some cards i acquired all of a sodden

i've been pretty steady with ordering cards from sportlots for the last 10 years or so. it is fairly rare that i don't have an order in the works, in fact. just recently, i ordered some cards from a couple of sellers - nothing special, but still cards that i was able to remove from my want list.

cards like this 2021 topps mookie betts 52 redux

and a cody bellinger from the same insert set

i've mentioned before that clayton kershaw is my first go-to when i need to fill out a sportlots order to maximize my shipping value. i did just that when i picked up this 2018 panini donruss green holo parallel

of kershaw's 1984 design card in the set, as well as this blue holo parallel

of kershaw's 2021 panini donruss card.

i also picked up a pink refractor parallel from 2020 topps chrome

and a rainbow foil from 2020 topps update

of the dodger lefty.

i had not added any 2020 topps gallery to my collection (and i'm not complaining), but i did pick up two copies of this card

featuring kershaw and walker buehler - one for the team collection and one for the dodger stadium collection.

the other cards from this particular order were from 1994, such as a score gold rush parallel of darryl strawberry

a topps finest card of jim gott

and a golden rainbow parallel from topps stadium club of rafael bournigal

there was one other card in this haul, and that was this one - the golden rainbow parallel of orel hershiser's stadium club card

i posted a couple of weeks ago about selling my base dupe of this card on ebay. the next day, i followed up on a comment on that post and saw that someone had added this card to sportlots, but at the reasonable and normal 18 cents.  i bought it, along with all of the other cards in this post, with the earnings i made from the regular base version of the hershiser card. in other words, i traded a base card for its parallel version, plus 11 other cards. crazy times.