it's jacket weather

there was a significant snowfall here in the twin cities on tuesday last week, and the temperature hadn't risen above 35 degrees or so until wednesday of this week when it hit 45 degrees. it's definitely time to break out the jacket.

over the past three years, panini has been cutting up and distributing pieces of a warmup jacket that supposedly belonged to steve garvey. the latest issue to include the jacket is from 2020 panini immaculate collection - a subset appropriately called "jackets". as a good player collector, i've been trying to acquire these cards in which panini has paired the jacket with sticker autos, and have been pretty successful.

i have the "base" version, numbered to 25

and the gold version, numbered to 10

i don't have the emerald version (numbered to 5) or the platinum version (numbered to 1), but i did pick up the cyan printing plate (also a one of one)

that includes what i figure to be a sleeve cuff.  here's the back:

i can't say i've seen garvey's name in the same sentence as hornsby or simmons before. decent company for sure.

in 2019, panini used the jacket in their national treasures release. the retro materials subset included a big ol' piece of jacket

on the most common version of garvey's card. they used a bat piece 

on the holo gold version and a piece of his glove

on the silver version, which for some reason is numbered to a lower number than the gold version.

the jacket shows up in the 2019 panini national treasures game gear insert set as well. this is the triple relic version

but it is also there on the dual version, too.

however, the single relic version only has a bat chip.

i didn't chase all the variants of these cards, but i did add a holo gold version of the single relic

which happens to be the always exciting ebay 1/1 as it is numbered as garvey's jersey number. i usually only buy these when the seller doesn't have a premium on the buy it now price.  that was certainly the case with this 2020 panini absolute iconic ink card

2020 panini absolute also included garvey in the tools of the trade insert set, and i added the spectrum purple version

and the spectrum red version

which again has pieces of the jacket represented.  note the nasty corner ding on that last one - the card fell out of the toploader it was in when i opened the package. super.

anyway, the extended forecast shows temperatures climbing in to the 50's this weekend. i'll still need a jacket.