More Wong

This will be a shorter post, but I am nowhere near caught up.

Panini Chronicles Contenders Rookie Ticket Autographs Draft Red.  Autographed card numbered to 75.

Panini Immaculate Rookie Patch Autographs Button.  Autographed relic card numbered to eight.  This is my second button card of Wong.  

Panini Prizm Tiger Stripe.  This is a card I was really excited about.  There is no serial-number, but these animal print Prizm parallels seem to be exceptionally rare.  It was quite the bidding war for this one.

Donruss Optic Rated Rookie Signatures Purple Mojo.  Autographed card numbered to 88.  

Panini Prizm Blue Velocity.  

Panini Absolute Tools of the Trade Jumbo Signatures Spectrum Gold.  Huge three-color patch with an autograph, numbered to just ten.

That's it for today.  More coming, but there are a few non-Connor Wong cards to show off mixed in.

Free Cards: An Intermission

Breaking up the Connor Wong posts for a but is this group of cards that I got for free with one of my Wong cards.  This year's Panini Prizm had a pretty decent player selection for the Red Sox and I will eventually grab some packs.  But one seller sent a pile of about 20 base cards for free, including the following three Red Sox.

1.  Nomar Garciaparra.  I'm not sure I have anything new to say about Nomar.  I'm hoping he has a decent showing in the Eras Committee for the Hall of Fame.  I still think his peak was high enough to get him in.  And if Don Mattingly ever makes it in, that strengthens Nomar's candidacy.

2.  Jim Rice.  An underrated Hall of Famer, it took Rice 15 years to get into the Hall of Fame.  Given some of the players getting in these days, it is safe to say his place his secure.

3.  Johnny Pesky.  Pesky is absolutely one of my favorite players to add cards to my collection.  He was such a monumental figure in Red Sox history, filling a variety of roles for 60+ years.  

Epic Wong Post: The Re-Return

I continue to be kind of busy right now.  I have a lot to catch up on, mostly Wong cards of course.  Wong has been struggling a bit lately on both sides of the ball.  Most likely that's due to a two-month period in which he played almost every single game.  He probably needs a rest for a bit.

Anyway, let's get going.  This will be scan-heavy.

Panini National Treasures Rookie Silhouettes Gold.  Nice two-colored patch and an autograph and numbered to 49.

Panini Chronicles Contenders Rookie Ticket Autographs Building Blocks.  Autograph numbered to ten.

Panini Prizm Blue Mojo Prizm.  Not cut well, but serial-numbered to 199.

Panini Chronicles Rookies and Stars Purple.  Serial-numbered to 25, and one of my favorite cards.

Finest Rookie Autographs Gold Refractor.  Serial-numbered to 50 and autographed.  This gets me one step closer to completing the rainbow.  I need the Red Wave and the Super, two of the rarest.

Bowman Sterling Fuchsia Refractor.  Serial-numbered to 75.

Bowman Gold.  Serial-numbered to 50.

Panini Chronicles Studio Black Signatures.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 99.  This is my first card from this subset.

Panini Chronicle America's Pastime Swatches Blue.  Game-worn jersey and numbered to 99.  I am not sure where this swatch comes from.

Panini Prizm Rookie Autographs Red Shimmer Prizm.  Autographed and serial-numbered to just seven.  Why seven?  Who knows?

Panini Diamond Kings DK Signatures Holo Silver.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 75.

Topps Heritage Black.  Serial-numbered to 50.

Topps Chrome Logofractor Future Stars Autographs.  Autographed, obviously, and serial-numbered to 99.

Topps Gypsy Queen Turquoise.  Serial-numbered to 199.

Panini Prizm Lime Green Prizm.  Serial-numbered to 125.

Panini Chronicles Studio Black B&W Signatures.  This is my first variation of this card too.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 99.

Donruss Optic Rated Rookie Signatures Cracked Ice Red.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 25.  I continue to add parallels of this card.

Topps Finest Flashbacks Refractor.  This took a couple tries to get in.  This is one of my favorite cards as well.

Stadium Club Rainbow Foil.  Serial-numbered to 25.

Stadium Club Autographs Red Foil.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 50.

Donruss Optic Rated Rookie Signatures Purple Stars Prizm.  Autographed and serial-numbered to 49.  Yet another variation of this card.

