A Dugout Lineup Card to Add to My Collection

With the cost of baseball cards getting more expensive with each passing day, I've decided to focus more of my funds on acquiring things I had always wanted to add to my collection but never got around to doing. Case in point, this dugout lineup card that was used in the Reds 5-3 loss to the Brewers on September 26, 2019.  I didn't know it at the time but this was HOFer Marty Brennaman's final broadcasting game for the Reds. I plan on framing this and hanging it on the wall in the coming future.

Scooter Gennett Autograph Baseball

I picked up this autograph baseball of former Red Scooter Gennett last week for a really great price. The auto is from very early in his career but that's ok. I've been looking to add an autograph baseball of his for a while now and I couldn't pass up this ball for the price I paid for it. For those who might not know, Scooter is one of only twenty two Major League Baseball players, and the only Red, to hit four home runs in a game. He accomplished the feat on June 6, 2017 against St. Louis. He went 5-5 in the game with 4 home runs and 10 RBIs.

Another T206 For My Set Build

I've been some time since I've added a T206 card to my collection. For the longest time it seems like I've been sitting on needing nine cards to complete my T206 Cincinnati Reds team set. That changed this week when I found this Art Fromme Sovereign back on eBay. I'm glad to add this card to my collection not just because I needed Fromme, but this is another back I've been wanting to get and now I have one. I'd still like to track down a Cycle, Tolstoi, American Beauty and El Principe De Gales to add.

I Got a Rocket for Christmas!

Just before Christmas I was able to get a card I had always wanted as a kid, but never had the funds to acquire it back in the late 80s. When this card came up on eBay for a reasonable price I decided to finally pull the trigger and add it to my collection. Not sure if Roger will ever make it to Cooperstown, but I'm happy to now have a copy of this 1984 Fleer Update Roger Clemens rookie.

Sometimes it pays to lose

A few weeks back this card popped up on eBay for the first time in almost five years. After a week of bidding, I ultimately lost out on the card to another bidder. I was very disappointed I wasn't able to land this card since it's one of three 2011 Gypsy Queen autographs I need to complete the set (the other two being Aaron and Koufax). I thought for sure I would have to wait years again for another copy to show up on eBay; however, image my surprise when another copy appeared a week later for a Buy It Now price that was $75 less than what my final bid price was on the card I lost out on. I'm extremely happy to add this card to my 2011 Gypsy Queen set build. Hopefully this year I'll be able to add one of the other two cards to my collection. I'm still trying to decide if I want to pursue the autograph relic cards from this set that are numbered to 25 copies. Some of the players in that checklist have autographs in the standard autograph set (Frank Robinson, Roy Halliday, etc.) but there's some players that only appear in the autograph relic set that are future Hall of Famers that command a premium (Kershaw and Cabrera).  That would easily run me a few thousand dollars to put this set together and with other pre war Cincinnati Reds cards I'm trying to acquire, that would put a damper on chasing after those cards.