I did not get very carried away with my Black Friday spending in regards to baseball cards. I purchased a wall art card from the Topps site for about $20 delivered, and spent another $22 in a card shop on some storage boxes and 3 packs of Topps Update. I only bought the $3.50 packs of Update to get the promotional Bowman Holiday pack. The Update packs yielded nothing exciting, while I will have a future post showing the 4 cards from the Bowman pack.
I did enter a contest on The Bench website that was run by member David K. He is one of the most generous card collectors I know. Each month he runs a give away for an autographed cards of a HOF player or superstar. All you have to do it pick a number from 1 to 75 and hope you are right. I was the lucky winner with the guess of #62. Yesterday my prize arrived.
I knew I was getting this 2008 Upper Deck Heroes auto #ed to 25, but was still very excited to open the package last night. This is my second Musial auto. It is a sticker auto and one that was done toward the end of his lifetime when his auto was not as crisp, but it is still a beautiful card. The red background is a nice touch for a Cardinals card. A big thank you to David for this wonderful card.
That's still pretty good for a late-stage Musial. I've seen much worse. That nice flannel swatch doesn't hurt either.
ReplyDeleteThat's one heck of a prize for a pick-a-number drawing. Congrats on winning such a great card!
ReplyDeleteWOW what a great win and a particularly the game used/auto and the color. nicely done.
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