Broken News - UD announces Metrodome Legacy

To commemorate the Minnesota Twins 28 years of playing in the much celebrated Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome trading card giant Upper Dreck has announced that it will produce a Metrodome Legacy Set. The set will consist of 2243 cards each representing a specific game in the Twins Storied Metrodome History.




2009 Upper Dreck #69 Denard Span

The card pictured above represents a Twins win on September 13th of their inaugural season in the Metrodome. This card also represents a memorable game where the Twins drew an incredible 2,795 Fans.

Similar to another recent insert set (Yankee Stadium Legacy) the Metrodome Legacy will feature players that didn't play in the game noted on the card. In fact for this set Upper Dreck has gone a step further and placed Denard Span on a card representing a game that was played before he was even born.

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I firmly believe that I put no more time into this custom card and post than UD put into the Real YSL Set.

Tino Martinez a White Whale and the Agony of Defeat

Some people’s White Whale may be something incredibly hard to get and possibly prohibitively expensive – the 52 Mantle for example. But for a lot of people something a lot more conventional. It may be a hard to find chrome Jose Cruz Jr or an early 80s Sparky Lyle Card. My White Whales fall in this latter category, they me be plentiful and a lot cheaper, however that may not make them any less hard to find.

Last week I noted in the initial Blog Bat Around that I seek cards that represent games I have been to. One of the cards I mentioned was YSL #5835 Tino Martinez from this year’s UD Yankee Stadium Legacy collection.

I have only been to two games at Yankee Stadium and one this past year and one on June 30th 1998 – the day represented by the Martinez card. Since there are no Yankee Stadium Legacy cards from 2008 games yet, presently the YSL #5835 is the only one I want.

So many Yankee Stadium Legacy cards exists that people are giving them away. The problem is that YSL is such a behemoth to deal with that finding a specific single card is a bit of a needle and hay stack issue.

Imagine my surprise when I saw YSL #5835 in a recent ebay auction. I was shocked and happy to see it. First off I had never seen the card. Unlike the ‘52 Mantle - seen lots o those. I confirmed it was the one – I had only conjectured the card number from other YSLs I had seen and the Yankees 98 Schedule in Baseball-Reference. Right Date Check - Phils Got Clobbered 9-2 sounds about right Check – definitely the one I wanted. WhooHoo I had found my YSL Whilte Whale.

The Martinez was in a 4 card lot of YSLs with a starting bid of .99 cents and 2.75 shipping. I entered a minimum bid and thought to myself who the hell else is going to bid on these 4 YSL cards and forgot about it. A Yankee Stadium Legacy card certainly isn’t worth more than 4 bucks.

Well several hours later I got my 2^nd shock of the day when I found somebody had bid 2.75 to win the four cards. Perhaps I should have factored in that #33 Wally Pipp was in the lot. Don’t know, but I had missed my White Whale and felt the Agony of Defeat.

Looking back I wouldn’t change a thing. It turns out the card isn’t worth $5 to me. At least right now it isn’t.

What do you think?

1) Stick to your guns Phungo. You’re absolutely right - There ain’t no way you want to pay over $5 for a single Yankee Stadium Legacy card.

2) Phungo you’re a Moron – This is a White Whale for a Fiver! – This is a priceless artifact for your collection and you let it go for five bucks. What the Hell are you thinking?