I’ve started to accumulate a lot of relic cards for my player collections. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in my cutesy little series that I forget to diversify the card offerings here and show some of the non-ebay and non-trade stuff I’ve been snapping up over the years.
Since the season is over and I’m caught up with ebay, I’ll have to be a little more creative and think outside the box a bit. The big trouble I have is with being creative and thinking of themes. Or when I think of a theme, I get a sort of clever title but I have no idea how to write a good introduction or make a story out of it.
There are several drafts in waiting with either only a title or some images and no text to go with them. Creativity is leaving my body as age and the world beats down my soul.
I’m starting with a relic that isn’t really one. It’s one of those blaster exclusive fake patches from 2011. Their blaster stuff has increased in quality over the years, and I’m pretty sure they stopped doing things like referencing years before the player was born.
Most of these will be from Heyward’s Braves days. Most of these will also likely have come from the National. That show has been a pretty good resource for some cheap embedded cloth and wood pieces.
It’s amazing how cheap so much of the high end stuff ends up being. If it’s not the top of the top of the line, no one gives a crap. Well, I’m happy to swoop in.
Does anyone else feel every relic they get? Doesn’t matter what it’s from (bat, jersey, helmet, etc), I have to touch the swatch.
I’d be curious to know how many relics I own are horizontal and how many are vertical. Not curious enough to actually count, mind you.
There’s no actual scouting report on the card. It’s just a blurb on the back. But most relics don’t get anything beyond a congratulations message, so that’s something.
Now, all of these were from the National, but I also just bought a few in my recent birthday batch from COMC, so I might as well get ahead of the game and add them as well. After all, I probably won’t get around to showing off anything else from that for years at the rate I’m going.
Here’s another Tier One run-off. Clearly I didn’t get any part of that dirty knee down there, but that’s okay.
I feel like I should mention that all the COMC stuff was bought for under $4 and usually under $3 as well. Not sure about the National – I probably went as high as $5 on those.
The framed mini relics are becoming less of a thing, both in GQ and in A&G. I prefer them to the non-framed because they are harder to damage and just look a little cooler, even if it is just a different frame.
See, even a dual relic #/50 is a throw away to the high end people. Although to be fair, based on my ebay wins, most cards with that print run are becoming more and more disposable and worthless these days.
And I’ll end with the biggest piece of fabric in the lot. A logoless jumbo sadly reminds me of the St. Louis days and makes me wish I had more Cubs relics to add. Maybe at next year’s National that will happen.
Great collection. If I were to guess… I’d say that 60% of my relics were portraits and 40% were landscape. But like you… I’m never going to sit around and actually count.
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That’s probably a fair estimate across the board. First thought is that it’s lopsided towards horizontal, but thinking deeper it’s likely more even. Maybe I will count sometime soon….