Top 10 by Price

I decided to see if my old accounts at Zistle and The Trading Card Database were still alive and after some work from my memory I could manage to log in.

I must say that I added these cards wayyyyyyy back I don't remember when. So I might have to go and re-do all my listings. Which, for a listing-maniac is like Christmas.

One thing I like at The Trading Card Database is the all the top 10s they provide, based on your added cards.

So, based upon the cards I have registered this is my situation:

Only registering around 4,5K cards the values of my collection goes like 2K dollars. Not bad!

So lets see my top 10.

So my card ranking #1 is this beauty commemorative patch from 2009 Topps Update Series.

I like these cards. I have a couple of them, the commemorative patches. But I always thought people used to dislike them because they were things manufactured and not true relics, like pieces of real cloth or bats. Maybe it's because I don't have much cards and tend to appreciate this little things more. They are all kinda important to me, to make me closer to the game.

Notice that the patch is a Reds patch (yeah!) but Tom is wearing a Mets uniform (buhhhhh).

And then my #2 card is also an other commemorative patch from the same set.

I also have a Roy Campanella patch but it does not make the top10.

And the final podium place, ranking #3 (two times) is Altuve RC.

And it seems I even have, at least, two of them. I think after Astros win this is normal to happen, getting a RC card like this to get a better price value.

But this card is one of those that I like besides all those facts. It's mainly because no matter how many times I see it, I have to double-take it in order to see the 3 people in it!

Getting on to #5 I have the Tris Speaker SP, from 2009 Topps (what a year!)

On #6 is one of the many Stephen Strasburg RC variation

I still cannot see him as such a star...but ok.

Now the first Yankee in the house is #7

Well...technically Alex Rodrigues RC card is not a Yankee card, but I take what I get!

And this is one of my favourite Upper Deck sets. It has such good photos!

#8 is the one and only Mickey Mouse! And now in truly Yankees mode!

Ok..this is a cute card.

And also at #8 it's Cal Ripken

You see...Mickey Mouse and Cal Ripken tied.

And I must say that this insert set is one of the ugliest... I can see it working with a relic, but this way, it's just a waste of card space..

And closing top 10 we have two giants

Again Ripken with a Yankee, but not Mickey Mouse. This time around is the insert Timeless Talents with The Captain Jeter.

That's a nice top10 by price. Lets see how it changes when I add more cards.

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And this is the last tour to my HoF.

I have this fan girl love for Harmon Killebrew...like if I was still a teen I'd have all my room walls covered with his posters and cards!

And then there is the top model style of Arky Vaughan. Like he doesn't care about what is happening in the field but in only looking coooooooooooooool.

And if it was not enough we also have mister Brooks. Shame the front image is not that good...it must be one of the worst cards in the set because of the picture they managed to put in the card.

Thanks the card back is better! And we get Brooks awesome smile...

And finally, last 3 cards including the only SP I got.

Tris Speaker in Technic Colour. That's one bloody great card!

Just don't understand why the card back doesn't also have a coloured photo. It would make sense, in my opinion.


So that's all folks! If you wanna trade some of the cards and help me out completing the main set, just check the tab on top and if you have some of the cards I'm missing contact me and I'll see if I have some that you might also need.

2012 Panini Cooperstown - lets visit the HoF 8

Well, I've been quite out of the game lately and have not being posting that much. That's why I'm that bad and I'm still posting about the HoF cards I got on Christmas.

I'm ashamed of myself!

Lets see if now that MLB season finally started I find more time to update more often. But I haven't gotten any new card to display, so it will be only old treasures of mine.

But almost finishing the trip to the HoF we are now in hall number 8 with some big names, but being the bigger, even if only for the mustache, Mister Goose!

Shame his photo on the back is the same as in the front.

And I have to say that Jim Palmer was quite the good looking people!


I'll think the next post will be the last in this series.

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Today's an other day at the Hall of Fame.

And today's I can say that I know almost all the players! Just missing Bert Blyleven and Walter Alston.

