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Sometimes patience can save you a good bit of money.  Such was the case with this purchase.

2013 Panini Pen Pals 6 Auto

While most of these guys are still hanging around as backups you would have to consider this high end card a complete flop. Could you imagine the poor soul who bought this card at release. I'm guessing it was probably in the $200 range. I paid around $17. 

The appeal for me was to grab a high end card of former WVU great Geno Smith. While he hasn't panned out his stand alone autos still command a decent price.  Having all these other guys on the card actually saved me a few bucks. 

The card itself is really nice. Very clean on card autos are a rare commodity. The only real blemish is Nassib's crap signature. I also think he is the only one not on an active roster. 

Let's Go Mountaineers.  

Party Planning Committee

This weekend is homecoming for WVU and my wife and I throwing a big Oktoberfest themed party. We are expecting around 45 guests and have several friends staying with us all weekend.  It is something I look forward to every football season. 

With the Oktoberfest theme you have to have good beer!

This year I took it upon myself to see how many Oktoberfest beers I could accumulate. Right now I'm sitting right around 30 with several of my out of town friends contributing to the pile tomorrow. Perhaps I'll go on a drunken Bob Walk eBay purchasing bender.

Need some good food too.

I found an online German deli to help me accumulate some unique sausages. I've been on a diet for the last couple of months which I will undoubtedly destroy over the weekend.  Well worth it.

My wife is the big hero of the party as she takes it upon herself to make all the other dishes from scratch. Homemade potato salad, sauerkraut, beer dip and desserts just to name a few.

If you are in the area feel free to stop by.  Probably a good weekend to really fleece me on a trade.

Prost!

Christies or Sotheby's

I'll give you a second as you wipe the drool off of your keyboard. Is this not the greatest thing you've ever seen? Someone give me a high five.

If you show this Walk card at any Hawaiian strip club you get free admission.  Did you know that Walk owns every Pacific Coast League pitching record? Pretty amazing stuff.

This was actually part of a large COMC order, but this card had to be memorialized with its own post. All hail Walk.

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A Little Variety Would be NIce

I'm not reinventing the wheel with this post as I've seen it done several times.  Just thought I would show a Pirates version of the Topps practice of using the same image over and over.  

I haven't been hearing about this as much with recent releases so maybe they listened to the collecting masses and ended this lazy practice. In some ways it is kind of funny considering how many pictures of players are taken during one game.  I guess its equal part cheap/lazy/bad selection of Getty Images. 

Check out this awesome variety of Pedro Alvarez cards!

 This is the /50 gold parallel which is really cool!

The lack of variety always stings a little more with players like Alvarez who don't have much in the way of "hit" cards. Plus several of these cards are from high end sets so that adds to the insult even more.

Big thanks to Brian from Collecting Cutch who sent me all of these Pedro cards in the same team bag. He sarcastically had mentioned the great swinging pose that Topps fell in love with on the note.

I went through one of my saved albums and also found this one in my collection.....ugh

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Punting Action Card!!!!

Last month I noticed that former WVU kicker Pat McAfee was featured a good bit in 2017 Panini Certified. Of course I'm sucker for kicker cards so I knew I would try and chase a few of the more appealing parallels in the set.

2017 Panini Certified Accomplishments /50

For those that don't know much about McAfee he has quite the unique personality.  So unique that he decided to retire from the NFL to pursue outside interests. He has went on tour as a stand up comic and hosts his own show on Barstool Sports which seems to be pretty popular. I'm sure he left quite a bit of money on the table but you have to applaud someone doing what they love.

- By the way I think I typed "Leaf Certified" about 15 times doing this post.  Old habits die hard.  

Back to sorting cards....Long live kicker cards.

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Trade: Pack War

I've been on a nice run receiving some great trade packages. Today's package is from Corky of Pack War fame.  I've been following Corky's blog since I started mine, but this is the first time we swapped. Never too late to break the ice!

Corky approached me on Twitter letting me know he was reducing the cards in his collection of teams he doesn't actively collect.  I'm thankful he chose me to unload his Pirates. The blogging community constantly reminds you why it is the best.

Goudey cards are a nice way to get things rolling!

 Corky told me that he was originally going to make these prizes for his recent contest but decided to pass them along to someone who collected the Buccos. /fist pump by me

Who doesn't love Goudey. The bright vibrant colors make them some of the more unique vintage cards around.

 I remember this debut set.  I believe they were factory set only and featured guys who debuted in 89, but on the 90 Topps design. Lots of big names in this set like Griffey, Sosa and Deion Sanders.

Sometimes Stadium Club parallels are a little hard to see, but this is a black foil.  They fell around 3 a box. Pretty cool card of the Cole Train.

It seems like the hard copies of the eTopps cards are getting popular again on eBay. I didn't pay too much attention to eTopps when it was an active program. In recent years I've been sent some Pirate cards like this Bobby Bradley and have purchased a few Mccutchen's.  

Thanks for sending me all the great cards Corky.  I'll be taking a look at your want lists and hitting you back soon. 

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