Dickey Prime Cuts

I don't know if I have allergies or a persistent cold right now, but I am leaning toward it being allergies. Either way, I have been pretty miserable for the last few days, especially when I've been cleaning up around the house and in the yard. Benadryl doesn't seem to do much for me, so I've been on a relatively steady dosage of DayQuil. It stinks to be the snuffly, sneezy guy in the office, but after a lifetime with horrible allergies I am kinda used to it.

I picked up this R.A. Dickey autograph on eBay a while back. It comes from 2016 Panini Prime Cuts Baseball. Prime Cuts is one of those products where every player has different print runs, so you have to look at a spreadsheet to figure out which parallel you've got. The spreadsheet tells me that this is the Holo Gold parallel of Dickey's autograph, and my card is # 10 / 10. As far as I know, Dickey hasn't signed anywhere yet for 2018, but I'm sure that if he wants to keep playing some team will pick him up. He did okay for Atlanta last season, and the knuckleball doesn't regress with age as much as other pitches.

R.A. Dickey Prime Cuts Auto

I have to admit that I haven't followed the exploits of R.A. Dickey much this season. He went down to that team in Atlanta, and I kind of lost track of him. I've never been a Braves fan. In looking at his numbers, he's had an okay year. There aren't a lot of guys out there pitching at the MLB level when they're 42 years old. I still like to add to my Dickey collection when I can, although I've been focusing a lot lately on things outside of baseball, like wrestling cards, sketch cards, art commissions, and NASCAR. Dickey is still up there among my favorite players, though, and I really ought to turn on MLB TV once this season when he's on the mound.

I picked up this autograph card from 2016 Panini Prime Cuts a little while ago. It's the base version of his autograph in the set, with a surprisingly low print run of 25 copies for the base autograph. My example is # 22 / 25. It's a sticker autograph, but the sticker doesn't stand out too bad.

I've been working a lot lately and also trying to get some stuff done around the house. One of my projects has been getting all of my stuff moved out of our office room and down to the basement, with the eventual goal of moving our eldest son into his own bedroom and our office down into the basement, where I have begun staging my card collection underneath the future Sorting Table. It will be neat to see what all I actually have in my collection. As I move cards down there, I will often grab a stack of cards from the boxes to flip through, and I usually find several treasures that bring a smile to my face. After I get everything moved down there, I would like to get my cards sorted and then input into the Trading Card Database or something similar, so I can see how many cards I have in my player collections.