It's been a few weeks since I have made a post. I have been enjoying my fall break away from school by doing a few things around the house and taking in the NC State football game last weekend.
My Wolfpack snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Losing to Wake Forest after leading by 10 at the beginning of the 4th Quarter is not cool. The coaching is less than ideal.
Baseball cards have been slow too.
No Blake Snell autographs.
Pumping the brakes on the Rays current young players.
Nobody likes the Cardinals right now.
I did find an interesting 2023 Topps Chrome Jake Cronenworth card a few days back. Cronenworth was on the Durham Bulls a few years back and came up in the Rays Minor League system before he was traded to the Padres. Here is the front of the card.
I have grown tired of my scanner, so you are getting a picture.
Notice the authentication sticker on the jersey swatch. I went ahead and ran the numbers on the swatch and came up with a time and date for the jersey that appears on the card.
The answer is a bit disappointing........
No idea why Jake Cronenworth was wearing a Padres jersey in the middle of January, but I could not find anything when I did some digging on the team's social media pages. No press conferences, no fan fests, nothing.
Here is the back of the card......
Playing around with scanning apps......
Not too bad.
Cronenworth wore this at a Topps Authentication event in the offseason? It's bad enough that there are so many player worn event card floating around the hobby. Now Topps is ruining the MLB hologram authentication sticker too. I appreciate the fact that they're being honest with the collector (although what's up with MLB saying this is a swatch from a game-worn jersey)... but it almost seems like collectors are being catfished here.
ReplyDeleteBy the way... didn't mean to poo poo on this card. It's actually a really nice looking memorabilia card.
No worries about the poo. It's a great looking card, but there are definitely problems here with the authentication.
DeleteHere's a thought...the Padres wore the City Connects on AUGUST 18, 2023. Is it possible that that's the date this was worn, and they put the date in wrong? Obviously the timeline would be tight unless this was a redemption and/or came from Chrome Update. Just a thought. You'd really hope they aren't authenticating things as game-used which were actually worn only in January, so I'm looking for a better explanation.
ReplyDeleteI would love for the explanation to be a wrong date, but I highly doubt that's the case here. I would not put it past Topps and MLB to authenticate a jersey as "game-used" when it was actually worn around a fan event/convention.
DeleteThis isn't the sort of card that would be for me, but at least the design is a bit different. I like all of the green, too.
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