Tearing It Up

We are a week in to the baseball season and there are already some winners and losers but I think the biggest news is coming out of Colorado and their rookie shortstop Trevor Story. After hitting a homerun in his first four games he now has seven homers in six games. He will cool off but his play has made his cards white hot and out of the 12 Topps Now cards released he has been on three of them.

His cards are not selling at super nova prices like Stephan Strasburg, Bryce Harper and Mike Trout’s early cards did but his limited numbered base cards and autographs are still selling at a significant price with his 2011 Bowman Chrome cards leading the way. He really came out of no where, not even rated in the Top 10 of the Rockies prospects (he was listed as the #11 prospect), it is time to go back and check my cards to see if I am sitting on any of his cards, this image was taken from eBay.

2007-08 Fleer Hot Prospects

I picked up a couple packs of 2007-08 Fleer Hot Prospects the other day in hopes of getting some Durant cards while he was still in a Sonics uniform. It is no secret that I am not a big fan of Clay Bennett, the captain of the OKC Thunder (nee Seattle SuperSonics) pirate ship.

I do not think I have opened a pack of Fleer Hot Prospects since Fleer was actually Fleer, but I am pretty happy with the card design. You have a close up of the player in action; the player is centered with the background hued in the team colors. The card has large borders along the top and bottom that contain the product name, player name, jersey number and position. The backs have a design using the team colors; near the top are the team logo and an additional photo of the player. There is a short blurb about the player and their last 5 years of stats along with their NBA totals.

Excellent choice for the poster boy of the product

I was kind of surprised to pull a Jordan card in a pretty current set, but I guess UD does what they can to get him in to a release.

Supreme Court and Notable Newcomers subsets

Overall I really liked the set because it does have an artistic flair to it, a good checklist and whenever you can pull a Michael Jordan you should be pretty happy.