tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52486908347803981662024-03-13T12:37:34.849-07:00The Italian CompletistThe Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-2977524108742759642020-05-09T05:20:00.000-07:002020-05-09T05:20:46.994-07:00Quarantine Diary<br />
Hello people and kind readers out there!<br />
I've never thought I would experience something like these past two months, and the fact itself that already two months have passed is still hard to fully digest.<br />
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Living in one of the hardest hit countries hasn't been easy, especially in the earliest days if the outbreak. I know that there are countries and people saying the Italians exported the virus in other places (i.e. in the US), so that's another great burden to carry for future generations, already in charge of those nice things like Mafia and despicable stuff like that...<br />
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I've been lucky enough so far, since no one I know has died from this terrible virus, but I can say for sure that several of my colleagues had it, in a stronger or lighter form, so this thing is close to each and everyone of us, one way of another.<br />
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I hope everybody is safe, and respectful of the guidelines on safety and hygiene, this virus is not something we should underestimate or mess with.<br />
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That said, I've spent some hours recently counting all the cards in my collection (I know this could sound pointless or even stupid), I think is useful to take some time every now and then and draw a line about where the collection is, in the same time you have the opportunity to see a bunch of cool cards you didn't see in a long time, and maybe even re-organize some sets in new rows or even different boxes. Ok now I am sounding also a bit OCD, but that's how I like to collect.<br />
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Considering the outlook for the next months, and specifically summer, isn't very encouraging, I've decided to invest some money in a HUGE (and it really is huge) lot of baseball cards from a US ebay auction. The lot I will receive consists of 30.000 cards, or at least it was listed as such.<br />
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I can't wait to receive it, that will keep me busy for sure for the coming months.<br />
Hopefullly I'll be able to complete some sets, or at least fill some (hopefully many) gaps in my checklists!<br />
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The counting and organizing of the current collection is also aimed at having a clear and updated starting point for when this giant load of cardboard will arrive, the estimated delivery date is May 23rd, so pretty soon...<br />
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Unfortunately this summer's HOF induction ceremony won't take place, and that's understandable.<br />
So, in order to add some images to a post that otherwise would only consist of words, I'll post below some pictures of players in the 2020 HOF class, nothing extremely rare or valuable, just some cards I found while organizing...<br />
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-70836477676184222062019-07-06T01:52:00.002-07:002019-07-06T01:52:23.178-07:00The Italian-French Connection<br />
Hello people and card collectors,<br />
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today I am posting about the huge box filled with cards that Kevin, The Card Papoy, sent my way.<br />
This is the result of a partnership that started several years ago, but that was not resulting in trades since way too long.<br />
So we started exchanging emails again some weeks ago and that led to the trade I received last week.<br />
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Kevin of course received his end of the deal as well, as you can read <a href="http://thecardpapoy.blogspot.com/2019/06/france-and-italy-friends-again.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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First of all, some numbers related to this lot, since I spend my days working with numbers, and since it gives an interesting representation of what I received.<br />
Inside the box, I counted 524 cards (which is already impressive), and after checking each one of them with my checklist (I really love this activity), I ended up adding 351 cards to my collection!<br />
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This is an exceptional rate of need/have cards, especially considering that this was a blind trade, so the cards I received were selected by Kevin based uniquely on his taste.<br />
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I have to admit that I am Always a bit scared, especially when buying big lots on ebay, because I think my collection is pretty big already (passed the 88,500 cards mark thanks to Kevin), and the chances of finding a lot of doubles is behind every corner.<br />
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I am very happy to say that with this trade, I am pleased and surprise of the results!<br />
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Among them, there were at least three cards that I consider absolutely iconic, and definitely turn the whole trade level up a notch, here they are.<br />
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A 1990 Bowman Rookie card of Frank Thomas ?!? Seriously?</div>
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I didn't have this card, and honestly never expected to receive it as part of a trade! Now I only miss the checklist cards from 1990 Bowman set to complete it! I knew that Big Hurt is one of the main focuses of Kevin's collecting, but he's been way too generous by trading such an iconic card!</div>
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A Greg Maddux Rookie card from 1987 Donruss!! Kevin, you're making the cards I sent your way look like garbage by comparison! Needless to say (but I'll say it), I was missing this card, so welcome to my collection Greg!</div>
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One last piece that I'd like to show, also to support the fact that trading with an European buddy like Kevin is amazing, and that I'll put much more effort in collating the future trades with him.</div>
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A Chipper Jones rookie card from 1991 Upper Deck!</div>
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Just kidding of course! I am very happy to own this card, and again, it's has been checked off my wantlists, so one card less away from completion!</div>
