COMC Spring Cleaning Sale 1: Rockies

A recent sale over at COMC led to a few purchases which led to a shipment coming my way which led to a stack of cards to scan and post. Starting with one of my top 2 favorite cards from 2016. There were a lot of Trevor Story cards covering his rookie year, but this one really stood out, not an action shot, but a different look with a dugout shot. The high socks and the black vests really sell it for me.

2016 Stadium Club - Rockies Custom Card Re-Do

Since rebooting in 2014, Stadium Club has been about the photos, full bleed, gloss stock with high quality photos. But for Rockies fans, it has been kind of boring. Sure we got a nice Todd Helton in 2014 and another winner in 2015 Drew Stubbs, but other than that, pretty much straight forward baseball card photos. So this year I decided to make the set my way, with my pictures, for the most part, while keeping the blatantly ripped off 1997 Fleer design.

The above Trevor Story photo is from opening day and while not a great action photo, it works with what he did on that day. A case where the tale the picture tells is more important than the actually picture.

Contest Winnings

Just getting around to post a mystery package that came in the mail, and judging by the address must be contest winnings from the "card back contest" over at Cardboard Heaven. Pretty nice bunch of cards with a my first Tulowitzki relic showing a little bit of a pinstripe. Gypsy Queens are always appreciated are here, but even more so when it's an photo variant I need, and this Votto brings me up to 38 of 50. Among the Rockies we have a Cargo mini and blue framed out of 599, some serial numbered Helton cards, a high ranking prospect in Trevor Story and a gorgeous Wal-Mart Black Eric Young, Jr.
Thanks for the cards!

Mailday: 2011 Bowman Draft Rockies team set

Base Card

Just got the Rockies team set in the post today in both regular and chrome. I really like the looks of the regular set, nice and simple and I really like the black borders on the Prospects subset this year. I could do without the Chrome versions though, seriously Topps, how many versions of every card do we need? The one thing that really stuck out for me was the inclusion of an Alan Johnson card. The Prospects inserts are all draft picks and main set has rookie cards of Alex White, Rex Brothers, Juan Nicasio and Charlie Blackmon, all four of look to be big parts of the Rockies future with two promising starters, a potential closer and an player who looks to be a solid 4th outfielder at worst. Johnson is a good story, and undrafted player in 2005, made his MLB debut in 2011 as an emergency starter in a game the Rockies won, but he was removed from the 40 man roster shortly after and was granted free agency in November of this year. I would have rather have seen either Jordan Pacheco, Drew Pomeranz or Wilin Rosario in this set, but we will have to wait until the 2012 products roll out for their "official" rookie cards. So Johnson gets an "official" rookie card for his one start to go along with his 2008 Bowman pre-rookie, as well as the numerous parallel colors and refractors.