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Here at My 2008 Topps Set Blog we're
celebrating Black Friday with a 2008 Topps Black Border Parallel card! Hopefully by now you're finishing up your retail shopping especially if you started yesterday afternoon. I guess there were some good deals out there but I don't like that you now have to choose between having a Thanksgiving meal with your family or going to the stores.
I haven't bought many Black Border Parallel cards from the 2008 Topps set but I found this one of Adam Dunn for less than $2 shipped. I couldn't pass that up since it's one of Dunn's few cards that feature him on the D-Backs.
# UH 293 - Adam Dunn - Black Border Parallel
Hi everybody! Happy Thanksgiving!
I wonder if anyone is having a Black Friday sale on Ty Beanie Ballz?
On a recent trip to Sportlots I
found a seller who had a few 2013 Panini Cooperstown cards I needed.
Next up is the red cracked ice parallel of Luis Aparicio's base card. I think the red border works better on this card than the blue we posted last week. This one is numbered 310/399 on the back.
Braden Shipley was the Arizona Diamondbacks first round draft pick in 2013. He was taken 15th overall.
Braden made his professional debut in July for the D-Backs Class A team, the Hillsboro Hops. After eight starts he was promoted to the South Bend Silver Hawks. He finished strong pitching in four games with an era under three. Hopefully he'll continue to improve.
I picked up this certified autographed card from the 2013 Leaf Metal Draft set. It's shiny so that's nice but otherwise it's kind of a plain design. The lack of logos make it hard to tell which team these guys are even playing for. Braden has an auto in the new Bowman Draft set now too. I guess I'll have to try to pick up one of those at some point.
Brian from 30-Year Old Cardboard sent over some Diamondbacks cards mostly from the 2013 Topps Update set. I didn't have any of the inserts or parallels yet so those are great. Plus I'll never turn down an extra base card. Those always come in handy for getting autographs during Spring Training.
My favorite from the groups of cards Brian sent was the Paul Goldschmidt Gypsy Queen card. It's a white paper border parallel and is simply amazing. I've never bought too much GQ so I only have a few of these paper border cards. None are as great as this Goldschmidt.
Thanks, Brian!
Tom from the blog The Angels, In Order contacted me the other day trading some cards. I thought it was a great idea so I found a few Halos to send him. In return he sent me a great stack of Diamondbacks cards including the ones below.
My favorites are the MLB Showdown cards from 2003. I've never owned any cards from this set so these were totally new to me. I'm also glad to pick up some new cards of guys like Armando Reynoso, Travis Lee, and Curt Schilling. While my D-Backs collection is growing, I'm still missing a lot of the early stuff from the late 90s and early 00s.
Thanks, Tom!
On a recent trip to Sportlots I
found a seller who had a few 2013 Panini Cooperstown cards I needed. Next up is the blue cracked ice parallel of Luis Aparicio's base card. These are just a rip-off of what Topps has already done but they're still nice. This one is numbered 328/499 on the back. The blue is okay but I think I like the other colored parallels better.
