I had been looking for the right opportunity to add a Miles Mikolas autograph to my collection this year. The Cardinals newest pitcher, who spent the last few years playing in Japan, has signed for a few different products this year. None of the autographed cards were really in a price range that I was willing to pay until Topps put out a Topps Chrome autograph a few weeks back.
Not a very costly card.
Also a little disappointing that Topps took a pretty nice looking card and threw a sticker autograph into the middle of a nice picture. I have kept my eyes open in case something a little nicer in appearance popped up at a reasonable price. Mind you, it had to be something that was a nice upgrade over the Topps Chrome Update. No more sticker autographs.
I found it.
I have really enjoyed collecting these 1983 style cards in the Topps set this year. I put together the inserts out of the first series, should probably look into doing so for Series 2 and Update. That's for a different post though. The first year I collected cards was actually in 1983. I was pretty little, but I still have an affinity for these cards. I picked up a few other autographs from this set way back at the beginning of the year, nothing really since.
Great looking card and certainly a nice upgrade over the Chrome Update card.
The 1983 auto is great. I think the Topps Gallery Mikolas auto is even worse than the Chrome.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the Gallery cards floating around. Pretty terrible, especially the Tyler O'Neill.
DeleteI've accepted that sticker-graphs are a part of a hobby... but I refuse to pay for them unless the athlete has zero on-card options. Not sure how Topps can't see that placing a refractive sticker on top of a Chrome card is a total eyesore.
ReplyDeleteP.S. On a positive note... that 83 style autograph is a great looking card.