Bargain shopping

In case you haven't noticed prices on 1980s baseball cards have been going bonkers lately.

Evidently with people being stuck at home and no sports, people are going down the nostalgia road aboard the crazy train.

Ever since it was announced that there would be a documentary about Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, prices on all the key rookie cards (in high PSA grades) from the 80s have nearly doubled in the past two months.

While others are spending hundreds of their dollars on stars from the 80s and 90s I have been bargain hunting more McCutchen cards.

This white parallel 2005 Bowman 1st Year card in a PSA9 slab was picked up very cheaply.

Only 225 copies of this parallel exist.

Overall, I am pretty happy to add this slabbed draft parallel to the PC for $8.50

Yup, for less than a Chipotle burrito, I grabbed this early Cutch card.

I talked about some McCutchen rookies I got a few days ago for only 38 cents a piece.

Keep enjoying those 1987 Jose Canseco cards folks.  I'm gonna keep grabbing cards like this while I can.

Now with all that said, I completely blew an opportunity to pick up a card I needed for my collection.

Damn I wish I grabbed this.

Gypsy Queen Parallels

Over the years Gypsy Queen has produced framed border parallels for the series.  These are my favorite parallels of all Topps releases to chase.  They are beautiful and bring about a sense of class that other Topps products don't have.  While most chrome parallels seem forced and look more of an after thought gimmick parallel, Gypsy Queen parallels look like they were part of the set's design.  The blue, white, green, silver, parallels all look like they could be their own release without feeling like a forced new product.

Here's my parallels by year starting with the debut of Gypsy Queen

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

In case you missed it yesterday I also have the 1/1 Black from 2016 and 1/1 Silver from 2013.  You can see them by clicking here.

What color parallel of Gypsy Queen is your favorite over the years?