Sunday, April 28, 2013

Dime Box Adventure - Part 2 of 3 - Larkin, Larkin, Larkin

In honor of Barry Larkin's 50th birthday today, let's check out the new Larkins found in my most recent dime box extravaganza. Leading off...

1992 Bowman Foil. Why lead off with this one? Well, firstly, it's a great photo. Secondly, it's from a great set. The 1992 Bowmans were pretty rare, relatively speaking, had bright, colorful photography, and had tons of pre-rookies/rookies. Thirdly, it's the last Red I needed from '92 Bowman and gets crossed off my Top 15 Needs on the sidebar. Most. Excellent. Next up...

1994 Collectors Choice Gold Signature and Silver Signature. 1994 Upper Deck Electric Diamond, 1992 Upper Deck Holograms, 1990 Topps Big. Hard to distinguish the gold/silver sigs on the scan, and in real life, actually. My collection is unforgivably lacking in CC Gold Sigs. Maybe one or two. No one marquee. Until now. Boom. Moving on...

What, some boring 1992 Topps? Nope. 1992 Topps Micro. These are so small, they border on annoying. But it's Barry. So I grabbed em. Next...

More boring 1992 Topps? Ah, look closer. A sneaky O-Pee-Chee Larkin. Blame Canada. Soldiering onward...

1990 Topps Glossy All Stars, 1994 O-Pee-Chee, 1992 Upper Deck All Star Fan Fest, 1997 Pinnacle Xpress Swing for the Fences, 1992 Topps Gold, 1991 Woolworth's Topps, 1990 US Playing Card, 1996 Collector's Choice You Make the Play. Not much to say here, other than that Topps Gold is nice. Next up...

1994 Post, 1991 Post, 1992 Upper Deck All Star Fan Fest (oops. grabbed two of em), 1993 Duracell Power Players, 1992 Classic II, 1990 Fleer League Leaders, 1996 SP Marquee Matchups, 1993 Classic Game. Just a bunch of filler. Didn't know Duracell made a line of cards. But who didn't back then? Speaking of everyone making cards in the 1990's, we're closing out with my favorite of the new bunch...

1993 Milk Bone Super Stars #3. Why is this my favorite? I'll give you that the design is boring. And it's a picture of a dude with his dogs. But I'm granting a lot of respect for Milk Bone for putting forth effort to actually incorporate the players into the ethos of their product. They had to search for, or organize, photos of the players with their dogs. They didn't just buy a bunch of stock photos, slap em on some cardboard, and throw em into their products packaging. So while the result was kind of dull, the effort is to be praised. And they went ahead and bought stock photos anyway. Good thing. I'm not sure it would qualify as a baseball card without it. It would be a pet owner card where the pet owner happens to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

Fantastic haul. This brings my unique Larkin total up to a solid 556. Part 3 of the Dime Box Adventure posted tomorrow. Go Reds.



5 comments:

  1. Nice! I had just pulled that 1996 SP Marquee Matchups to send in your PWE. I guess you don't need it any more!!

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    1. Ha. The only plight of a huge collection. Doubles upon doubles. I suppose I should pay it forward.

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  2. Somehow I've never stumbled across your blog until now (consider it added to my blog roll by the way). I am also a Larkin Collector. Perhaps we could work out a swap at some point in the future.

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    1. Right on. You collect all Reds, or just Larkin? My doubles of him are scarce at the moment, but I have stacks upon stacks of unneeded non-Larkin Reds.

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