Delays, delays, and more delays

We have seen many delays occur over the past few years due to the COVID 19 pandemic that struck in 2020.  

When the pandemic initially hit there were delays with nearly everything.  Panini even made a toilet paper parallel in 2021 Optic to aknowledge the craziness that occurred. 

We continue to see shipping delays occur two years later.  

In the past few months of 2022 we have seen Topps finally distribute two products originally intended for 2021.

Up first is the 2021 Big League Baseball

This product was originally scheduled prior to the All Star Break 2021, but kept getting delayed until it finally came out in the late winter months of 2022.

I've collected most of this rainbow by getting the base, rainbow foil, blue, and orange.  There is a black parallel /15 that I just won an auction for coming my way eventually. 

It is odd to see 2022 cards feature Cutch in a Phillies uniform and I've discussed my disdain for that already. I am a sucker for these kid friendly products like Big League Baseball though.  I will definitely try to get the 1/1 red foil and the /25 blue foil.

2021 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary is another recent product released that had an original street date prior to the end of 2021.

Former Miguel Cabrera and hobby shop owner, JT of TripleCrown24 sold me these two cards.  Visit his eBay store here.

This set is loaded with many parallels with lots of shiny refractors to collect.  The set features current and former stars on the 1952 set.  It is a 700 card set and features 14 different parallels to chase.  When the set was initially released it had 33 parallels announced. 

Have you purchased cards of either of these set releases this year?

What non cardboard shipping delays are you aware of still going on?

Orange + Giants = Good Combo

I know there are more Dodgers fans that read this blog than Giants fans, but that's not going to stop me from showing off a few Giants cards that I like.

I recently picked up a Giants card that made me go back and look at some of my other Giants cards.

This is a 2018 Topps Gallery 1952 Heritage orange parallel.

It is numbered to only 25 copies.

I do have a few other orange parallels of Cutch

Some of these I have shown off in the past.

2 of them I showed off in 2018 when showing cards numbered 12/25.  

You can revisit those posts here.

And here.

I also showed off a cameo of Cutch in an orange parallel here.

Many of them I haven't shown, which you can see below.

Here are 9 other McCutchen cards in a Giants uniform for an orange parallel.

Are there any color parallels you get for specific teams?

Inspiration from Deadpool?

I once was a huge fan of comic books with my favorite characters being the X books.  I am also a fan of all things Pittsburgh sports so it was no surprise that when I saw this Deadpool card  inspired by the 1987 Fleer Barry Bonds I had to have it.

This card is so awesome!!!  I give Upper Deck credit for coming up with a great idea like this.

Once it was in my hand I got to thinking, what are some of the most influential sets of all time?


T206

1933 Goudey

1952 Topps

1989 Upper Deck

1993 Topps Finest for introducing the refractor technology?

(How cool is that image of Cutch wearing a Jackie Robinson jersey?)

What are some sets that you think are the most influential and will be collected and used for future designs in the many years to come?

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