The End of a Wong Season

I am writing this on the evening of the final game of the season.  I will have my entire breakdown of the season in my annual Season in Review post some time after the awards are handed out, so I will not get too much into it until then.  Connor Wong has obviously been the biggest development in my collection this season.  I came into the year with him at just four cards, and finished with him in the top ten of all players in my collection and well ahead among current players.  During that time, probably 95% of the cards I have added to my Red Sox collection have been Wong.  Here are some more cards of him, just to keep going.

Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary Orange Refractor.  Serial-numbered to 25.  I thought I was getting a bunch of parallels from this set coming up.  There is one less than I thought though.  I recently purchased a card listed as Fuchsia Atomic Refractor numbered to 100.  I already had the Red Atomic Refractor, which was also numbered to 100.  I determined these cards are actually very likely the same.  It's not the first time there were redundant listings in my quest.  The Aqua Mini Diamonds and Aqua Speckle refractors from Topps Chrome and the Carolina Blue and Navy Prizm and Carolina Blue Prizm from Panini Prizm also seem to be the same cards.

Topps Mini Pink.  Serial-numbered to 25.  This is actually my first Topps Mini card of Wong.  I do not even have the base card yet.  

Panini Select Green.  Serial-numbered to just five.  I was a little surprised by how rare this one was.

Bowman Sterling Blue Refractor.  I talked before about possibly putting together a top ten most wanted list.  Well, I did recently.  This card was on it.  I am going to wait until I complete the list before replacing cards.  I made some big strides pretty quickly.  But, there are some very rare cards on it still.

Topps Blue Star.  Serial-numbered to 299.  This card was weirdly hard to find for what should have been a pretty common parallel.  I had seen it a couple times, but always for way more than I wanted to spend.

Panini Prizm Giraffe.  This card was high on my top ten most wanted list.  It is not serial-numbered, but is apparently a case hit.  Super rare.  Not many people knew it though when it popped up for auction because I got it for less than my lunch cost today.  I love this card.

Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary Rose Gold Mini Diamond Refractor.  Serial-numbered to 75.

Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary Black Refractor.  Serial-numbered to ten.

Topps Chrome Ben Baller Blue Refractor.  Serial-numbered to 75.  This is another one that took awhile to get because prices did not seem commensurate with the rarity of the card.

Panini Diamond Kings Artist's Proof Silver.  Serial-numbered to 25.  This is the third card from my top ten list that I picked up.  

Panini Chronicles Contenders Optic Purple Mojo.  Serial-numbered to 99.  I always like grabbing parallels from this set.  There is one on my want list, but this is not it.