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.
Room for one more....?
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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.
