Rodney's Cardboard:2023 Panini Absolute Historic Duals Ottis Anderson/Rodney Hampton Autograph /35

 Today's Rodney Hampton is probably going to be my favorite of the chase, especially since the 1/1 is gone. It's a blue parallel which is team color match especially with their players jerseys on the card being blue as well.

The blue version is numbered to 35.

 

Back of the card is the usual Panini backing.

Here is the overall look at the chase. The 1/1 had already popped up and I missed it. But at least I can just chase what I can and hopefully someday the 1/1 will come back.

Historical Duals Black 1
Historical Duals Purple 5
Historical Duals Gold 10
Historical Duals Green 25
Historical Duals Blue 35
Historical Duals Orange 50
Historical Duals Red 75
Historical Duals 199

Stay tuned for a couple more of these!

Single Card Mail Day:2018 Panini XR Mirrored Red /35 Eli Manning/Kyle Lauletta

 

You are looking at Eli Manning card #1036.

The chase is continuing as I try to get to get to 1100 different and hopefully someday past 1400 so I can become the leader on TCDB. Of course, I don't think the Eli collector on there has updated anything in a long time so he may have even more by now. 

I would probably be closer if I counted my duplicates, but I trade those away instead for new ones. None of my collections on TCDB have dupes and I am not sure if the leader for Eli has counted his dupes to towards his 1400.

If any of you have Eli Mannings collecting dust, hit me up! My email is sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

Single Card Mail Day:2017 UD Goodwin Champions Wonders Of The Universe Neptune

 

Last Christmas, no I am not singing the song, former blogger Wes sent me a 2017 Goodwin Champions Wonders Of The Universe Suns surface and I fell in love with this insert.

So I had to grab another and maybe more down the line.

This Neptune one was next to nothing, so it was an easy addition. The cards feature a 3D lenticular look to all of the worlds wonders. It's an insert like no other and not something I have seen like this since 1995 Sportflix Man2Man insert.

If any of you have any that are avaiable for PWE trade, please let me know! Drop an email to sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com. Would love to chase down as many as I can.

Single Card Mail Day:2023 Bowman Spencer Jones

 

With my financial situation, I have not been able to open up a lot of cards the last few years. Which has led to so many gaps in my collection I am not sure I will ever be able to fill them all.

One of those glaring gaps was a Spencer Jones Bowman 1st and Bowman Chrome 1st for my Yankee and rookie card PC.

So, I had to get at least one.

And ended up with a Bowman 1st.

At some point I will have to make a list of other Bowman 1sts I want for my collection to go along with the Spencer Jones Bowman Chrome 1st I still need.

If you have one for trade or collecting dust, hit me up. Always up for a PWE trade. My email is sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com

Rodney's Cardboard:2023 Panini Absolute Historic Duals Ottis Anderson/Rodney Hampton Autograph /199

One of the bigger surprises to my Rodney Hampton chase this football card season was not only his inclusion in Absolute, but his inclusion in Absolute with another NY Giants running back legend.

That running back, Ottis Anderson.

The problem with adding Anderson to this card is the prices of these Rodney's have gone haywire because of him. Meaning, these cost more than they should.

But I have landed a few from the chase so far.

I am kicking it off with the base version which is numbered to 199.

 

Back of the card is the usual Panini backing.

Here is the overall look at the chase. The 1/1 had already popped up and I missed it. But, at least I can just chase what I can and hopefully someday the 1/1 will come back.

Historical Duals Black 1
Historical Duals Purple 5
Historical Duals Gold 10
Historical Duals Green 25
Historical Duals Blue 35
Historical Duals Orange 50
Historical Duals Red 75
Historical Duals 199

Stay tuned as I have more of these to show off!

Single Card Mail Day:2023 Bowman Chrome University Malik Nabers

 

Going off from where I left off yesterday, the Giants with the sixth pick in the NFL Draft landed Malik Nabers. One of the best wide receivers in the draft.

Missing out on a QB in Maye, let the Giants to landing another weapon in Nabers and now the Giants have one of the fastest receiver cores in the NFL and leads to no more excuses for Daniel Jones. The Giants fixed the oline, added more weapons and leaves Jones with the best put together offense on paper that he has had.

Nabers is so good, he has been compared to Odell if not better than Odell which is a bar that is quite high and puts a lot of pressure on him for his rookie season.

