've got for tonight. The Holiday Blahs seem to be settling in on me a little early this year. I need to find a way to combat the Grinchiness that pops up in my personality during the months of November and December.

A Card or a Print? Does it Matter? 2015 Topps Red 5 x 7 Jon Singleton

Topps has been really pushing their offerings of various prints and wall art. Many of them are individually numbered or packed in vintage-style wax packs to increase their appeal to collectors. One of the more ambitious offerings was this complete set of 2015 Topps Red 5x7 cards. They are reprints of the base 2015 Topps Baseball set and the full set of 700 cards was sold as a unit for $1999.99, or about $2.86 per card. The cards are serially-numbered to just 10 copies apiece, so I would imagine you could make your money back on the set by selling off the superstars to players collectors. Then you could make a profit on selling off all the other guys in the set. And that's how I got this card for my collection. Someone went out and bought one of the sets and listed pretty much the whole thing on eBay. Mike Trout went for $100, as did Kris Bryant. Several Yankees cards went for $40-$60. I paid about $5 for Jon Singleton's card before shipping, so the seller even made nearly 100% profit from my little purchase. My card is # 04 / 10. You can kind of see the numbering down on the bottom left of the card.

This was marketed as a trading card product rather than wall art, so you get a reprint of the full card back in addition to the card front. These sets aren't sold out yet so if you've got two grand and nothing to spend it on, you could go out and get one of your own. The guy who I bought this card from still has about 150 of them up for auction, so if you're just after a specific player you might still be able to find the card on eBay without buying a full set. Most of the big stars are gone, but I know a lot of collectors PC guys who aren't on the superstar career path. An eBay search for '2015 Topps Baseball 5 x 7 Red' should bring them all up.