I own 1.6% of the world's Tino Martinez 1998 Donruss Crusade Green cards.
That's not a very big number, and many of us own larger percentages of print runs. For example, we own 100% of a run on a 1 of 1. Or 20% of a print run if you have a card #'d to 5.
Still, having 4 of 250 of a rare 1990s insert is pretty cool. I'm not really setting out to hoard these, but when I find them on eBay for a good price, I tend to pull the trigger.
Here is the latest:
And here's my third:
The original dupe:
And the original, which I probably paid a ton for in the late '90s despite it having one of the printing flaws (a line through it).
I think my ultimate goal here would be 9 to fill up a binder page, but I'm not going to pressure myself into it. I'd much rather try and snag a purple or <gasp> red version.
Cool card. I ONCE owned 3 of a John Elway card #d to/5. That was petty cool. I traded 2 of them away for cards I needed back then.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to own a complete print run for something to like /5 or /10.
DeleteThis is something that has crossed my mind too - how possible is it to get a complete run on a card - say of 5 or 10, or simply choose say the one of the SNs that is for the year, like gold parallels and try to get even 100 of the 2000+ SN'd cards out there. Would look pretty cool in a number of binder pages...
DeleteI didn't even know that there was such a thing as 1998 Crusade until you started mentioning these on Twitter, now that I know of their existence I kind of want one, not a Tino though... I'll leave those for you :)
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful... but a 9-pocket page full of these will cause you to go blind!
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Ty Hensley Leaf card that uses the same motif?
ReplyDeleteI cannot support Leaf Valiant in this fashion.
DeleteI have made it a quest to get 9 of the 2005 Update McCutchen Golds numbered to 2005. I'm at 4 so far. With jersey relics I have gotten 3 of 5s on 2 different occasions. Its so hard to complete an entire run because the cards have to be pulled from packs then the seller has to want to list it on a platform you know to look for it.
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