Panini Absolute Rookie Baseball Material Booklet Signatures Pink.  Autographed, game-used and serial-numbered to 35.  The Sweet Spot autographs from Upper Deck were always some of my favorite autographs, so it is nice to add something similar.  I am not wild about booklet cards, but I was going to have to get one soon for this collection.

Bowman Yellow.  Serial-numbered to 75.

Topps Gallery Orange.  Serial-numbered to 25.

Topps Chrome Sapphire Orange.  Serial-numbered to 25.  I was considering a top ten most wanted list for awhile and one of the items was any of the Sapphire parallels.  I accomplished that with this card.

That's it for now.  Many more coming.

COMC (Check Out My Connors) Order

This was actually two orders, but they arrived at the same time.

Panini Mosaic Rookie Autographs Choice Fusion Black Gold.  Starting things off with a bang is this 1/1 autograph.  This was the primary reason for the first order.  It's not often you can add a 1/1 autograph.

Panini Select Red.  It's weird some of the cards that have taken awhile to get in.  This seems like something I would have already come across.

Topps Pristine Refractor.  And here is another one.

Topps Chrome Sonic Green RayWave Refractor.  I determined recently that I am actually fairly close to the complete rainbow from Sonic.  There are a couple more I need to get, including a couple of cards numbered to five, but there are no 1/1s.

Panini Chronicles Rookies and Stars Red.  This is just a cool-looking card.  

Panini Select Rookie Jumbo Swatch.  This is another card that took awhile for me to track down.  I had a couple of the rarer parallels of it, but not the base version.

Finest Autographs Orange Wave Refractor.  This gets me another card closer to this rainbow.  Of course there are a couple very rare ones yet to get.

Panini Absolute Tools of the Trade 2 Swatch.  Another one that took awhile to get in.

Topps All Star Game Stamped.  This set was available for purchase at the All Star Game in 2022.

Panini Chronicles Contenders Rookie Autographs Printing Plate Yellow.  This was the headliner from a very small second order.  This is a 1/1 printing plate with an autograph.  Definitely a cool add to my collection.

Topps Chrome Sonic Aqua RayWave Refractor.  Closing things out is another step closer to the Sonic rainbow.

As usual, more to come.  

First Post in a Wong Time

My trial settled, so I can try to get back to it.  There's a lot to show off, which I will break up a little bit.

Panini Prizm Neon Orange.  This card is numbered to 100.  Of course the card I have been after for a long time due to not receiving it from a seller in the Spring is the Mosaic Orange Fluorescent.  This is similar, but not the card.

Topps Japan Purple.  This is just my third parallel from this set.  There is a ways to go.

Panini National Treasures Field Gear.  I previously had the dual card with two nice patches.  This is a much more basic card, with just a single white swatch.  It looks like the kind of relic cards I first started getting in the early 2000's, horizontal shot with a small swatch on the left side.  

Panini Diamond Kings DK Signatures.  This card took a weirdly long time to get considering my affinity for the Diamond Kings set.  

Bowman Sterling Printing Plate Magenta.  This is my first printing plate, but it will not be the last.  Early on when I was just starting to contemplate collecting Wong, I was outbid on a printing plate, which would have been a great addition.  This does not make up for that one, I really wish I would have bid higher on it, but it's a start.

Panini Diamond Kings Rookie Expression Gold.  I picked this up in a trade on TCDB.  Slightly rarer than the base version and with a multi-colored swatch.  The seller threw in a couple extra cards of vastly different size for my more general Red Sox collection:

1.  Mike Greenwell.  This is the 1991 Topps Cracker Jack mini card.  I did pull a couple of Red Sox cards out of bags of Cracker Jacks much later.

2.  Rafael Devers.  This is one of those box toppers from Topps Heritage.  

Back to Connor Wong:

Panini Prizm Red Mojo.  This was a Mercari order that took an unusually long time to get in.  I had it considered lost for a little while.  But it worked out eventually.

Bowman Blue.  I had the Blue Pattern, which is slightly different, but with a different serial-numbering.  This took me a bit to look for because it just is not all that different.

Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs Green.  I now have eight parallels of this Chrome Auto.

Panini Immaculate Rookie Patch Autographs Holo Silver.  Closing things out for today is this nice three-colored patch/autograph card.  There are a ton of other Immaculate cards out there.

That's it for now.  As usual, there is much more to come.