Finally my 2008 Sterling set is complete!!! Plus a low numbered Prime Cuts

I've been looking for this card for a while.  Over 3 years to be exact.  It's the last of the 2008 Topps Sterling Yount Base cards.  #225 has eluded me for a long time. I kept losing auctions because I'm cheap.  I saw this one on eBay with a buy it now price of 6 bucks, but with free shipping. Hmmm.  A thought about it and saw another 225 up for auction starting at .99 cents so I put this one in my watch list and went after the one up for auction.  I put a max big that would make the card just about 6 bucks with shipping figuring if someone over bids me I'll just go grab that other card for 6 bucks and free shipping and be done with it. In the end that's what I ended up doing.  Another funny coincidence is that the card shop in Las Vegas, Legacy Sportscards, that I bought this card from is the same card shop I went to when I was in Vegas a few years back and living in Haines.  Just kinda funny.

I also picked up a nice 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts bat card numbered to 49 for super cheap with free shipping while I was shopping on ebay to.

Two more to add to the super collection.

A new Yount for a new Year

If anyone that reads this blog also reads my main blog, Collector's Crack, you know I had all my eTopps shipped to me using my performance points before Topps shipping changed this new year.  So honestly this isn't a new Yount card, but new in hand as it has been sitting in my eTopps account since 2004.

It's from the eTopps Baseball Classics set.  From 2002 to 2006 Topps issued 70 cards in this set.  20 in 2002, 2003, and 2004 and just 5 in 2005 and 2006.

A quick look around the eTopps website and it shows that Yount is one of the most valuable of the Baseball Classics cards only beat in all 5 years by Roberto Clemente. Of course this only tracks sales of eTopps card still held by the company and sold on the Ebay trading floor.

While this card isn't individually numbered like some of the later cards, according to the eTopps website there were only 1,002 cards produced, making it a fairly rare card.

A couple new Younts for the old supercollection.

Been slow on pick-ups for the Yount collection.  I did manage to bring in two "new" cards though.

I'm still slowly picking up 2008 Sterling parallel cards.
Picked up another White Framed #d to 50 I didn't have yet.

I also found a seller selling a 2002 T206 Yount Mini with Polar Bear back in blue uniform.  I had the Polar Bear in pin stripe so it was nice to complete the set.

Gold at the card show.

I'll be honest the "card shows" here in Anchorage kinda suck.  So much so, that they usually get put on with the Stamp and Coin shows at one of the local malls.  It's the same guys, who I usually see at trade nights, and the same stuff.  I got an email about a show last weekend and decided heck why not.  I had a twenty in my pocket that begged to be traded for cards.  There were only two sellers there and I looked through all the boxes and pulled out cheap Packers parallels and then I found gold. Literally, well parallely anyways.

I've been trying to pick up one of these 2011 Yount Gold Parallels for a while now and they always seem to go for way too much on ebay.  I ended up picking this guy up for a couple of bucks.  Way cheaper than online and no shipping.  Welcome to the collection!

A New Yount I Can't believe I didn't have!

Just a quicky.  I was searching ebay one day and decided to peruse the Yount listings.  When I saw this card I took pause. I know I don't know every Yount I have by sight, but for some reason this one stuck out at me.  So I went to my master collection list and lo and behold a card not on the list.  And this one had a buy it now price that was very reasonable.  So welcome 2004 Elite Robin Yount, welcome.

cb out

1991 Star Stellar Set and a Long over due thank you.

Well now.... First off let me apologize for the sparseness of posts here lately. Life seems to get in the way sometimes and while I've been trying to post fairly regularly over at my main blog Collector's Crack, my ancillary blogs like this one have kinda fallen to the wayside.  But with the summer field season now at a close and a long Alaskan winter in front of me it's time to get back to it.

You may remember, or not it's been so long,  that I posted about another Yount supercollector way back in Feburary.  And to call Matt a supercollector is putting it lightly, he puts my collection to shame.   He was genrerous enough to send me a huge selection of graded Younts that he wanted to get rid of.  They found a nice home in my collection and then Matt went and sent me another box a few weeks later.  And this is my long over due thank you.  I've been meaning to post something about this literally for over 6 months, 6 freaking months!.  I had this great box of stuff Matt sent me sitting there waiting to be scanned and inventoried and added and it kinda just sat there.  I blame getting married, but it's not that I didn't think about it.  Inside that box were more graded goodies but also lots of raw cards.  There were relics and numbered cards, old police issues and even a few Rollie Fingers.  So over the next few months I plan on posting quite a bit about that generous donation, long over due.  And I'll put the Rollies up over at the Rollie Finger Collector.

I started going though that box a few days ago and the first thing I grabbed was this set of 1991 Star Stellar cards.  This set has a print run of only about 500 I do believe and is one of the tougher sets to find.  The standard Catalog lists these cards for about $4.50 a piece so they aint' cheap.  Yount was featured on cards #28 to 36.   And here are all 9.

You'll notice the lettering is kinda fuzzy.  I thought that this was from ink bleeding, but I actually thing this was how it was printed.  To give the effect of glowing. 

Well there you have it the 1991 Star Stellar set.  Thanks again Matt.

Slow but Great

Wow I can't believe it's been so long since I posted here.  I apologize to all the Yountophiles out there.  Been slow on the new acquisitions and I've got some other stuff to post but been really busy, but now that things have calmed down at work I plan on posting much more frequently.  But I'm just here to show off a recent grab off the eBay.

A 2009 Topps Sterling White Suede #d to 50.  Would you be shocked if I told you I picked this bad boy up for under a dollar?  Well not with shipping but purchase price was .99 cents.  What a grab! I remembering bidding on these in 2009 and 2010 and they were going upwards of 20 bucks.  Oh time you are my great equalizer.