Love Joe DiMaggio for obvious reasons (GOOOOOOOOO YANKEES!) but the highlight goes to Roy Campanella with a great photo!

But then again...is just me or there is a swing behind Joe DiMaggio!?

I see swings all the time...!!!

Highlight too for mister mustache Blyleven. Facial hair is always good to see in a baseball card.

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Just an other HoF great corridor where I highlight mister Rizzuto which always make me think in Risotto.

Then is one of all time favourite: Al Kaline.
Which reminds me of Alkaline batteries.

I have this really strange mind...

But the final highlight goes to one of my set favourite card:

Can you just scream BEAUTIFUL CARD!?

There is something with the batter and all that people behind him that makes me want to look for Wally (I think some call him Waldo. But here is Wally).


I don't know but this post looks strangely odd to me. In a funny way I hope.

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It's really incredible how we can get so much...baseball!...in just one scanning page.

Now I'm starting to understand when people get excited about some set checklist. Because a good and well thought checklist can truly make a set!

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There is this magic about black and white pictures that make the players we all knew in colour to look extremely good in black and white thou.

Perhaps it's just because we have coloured pictures and the old attract us for its difference.

I put the horizontal in the wrong way to manage them all into only one scan. But I must say that they look awesome!

It seems to me that Sutter photo is the same in the front and back. The same for Alomar.

Panini is doing a Topps thing or what!?

But ok. We get different pictures for all the others.

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Hello look who's back!

And keeping with the traveling trend lets get back to Cooperstown for an other walk.

I recognize both top and bottom on the left: Larkin and Carter.

I must say that thanks to catchers wearing the helmets that way is quite easy to get a good photo of them in these cards. Love seeing them wearing the catchers gear...

They say it's all about the uniform.

Ron Santo I also know from seeing some of his cards on some blogs. But I confess that the rest are truly from the Museum to me.

I apologize for the not great scanning pictures, but still learning how to deal with the scanner and only now I found that the scanning program in windows 8 scans fast but with the lowest resolution possible...buhhh Not using that next time but the proper scanner scanning program to do it properly.

There is this time traveling from the card's front to the card's back because some players are younger in one side and quite old on the other.

Not telling that some look great in one side and the other side is...better not saying.

But I appreciate King Kelly's mustache evolution.

And look at Ed Delahanty. On the front he looks like a family boy and on the back he looks like some outlaw! How cool is that!

And finally Hugh Duffy seems like a maestro commanding his orchestra but with a but.


Enjoying these cards more and more each passing days.

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Sutton  I know!

I wouldn't say that the person on the front is the same as the one on the back.

And Keeler look more like a mechanic than a ball player.

This card is like a journey into the future.

A young Spalding and an old Spalding.

But what I like most is the way too big jacket.

This set even features a bunt card!

 The glove...It change so much.

Getting Clement in base set and one of his inserts. Good good.

Can you see Sisler bat!? That is huge! How could he swing it!?

Great great card! And to add +10 it's horizontal.

Sorry for my not so PG-13 mind but every time I see Hornsby name...

This is probably the first card I see a bit of a 'need-to-cut-his-head-off' design. But it's just a slight sensation.

2012 Panini Cooperstown - lets visit the HoF

It was for this I wanted the Panini Cooperstown cards so much.

You get the feeling of really be walking in the museum.

The design is not very intrusive and even helps when in need of hiding the MLB logos without seeming too much that they had to cut the head off.

The photos help the good effect because some caps don't show the logo and in other cases there is no cap but a top hat.

 The black and white choice was good and I think suits very well the meaning of this set.

Of course it is a bit funny seeing a black and white photo of a player we always saw at 'technicolor'.

 There is a line of career statistics but lots of trivia.

This is the right set for me. That's why, for the first since I bought the first cards, that I decided I truly, really, want to complete a set! Even if it is just the base cards. I want them all! It also helps they are only 170 in total. Including already the 'technicolor' SPs (if we may call those cards SPs...).