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To wrap up this (fairly) long post (at least for my standards), I'd like to thank Kevin for the amazing lot he sent, and the exceptional cards he added, going well beyond the average lots you can buy on ebay, or the usual contents of a blind trade.</div>
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Please check out his blog at <a href="http://thecardpapoy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">thecardpapoy</a>, and support our small but passionate European baseball card community!</div>
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CIAO!</div>
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-58559951187371086472019-04-21T09:56:00.001-07:002019-04-21T09:56:40.398-07:00Still here, still collecting!<br />
Hello people,<br />
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just a quick post today since it has been way too long since the last time I posted anything on here, exept obviously updates to the 2013 WBC Patches "catalog".<br />
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I haven't quit collecting, no sir!<br />
I am still actively chasing cards to complete my favorite sets, especially the one mentioned above, and I am always discovering new beatiful cards, and whenever the price is right (you know me) I try to snag them.<br />
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One of the most satisfying pickups in the recent past has been the first 1/1 from WBC Patches set, it looked way to good to me when I found the auction, and it even wasn't a crazy priced buy it now, but rather a regular auction! I couldn't believe I got it for less than 20 dollars!<br />
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So now I have at least a specimen of all the variants in the set.<br />
Also, I was finally able to find the elusive Atsunori Inaba patch card, so now I am only a Maeda away from having at least a card from every player in the Patches set!<br />
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A very good news and surprise is that finally Amazon in Italy started selling baseball cards!<br />
I picked up some boxes for the past Christmas, and even received a complete 2018 Topps Set!<br />
I have to admit that receiving a complete set is not satisfying as putting it together slowly and card by card, but at the same time saves you a lot of effort and time, and saves funds for other purchases.<br />
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This post won't have pictures in it, but it's just aimed at letting you (if anybody is reading this) know that my hiatus from the blog does not represent my leaving the hobby, not at all!<br />
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The passion for baseball cards collecting is stronger than ever, and I really hope to be able to post frequent updates of my collection and pickups on here!<br />
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Thank you very much for the time in reading this, and have a nice day!<br />
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CIAO and keep collecting!The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-72467627898373519942018-03-03T05:20:00.002-08:002018-03-03T05:20:47.754-08:00...and Santa delivered!<br />
I am happy to say that Santa never disappoints!<br />
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Since December 25th I am the proud owner of a nice and very functional Canon scanner.<br />
Obviously the first thing to do when you receive a scanner is scanning stuff right?<br />
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And if you know me a little, you already know what I've been scanning in the last weeks..<br />
If you guessed 2013 Tribute WBC then you are totally right!<br />
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The proof of it can be found in the section of the blog dedicated to this beautiful set, that still today after almost four years since its release, keeps haunting me.<br />
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Hopefully by the time this post is published, I'll also finish scanning all the patch cards that I have in my possession (obviously there are more coming from my mailbox at COMC, but they won't arrive before a month).<br />
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Feel free to visit the page dedicated to my (by far) favorite set, and I'll try to post soon again with new and different cards, that I recently received and added to my growing collection!<br />
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Have a nice weekend and keep collecting!<br />
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Ciao!<br />
<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-34034982444365795792017-10-25T14:08:00.000-07:002017-10-25T14:08:20.147-07:00Dear Santa please...<br />
..bring me a scanner for Christmas!!!<br />
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For the first time in months, this evening I came home from work hoping to be able to finally update this blog with some high quality (or at least decent) pictures of my cards.<br />
The first bunch of cards that were to be scanned would have been my always growing 2013 Topps Tribute WBC set...<br />
I am using the conditional, since my old, clunky scanner, cannot produce pictures of a quality good enough to replace the many pictures taken from COMC and currently on display.<br />
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So hopefully this Christmas I will receive (or probably buy) a nice, modern scanner that will allow a step up in the quality of this blog!<br />
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As you may notice, I added a background theme to the blog, and I couldn't think of a more appropriate picture than the logo of the World Baseball Classic 2013, since it has become my "obsession" in the last months...<br />
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As of today, I have 63 patch cards out of the 70 in the checklist (for a total of 166 different cards if I include all the parallels) and 80 out of the 86 autographs available (129 if I count all the parallels I have). This brings the total different cards I have to 295 cards.<br />
What can I say, I am in love with this set!!<br />
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I have to admit that the cards listed on ebay (at least those that have a reasonable price) are becoming scarce as months pass, but I still hope to be one day able to fill the empty spots in my checklist and complete it with at least a specimen of every card...<br />
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But enough chatting, let's show some cardboard ok?<br />
Again, and hopefully for the last time, I will use the scans kindly offered (even tough I pay for them) by COMC.<br />
