Monday, December 28, 2020

San Francisco Giants Heritage Project Update

I think the card-collecting project I'm having the most fun with currently is trying to assemble a San Francisco Giants team set for every year that Topps Heritage has been in existence. In case you were wondering, that would be 2001 through 2020. It's fun because it's achievable, and it's achievable because, well, they made a lot of 'em, and because there aren't that many folks dying to hold onto Travis Ishikawa and Darren Ford and Jeremy Affeldt cards. Plus, they look good in binders, all numbered in order and such. It's the simple things in life, isn't it?

Anyway, I especially like the 2014 Topps Heritage baseball set because it was the year that the Giants won their third World Series this past decade, and more importantly, it's because the cards replicate the look of 1965 Topps - one of the great sets of our time. I'm still missing the basic Bumgarner from this set - card #428 - even though I have the super-special purple chrome edition of it. It's at least $5 everywhere I look, and that just seems to be a bit steep for a basic Bumgarner, you know what I mean?

But those purple chromes are awesome. I knew I needed some more parallels to round out my 2014 Topps Heritage Giants set. So I ordered some. This is what they look like.



10 comments:

  1. I always feel like I should despise Chromed-up Heritage parallels, because they're not at all in line with the true retro feel of the set...but darn it if I don't have a soft spot for 'em (especially the purple ones!).

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  2. I feel like Darren Lewis set some kind of record for errorless games, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

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    1. I looked it up. It was 391 consecutive errorless games, a record for an outfielder. Nick Markakis broke it in 2015.

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    2. I don't even remember that. That's crazy. Thanks for expanding my knowledge...!

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    3. Funny thing is I mean Darren FORD, not Darren Lewis. Lewis played for the Giants in the 90s...Ford was the dude I meant. Change made.

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  3. I like this project. If I was more organized... maybe I'd do this with the A's and Padres. As for Ishikawa... I'm not a Giants fan, but I collect his cards.

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    1. I do too. There are actually quite a few non-Giants cards of his, to my surprise.

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  4. I'm not a team collector, but if I was, I'd like to think that might be doing something like this too, as it does sound like fun!

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  5. I have a number I can send you. Are you concerned about the number of SPs they have every year?

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    1. I'm concerned in the sense that those are often $3/card rather than 16 cents or whatever, but assembling a given year's team is pretty cheap. I haven't even started 2001-2008 yet, with the exception of 2006, which I just completed.

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