Monday, January 29, 2018

Strata

Someone on one of the baseball card Facebook groups that I'm in posted this 2015 Strata Paul Goldschmidt auto for a decent price and I jumped on it. Turns out the guy lives about 15 miles away and we frequent the same LCS, so we arranged to meet there instead of him shipping the card.


I love the fact that these cards have the MLB authentication sticker on them and you can tell which game the jersey was from. I wish they would do this with all of their relic cards. I know it won't happen, but a guy can dream.

This was my first Strata Paul Goldschmidt card and so after scanning the card I had to file it away and create a divider titled "Strata". It got me thinking, what does Strata mean?

So I looked it up.


So strata is the plural of stratum. So I looked up stratum.


Okay. So "a layer of material....often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another". That makes sense based on how these cards are constructed. 
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4 comments:

  1. JayPJanuary 29, 2018 at 3:42 AM

    Sweet card!!

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  2. Roy-ZJanuary 29, 2018 at 5:22 AM

    "Strata" is rooted in geology. A section of horizontal bedrock is sometimes (often in some places) as the strata of a certain region or area. Stratigraphy is the study of these strata, how they relate to one another, the processes which laid them, and their depiction in a 2-D setting (like a cross-section.)

    To me, it never really made sense with these cards, as the "strata" is just a layer of plastic over the relic, and all cards are produced in this strata-esque process.

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  3. FujiJanuary 30, 2018 at 5:27 PM

    Love Strata! I've picked up a number of their on-card autographs over the years. Thinking about targeting a Goldschmidt for my collection after seeing yours.

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  4. Collecting CutchFebruary 1, 2018 at 10:46 PM

    Sweet card!!! Your Goldy collection is getting more awesome each month. Keep it up!!!

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