i have been vocal on this blog in recent years lamenting the lack of new topps garvey cards, and i was rewarded this year with a slew of them. too many, if i am being honest.
here's the poster boy for "too many" - garvey's autograph card from the 2021 topps spotlight x andy friedman set
still, it's great to see him on the checklists and being able to pick and choose which ones i want to pursue and add to my collection. and, even with the boon of new garvey autograph cards to chase, there are still a lot from previous years that i am (and was) in "need" of. as a result, i haven't been limiting myself to current garvey autos over the last couple of years.
in fact, my most recent garvey autograph card addition is this one from 2009 topps sterling:
next up are a bunch of cards that were acquired at various points over the last couple of years, including two 2001 fleer greats of the game garvey autos
this next card
comes from 2002 donruss originals as part of their "recollection collection" buyback autographs. it is obviously a 1986 donruss card signed, stamped, and embossed. here's the back:
limited to 23 copies. 1986 donruss is one of garvey's worst cards in my opinion. i don't mind the max headroom design too much, rather the photo stinks.
in 2003, garvey was included in donruss' signature series as part of the "legends of summer" insert set. it included autographed cards - bronze, silver and gold. this silver card includes the "74 mvp" notation
that was obviously added later. there are other notation variations - his number (6), "81 ws", and "78 as mvp". i have examples of all of them except the 1978 all-star mvp. here's the back:
garvey could have added even more notations, but i am guessing that donruss limited him to those four.
in 2012, garvey had a number of cards in topps' triple threads release, and i was able to acquire a few of them. i had missed out on this one
it's a unity relics autograph sepia parallel. i have the "base" version, too, but i know you will believe me when i tell you that there are four other parallels of this same card that i don't have.
in 2015, panini issued a multi-sport set called national treasures collegiate multisport. this treasured cuts autograph of the garv
was a welcome addition. i have no connection to michigan state, but i do know a couple of people who have gone there. i was just happy to see one come up for sale at a reasonable price a few years after the set first hit the market.
same with this 2016 topps archives signature series 1982 o-pee-chee buyback auto
although i have grown tired of this concept as it was continued again in 2021. two years of garvey cards in 2015 and 2016 were probably enough. i didn't need more of the same buybacks signed in 2021.
there were only four cards issued by topps in 2020 that featured garvey, and three of those were deca-booklet cards from triple threads. panini, however, had garvey in quite a few of their releases. in national treasures, they had him as part of the retro signatures subset
as well as the treasured material subset.
someday they will run out of swatches from the jacket they've been using for the past few years.
it's not just garvey autos that i've added over the last couple of years, and here to prove it are a couple of cards - a 2000 fleer greats of the game ron cey auto
and a 2000 topps traded marcos castillo autograph card
You don't play games. A copy for your Garvey collection and one for the Dodger collection? And one more for the HOF collection? I'll buy two copies if an autograph is part of a set and part of a team/player pc. But I don't think I've ever bought two autographs for a team and player collection. Very cool. Love how in some ways we are very similar collectors, but there are differences as well.
ReplyDeletei have many cards in my garvey collection (autos and relics, mostly) that aren't in my dodger collection. however, i like my mini collections (like the hof collection) to stand on their own, and since i consider those third tier collections, i need to populate my dodger collection before i populate those. it gets to be a bit much sometimes, but i only have myself to blame.
DeleteI hate to say it, but that first one is not good. Thankfully things picked up considerably as the post went on. I don't recall you saying it before, but do you know how many Garvey autos you own at any given time?
ReplyDeletei did at one time but in recent years have not been managing my have list by spreadsheet. i'll have to update that and see how many i have.
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