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. 

The same, but different.

Yesterday I shared how I accidentally purchased two of the same Paul Goldschmidt cards in my most recent comc.com order.

Today I'm going to share another two cards that I bought from comc. In fact, they're the same card, but different.

Here's the back of the two cards. Nothing to indicate that one is a jersey relic and one is a bat relic.

So, even though it's the same card I count it as different.