it wasn't too long after i had completed the 2007 topps chrome dodger team set that i decided to go after the blue refractor parallels. the base chrome cards seemed pretty lackluster, and with the chunky borders, the blue refractors were fantastically blue! it took me a while, but i got there, and i recently finished off the regular refractor and white refractor team sets, too.
here's the base dodger team set for comparison purposes later on.
j.d drew, andre ethier, rafael furcal
jeff kent, brad penny, juan pierre
chad billingsley, jason schmidt, matt kemp
randy wolf, takashi saito, russell martin
derek lowe, greg maddux, delwyn young
the black borders don't do the base chrome any favors, and shame on topps (and other companies at the time) for including autographs as base cards.
now here is the blue refractor team set - note that there was no delwyn young card in the blue refractor style
j.d drew, andre ethier, rafael furcal
jeff kent, brad penny, juan pierre
chad billingsley, jason schmidt, matt kemp
randy wolf, takashi saito, russell martin
derek lowe, greg maddux
having the blue refractors but not the regular refractors gnawed on me a bit, so i got that job done.
j.d drew, andre ethier, rafael furcal
jeff kent, brad penny, juan pierre
chad billingsley, jason schmidt, matt kemp
randy wolf, takashi saito, russell martin
derek lowe, greg maddux, delwyn young
much, much brighter, of course. the young card is numbered to 500 in refractor form.
now for the white border refractors
j.d drew, andre ethier, rafael furcal
jeff kent, brad penny, juan pierre
chad billingsley, jason schmidt, matt kemp
randy wolf, takashi saito, russell martin
derek lowe, greg maddux, delwyn young
the white refractors are numbered to 660 - hard to see on the scanned card back
interestingly enough, i have no xfractors in my collection. maybe that's next. or, the red refractor parallels. there is always something to chase!
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