Affordable is the Right Price

 

It's another batch of group break cards. 

 

We're inching closer to the end of the year, which also means the end of the baseball card year. It's been a weird baseball card year. Let's catch up with some Cardinals (and Eagles) cards from some 2023 releases thanks to another batch of Affordable Group Breaks from Cardboard Collections.

I was very delayed on getting my hands on any Topps Update cards this year, but for good reason. There's only five Cardinals cards in the entire 330 card base checklist, so I wasn't really in any hurry to start buying boxes of the stuff. This Nolan Gorman Rookie Debut card means that I'm 80% done with the tiny team set.

Fortunately, while the base Cardinals cards might be lacking, I did snag a pair of the 1988 style Chrome inserts.

I'm really hoping Adam Wainwright gets a final card into the 2014 Topps set. It would be extra nice if he got card #50, but I'll take anything at all.

I added a few more 2023 Allen & Ginter cards to my team collection here as well. I wish I liked these more, but I'm glad I decided not to collect the set.

I'm really distracted by the A&G logo in the lower corner of this design. It makes it look like it's a team logo, but it's not your team's logo.

A couple of cards from an earlier set managed to sneak in here. These are both lime green parallels from the 2021 Donruss Optic set. Does anyone know what Panini's plan is for baseball cards in 2024? Is there one?

These are all supposedly base cards from the 2023 Bowman Platinum set. They all look like they could be red parallels to me, but that's not how this set was designed. I think this is still a retail only product, something I never see on the shelves because it's mostly sold through Walmart.

Topps Pro Debut always seems to be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it release, probably more known for its autographs of prospects than most people's desire to collect minor league cards. I happen to like minor league cards, however, and wish that there were more of them.

I promised some Eagles in this post, and here we are. Two of these guys (Smith and Brown) form one of the deadliest receiver tandems in the NFL. The other two are a former star QB (McNabb) and a rookie I've never heard of. I'm hoping this current Eagles team can get it together soon after suffering a couple of humiliating defeats in consecutive weeks.