The Spectre Of The Lost Collector.

I recently swapped cardboard with AJ from the The Lost Collector. I'd only very recently become acquainted with that fine blog, so it was pretty sweet to be able to work out this trade so easily. I sent along a Die Cut of Yankees prospect Gary Sanchez as well as some other Yankees prospect cards from Bowman & Heritage.



AJ was kind enough to send me this card of my all-time fave, Tony Fernandez...in a Yankees uniform. I've only got a small handful of Tony's cards in a Yankees uni, so I'm happy to have this.

AGon & JBau. Together at last or The unholy union? The Fox & The Hound of the baseball world. Err...I'm not entirely sure who is Tod (the fox) & who is Copper (the hound). But no matter. The Fox & the Hound was my favourite childhood story & this is actually the second time this week I've made a reference to it. Troubling, I know.

But yeah...
(JBau for MVP!)

My first Rasmus card as a Blue Jay! A fine & very notable addiction to the new player collection. Right now Colby is somewhere in the wilds of Alabama...hunting or fishing or something. The shiny Eric Thames card is a beaut. A+.

Those two blokes I just wrote about - Rasmus & Thames...those guys figure to be prominent players on the 2012 Blue Jays. These chaps? Not so much. Both began the year with the team & were no where to be found at seasons end. Well, Reyes latched on with the Orioles. Yet here they are, as Jays in the Topps Update set. Also FWIW, those uniforms you're looking at...will be a thing of the past very soon. Next year we'll see a new take on an old favourite & I can't wait.

Thanks so much for the trade AJ!