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The first card is a 2012 Playoff Prime Cuts patch card of Starlin Castro, it's numbered to 25, and it's even cooler considering that it cost me 1 cent... can you believe it? I love eBay whenever I get this kind of steals..</div>
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The next card could suggest what's currently on my mind (card wise at least), since it is a 2017 Topps Museum WBC card... and not a random card, but a team Italy relic card, coming from a jersey worn by Gavin Cecchini</div>
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The next and last card comes from 2016 Topps Tek, a nice set when it comes to the range and quality of players available, and I bet it is also hard as hell to scan!</div>
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My first autograph of Billy Wagner</div>
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-5204136951814775182017-05-18T14:00:00.001-07:002017-05-18T14:00:11.073-07:00Still alive and kickin'!Despite the total absence of posting in the last months, I am still deeply into collecting.<br />
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All I've done in the last months was pick up cards from either ebay or comc to beef-up my collection, and when I say "collection" I obviously refer to the set that's been draining all my time (and money) recently... obviously 2013 Topps Tribute WBC!<br />
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You can keep track of the progress made in this set in the two dedicated pages...<br />
But obviously the more you have, the more you want, and at the same time the more they cost you, so it's getting tougher everyday to find new cards to add...<br />
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So I sometimes picked up new and cool (in my opinion) cards, in some cases depicting old-timers, and in other cases simply eye appealing cards...<br />
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Here below are some examples of the cards that arrived recently<br />
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Sticking to the theme of WBC, this year Italy started the tournament very well (surprisingly) defeating Mexico... unofrtunately the tournament had not many more satisfactions for the Italian team, but Topps celebrated the epic won match with a dedicated card in the 2017 Topps Now set<br />
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The next card is an old-timer themed card, it depicts one of the Pittsburg Pirates all-time legends, and is the first non-base card I have of him.</div>
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Here's a 2003 Donruss Signature Series autographed card of Ralph Kiner</div>
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After several months of serching everywhere in Italy, I picked up (from a US seller on ebay) a bundle of 25 monster boxes to slowly re-organize my collection, that has been slowly coming back from the garage to the "man cave".</div>
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I also bought from the same seller a case of 100 magnetics (130 pt thick) to properly store all my patch cards from 2013 Tribute WBC.</div>
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Also, in August I'll spend a couple weeks in NYC and I plan to visit at least twice the White Plains card show, as well as the city LCS, so my collection will hopefully grow in size and quality, so stay tuned!</div>
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So last week it was Halloween, not the most traditional Holiday here in Italy, but I decided nevertheless to "treat" myself a little with some ebay pickups...<br />
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Since there were no interesting 2013 Tribute Wbc ending during the festivities, I focused on other cards that were either from cool sets or that depict players I like.<br />
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First, I'd like to proudly show a pickup that I made just a handful of hours before game 7 started (and we all know how it ended). It's the first card I ever bought from one of the highest-end products out there...I am talking about Topps Dynasty! And the player on this card turned out to be one of the leaders in the Cubs winning game 7...here's Jason Heyward<br />
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-67212621882974967012016-11-03T14:22:00.000-07:002016-11-04T04:44:53.114-07:00The wait is over!<br />
Today is a great day for every baseball fan, maybe some fans are happier than other, but it is always a great feeling when a team is crowned World Series Champion am I right?<br />
The title of this post refers both to the long time the Cubs fans had to wait before having the opportunity to celebrate their team on the top of the baseball world, as well as to the long time that passed (again) since my last post...<br />
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I know, I just published a new post <a href="http://chasingcompleteness.blogspot.it/2016/11/set-fails-pt1.html" target="_blank">Set fails pt1</a> , but that's something I worked on over several weeks, so it doesn't feel like something recently produced, but rather something that I kept aside until I had the chance to scan the last card and post the whole thing.<br />
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I feel like this post is the first in a pretty long time, and what better chance to post a new post than take advantage of the great assist (in the soccer meaning of the word) provided by the recently ended 2016 World Series?<br />
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This post could be the first of new series of posts (I know I keep starting new series that apparently are abandoned immediately after they are posted, but it's hard to put hands on new "material" to feature), because I will try to show all the relics/autos cards I have from the players that won the World Series less than 24 hours ago.<br />
There will be obviously several players (probably the majority of them) without a card in this post, but maybe someday I will own a card of every player that ever played the game (wow that would be a dream). Also, please be kind if some of the players are featured in a uniform different from the cubs'blue, but that's the best I can do!<br />
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First, the pitcher that won the final game of the series, one of my favorite pitchers, and honestly I don't regret the fact that he left the Yankees to join the team that won the championship, so here we start with the Cuban Missle....Aroldis Chapman!<br />
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The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-45118391208605213682016-11-03T12:59:00.001-07:002016-11-03T12:59:31.796-07:00Set fails pt.1What's set fails?<br />
