Every Once In A While

The number of Ray Lankford posts I make on here have dwindled over the years.  There are not many cards that I am missing for my collection, and the ones I am missing frequently end up costly crazy amounts of money.  Every once in a while, one pops up and the bidding/price of the card stays reasonable.  

I found a Lankford card missing from my collection, and it cost me right around $10.

So, I swooped in and bought the card.  After a long journey across the country, it arrived in my mailbox earlier this week.  Just a little busy at work this week, so it's been sitting on my desk for a few days.  

Excited about this card.  

The marks are on the top loader and sleeve.  

This is from the 1998 Leaf set, which had all sorts of parallels and die-cuts.  It's an overly complicated baseball card set, further complicated by the fact that there is actually a Chrome style parallel set of the 1998 Leaf set that was packaged with parallel sets of Donruss and Donruss Elite. 

It's true, all of it.  

I have a few different Lankford cards from this set, but not this one.  The card is serial numbered to 50, which seems like a pretty high number in today's baseball cards, but this was a tough pull in 1998.  

This is the lowest serial numbered parallel set in the 1998 Leaf set, so I now own a complete run of all the Ray Lankford cards in the 1998 Leaf set.  Always a good feeling.  When I get a free moment, I need to find the other parallels and put them in a single post.