It took a year of eBay auto searches, but I finally scored this earlier this week:
Yep, it's a really good looking card of one of my favorite players. You would think getting a good looking card of one of my favorite players should take, like, 30 seconds to find, not a year. However, the degree of difficulty on this went up several notches because it's specifically the 3rd card of a little set I wanted to complete. I found cards 1 and 2 about a week apart last year, so I thought this third one would fall into my lap in short order. It didn't, but the wait was worth it. Here are the other two cards I had, lying in wait for their brother:
Since these are only numbered to 18, I guess logically I should have realized that it probably wouldn't be that easy to find the third card I needed.
Well, everyone can relax now because card 3 has arrived, and I am able to complete my "Unity Relic" set. At first, I was disappointed in how the finished product looked:
After much deliberation, I realized that I didn't necessarily have to line them up in the order I bought them. After consulting my 3 year old, we realized that we could use the stadium in the background as a guide to help us get them in order, a la:
Holy crap that is cool. That's way freaking cool. I wonder if there is any way I could get Torii Hunter to autograph these, but with one big autograph that stretches across all 3 cards? How sweet would that be?
1 comment:
That would actually be awesome.
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