The Legend

The Legend

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Road to Recovery and Topps Unique

First off I wanted to thank everybody for all the well wishes over the past month.  I'm doing much better and even worked a half day in the office today.  It was nice to get out of the house.  The prognosis for me is great as the tumor was benign.  The only long term side effect is that the surgeon had to remove a portion of my quad muscle in order to get all of the tumor.  That is going to give me a good limp for several months and might make me feel more tired when I exercise.  All things considered I couldn't ask for much better of a result.  I'll just have to think of cool stories how I got a scar that goes from my hip to my knee.  Race car accident, fighting off terrorists, knife fight......

2009 Topps Unique Dual Auto Jason Bay/Dustin Pedroia /25

Now for Cardboard!

Bay doesn't have a ton of Red Sox releases as he was only with the team for a season and a half.  I've had this card for quite sometime so I don't recall the price, but if memory serves it was a good deal as there was a little bit of damage on the bottom left corner.  Topps Unique was an interesting product full of crazy patches and high end autos so this card was par for the course in that set.  I don't spend a lot of money obtaining autos of former Buccos in another teams uniform, but the deal was too good.  Plus it gave me a chance to add a Pedroia auto to my collection.  

Thanks for reading!

8 comments:

  1. You got it from opening a pack of 1992 Stadium Club. Those cellos were a bitch to open!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Ha! I also remember Stadium Club cards sticking together like crazy.

      Delete
  2. Good to hear you are doing better, Matt. I bet your wife is happy that you are out of the house some!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Much better and yes she is glad I'm out and about.

      Delete
  3. Replies
    1. Thanks Mark! I'll have a package out for you soon with more Red Sox!

      Delete
  4. I thought that was you on the news when I heard about a guy in a high speed car chase/knife fight with a terrorist. Good to hear you're up and about, and that's a very nice card you posted today! I hope your return to health means you'll be back to busting boxes again and pulling me some more Tigers.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That was me Dennis! It was one of the more intense car chase/knife fight with a terrorist that you will ever see.

      I think we are going to open more 2012 Archives in a couple of weeks. I'm sure I'll pull a good Tiger for you.

      Delete