Blake Snell Pink Card Count: 1

I am starting to run out of "normal" Blake Snell autographs to collect. Normal meaning that the card is not serial serial numbered to 5 or costs $300 on Ebay, because it has some crazy patch piece. If you collect a player, it's one of the worst feelings. I have been there before with my Ray Lankford collection. However, there are other places I can go with my Blake Snell cards, especially when I consider how I have not really done anything to collect his base or relic cards.  

I am likely going to spend a good chunk of time working on Snell's base cards in 2024 and will be posting that as one of my collection/blog goals for the new year in the coming weeks. I will dabble with relic cards, but the majority just don't really do anything for me as a collector.  

There are a few exceptions and I found one earlier this week on Ebay.  

A pink Blake Snell card.  

The card is not actually pink, it's the green parallel from the uber expensive Topps Definitive product. This is one of those three hundred dollar boxes of cards where you get two autographs, two relics, and a parallel card.  This green relic parallel is numbered to 15 copies. Someone pulled this card and was probably really pissed off they only got a $20 card out of the pack. The large pink object on the card is actually a patch piece from a Padres jersey.  

I know, the Padres wear brown, but their Nike City Connect jerseys are pink, teal, and yellow. Here is a photo of Blake Snell pitching in one of these uniforms.  

The pink piece on the card is a patch piece, so it's from the word "SAN DIEGO" on the front of the uniform, as the pink sleeves are just pink fabric. 

If this had been some piece of white or gray jersey, there is zero chance that I buy this card. I just could not pass up a pink jersey swatch with a low serial number. This is a unique card that will look great in my Blake Snell collection.  

Back of the card.  

The standard back. Nothing too interesting.  

Overall, a great looking card.  

2021 Blake Snell Autograph Count: 2

I am really gaining momentum now.  Two Blake Snell autographs in two days.  

This is out of Topps Definitive.  It's some $2,000 per box product that was never on my radar.  I bought this card for less than $20.  Not a very good return on that amount of money for somebody out there.  The design of the card is decent.  Huge chunk of jersey, picture of Snell, some geometric shapes floating around the middle of the card.  Seems on par for a high-end Topps product.  I like the dead space at the bottom of the card for the player autograph.  

Back of the card.  

I had to go back to the previous post to see if the card back was the same as the previous card.  It's not, but there are a lot of similarities.  My next post is not another Blake Snell autograph.  I will be lucky to pass 5 this year.  

2019 Blake Snell Autograph Count: 27

There are three weeks left in 2019.  I have officially done enough with Blake Snell autographs.  There are none left that are affordable, or that really interest me, so we are done after this post.  It's been a good run, never thought I would get all the way to 27 autographs of one player in a year. 

I made sure that the last Snell of the year was something good though.  I ended up picking up one of the cards that I skipped earlier in the summer due to cost.  There are expensive Snell autographs, but it seems that at some point they always come down a bit.  At worst, if you are patient a copy of the card will fly under the radar on an Ebay auction.  I have never set a ceiling on how much I will spend on a Snell autograph, but there are non-starters.  

Most of the Buy It Nows and auctions when this card fist came out were over $30.  That's a non-starter for this card.  I did not pay it, and I ended up saving some money.  

This is from Definitive, which is one of those Topps brands that all blends together in my world with things like Tribute an Museum Collection.  I am sure there are others that I am not thinking about as a truck through a post at 5:30 on a Sunday morning.   The cards are on thicker stock, have some sort of jersey or patch swatch, an have a low print run.  

The backs of the cards are look the same too.  

It's like a generic form letter that Topps attaches to all of the aforementioned card brands.  

It has been a fun year of collecting Snell autographs, but I am definitely ready to move onto something else.  I have started drafting my end of the year post, and I am definitely going to pass over repeating this sort of project again.