Cleve's Auction Night: Sheer Trade Bait

I was a little rash in my write in bids this week.  I only had two wins, and I think I spent more than I should have.  These are pretty sweet cards though, and I'm hoping someone out there has a need for them and we can make a good trade.

Isn't there some blogger out there who is an Aaron Hill collector?  I thought it was Crinkly Wrappers, but maybe not.  This is a pretty serious card though, with an auto, jersey piece, plus it's numbered to 9.

I may actually want to keep this one, since I kind of like Zimmerman.  Numbered to 25, this also has a piece of jersey and an auto.  I'm going to skip giving myself grades for this auction as, since my intention is to trade these out.

Please let me know if you are interested! 

Ranger Tribute Parallels

I wrote about some base 2012 Topps Tribute cards I picked up the other day.  I liked them so much I wanted to get a few more.  I got these two from the same seller, so with the discounted shipping, the overall cost was just a few bucks per card.  I like them, but not considerably better than the base (although the black is pretty sharp):

2012 Topps Tribute

Topps Tribute is a set that doesn't seem to get a lot of attention in the blogging community.  I'm sure many out there are like me and just can't bring themselves to gamble on a getting a big hit at such a high cost.  For sets like this (see Topps Sterling 2009) I'm actually a bigger fan of the base cards than the hits or parallels anyway.  So I'll save my money and pick up a few of my favorite player's base cards, which can be had at a tremendous value when you consider the up front cost of busting a box.  Here is a handful I received this week:

Let me break out the obligatory "scans don't do these cards justice" refrain.  Scans don't do these cards justice.  They are very bright and shiny and remind me a lot of the wonderful Flair sets in the late 90s. Yes they also remind me of the Topps Tribute sets from the past two years as well.  I won't be chasing this set, but these are very pretty cards and would look great as a complete set in pages.