Six boxes of Topps Archives and all I got was this lousy Bryce Harper autograph
Here at Collect the Mets, we strive to bring you the best coverage of Mets baseball cards and collectibles past and present. We never quite get there, but we try. And by we I mean me. And the army of spammers commenting on my posts. I’m telling you, it’s like they never sleep.
Every card image you see on this site is scanned from an actual card that I have in-hand – no promotional images, stock photos, or pictures grabbed from eBay are ever used (unless I decide to change this, at which point anything I did not personally scan will be clearly noted). This would probably be more impressive if I had posted a few more of the thousands of cards destined to appear on this site…
The main factor keeping this blog from achieving greatness is time, but money comes in real handy too. I sunk a lot of cash into Topps Archives in the hopes of pulling a few of the 19 former Mets autographs in that product, but only got an Olerud out of it (in a Blue Jays uniform unfortunately; Topps seems to have ignored my suggestion to show him as a Met). And while Bill Buckner should be considered an honorary Met for his Game 6 heroics in the 1986 World Series, I already have all I need of him on a dual auto card with Mookie Wilson. That means 11 autos headed for eBay to bring in the cash to get the haul I was after.
Well, 11 autographs and this thing.
I mean look at it, they didn’t even bother to have a proper front printed, it’s just a crooked sticker. Everyone hates redemption cards, right? And Bryce Harper, he hasn’t even played a full season in the majors! He’s no Jack Clark, that’s for sure.
All this and more can be yours, just put your bids in here and hope for the best. All proceeds will go towards increasing my backlog of great Mets game-used and autograph cards to scan and post. I think we can all agree that this is a worthy cause.
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