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Basically a review of some of the sets that I consider to have failed in the collectors market or community.<br />
The concept of failure in this case is basically derived from the lack of reference to these sets in the blogs I read, the scarcity of cards posted on Instagram (where I'm a very active member) and even the difficulties a collector will face in tracking down the cards comprised in these sets.<br />
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The best part of it, is that I will show the cards I own from these sets (like I do in the show and tell series of posts), to prove that at least I gave these sets a try....<br />
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For the first episode of this new section, I picked up a product issued by Topps in 2011, and that had no further issues, apparently because the market didn't received it very positively, or maybe because it was replaced by a similar product, that proved to be more successful (in my opinion it's been replaced by Museum Collection).<br />
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The set I'm about to present is <strong><u>2011 Topps Marquee!</u></strong><br />
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This product was sold in boxes containing 4 mini boxes, each one with a single pack inside (first resemblance with Museum collection), and every pack offered 5 cards.<br />
So far nothing strange.<br />
As far as I know, this was the first Topps product to feature metal framed cards (second aspect recycled in Museum).<br />
The set offered a wide range of signed and relic cards, the most notable probably being the "Titanic Threads Patch relic".<br />
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-32165800387364692162016-09-03T03:16:00.000-07:002016-09-03T03:16:04.071-07:00Big Papoy hits a Homerun!<br />
Last week I was informed by my parents that two packages arrived at their home.<br />
I was waiting for a small package from Amazon, but I wasn't able to figure out what the second package could be.<br />
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Then I realized that Kevin aka <a href="http://thecardpapoy.blogspot.it/" target="_blank">The Card Papoy</a> sent me a package the week before and I was immediately hooked by curiosity train and couln't wait to see the content.<br />
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First I apologize if it took me a whole week to post about this lot, but work is back in my life and today is the first day so far that I can invest on cards and blogging.<br />
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Then, I'd like to thank Kevin for the generous package, filled with more than 60 cards from a wide variety of sets, many of them totally new to me.<br />
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So here are some of the cards he sent to the other side of the Alps...<br />
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One last info for European collectors that were afraid that team bags and toploaders were nowhere to be found in our continent, I am very happy to inform them that I recently picked up both the products from Amazon! So no more buying them from US ebay sellers and wait weeks to receive them, without speaking about the insanely high costs!</div>
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-39544953279619326242016-08-26T04:53:00.001-07:002016-08-26T04:53:03.825-07:00Just Zistling around<br />
Here's the question:<br />
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What does a card collector when he/she has no new cards to organize or catalog?<br />
He/she organizes/catalogues old cards!<br />
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This is why I'm planning to spend some time in the coming days/weeks in adding new cards to my collection on Zistle.<br />
I hope this will make easy to find and setup new trades with members of the website, even if I already have a detailed wantlist in form of checklists available on this blog.<br />
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I decided to embark in this epic quest today, after a collector on Zistle said that a trade would have been very hard to arrange if he had no visibility of what are the cards I am looking for.<br />
This is as obvious as it can be, except for me apparently.<br />
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Having all these checklist here isn't much useful for possible new trading partners that do not use Blogspot, but instead are very active on Zistle... and in order to ease the activity of verifying what could help me fill in some gaps, I decided to replicate on Zistle the wantlists.<br />
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When I first joined Zistle I decided to use it mainly to virtually replicate my collection, and to make it more easy and keep track of everything the rule was to add cards to the virtual collection only for the completed sets.<br />
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I broke my own rule today as I started to massively load all my Allen & Ginter cards (the non auto and non relic ones at least) and generating the corresponding wantlists by exception, so even faster than I thought.<br />
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If anybody reading this blog is interested in a different sight at my wantlists, and a partial look at my collection, can have a look at my profile on Zistle, Italiancomplestist.<br />
Also feel free to add me to your contacts and message me!<br />
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But wait, what kind of Baseball Cards blog has a post without pictures of Baseball Cards? <br />
Not this one fur sure, so here are some more cards patiently waiting in my mailbox at COMC.<br />
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2009 Topps Unique Jumbo Jersey Relic of CC Sabathia #'d to 40</div>
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The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-88959598473996813492016-08-25T04:42:00.000-07:002016-08-25T04:42:06.608-07:00Breaking the silence<br />
It's official, the summer is over!<br />
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Well, not the summer that ends on September 21st, but the summer that equals Holidays!<br />
I've been back at work since Tuesday, and since I'm the only person in the office (sigh), what better way to spend the lunch break than posting something on this blog, after almost three months of complete silence?<br />
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I spent my Holidays in Paris, and despite there were (obviously) no card shops to visit, I had a great time there.<br />
