Featured Cards: 1999 Sports Illustrated by Fleer #15, Roger Clemens & Curt Schilling; 2011 Leaf Ink Cuts Philly’s Finest, Seth Morehead; 2012 Topps Opening Day #108, Roy Oswalt
As the last few weeks of posts clearly show, I’m enjoying working on the online portion of The Phillies Database Project. So long as I post checklists more quickly than new sets appear, there’s a consistent sense of progress. Furthermore, because I actually maintain one other regularly-updated blog as well as attempt to keep up with friends and family on social networking sites, this particular project provides me with a ready-made template for relatively easy posting. However, this blog was started for other reasons — so, I intend to bring some balance to what gets posted here. Before I embark down that road, a few odds and ends regarding 14,000 Phillies…
Thus far, with just one notable exception I have only posted checklists for which I own a card I could use for a sample scan. Unfortunately, my desire to post checklist for sets as they appear means that will end very soon. I do not have a either of the 2012 Topps Golden Moments Game-Used Memorabilia cards or the Schmidt 2012 Topps Retired Rings card. I will most likely post the checklists in the next couple days or so, and include sample scans once I have any of those cards in hand. If, however a good Samaritan out there would like to send me the necessary good-quality scans, I will of course properly credit the individual…
I went against
what I wrote a couple months ago and actually purchased a 2011 Leaf Ink Cuts Philly’s Finest card. Although I like adding Phillies autographs to my collection, the card will not go into the Database. The Database is for cards, coins and similar items that are easily discernible as Phillies collectibles. If the cards said “Philadelphia, NL” or some variation thereof, I would probably add them. However, the fact that you need to look up the player on a site like Baseball-Reference.com in order to determine whether the card is of a Phillie means that it is not such a collectible…
One last note on the Database (for now): I do update checklists after they are posted. If you take a look at the 2012 Topps checklist I posted over three weeks ago, you’ll see the format I intend to keep using to address parallels and partial parallels. I think this is much better than posting a separate checklist for every single parallel set. However, I am open to suggestions regarding a better format…
Finally, although I already purchased a complete Phillies team set that includes some inserts and a couple of the blue parallels off of eBay, I bought and ripped a couple packs of 2012 Topps Opening Day last night. Once again, I am struck by how unnecessary the foil on the regular Topps issue is; the Opening Day cards just look cleaner. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it. Having said that, it’s nice to add one final Oswalt card to the collection. I can’t imagine Topps including him as a Phillies when they issue the second series of 2012 Topps. However, this all assumes that he doesn’t somehow return as a mid-season acquisition.
14,000 Phillies 