Trade with Fellow Blogger : Andrew of Everyday Holliday (2014 Topps Finest Lou Brock Base Autograph X-Fractor Parallel 142/149 BGS Graded Gem Mint 9.5 and 2009 Topps 206 Clayton Kershaw Mini Frame Autograph)

I recently finished up a trade with a new trading partner. It's always nice to start up new internet "relationships" and it looks like I "found" another trustworthy person.

Andrew of Everyday Holliday , who I became blogger and Instagram followers due to the fact that we have a mutual friend in the form of Frankie, posted this Lou Brock gem on his IG feed as he was looking to move it. This card actually was originally Frankie's but he traded it to Andrew sometime ago but since I have always wanted to add a Brock autograph to my collection I was interested in it again once Andrew put it up for "sale". He was looking for some funds to acquire another card and we had agreed on a price but at the last moment he decided to ask if I was interested in another card for the trade. More on that below.

I am more of a fan of the black parallels of Finest but I couldn't pass on finally getting a Lou copy for my collection. Has only been in hand for a week or so and Frankie is already inquiring about it so I might not have it for long. We shall see.

Quad 9.5's and a perfect 10 on auto.

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One Forty Nine

. . . so then Andrew asked if I was interested in a Kershaw autograph. Yeah, don't have to ask me twice as long as its at a reasonable price which it was. I actually have this card as this was one of my 1st autographs of Kershaw I was able to obtain back in 2013. To give you an idea how the market has changed I picked that copy up for a mere $13.75. Try to find one at that price now. You can read about that transaction HERE . To make that bargain even better I sent it in to BGS for grading and low and behold it came back as a 9.5 gem. Woo hoo. That recap can be seen HERE .

So do I "need" another one of these? No but I can't have enough Kershaw autographs even if they are duplicates. I ended up sending Andrew a Ozzie Smith autograph to help along the trade and added a little more to the money till. With this card in hand I think it has about a 50/50 chance of earning a gem mint grade from BGS but a mint 9 seems to be a lock. The centering is off a tad. We shall see when they are back in town.

Either way I am happy with the trade and I want to say thank you again to Andrew for making it happen. Hopefully we can do more in the future.

Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.

-Penguin

BGS Submission Update Two - 2009 Topps : Clayton Kershaw Ticket to Stardom Autograph ( 148 / 489 ) Now Graded and Slabbed a Mint 9

Original Submission Post
Beckett Book Value : $80

Second result entry and second Kershaw in the batch.

While I did not expect much from this card as in the original post I had this as 3rd on the least likely for greatness and here it is at number two but I did not expect a 9 grade on the autograph. I figured that the card would receive an overall grade of mint which it did but I did not and still can not see any issues with the autograph. Why must Beckett torment me with these non 10 grades for autographs? It really is luck of the draw on who grades what at their offices as I have seen faded autographs get 10's and then this one and others like it receive less than a 10. Sigh...

Well at least the card is mint and not near mint like the 1st Kershaw. Of course with that said I think the NM one is still a "better" card considering it has 3 9.5 sub grades.

Card of the Day - 2009 Topps : Clayton Kershaw Ticket to Stardom Autograph Relic ( 148 / 489 )

Kershaw . . . Kemp . . . Kershaw . . . Kemp . . .
It seems like I alternate between these two great players when I search out autograph cards of either of them. Well it must be Kershaw's turn as I picked up another great looking card of his to add to my ever growing collection of Kid K.

I don't discriminate much on any Kershaw card except for non blue signatures and high prices. Came across this one on one of my many searches on eBay and with the "higher" print run per se I thought I might be able to pick it up at a decent price. Book value has this card sitting at $30. Not too bad so I didn't think this auction would get too out of control. In the end I welcomed this card to my collection at a nice smallish sum of just a little over $13. More than 50% south of book is always a win in my book and it being a card of Clayton is just more of a good thing. Can't wait to find another of his.

148 of 489 of Kid K and his John Hancock.