Super Collections: @JGfan24ever's Logan Thomas Collection

I have followed Michael, @JGfan24ever, since I basically started Twitter and I have been very impressed with his Logan Thomas Super Collection. I must also note, we have been very good friends since then as well and I am glad he wanted to join in on this segment.

ORIGINS IN HIS WORDS:

"I like underdogs.I started collecting him when the Cardinals Gave up on him. I knew he would be smart and do whatever it took to play football. He has been doing very well at Tight End and think he will just get better and his cards will never leave my collection. Always looking to add more of his cards."

NUMBERS:

253 Cards in the collection

COLLECTION:

If you have any Logan Thomas that you don't think he does, just contact him via Twitter @JGfan24ever. If you are reading this and have a Super Collection you want to share to the world, just contact me on Twitter @collec_sport OR email me sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

Binders Reorganization Update #2

Last year it was the Super Box Attack that took me a year to do. A few weekends ago I started digging into my biggest hobby project in since then and one that may take even longer....The Great Binder Reorganization!

I showed you part 1 of my reorganization of football inserts, football rookie inserts and rookie cards that took me a couple of weeks to do. I know the post was only four days ago, but I got that up a bit later than I should have. But, this one is a as-of today post.

Today's post takes us to my next step in my project, baseball inserts.

I had originally wanted to put these by-team, but then decided that would take way too long. Than I thought about putting them by product and then incomplete set, but thought it would take up even more binder space that way and my real purpose was wanting to condense them. So I took the same approach with baseball as I did with football.

I pulled out the star players, sets I wanted to finish, missed rookie cards, and more cards for my "Sets Of My Childhood."

 

The sorting got so in-depth that it overflowed my card trays so I went to a backup idea, a deep cardboard box.

This project has been very tedious but rewarding at the same time. Not just from the sorting aspect but from some of the treasures I have found.

I didn't give an update on my football finds, but these gems I found in the football rookie insert binder,

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And so far I found this gem in my baseball insert binder I didn't know I had. I heard these are numbered to 56 and are tough finds. I know I busted many boxes of Golden Age and this was the only one I found.

 

This is still just the beginning of this possible year long project. I can only fit in doing this when I am not busy or need a blog post to do instead. Which has been kinda restricted with my new blogging format of blogging daily instead of once-a-week. But, it seems the new approach is working in terms of views and comments on the blog.

More updates on the completion of the baseball insert stage as I will move on to the toughest and longest stage of the project, baseball rookie cards to come when I get there.

Breakin Wax:2014 Sage Hit Low Series Football (NICE PULL)

Sage Hit not normally a product I buy hobby of as it's usually a retail buy for me, but with a price under $30 and 8 autographs, how could I not gamble a bit.

In every box of 2014 Sage Hit, you will get 30 packs with 4 cards per pack. There are 8 autographs per box with a box on average carrying a price of $40. I found mine on sale for $29.

Here are the silver parallels I found. Bridgewater and Bortles led the group!

Gold parallels, Write STuff, ROY, and Artistry insert. All pretty nice with the rainbow foil involved.

Start of the autographs. Not too many big names here...

Things get better here with Hyde, Thomas and former NY Giant Xavier Grimble (the Grimble is good to me for that reason)

But things got explosive when I found this Teddy in my box /100!!!!

Overall, I obviously rocked this box out for the price I paid. The Teddy looks even better in person. I haven't had the chance to look at the base cards closely, but I have been told that U.S. Presidents had photobombed some and if you find all of them you win an autograph set. I think it would be cool just to find one. I will let you know if I do.

Now I gotta ask, how many of you buy Sage products? Your thoughts on them? Let me hear it all!

Breakin Wax: 2014 Prestige Football Hobby Box

Prestige, simply one of my favorite releases yearly and this year proved to be no different. It used to come out right after the draft, but Panini decided to switch the Score and Prestige release dates so this product falls a little later now. That just means I get more impatient.

My wife knows about my impatience with the product and was nice enough to pick me up a box. You will have to read on to see how I did.

In every box of 2014 Prestige football, there are 24 packs per box with 8 cards per pack. Most packs come with at least one rookie. You will also find one box topper and 4 autographs/memorabilia cards per box

Here is the box topper wrapper.

The cards are the same Draft Picks version you can find in the packs, but just done in jumbo size. They look really cool up close.

At first glance, I didn't care for the base card design. But, upon further looking at them and looking at all of them, I like it. Panini used team color schemes for the back ground split 50/50 with the team logo watermarked behind the player. Some of the team combinations on these look really nice. One of my favorites is Seattle's.

Back of base card

Rookie cards. These were the top rookie cards I pulled in my box. It was very weak in terms of rookies.

Extra Points parallels. These are the reds that fall 1:13.

Here is the purple Extra Points, these are numbered to 199.

Inserts. I was really impressed with the designs and layouts.

Acetate! Might be a tad bit too much since more than one inserts is made with it. I would rather see one done with acetate and find another way to do the rest. If I had to choose one of these designs to stick with , I would choose the Captain one.

Micro-Etched madness! See acetate feeling above...

My pulls. Nothing terrific, but one thing I know, you have got to give rookies time to see how they pan out.

HAHAHAHAHAHA only my third auto of his this year!! This one is an autograph Extra Points red parallel.

And finally, you should get one on-card auto per box. Mine, Mr. Cody Latimer. Another one of those, "you find a hit in every box" kind guy.

Overall, not the best Prestige break I have ever had. I did much better in 2013. I do like the base card designs, the inserts look nice but are a tad bit overdone, and the hits were okay. It will probably be one of those products since I am a Prestige fan that I will have to get a second glance on before deciding if I really like it or not.