Remember Puig-mania?

 

These would have fetched a pretty penny back then...circa 2013/2014 when it was all Puig all the time in "the industry".  

These are some more cards from the recent garage sale purchase.  The two Topps cards are both #331 from 2014, which means the "hands on hips" is an image variation SP.  Even today that card is worth enough to get me a burrito (my standard for valuable cards), so this is a very fun find that I wasn't expecting from that box.  

There were some more fun inserts in that stack - big hair Coco, orange Greinke, and Ace Ventura.  RIP.  

With all the focus on Puig, they largely ignored another guy they should have focused on.

Yep.  That was in the box, too. 

I can almost taste the burritos already.

Garage Sale Archives

 Last month I hit up a local garage sale that had some cards for sale and I walked out of there with a 4-row box at a price I was pleased with.  It was mostly football and had a good number of Serial-Numbered cards from the early 2000s.   

There was also about half a row of baseball.   In my initial perusal it looked like it was all 2015 Topps Archives base cards.   So imagine my surprise to find these four guys hiding within them.  

I love the look of Tekulve here.   The autos from him and Willis are both on-card, done with blue Flair pen. A nice buyback of (the other) Brett, and Ferrell sporting the catcher's gear.