I sure hope he pans out and doesn't get injured like Odell did. The Giants have a quietly decent team and I am looking forward to this season.

Single Card Mail Day:2023 Bowman Chrome University Drake Maye

 

As the draft approaches, I always find myself trying to figure out who the Giants may draft and make sure I have at least one card of them before the draft. You know, that NY market blows prices up.

One of the for-sure names on the Giants list and sounded like would be their pick was Drake Maye, the QB from North Carolina.

But, in order to land him, they would have to move up in the draft and it sounded like the Patriots would be willing to help. Except on Draft Night. They didn't allow the G-Men to move up in the draft and they ended up taking Maye. 

Have I mentioned how much I don't like the Patriots yet on here???! Now another thing to add to my list.

Instead the Giants went on to draft a card I will show off tomorrow.

Rodney's Cardboard:2023 Certified Bronze Autograph /99

Today is the final run on the 2023 Certified Rodney Hamptons. Then I will have to change things up a bit. I have actually plenty to choose from for once.

Today's final one from this chase is a Bronze parallel. These are numbered to 99. You don't see a lot of bronze parallels to autograph cards or that I have seen anyways in my chases.

  

Card back looks the same as the rest in the series. I know you are sick of seeing and reading this part by now.

Here is an overall look at the chase in 2023 Certified for Rodney,
Base /199, Bronze /99, Pink /75, Orange /50, Red /35, Blue /30, Teal /25, Gold /15, Purple /10, Green /5, and Black 1/1.

Here are the cards I have posted so far from this run which is everything except the 1/1.

 

 

  

 

 

Onto other greener grounds for Rodney next week. Hope to see you back!

Whatever, I Will Take Em

 

Lately I have been struggling with focus on my collection.

One day, I have been adding NY Giants, the next day I am adding some funky weird insert, the day after that I am trading for 1995 Pro Line Autograph cards or today where I made a move for non-sports and some cards I never thought would interest me.

It's funny how that goes.

 

And the focus of these non-sport adds was none. I saw cards and traded for them. Presidents are welcomed in my non sport collection as well.

It did start with this Ben Affleck I saw. Not a fan of the Red Sox by any means, but think these short printed Upper Deck cards were pretty cool. And Ben was Batman once.

Aubrey Plaza played April Ludgate on Parks and Rec so this is a pretty cool add.

Along with these other First Pitch adds,

Maybe some day I will gather all of my First Pitch cards and see if I have any sets built or what I need from them. 

I think this was one of Topps best inserts in their products for the years they were included. Why do more stupid throwback 86,87,88 and 89 inserts when you can be creative and capture the game of baseball to it's full extent??

Bring them back Fanatics.

Back when Project 2020 and Project70 were popular, I used to complain to no end about them. Now, I kinda like them and have been adding some as I go. 

And I did already have one of these Griffeys, but why not add another. I am sure there are another million out there. This card reminds me never to invest in sports cards. This was the one time ever in my life I tried to do so, and it backfired BIG TIME. So, it's a nice reminder every time I see it.

Thanks again to @levy2628 for the trade and looking forward to our next!

In comments, thoughts on today's additions or your thoughts on the Project2020 and Project70 cards welcomed in comments.

Single Card Mail Day:2023 Panini Obsidian Lightning Strike Orange Autograph Jessie Armstead

One thing I have really enjoyed about Panini football releases in 2023 is the number of players they pumped into products that you don't see every day.

Especially NY Giants.

In 2023, players like Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora, Brian Daboll, Tom Coughlin and today's subject which is the randomest of them all, Jessie Armstead.

Jessie Armstead was one of the many great NY Giants linebackers over the years. He played from the Giants from 1993-2001 and was apart of the NY Giants Ring Of Honor.

Jessie made a lot of plays over the years but the one that stands out to me is his Super Bowl pick six for a touchdown that was called back because of a holding penalty. Which was a bad call and changed the outcome of that game as momentum was on the Giants side. The game would have been tied at that point but instead 10-0 because Baltimore kicked a Field Goal soon after. In my mind, that was a scoring play and will always be one.

I am glad to be able to add his autograph to my Giants collection finally as he was one of my favorite Giants players of the 90's.

Let me know if you have added any obscure autographs to your collection recently!