I am farily sure Triple Threads is out of my price range and I will leave the debate on the product contents up to folks that have that kind of scratch.
I would like to mention that, I am not sure if John Henry is considered a character of Public Domain - so Topps may have had to get permission from someone to produce cards with his "likeness". Therefore in some way the cards are limited and somewhat unique. For instance I probably cannot produce John Henry Phungo Cards and Sell them (but if you offered me $ to make them I may create them anyway)
That being said if I am paying a hundred dollars for a product with a X number of hits and one of them is the JH card, I would initially be disappointed until I found how I could sucker somebody into paying $500 for it on eBay. Ok maybe I won't leave the debate up to the heavy hitters - I will put the Phungo 2 cents in.
At any rate if Topps needs some ideas here are some Other Relics they may want to consider that are at least baseball related:
A Bat Relic from Crash Davis' History Record breaking Home Run.
A corn kernel from the Field of Dreams
A Jobu VooDoo Doll Relic from Indians curve ball challenged Slugger Pedro Cerrano - or a coke spoon from Rick Vaughn.
A piece of the Bat which Mighty Casey was using when he struck out.
A Springfield Isotopes Hat Relic from Homer Simpson Pinch Hitting Appearnce for Darryl Strawberry.
A baseball made from the horsehide of the thoroughbred John Henry.
Ok technically John Henry is a real horse and baseballs are no longer made of horsehide - but that would make that relic all the more real.
Etc
Haven't posted much recently been busy and on the road etc. Was at Oktoberfest in Munich - if anyone is interested in a travelblog, post a comment and I will put one together - not much sports related stuff, but lots o beer drinking.
Hopefully getting back to posting will help to right the Phillies playoff ship as well.
Go Phightins!!!
