Random Card Of The Day:2024 Bowman Green Blake Snell

Breakin' Wax:2024 Bowman Value Pack

I don't get to open up much product anymore, so when I get the itch to....well I just still don't. I just don't have the funds available to do so.

So, when I got my latest gift card from saving up my Fetch points, I cashed it in for a eBay gift card like I usually do. 

Typically, I would stretch the money out from that gift card and pick up a few cards for the PC, but the itch to rip struck so I used those funds to grab a couple of things to open from eBay and probably overpaid as well. 

Oh well. Sometimes you just have to splurge, you know what I mean?

One of the packs I am ripping today for the blog, the other I will show off tomorrow.

The first pack I am ripping is 2024 Bowman. Bowman and the Bowman 1st cards of hitters are a staple in my collection. Same with anything with Prizm (oops maybe that's a tip about tomorrow's break)

The bad part is paying $6 for only 12 cards. That's really steep. But, I did it. My hope was to pull a Jasson Dominguez base rookie along with some hitters for Bowman 1sts.

We will kick it off though with my base cards,

Nothing too bad. Finding a Witt in packs is nothing to complain about.

My three rookies. To be honest, I have no idea who these guys are. I haven't been paying a lot of attention to baseball or it's rookie class. All I know is that I didn't get my Dominguez.

 

These were my prospect cards. Not any names I recognize either and I didn't get a single Bowman or Bowman Chrome 1st. Very disappointing.

 

I did land an insert, once again, have no idea who this is, but cool last name.

I don't feel like I did very well in this pack, but maybe you guys in comments will tell me otherwise!

Also, I am looking for the Dominguez rookie and any Bowman and Bowman Chrome 1sts of hitters only from any team. I don't want pitchers.

Oh, and while I am at it, if you download the Fetch app to start earning points by simply SCANNING RECIEPTS you throw away, please use my referral code so I can earn points for doing so. Use code 8TB9M when you download the app and it asks if you were referred. Thank you so much in advance!!

Single Card Mail Day:2023 Bowman Spencer Jones

 

With my financial situation, I have not been able to open up a lot of cards the last few years. Which has led to so many gaps in my collection I am not sure I will ever be able to fill them all.

One of those glaring gaps was a Spencer Jones Bowman 1st and Bowman Chrome 1st for my Yankee and rookie card PC.

So, I had to get at least one.

And ended up with a Bowman 1st.

At some point I will have to make a list of other Bowman 1sts I want for my collection to go along with the Spencer Jones Bowman Chrome 1st I still need.

If you have one for trade or collecting dust, hit me up. Always up for a PWE trade. My email is sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com

Another Jasson!

 

After making my mistake of trading away my Dominguez PC, I have been slowly growing it back. I feel the same way about trading away my Judge one. Maybe I will work on him another time.

Thanks to @tonyaces I have added yet another Dominguez to my collection in our latest mystery trade. I will hit you back soon!

If you have any Jasson kicking around or Judge, I would be happy to trade for ones I don't have.

Random Cardboard:2006 Bowman Gary Kubiak

PACK WARS EPISODE 7

Hello once again! Here is the latest installment of Pack Wars!

We have quite the battle going on today with the battle of Mega Boxes, one by Topps and one by Panini. There can only be one winner so let's check this out.

 VS 

It's time to see if the Mega Box of 2021 Bowman I found at Walgreens can take down the Box of 2020 Optic Mega I trade for.

And it all starts now with Optic,

Carolina Blue Parallels

Mythical Inserts, Lindor is a silver Parallel

 

Alonso Silver

Daza Silver

Bart Silver

Inserts including a couple Gavin Lux and Acuna

Bo Bichette Rated Rookie

And a surprise auto....of a pitcher.

Now the Bowman Mega,

Prospect Parallels. Not too many big names in the mix

Rookies and Prospects I found

Top Players

 

Best Card?

I know many don't want to hear it or even see it, but Optic has gotta win here right? It had an auto, it had some good player parallels but is unlicensed. I want to hear your thoughts in comments below!

Show Me The WAY!

I told myself I wouldn't TACKLE another Super PC as I did with Rodney Hampton, but, once again, fate hit and here I am.

You can now refer to me as the....CHARLES WAY Super Collector.

Why Charles Way? Well, he was another player I enjoyed watching playing in his five seasons with the Giants. He also has a tie in with Rodney as he was a fullback that blocked for Rodney his first few seasons before taking over for Rodney in 1997 when he was out with an injury. Way went on to rush for 696 yards and had over 1,000 all purpose yards that season. He played okay in 1998 but knee injuries forced him to retire in 2000. Once again a player that had potential and who knows how far he could have gone.

Regardless of that, he ended up in my collection and I have come a long ways in the last few months with it.

Also, been keeping track of my collection and stats on TCDB.

Here was the humble beginnings which put me at 8th place to start.

A few adds moved me up to 5th

Then a huge mail day jumped me up to first.

Then more...

And the domination continued....

 

And finally here is where I am at (since the typing of this four more cards have shown up)

I currently own 31.5% of all Charles Way cards out there. With a minimal 251 to chase, it shouldn't be too hard to find most. However, some are very, very expensive and some others being 90's cards will be even harder to chase down.

Here is a visual of my Way collection thus far,

 

(class 3 Black Label)

1998 Skybox Rubies)

(in-person auto that came via a friend)

(Way only has 3 autographs total)

(My first and only 1/1!)

(Rave and Super Rave!!!!)

(gold parallel /25)

(my favorite cards of them all, Legacy collections /100)

Pretty solid collection I am proud of so far. Still a WAY to go, but I will show any new additions as I go on. Maybe do a segment similar to the Rodney Hampton one.

If any of you have any Charles Way you don't see above, as the Styx sung, SHOW ME THE WAY!!!