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I've also picked up some cards from ebay, not as much as I did in the same period of last year, but still a lot of cool new additions to the collection.<br />
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On one hand I picked up several new cards for my 2013 Tribute WBC sets, and all the scans are already available in the dedicated sections, and on the other hand I picked up some nice things from other sets, some vintage cards and other that will soon have a dedicated page, and that I'm not going to show here.<br />
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So if you had enough of all this bla bla bla, here are some nice scans of cards that I hope to receive soon from my mailbox at COMC.<br />
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First let's show some vintage cardboard....<br />
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-27279163852509251702016-05-29T10:15:00.001-07:002016-05-29T10:15:09.408-07:00Ooops I did it again!<br />
I bought some more cards!<br />
I bought them off COMC!<br />
Some more completed sets...<br />
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Just try to imagine the above words on the music of the famous song of Britney...awful right?<br />
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So let's move to something we all love, baseball cards and set completing!<br />
Since I earned some money on Paypal by selling old stuff, I decided it was time to buy some new stuff, and what better place to do it than COMC?<br />
At first I was tempted to have a look at ebay, but then I thought, "on COMC I wouldn't have to pay shipping, processing fees and there's no possible negative outcome as an average auction", so there was not much discussing about what was the most smart thing to do...<br />
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I decided to focus on two main goals:<br />
- try to complete some of the sets that were the closest to completion;<br />
- spend some money on 2013 Tribute WBC cards to mark some cards off of the wantlist<br />
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For the first goal, I'd say that I did pretty well, in fact I completed the following sets, by picking up the cards depicted (I'm not listing all the cards I bought to complete every set, but maybe a couple from each one)<br />
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-<b> 2008 Topps Heritage Then and Now (# of cards I was missing: 3)</b><br />
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# TN2 Ernie Banks and Alex Rodriguez</div>
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<b>- 2011 Topps Opening Day Presidential First Pitch (# of cards I was missing: 1)</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-65047429285638666082016-05-21T02:59:00.001-07:002016-05-21T02:59:37.524-07:00Too many autographs to count...or not?<br />
If you know the type of collector that I am, you know that there isn't an amount of cards big enough to scare me and prevent me from count and organize it!<br />
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During the week I prepared a sort of checklist of all the autographs I have (only the certified ones), to have a better evidence of the players that signed at least a card that's now in my hands...<br />
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Turned out that I have 510 different autographed cards, which is a great achievement, and also that there are some players that have multiple entries in the collection, but who are the players that signed the most cards in my collection?<br />
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Not surprisingly at all, some of them are included in the set I've been more focused on (2013 Tribute WBC), justyfying the multiple entries, so let's get to the ink!<br />
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With 6 autographed cards each, Yovani Gallardo and Derek Holland, followed by Andre Rienzo,J.P. Arencibia, John Axford and Wandy Rodriguez with 5 entries.<br />
As I said, the majority of these autographs can be viewed in this dedicated <a href="http://chasingcompleteness.blogspot.it/p/2013.html" target="_blank">page</a> , so maybe I'll show just the cards that cannot be seen in the above link.<br />
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<b>Yovani Gallardo</b><br />
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Let me know if you liked this post, and maybe I could do a second part with other players and their autographs!<br />
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CIAO!The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-82126850236208136452016-05-17T12:16:00.001-07:002016-05-17T12:16:57.736-07:00Oh Zistle, where have you been?<br />
It's probably always been there, but I was too lazy to check it out...<br />
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But thanks to the request of a new possible European trading partner called Paul, I finally joined the vast community of Zistle.com<br />
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So far I just added a handful of thousands of cards, but I think this will be an interesting activity in the coming weeks... probably the most funny thing to do will be update as many missing pictures as possible, and watch the digital collection grow and hopefully reach the proportions of the real one..<br />
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Whoever is a Zistle user, please feel free to contact me, I'm always very curious to peep other collector's collections!<br />
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My username is Italiancompletist, just to avoid the risk of being confused with a different collector based in Italy, and that tries to complete as many sets as possible...<br />
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Speaking if which, since there will be no more need of my low quality, excessively uncomfortable for the user, scans. So I will soon delete the page and the links to dropbox, that will still be used as a repository for my wantlists...<br />
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I also recently received the last package from COMC, with the cards I picked up from ebay during February and early March, so I'm going to show my favorite card from that lot...tell me what you think!<br />
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In his second part I'll show some more cards I picked up on COMC this week, and briefly describe the sets that will be completed thanks to these additions.<br />
We can argue on whether or not consider one of them as a complete set, but let's start with the cards...<br />
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<b>1989 Topps K-Mart Dream Team</b><br />
I could repeat the same description I did for the 1988 set, but it might sound boring, so I'll get to the card that completed this set, ok? Nice mustaches by the way...<br />
