Card Shop Pick-Up: Bagwell & Biggio Bat

I picked up this 2002 Flair Power Tools JEFF BAGWELL/CRAIG BIGGIO dual bat card at a card shop last weekend. Bagwell didn't make the cut for the Hall of Fame this year, but it's looking like he will get in in the near future. Biggio is a member of the 3000 Hit Club so he should get in as well. His first year of eligibility is next year, so it's possible that both Bagwell and Biggio will both be elected to the Hall of Fame next year. For just $2 it was impossible to pass on this card.

Because this bat card features two players, I don't really consider it as a card for my 3000 Hit Club Bat Card Collection. I'll have to pick up a bat card of just Biggio.

Starting A Collection For My Kids

I mentioned in a post last week that I am trying to see if my boys have any interest in baseball cards. I tool them with me to the card shop and told them they could each have $2 to pick out a card. My oldest is 5 and a half and my middle boy is almost 4. I flipped through the cards in the $2 relic/auto box and my oldest son picked out this 2000 Fleer Showcase Sweet Sigs JOSE CRUZ JR. Auto.

My other son, kept picking out cards in the showcases that he liked and I had to keep explaining that he only had $2 to spend and that most of the cards he was looking at were way more than $2. Finally he saw some 2007 UD Masterpieces Jersey Cards that he liked. There were several that were $2 (Jason Bay,etc.), but I helped him pick this Craig Biggio Captured on Canvas Jersey card, which was $3 so that he would have a future Hall of Famer relic card for his collection.

I bought them magnetic cases (which cost almost as much as the cards) for their cards so they can keep them nice and display them. They seem somewhat interested in cards and I'm going to see if I can pick up a few quality cards for them for Christmas to try and help build them a nice collection.

That's a lot of bats!

The Gooch of the blog In the Ballpark read my 2010 card collecting goals post and was nice enough to go through his collection and see if he had any cards of players with more than one bat. He found a bunch and we traded. Here is a list of what he sent me and scans of my three favorite. He also included a few D-Backs out of the goodness of his heart. Thanks Gooch!

1. Willie McGee 1986 Topps

2. Gary Ward 1987 Topps
3. Dave Clark 1988 Topps
4. Mike Macfarlane 1989 Topps
5. Craig Biggio 1990 Donruss
6. Dan Gladden 1991 Topps
7. Carlos Quintana 1991 Leaf
8. Tom Brunansky 1991 Upper Deck

9. Cedeno & LaCock 1991 Pacific Senior Baseball

10. Jerald Clark 1993 Topps
11. Rock Solid Foundation 1993 Upper Deck
12. Dan Gladden 1993 Fleer
13. Frank Thomas 1993 Topps
14. Jose Canseco 1994 Pinnacle
15. Johnny Damon 1999 Metal
16. Jeff Baker 2004 Donruss Studio
17. Todd Helton 2005 Donruss Diamond Kings

1999 Fleer Metal Johnny Damon - Damon, before Boston and New York.

1990 Donruss Craig Biggio - A young Biggio in an old school Astro's jersey.

1993 Topps Frank Thomas - Is it just me or do these bats seem a little small. Maybe Frank Thomas is just huge?

2007 Topps Triple Threads

I picked up a couple of 2007 Topps Triple Threads cards today at the card shop. Not having collected for the past several years and not having seen much of the 2009 Topps Triple Threads cards, I actually thought that these were 2009 cards when I bought them. I picked them up for $25 each. I also bought a box of 2009 Topps Updates & Highlights, so when I told the wife how much I spent she was not very happy. So, these two cards are going to go on ebay shortly to see if I can recover what I paid for them (and maybe put a dent into the Updates box). I will post the results of my Updates & Highlights box soon.


Card #1
Front of the card features the pictures of Dye, Konerko and Pierzynski of the Chicago White Sox as well as Biggio, Berkman and Ensberg of the Houston Astros.


Fold it open and it features a gray jersey piece for Dye and bat pieces for Konerko and Pierzynski on the left and a red jersey piece for Biggio and pinstripe jersey pieces for Berkman and Ensberg on the right. The card commemorates the 2005 World Series and is serial numbered 1/9.


Card #2
The front features David Wright of the New York Mets and Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Open it up and Wright is featured on the left and Howard on the right. Black and white jersey pieces are used for Wright and Phillies pinstripes are used for Howard. It is serial numbered 9/27.