A month or so ago I was updating the
Brandon Laird section of the Trading Card Database with photos and cleaning up a few other odds and ends. I noticed the empty photo holes for the 2008 and 2011 Superfractors and figured they would stay empty for a long time. A few weeks ago, however, eBay worked its magic and the 2011 Bowman Chrome Superfractor popped up. The seller and I worked a deal and now I finally own a graded card.....my first ever....although I will likely crack it out of its plastic prison soon.
The good news is that I have far exceeded my
#11 collecting goal this year with this purchase. Maybe I'll add a few inexpensive
Yuta Tabuse cards and call that goal complete.
By the way, Brandon moved teams in the offseason and will now be playing for the
Chiba Lotte Marines.
Unfortunately my scanner really sucks with graded cards, but it is on our list of new things to purchase this year so maybe I'll get a better scan at some point
Congratulations! I seem to recall you saying you had never had a 1/1 before either, now you do!
ReplyDeleteThanks Billy! The design is pretty cool for sure.
DeleteCongratulations! Kudos to you for deciding to crack that out of the plastic prison. With those grades, I wouldn't be able to do it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fuji. The grades seem really strange to me. The centering is dead on to within 1/64” and there is a small indentation on the surface of the cards yet it got subgrades of 9 and 9.5 respectively. Grading is too subjective for me, but I’ve heard BGS is harder to get high grades through.
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