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Probably one of the longest names ever for a set, and at the same time one of the smallest sets ever!</div>
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When I previously said that we could argue on a set, I was referring to this one, because it has been produced by two companies, both numbering the cards from 6 to 10, which leads me to think that in 2005 the first five cards were issued. I consider the part issued by UD as a set on its own, as well as the set produced by Topps. So I picked up the last missing card in the UD portion of the issue.</div>
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To complete the lot I also picked up a Sammy Sosa card from 1990 Bowman, and a bunch of 2014 Bowman Prospects, leaving me 5 cards away from completing also that set. Unfortunately some of those cards depict Kris Bryant and Jacob DeGrom, meaning that it will be very hard to get them for a reasonable price!</div>
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Since I received a refund from COMC after my Ripken auto wasn't authenticated by BGS, I decided to use that amount of money, plus the remainings of my "old" store credit to pick up some singles that could help me to complete sets that were almost finished.<br />
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I had a look at all my checklists and decided that I could try to complete some of the sets for which I was missing less than 10 cards, only if the missing cards could be picked up in COMC marketplace for a decent price (between 30 to 50 cents).<br />
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Here's what I got, and the sets I was able to finally complete!<br />
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<b>2008 SP Authentic</b><br />
I really like the SP Authentic sets, and to complete this one there was just a single card missing, so I decided it was the right time to write off this set from the list of the "non complete" sets.<br />
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# 10 Carlos Zambrano # 11 Ken Griffey Jr<br />
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<b>1988 Topps K-Mart</b></div>
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<b>1996 Upper Deck Hideo Nomo Highlights</b></div>
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Back in 1996 apparently Hideo Nomo was a sensation, and UD dedicated a mini set of 5 cards to the highlights of his career as a Dodger. Despite the small size of the set, there were still 2 cards missing in my checklist, and I'm very happy that I finally checked them!</div>
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Since I never completely worked out the fact that a sealed complete set was in fact not complete, and you can read the story <a href="http://chasingcompleteness.blogspot.it/2016/03/fleer-youre-really-disappointing-me.html" target="_blank">here</a>, I didn't mind the higher than average price of 1,5 USD and picked up the missing card of the set</div>
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I'm very happy for these 5 sets that I now can call "complete", and it is very satisfying how easy and cheap it was to pick up the missing pieces.</div>
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Thanks to everybody that's reading this post, have a great weekend!</div>
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CIAO!</div>
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P.S. I apologize for having said "set" so many times!</div>
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During this week I was informed by my parents that a "very small packet" arrived at their doorstep, and that I could pick it up whenever I wanted...<br />
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Well, we have a motto in Italy that sounds like "the small barrel contains the good wine"...<br />
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Nothing could be more appropriate, because I received a package full of pack fresh 2015 Topps Series One cards from Matt aka <a href="http://gotta-get-them-all.blogspot.it/" target="_blank">card obsessive collector</a>, that sent his part of a trade started some weeks before, and in which I sent his way a bunch Yankees cards, ranging in years and manufacturers...<br />
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Here's what he sent me<br />
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First of all, the packet wasn't small at all, in fact it was stuffed with exactly 214 cards from the above set, and I'm pretty sure that the guy from Nottingham took the time to look at my checklists ( <a href="http://chasingcompleteness.blogspot.it/p/my-wantlists.html" target="_blank">here</a> ) and cherry picked cards not marked with the infamous "x". Not that the checklist showed many of them, since as at yesterday my 2015 Topps set consisted of exactly 9 cards!</div>
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Well, after I finished checking the content of the above package, the count was 222 cards!</div>
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Meaning that basically every single card he sent was very much needed, and obviously even more appreciated by me!</div>
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If you already haven't, you must immediately stop reading this post and browse to its blog, because it could lead to very interesting trades like the one that I just commented.<br />
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Thank you very very much Matt, I really appreciate the cards you sent, and even more the fact that our European Baseball card community it's starting to grow.<br />
Or at least I should say that every collector that tought he (or she) was the only one having this beautiful hobby is starting to gain awareness of many others like him (her).<br />
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I'm looking forward to future trades with you all and by now I wish a great weekend to everybody, and remember to keep collecting!<br />
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CIAO<br />
The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-58887109358746146732016-04-16T02:55:00.003-07:002016-04-16T02:55:35.160-07:00...nope!<br />
This is just a quick update on a card that I presented in a previous post, <a href="http://chasingcompleteness.blogspot.it/2016/02/any-authenticators-out-there.html" target="_blank">right here</a> to be precise.<br />
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The card was submitted to BGS early January, and after more than three months of silence and no updates, I decided to ask for some assistance to the COMC assistance service.<br />
