Card of the Day - 2016 Topps Update : Julio Urias Base Black and White Photo Negative Parallel

Well I guess I am full on into Urias cards once again. Yes, I decided to collect him again but I was only going to focus on autographs of the young star. Well the deals keep presenting themselves so how can I say no to them when they are just basically calling to me to snag them.

Well this black and white parallel that has a book range of $8-20 was not really on my radar till I was bored and decided to give the seller of this card on eBay a low ball offer that was below low book. He rejected that offer but with his counter it was still reasonable and showed he was willing to negotiate with me. After all was said and done I acquired it for less than low book AND on top of that snagged another great deal better than this one. More on that tomorrow.

Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.

-Penguin

Card(s) of the Day - 2014 Topps : Dodgers Team Set In Red Foil Parallel Form From Series 2

Haren, Billingsley, Jansen and Guerreo

Series two of Topps flagship set for 2014 was recently released and as with the first series most cards are just a continuation. Whether that be inserts, subsets or just the base cards. I collect two parallels from the main Topps set and those happen to be the blue border cards and these red foil parallels.

Ellis, Crawford, Uribe and Kershaw 

I decided my plan of attack had to change for this go around. Series one I went and tried to acquire one card here, one card there and it took forever to acquire them all. The Puig alone took a good month plus to track down for an acceptable price. I am sure that they could have all been had from one seller but for some reason I didn't think of that. Duh...

Ethier, Kemp, Puig and Dee

So a week prior to the series release I went looking for someone that might have all of the red foils together as a pre-sale. Found two separate sellers that had them grouped together as a team set. One had it on a BIN auction for $12.99 with a best offer attached to it. The other seller had it on a traditional auction with a starting asking price of $4.99. Options.

Kershaw and the Beard

I went with the traditional auction to see if I could get all 14 cards for 35 cents each. That would be a bargain. Week passed and at the end of the auction I was the only one to bid on the set. With one felt swoop I acquired all my red foil needs for my set needs. Why didn't I think about doing this for series 1? Would have saved me a lot of time and suffering. Another lesson learned.

Card of the Day - 2014 Topps Tier One : Juan Uribe Base Autograph ( 68 / 299 )

Ok.
Now I am really starting to feel dirty.
As stated in my Uribe Archives post recapped HERE this is the first year I went searching for Uribe's autograph on a card. I was able to snag a redemption card for an autograph from the Archives set and I believed I was all set on the Uribe front. Or so I thought.

The Archives card will make it to me someday but then I saw this card on the bay. Sigh. It's on card and ready to ship. Do I really need ANOTHER autograph of Uribe? Probably not but what the hell, if I can get it cheap why not. Well the prices were going for almost $20 right out the gate since Tier One was just released. That is not a deal. Kept my eye open to see if anything would drop into my price range. As expected prices across the board continued to drop until I picked up my SECOND Uribe autograph for just a little less than 2 foot long sandwiches from Subway.

Ok, I am really done with Uribe autographs.
Really I am.

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Card of the Day - 2014 Topps Archives : Juan Uribe 1981 Mini Autograph

Well, well, well...
As stated in the previous posts of Dusty Baker and Bill Russell which involved autograph cards from this year's Archives set there were a total of 3 cards I was searching to acquire. I finally got my hands on the last of the 3. The one and only Juan Uribe aka Uribear.

Never was the day I thought I would actually search for an Uribe autograph card. The first 2 years of his 3 year contract were so horrendous that I like most people called for him to be released. Well year 3 came around and it was such a 180 from the previous 2 that he received a well deserved 2 year contract this past off season.

I have never been able to get his autograph at the stadium and my not knowing how to speak Spanish has put me at a disadvantage. I went looking for autograph cards of his prior to the season but as expected there were none with him in Dodger blue. Well, Topps fixed that with this card. Even though it is a redemption card I am a patient man and can wait for my autograph Uribe card. Not sure how many of these are being produced but I lost on a few auctions before procuring this one. Not too much was spent ( less than 3/4 of a blaster box ) on it but considering I don't expect to be hunting down too many Uribe cards in the future the price was perfect.