Are You The __________ Collector?

I am really far behind in joining in on the fun of Blog Bat Around. I have seen so many great ones recently, that I have kept them all into draft, dug out my cards a few days ago and am finally going to tackle them.

This week is a great week to do so since I have nothing else to post about and I hate fillers honestly.

So Eamus Catuli! posed the question, Are You The __________ Collector? You know, that player you are famous for chasing. The player when someone goes to a card show and sees him and says, "hey, wonder if so and so has that one?"

My player is pretty obvious, even though I do have other player collections, none of them match up to my Rodney Hampton collection. Even though my Griffey is bigger in terms of how many cards, I don't even match up to any of the other Griffey collectors when it comes to rarities and overall numbers. When I think about Griffeys, I think Junior Junkie.

But, I would expect those of you readers out there to see me as the Rodney Hampton guy and hopefully I don't have that much competition though a few cards I really had to battle for.

To me though, my rarities I have along with my total number of cards vs what's remaining to chase is a solid argument that I am the top guy. (dusts off shoulder)

Let's take a look shall we,

Binder is filled to the brim, I am trying to figure out if I want to penny sleeve and move to a box instead. These cards are all by year, brand as well.

I keep my oversized cards in there

And my chases for 100 cards of each of these. thanks to Gavin on that idea. Both are roughly 50 % there.

Some inside looks

Shiny....

Some completed rainbows

More goodies...

even more..

And that's not even counting the box I keep the really rare cards in along with the huge oversized oddities. This also isn't showing off the other parts of my collection.

Oh, and maybe there will be a way to check out all of these someday..... Collectin' Rodney.

I think it would be hard not to argue me as a top dog with Rodney collecting. I can't compare my collection to anyones unless I take some time out on TCDB and see where I am. As of now, I have about 720 or so Rodneys in my collection out of 840 roughly out there.

My Favorite Card Of 2016

When I saw the contest over at Eamus Catuli blog for Favorite Card of 2016, I said, that's easy. Then I actually thought about it. No, no it's not.

With so many trades and so many box breaks and eBay pickups how could I ever narrow it down to just one????? How did every blogger narrow it down to just one? Even my base card pickups in 2016 were just as big as my hits. It made it a bit easier to narrow down by the fact the card had to be produced in 2016 as a good portion of my pickups were older.

But, still, there was a lot to sort out.

After much back and forth, I went with the play of this guy this season and the Giants finally making the playoffs after a 5 year drought,  Not to mention, it's shiny and my only autograph memorabilia card of the guy.

I am still happy I was able to trade for this from 90's Niche Football Card Blog.

 

So what was your Favorite Card Of 2016?