The luck of the draw...or the baseball card gods smile on my wife.

So we have been collecting Baseball cards, more specifically, Topps series cards for the past few months. It started with MLBnetwork showing a special called Cardboard Treasures back in March. This special basically discussed the history of Topps baseball trading cards and the 60th anniversary of their first real set. The mythical 1952 Topps series. This set still is considered by many to be the holy grail and the start of the true baseball card. Even though many years prior cigarette company's like Piedmont and others had released some sets inserted into packs of smokes. This 1952 set still has one of the highest selling cards going. 1952 Mickey Mantle. Card #311

Anyway...I will go more into our personal collection in future blogs, but for now I wanted to mention a special card that we (specifically Holly) pulled the other day. I will also try and explain why for some odd reason it seems that she pulls the best cards we get, but that is another time. lol

Last year Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals was called up to the Majors, which set off a fire sale of his baseball cards. His card was so hot that one of them ended up selling for more then $20,000.00 dollars! Yes a Rookie baseball card sold for sums of money unheard of for a prospect. On Average, his autograph baseball cards sell for over $100.00 now.
So we have been lucky in the past and out of Topps series 1 and 2 pulled no autograph cards, only relic cards (that would be a piece of bat, game used jersey piece, heck for all I know maybe a damn shoelace, lol). Out of a box of Topps Gypsy Queen we got lucky with 1 Auto and 1 relic. From a 2007 box of Topps series 2 we felt lucky to get a Pedro Martinez relic card.
We have been very happy with our purchase, of a Topps Triple Threads relic card a few months ago. I will post that picture soon.

So back to the newest and Holly's best pull to date. Got a hobby box of 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter , which had 24 packs, 8 cards per pack, and a guarantee of 3 hits ( either auto, relic, or some other odds/ends) Each of the 3 hits, Holly got them in the packs she opened. They were decent relic cards, with a peice of jersey, no autos, no other special thing....then in the final pack ...she screams and jumps up out of bed. Omg she runs down the stairs and grabs a card holder. I sitting next to her, am going...ok wth could she have seen. Maybe a Lincecum or a good Phillies card...nope. she pulls a very hard to find, very special insert.

The best part of the whole card being pulled by her is the conversation we had not even 3 days prior, she asked me "How do people get these huge card hits? I mean how lucky do you have to be to get one of those cards that sell for $200-$300?" Well apparently you have to have your luck Holly!