What I discovered left me very disappointed at first, but then I realized it's not really that bad.<br />
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They informed me that since the card did not have an "authenticated" or "guaranteed" autograph on it, then BGS wouldn't :<br />
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- grade it;<br />
- authenticate the signature<br />
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So I thought, what did I pay 12 dollars for?<br />
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I submitted the card exactly for that reason (have the signature authenticated).<br />
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Apparently, for COMC internal rules, a user should not be allowed to submit for grading a card that doesn't come with an authentication or guarantee already provided by the card manufacturer.<br />
Since in my case the card was submitted the same, I received a total refund, so no big deal in the end.<br />
Maybe I didn't fully understand what kind of service was provided there, or it wasn't explained clearly enough for a non english speaking user like I am, but again, it all was solved without problems.<br />
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If anyone of you uses the COMC mailbox (and I know for sure that someone does), be aware that an in person autograph, or something obtained TTM will not be submitted for grading.<br />
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I'm very happy that COMC acted so correctly and refunded me, and I'm going to keep recommending their mailbox service for sure.<br />
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Now, what should I do with the Ripken auto?<br />
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Only solution that comes to my mind is to keep it until I'll be able to visit a card show in the US (and I'm afraid it won't be soon) and have it (hopefully) certified there by PSA.<br />
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If you read my rant so far, thanks a bunch.<br />
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Have a great weekend and keep on collecting!<br />
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CIAOThe Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-60121837499626216232016-04-04T13:16:00.000-07:002016-04-04T13:16:04.842-07:00Show and tell - Lesson 2<br />
Before I start this new lesson of the Show and Tell themed series, I'd like to highlight that two weeks ago a great ball player and probably even greater broadcaster passed away, and he was also linked to Peanuts.<br />
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He was mentioned in several strips, and even written the foreword to a collection of Penauts strips all focusing on our favorite game (baseball) called Sandlot Peanuts.</div>
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I'm not going to show cards of this player though, but I tought it was right to pay a small hommage to this guy.</div>
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Something I really love about Upper Deck and still don't like that much about Topps is the quality of the patches and relics. UD issued some historic products with beautiful patches like UD Premier and UD Black, and in this post I'll show some cards from 2008 Upper Deck Premier!</div>
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-2238643202085754082016-03-20T05:34:00.000-07:002016-03-20T05:34:32.399-07:00Fleer you're really disappointing me!<br />
Even if I really like Fleer brand, and their 2000's products (especially stuff like Patchworks, Platinum Nameplates Teams and similar), I was really disappointed yesterday, when opening a sealed pack of 1988 Baseball MVP.<br />
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I got it as part of a bigger lot recently received, and as I said, it was perfectly sealed in its wrapping.<br />
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The set is made of 44 cards plus six stickers, depicting a stadium on one side, and a team logo on the other.<br />
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Here below are the scans of both front and back of the package.<br />
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There's one thing I invite you to consider, written in yellow and on the front side of the package....<br />
...you found it? "Complete set inside each box !"...what does it mean to you?<br />
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To me, it means that you get 44 cards and 6 stickers in every box, am I right?<br />
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Then, please somebody explain me why I have 43 cards!<br />
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It's a true mystery, and I was so firmly convinced I received a complete set that i already started putting the cards in binder pages, ready to be scanned and loaded in the section of the blog dedicated to complete set but then..."Hey, there's a missing spot!"<br />
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The missing card is no. 21 Mark Langston, and believe me when I say that I carefully looked around the table and inside the box, even checked if two cards where stuck together due to the decades spent in the sealed package, but the card is nowhere to be found....<br />
I checked on COMC and this card has a pricetag og 1,5 $, which is more than the price I usually pay for my autographs and relics, and I'm still deciding whether to buy it or not...<br />
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In the meantime here's a scan of it...<br />
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<br />The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-86057288800215654312016-03-20T05:10:00.000-07:002016-03-20T05:10:14.353-07:00 .552 2016 spring training average<br />
I know you're wondering "What's this guy talking about this time?"<br />
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Here's the answer.<br />
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As you might know, I sometimes like to buy lots of cards on ebay (and I mean a bulk or job lot, not "a huge amount of singles"), and that's exactly what I did back in February, when I picked up from a UK seller 3 lots, that he/she was kind enough to combine in a single shipment.<br />
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The cards arrived on Friday of last week, and in a couple days I completed the sorting and check listing of them all..but how many cards are we talking about this time?<br />
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The exact count was 2.143, which is a pretty stack of cards!<br />
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Why this post is entitled that way?<br />
