with a name like that, there better be three

with ryan cracknell leaving cardboard connection for beckett several months ago, i haven't found it as easy to keep up with new card releases. i know ryan has the same sort of calendar going at beckett that he 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

the divinity cards are sticker autos and it looks like they have a max print run of 10, so i was glad to find this at a nice price.

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.