Sharing some of my current pick ups and thoughts….
I figure occasionally I should share cards that I actually buy, I’d rather be someone who is actively buying things that I like, instead of just critiquing and bashing. I am getting in a decent bit in the upcoming week from the recent draft products and figured I would critique them as I get in, and do a small write up on them.
The first two are my first pick ups from the 2009 Team USA Box set from Upper Deck. Chad Bettis played for the Falmouth Commodores in 2008 and was slated to play for our team last year but made the Team USA Roster for last year.
One thing UD changed from the year before that I liked on these on card signatures was the fact that the parallels actually feature different inks as opposed to last year where they just had a different foil stamp and nothing else was different what so ever. So that’s a plus to the cards, although this year potentially is my least favorite on card design for Team USA sets released from Upper Deck.
The next card I got in was the 09 BCDP A.J. Pollock Gold refractor. AJ was 2008 Cape Cod League MVP and one of the first players I worked with in my relationship with the Falmouth Commodores. We got to make his first ever card in our team set this past season. The only issue with the card was the fact that a lot of the refractors this year can have a sort of printer roll mark, and it looks like this AJ did when I compared it to his Blue Refractor and Superfractor I had.
The final two cards are the refractors of Luis Exposito. I have now completed the full rainbow of colors in Sterling of him with the Gold (Which I had him signed IP), and the black and the 1/1 Red. This years Sterling Refractors have a great deal of etching, which we asked for many many times again. They pop a lot more than even the Bowman Chrome cards this year. If Topps had gone with the autographs being on card this set would have lived up to it’s price tag as opposed to being fairly panned by most critics. Owning both the Red Refractor and the Superfractor, I definitely think the better looking of the two by a landslide is the Red Refractor.
Hope you enjoyed my thoughts on my pick ups and me sharing my collection. Stop back over the next few days and I will be posting more pick ups.
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