Because 2016 Spring Training is on its way, and being an accountant in life, I can't help but keep track of the performance of the lots I blind buy on eBay...<br />
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The additions to the infinite sets I'm chasing have been a whopping 1.183 single cards!<br />
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It means that 55.2% of the cards received have been added to the completist's collection!<br />
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Some notable cards in the lots are Rookie Cards, and even a pre-rookie card, here they are<br />
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Both are from 1994 Collector's Choice, and feature an Icon of the Yankees as well as one of my favorite players (no matter what)...<br />
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Also a couple of Topps key rookie cards were included, on top there's 2002 Joe Mauer and bottom is the 1992 Manny Ramirez.<br />
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Last, is something that probably should be called pre-rookie card, but you'll be the judges...<br />
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From 2002, a Grandstand pre rookie card of Brandon Philips!<br />
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Stay tuned for more scans, rants and cards!<br />
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CIAO!The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-44546617934440473052016-03-12T01:40:00.001-08:002016-03-12T01:40:31.812-08:00Show and tell - Lesson 1<br />
Welcome everybody to the first episode (or should I say lesson?) of this new series.<br />
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Q. "What will you show us?"<br />
A. I'm not exactly sure....<br />
Q."What will be told then?"<br />
A.Ehm...<br />
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Let's just start this thing and see where it'll lead us ok?<br />
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A "Show and tell"deserving respect should be focused on a specific theme, and be supported by facts and figures, maybe even documents, that prove the worthyness of it.<br />
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Today I'm presenting you "2007 Upper Deck Exquisite", focusing on some autographs and relics that I proudly own.<br />
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Since this is the first post of its kind, I feel like I should start with the rookie themed cards in this beautiful set.<br />
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Again, cards are numbered to 25, and carry a pair of sticker autos. I don't know why UD was repeating the same pairings in various subsets, but I guess for logistic reasons when they had to gather the autographs...who knows? Again, the couple Fred Lewis and Michael Bourne share the same card!</div>
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But these are my absolutely favs in the Exquisite roster of 2007. "Rookie Signature Materials Parallel Patch" should be their complete name, and as you can see, they come packed with 4 patches and a sticker autograph. The cards from this parallel set are numbered to 25, and I was only able to pick up two Joe Blanton cards, and I'm very happy about it...I mean, just look at the sick patches on the bottom card!!</div>
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That's all for the 2007 Exquisite , at least that's all I have to show and tell about!</div>
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I hope you liked this (very long) post, I wish you all a great weekend!</div>
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<i><u><br /></u></i>The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-25331290567648690462016-03-12T00:49:00.000-08:002016-03-12T00:49:14.219-08:00Show and tell - The Preview<br />
Growing up I was a big Peanuts fan, and I used to wonder why here in Italian school there isn't a "Show and Tell" type of lesson.<br />
For those of you that aren't into Peanuts, during "Show and tell" lessons, one of the characters shows to the classmates and the teacher something that's important or noteworthy to him/her.<br />
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Something like this<br />
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How cool would have been for me to stand up in front of my classmates with a stack of baseball cards and share with them thoughts on how beautiful this hobby is?</div>
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Well, as I said, there's nothing like that in our schools, and there's also a timing problem, since I started collecting many years after I finished school..oh well...</div>
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But I could use this blog for a new and special "Show and Tell" baseball card related series of posts!</div>
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Since the series "This week in my mailbox" had an early finale due to the fact that I no longer receive the ebay pickups directly ad home, and the "What's in my mailbox" has been suspended since I prefer scan the cards myself once I get them delivered instead of using COMC scans, I think it's time to start a new series of posts...</div>
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So stay tuned!</div>
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The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248690834780398166.post-32654975802324989872016-03-07T13:26:00.003-08:002016-03-07T13:26:53.942-08:00New month, new blog's section<br />
Like the more careful of you might have already noticed, the blog has a new page in the header section.<br />
This time is not about some new set I'm trying to chase down, but serves as a recap of those that I already completed. Well, the word "already" may not be the most appropriate word, since some of them required (inexplicably) nine years to reach completion, but still it is a huge satisfaction for me to see a checklist completely checked!<br />
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In the new page you'll find a link to a dedicated Dropbox folder, where all the scans are organized.<br />
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As usual, this is a work in progress, and I'll add more scans everytime I can, as long as the complete sets least obviously!!<br />
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Thanks so much for reading this quick and unusual post, and please, feel free to take a look at the pictures and in case you need them, use them freely.<br />
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Keep Collecting people, Keep Collecting!!!<br />
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CIAO!The Italian Completisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768838796329922253noreply@blogger.com2