I received a parcel yesterday containing a job lot of Tony Gwynn cards I bought off eBay a few weeks back. When I bought it I knew it was a mix of new cards for the collection and several I already had, including quite a few base cards. Except, when the cards arrived and I could see the backs I realised that some of those base cards were inserts from later Topps sets.
Card Number 623: Topps Cards Your Mom Threw Out insert, 2010; #CMT-43
Tony had 3 cards in this insert series.
Again, I like this card because it's a reprint of a card that I feel I haven't seen a zillion times over. Admittedly it's a little bit self-indulgent to produce inserts celebrating yourself, but I'll let Topps off for that because this is a lovely card to have.
I know that after yesterday's post where I wrote about Topps's over-reliance on nostalgia, I'm being much more enthusiastic about these reprints than might be expected. But there's nothing quite as exciting as realising that cards I'd mentally written off as a dupes turn out to be ones I can add to my collection!
Total: 624 cards
It'd be interesting to flip through my Gwynn binders and see just how many different years worth of reprints Gwynn has.
ReplyDeleteSome years aren't represented at all, but I could do 83-84-85-86.
DeleteI've always been puzzled by some of the choices in the "Cards Your Mom Threw Out" set. Like, whose mom threw out a 1994 Topps Tony Gwynn?
ReplyDeleteAlso it's a bit disrespectful to Moms.
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