October Pickups
 

As part of my Josh Phelps collection I've added the four printing plates used to make Josh's Just The Franchise card from 2002 Just Minors. Pretty neat to have all four of the plates used for the card...

Prototypes/Proofs
 

I started collecting in 1957/58 when all you had to worry about were things like your local corner store not selling the final series of cards in a particular year ( if we even knew there were series or how many of them),or why you could not find the Ed Bouchee card 145 in the 58 set even though it appeared on the early CLs. Stuff like Herrer error card or the the 3 1960 elusive proof/variation cards ( Cimoli/Hadley and Throneberry) were not even on the radar screen. Now collecting all the possibles of a player or particular card have become complicated :)

Congrats on the pick up Matt

You aren't kidding Al. Josh played 8-9 years and I ve got 200+ different cards and not close to done. Thank god I'm not doing this for Jeter or another star player. :)

Picked up the trifecta of Terry Francona rookies...

Omar!!! 1986 Wasau Timbers team set...

Picked these up immediately after he hit the 3rd HR the other night...Before the prices jumped..