This card is the reason I went on COMC at all. I've never seen it available at a card show, and I knew I should be able to procure it somewhere without spending folding money. On eBay I would have had to win it then pay shipping. On COMC, it was a quarter and shipping was super cheap since I was buying a bunch of other cards at the same time.
I saw this one on Nick's blog a few weeks ago and made a note of it. What an awesome baseball card. I'm not a Pat Corrales nor a Padres collector which brings me to a quandary of late: how should I catalog cards of players I don't collect? Right now I have binders of players I like in alphabetical order, but this is probably my last Corrales. I'm starting to think it may be time to start a new binder of just generally awesome baseball cards for players I don't know or keep. Just a thought.
Have I mentioned I'm a sucker for reprints of cards that were overproduced to begin with? Well, it's true. Here are reprints of the '89 Fleer and Donruss plus a '95 Leaf card I couldn't identify.
Did I mention the Donruss reprint is numbered out of 1,989? How is this card not worth like fiddy bucks? It's beautiful!
Here is a refractor reprint of the Bowman rookie. I already have this in Chrome - adding refractoriness is an obvious next move, am I right? Looks fantastic.
That's it for my COMC purchases. Altogether I spent like 12 bucks. I must admit I was very pleased with the whole process. It was fast, relatively inexpensive, and well-packaged. I will be doing business there again.
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I happened upon this numbered beauty on the bay for peanuts. I'll be covering this one a lot more when I do my Studio '96 post. Until then, it's just a cool die-cut card serial numbered in holofoil. Plus I collect vinyl, so my collector-brain (who has no money of his own) insisted it must be ours. And less than four bucks shipped - solid.
The Fisk and Corrales are two of the best catcher cards ever, no doubt. I think I had the Fisk ranked at #14 on my "Top 100" list.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the overproduction-era reprints, too. I picked up the '88 Donruss Mark Grace numbered reprint a while ago, it's currently one of my absolute favorite Cubs cards.
I bought the '89 Grefractor reprint during the Black Friday deals. I couldn't believe the price I got for it.
ReplyDeleteCOMC is just the best.
I like that COMC set a $3.00 flat shipping, although they now hide their 25 center per card handling fee in the price of the cards, which is alright I guess and helps to avoid handling sticker shock when you got to checkout. Just have to remember that the 50 cent card you just got the seller only wanted a quarter. But I do love the overall selection and interface of COMC.
ReplyDeleteI love COMC. It is hard for me not to buy things from the site on a daily basis.
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