with trey treutel leaving cardboard connection several months ago, i haven't found it as easy to keep up with new card releases. i know ryan cracknell has the same sort of calendar going at beckett that trey had at cardboard connection, but for whatever reason i find it harder to review routinely.
what i am getting at is that i didn't know there was such a set as 2023 leaf trinity until i started seeing cards show up in my saved steve garvey searches on ebay. this was in the latter half of 2024, mind you, and it seems like the release of the set has been staggered in terms of card packaging because a couple of months after picking up my first card from the set, i started to see other types of cards (unique to certain box types) show up. really weird.
anyway, i wound up with three cards from the set. the first one i picked up was this "divinity" autograph card of steve garvey
when the other cards started showing up, i decided to buy this "steel" insert
which is actually a "stars and dots" parallel. or at least that is what the seller said. kudos to leaf for using two different garvey photos, even if they are pretty similar. here's the back
which mentions garvey's unsuccessful senate run and shows that the print run is 49 for this particular parallel.
the third card i added was this one
dual steves! a steve sax and steve garvey "duos" dual autograph card! this is the platinum parallel, and features a third different image of the garv! these cards were some of the first i saw from the set, but i waited quite a while before one popped up with a favorable buy it now price.
ok, so i decided not to limit myself to three cards from the trinity set, as i figured i should probably own garvey's base card
even though it features the same photo as the divinity card. the back has the same writeup as the steel card above
but the steel card is not a parallel of the base card. speaking of the steel parallels, i've seen a bunch more pop up recently but i am holding my ground and not even thinking about adding more. yet.
I'm guessing you meant "years" rather than "months". Ryan Cracknell has been at Beckett for a number of years now.
ReplyDeleteNope I just waited too long to write the post and forgot it was Trey who left CC.
ReplyDeleteI've grabbed a few cards from that Leaf Trinity set, too. In fact, I did not own ANY dual autographs before, and I've gotten two different parallels of the same one from this set: Jesse Orosco and Sid Fernandez. The /25 and /49 versions. Grabbed a 1/1 of Blake Tidwell as well. Definitely lower cost than most autos that are so low numbered given comparable players.
ReplyDeleteOrosco and Fernandez sounds like a great card. Two former dodgers, too!
ReplyDeleteDual Steves is pretty cool. Maybe Leaf should toss in Yeager and create a triple Steve signature card.
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