Friday, October 30, 2020

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.

6 comments:

  1. An absolutely amazing haul. I think even Garvey would be impressed if you ever get a chance to show these to him.

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  2. Very impressive cards indeed! Congrats to you!

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  3. I wonder what's going to happen when they use up all of that jacket? Also, knowing Panini, shouldn't there be a zipper card out there somewhere?

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  4. It's been jacket weather in Texas too for most of the past week. It was in the 40s for most of the week, and rainy.

    You have an amazing Garvey collection.

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  5. A. Love the cold weather. Not sure I'd want to live where it snows, but I enjoy mid 40's to low 60's.

    B. Sweet collection. Especially fond of that glove card.

    C. Anytime you're mentioned in the same breath as Simmons and Hornsby... that's quite the compliment.

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  6. Hey, Panini: if you're behind two people, you're in third place, even if those two people are tied for first. Just saying.

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