Sunday, February 4, 2024

from one mvp to another...and more

late last year i headed out to my local card shop and threw down my 2023 topps chrome shohei ohtani card
the shop participates in the mvp buyback program, so i had $20 in store credit to play with thanks to the former angel winning the 2023 american league mvp award. i spent some time with their team sorted singles and other bargain boxes and came away with a pretty good haul. i was later able to flip some of those singles to get more than my $20 back. 

with some of those proceeds, i picked up a card of the 1974 national league mvp for my collection:
that is steve garvey's 2023 topps tier one autograph card. it's the base version of which there are 249 out there.

one of the cards i took from the lcs was this 2009 upper deck a piece of history gold parallel card of the should-have-been 2011 national league mvp matt kemp
it is numbered to 50 and was also covered by the bounty from the ohtani exchange.

should topps continue this program next year, i may find it harder to part with shohei ohtani cards if he wins the national league mvp award. i mean, i hope he is in the running for the award, but the dodger collection needs feeding!

4 comments:

  1. Nice job turning an Ohtani base card into a Garvey 'graph!

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  2. I wonder how many people turned in their 2023 Chrome Ohtani cards... and how much it'll impact the value of that card in the long run.

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  3. I wasn't aware of this buyback program. Actually seems pretty generous, $20 for the base card.

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  4. Winning! That Garvey looks a thousand times better than the Ohtani.

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