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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Trust Traitors

This post is sort of an addendum to yesterday.  When I received 17 PWE's on the same day I had originally assumed that they were all from Wes.  It turns out two were from Peter Steinberg (Baseball Every Night).  I jokingly dubbed him Benedict Steinberg, but Peter's envelopes had two great cards with one being a white whale.  
1994 Action Packed has some great shots of Clemente.  These came out at a time when many people stopped collecting post junk wax era.  Add in the MLB strike and you have a perfect storm.

WHITE WHALE!!!!


My white whale lists aren't necessarily big $ cards, but can be a huge pain in the butt to find.  Big thanks to Peter for helping me with this one.  You shall be rewarded my friend.

I love collecting Pirates from the mid to late 90's.  Some really obscure parallels exist during this time so I've made it a project of mine of focusing on a set or two at a time and seeing what damage I can do.  Several of these cards including the Martin above make the white whale list because they can be sneaky hard to secure.  As most of you know parallels /150 in the 90's are not the same as they are now.

Although you have joined the dark side Peter I do thank you for helping me out here.  You are the most generous Sylvia Plath expert I know.

Thanks for reading.

10 comments:

  1. The Action Packed card is gorgeous. The Al Martin card? Not a very flattering shot...

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    1. Ha ha. I hadn't noticed that particularly until I saw the scan. The card in person... his bum's less noticeable, I think!

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  2. My pleasure Matt! I've been having fun with this, and it's stress relief from my Plathian ventures in a way, to look around.

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    1. Blogging is always a nice distraction for me too. Normal workday stuff sucks

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  3. Down to just 5 cards on the most wanted (white whale)list.

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    1. Getting there! This list has taken a while, but definitely picking up steam the last few weeks. The last 5 will be tough

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  4. Nice! Stadium Club one of a kinds are a pain.

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    1. Yeah, they hit auction a decent amount...but the shipping is usually more than the card is worth.

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  5. Congratulations on acquiring the whale. As for that Clemente... it's so cool. Action Packed baseball just doesn't receive the hobby love it deserves.

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    1. Peter has been on a roll finding whale cards for me.

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