Wednesday, September 20, 2023

More Jerseys and Autos from Oren

 

Reader Oren strikes again with an amazing collection of memorabilia cards and autographs. 
 
I'm not sure where he finds all of this great stuff, but I am always excited to put together a trade with Oren. This one even topped the last package! 


Andrew Knizner has had a really nice season as the #2 option at catcher with St. Louis, having found a bit of power that we hadn't really seen from him at the big league level.


For all of their shortcomings, Panini does put out some nice looking memorabilia cards from time to time. This dual relic from last year's Diamond Kings set is one of those, at least for me. It looks like last year might have been the last for the Diamond Kings set, as Panini really scaled back their baseball releases after losing their MLBPA license. Has anyone seen or heard of anything else coming out this year besides Donruss and Prizm? I think Diamond Kings would have been a much better fit for a bunch of retired players than Prizm was.


This time, Dylan Carlson shares the spotlight on a Panini jersey card with Alex Kirilloff. Time will tell whether either of these guys will ever fully live up to their earlier prospect hype.


This is probably my favorite of the whole lot. Whitey still has a nice signature for someone who turned 91 last year when the 2022 Topps Archives set was released.


Framed mini cards are best known as being an Allen & Ginter thing, but it's easy to forget that Topps was doing this before 2006 when the first modern A&G set came to be.


Speaking of Allen & Ginter, this card is very... white! I do prefer the mini memorabilia cards to these.


Yadi jersey cards are a bit tougher to come by than your average Cardinal, so I was pretty excited when this card popped out. They even did the rare thing where the jersey color matches the photo on the card.


This one doesn't have a memorabilia swatch or signature on it, but it's still a nice numbered Molina card.


There were also a few non-baseball cards included, like this dual jersey card of former Eagles starting RB Miles Sanders.


Zach Collins rocking a Panini headband?! I didn't know that I needed this, but I'm glad to have it!


The late Caleb Swanigan was part of the same draft as Zach Collins. Hoops autographs usually are on stickers, but they typically have a nice design and this is no exception.

4 comments :

  1. Whitey Herzog has a great autograph, shocking at his age. Love the Knizner card too, he's had a really good year.

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  2. Looking forward to my next trade with Oren! Great guy and always finds great cards. Not sure where he finds them

    Matt-CardsOverCoffee

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  3. Yeah, it's really quite amazing that there doesn't seem to be any shakiness in Whitey's signature. Dude should probably be using those steady hands to defuse bombs for the local police.

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