Monday, January 19, 2009

Package from Thoughts and Sox

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Adam at Thoughts and Sox, asking for my address so that he could send over a stack of A's that he'd accumulated. He sent a nice stack of base cards, as well as the two inserts below, which were definitely my favorites.



I've been wanting this Chavez card for awhile, as it's actually been pretty popular among online A's bloggers. Not too long ago dayf had one for trade, and he ended up having a "Fake Tony Gwynn Card Contest" to determine the winner. I decided against challenging PunkRockPaint to "Paint-Off," but now I have a version of my own!



This is the second version of Thomas' 2008 Allen & Ginter that I now own, and neither one is the base version. The first one, the Allen & Ginter back parallel, I actually pulled from a pack. I thought that the one that Adam sent over was the base, until I realized that there was no number on the back!

Thanks for the cards Adam, there's some Red Sox on their way to you as we speak (well, not literally, since today's a postal holiday, but they should be there shortly).

2 comments:

AdamE said...

You are not the only one that thought it was a regular mini card. I didn't realize it wa a no number. I hate paralles that are on the back of cards. Everyone needs to add that to their Blog Bat Around 3.

ManOfSteal said...

I didn't realize it at first either, until I was updating my want list, and noticed that there was no number on the card. It's definitely a subtle variation that really doesn't need to exist.