For the past year my workload on Wednesday was what used to be the task of 4-5 people.
That meant that almost my whole day was dedicated to work, even the so-called “off-yours” of the day. And many weeks also blank on Tuesday in Tuesday. Writing a blog post on Wednesday was usually impossible.
Finally, after I had wondered how long I would tolerate this, a new contraction led me to get my Wednesday back. Starting next week on Wednesday, just like any other day will be the working week.
I am really happy with this, even though I have to get through this Wednesday. If a bit of a pre-celebration with (checks clock) very little time, I squeeze in a short post. Yesterday I received some tickets from a stacking sale on Bluesky. After I have aimed some of the cards to the piles of colleagues, I have eight cards left for my collection that I will count down.
Nothing exciting – except for me of course. Here they are.
8. Max Muncy, 2020 Topps Home Run Challenge (Series 1)
It is clear that if I hope to win a trip to the Home Run Derby 2021, I am a lot late. But this card is just a Dodger card for me – and not very exciting. And why is there a Muncy HRC card in Series 1 and Series 2?
7. Cody Bellinger, 2021 Panini Prizm Red, White & Blue Prizm parallel
The design for ’21 Prizm looks like you press on the left and right -to -tab leaves at the same time, the card is opened from below. Not so lucky. But this card brought me within five cards from Cody Bellinger who was only the sixth player in my collection with at least 500 cards.
6. Raul Mondesi/Tim Salmon, 1996 Pinnacle Summit, Boven and outside Parallel
Thank goodness for stacking, the only way I would get a card like this, because I am almost never looking for Dodgers from the 90s. If you need reason for that, you would post two players from two different teams on the same card. The other would call this parallel “above and outside” instead of something like “Golden Splatters”, which would make identifying 30 years later much easier.
5. Walker Buehler, 2020 Panini Prizm red, white and blue parallel
In essence, the same card as the earlier Cellar, but I love the completed design that will be used more in 2020 than the angular in 2021.
4. Joe Kelly, 2024 Topps Rainbow Foil parallel
Kelly falls nicely in the list of different drum relieves in the history of Dodgers, boys like Mike Marshall and Roger McDowell.
Things such as the difference between the 2024 series 1 Rainbow Foly parallels (with black borders) and the series 2 Rainbow Foil parallels (the silvery borders) seem a sign that tops do more than it can.
3. Raul Mondei, 1997 Leaf Warning Track Insert
Nice. Embossing everywhere in this insert – the distance marker, the warning sparo, even the top of the fence. I had never seen one before. Someone from the 90s would say “well that is because it was numbered from 3500”).
2. A daring lady (Kate Jackson/Sabrina Duncan), 1977 Topps Charlie’s Angels
Vintage does not often appear with this specific stacking sale, and non -sports vintage is a plus. Charlie’s Angels is really a strange one, a set with many traditional elements of the back-of-the-card at the front. But the angels all overshadow that – and the obvious wear on this card.
1. Willie Mays, 2022 Topps Heritage, Baseball Flashbacks Insert
An easy choice for number 1. Because Heritage came in the 1970s, I have been more and more interested in players from the 70s in the 70s uniforms – or, in this case, a player from the 1950s and ’60s who does his best to hang in the 1970s in the 1970s. I will not reject Willie Mays Mets card.
And that is a nice, quiet eight to add to my collection on a very busy, busy day that hopefully the last of its kind is forever.
Maybe this will even lead to me again in the middle of the week.
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