Something that I feel I talk a lot about on this blog is how I was a big fan of Carlos Quintana when I first started watching baseball. He was the first kind of obscure player of whom I was inexplicably a big fan. Guys like Felix Doubront and Tzu-Wei Lin have joined him over the years. I still grab cards when I can find them, though there are not too many left. Last year, I picked up two off of Ebay on the same day.
Buybacks have been one was to expand this collection. This is a Bowman buyback from his 1991 card. That was not the most exciting set in the world. Kind of boring design. No action photos.
This one is a bit more interesting. One of those unlicensed photo cards from the 1980's, commonly referred to as Broder's.
On a somewhat related note, I kind of had this fascination with contributing to the SABR bio project by writing the bio on Quintana. Unfortunately, someone beat me to it recently. I was sort of devastated by that. I had been harboring this idea for a few years now, but just had not gotten going on it. I should have done it. My biggest hangup was trying to find out what he was doing now. How that was going to happen. I will have to pick someone else to write about I guess.
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