2 Highlights

2 Highlights.  That sounds like the Cardinals season so far.  They won the first 2 games against the Pirates, and have dropped the next 3.  They have not even really been competitive in those losses.  The pitching has been decent, but the hitting is nonexistent.  Last night they managed 3 hits and 1 walk while striking out 9 times.  That is not a good formula for a  win. 

Instead of dwelling on how bad the Cardinals are playing, how about I show off highlights of 2 packages that arrived this week.  First was a pwe from TCDB member jsteved.

The bulk of the pwe were these 2019 A&G Hot Box Gold cards.  For flagship I prefer the gold border, but A&G cards look better without them.  Still not a bad looking card though.  Panini cranks out a lot worse.

In 1995, Upper Deck used a Future Stock parallel for the Minors set instead of the Electric Diamond parallel from the MLB version.  Not much difference between the 2 of them.

TCDB member astrosammy also set a pwe with 4 hits to various team sets.

The Brian Jordan card completed the 1992 Topps Traded team set.  Good to cross that one of the list.  Covelli, or Coco as most of you know him, Crisp never played a game for the Cardinals.  He was part of the trade that brought Chuck Finley to St. Louis in 2002. 

The Bud Smith 2001 Fleer Tradition card just leave me 1 short of the team set.  Anyone want to guess what future Hall of Famer that is?  The Renteria card that scanned so badly is from 2001 Bowman Heritage Chrome.  I promise it does not look like that in person.