Saturday, March 21, 2026

All-time Top 100 cheap-azz keepers VII

Maybe a couple of years ago, I was really into making an all-time Top 100 cheap-azz keepers collection - where it's chaos pages, bastardized Frankenstein pages [without the numbering obligations] and every else I might have been able to gather that was random and good in my mind.

I was able to making it through eight different personalized compilations of cards - the plan was to get everything in pages but maybe I quietly forgot about the project through the middle of 2025.

Feeling like I needed to check back on things through the current year, I was able to correct course and get the cards from sets [VII and VIII] into pages and into a binder - I was even able to make another version [IX], where I want to get back into a routine to flag certain loose cards.

Originally these home brewed sets contained exactly 100 cards within 11 pages - but since I didn't want the last card [#100] for my all-time to be stored behind another card or be the lone card in one last page, I ended up making allowances for my home brewed sets to have 108 cards to fit 12 pages exactly.

A distinction is being able to group some cards together where I might have 108 cards total per each set - but may not list out exactly 1-108, where it might be 104 cards, 106 cards, etc.

106. 2024 Topps Update Series Jesse Chavez #301 - this common represents my micro-mini tribute to the MLB career of a journeyman reliever who has been through the fire and who might finally retired for good.

105. 1992 Score Dream Team Craig Biggio #888 - I have a junk wax era themed curated set that might be a perpetual work in progress, so it might be easier to add a unique card from the [1986-1992 era] in my all-time set instead and challenge myself to find something else [or maybe even look a dupe].

104. 2016 Topps Archives 65th Anniversary Scott Hatteberg auto #A65-AH - this was a cheap auto find and I'm not above putting [autograph or relic cards] in my all-time sets; Hatteberg is shown with the Cincinnati Reds, but obviously is most known for being featured in Moneyball [I guess in the book and portrayed in the movie] with the Oakland Athletics of the early 2000s.

103. 1999 Upper Deck SP Top Prospects Ricky Williams #22 - this brings back a little bit of faux-nostalgia where Williams was one of the biggest all-time NFL draft prospects in the late 1990s and while he had a stint playing pro baseball, was included in a major company's minor league product as a gimmick.

102. 2024 Topps Update Series Blake Treinen #US196 - this common represents my micro-mini tribute to the MLB career of a longtime reliever, where at least on the field, there is something admirable about an individual who continues to pitch through his mid 30s.

101. 1988 Little Sun Black Sox Buck Weaver #5 - I may have mapped things out where the bottom part of an all-time 100 has what I consider wild cards and in this instance, have an oddball card of an early 20th century player I have to go look up.

100. 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken #616 - Black Box - through the past 30 years, I wish I had gotten a raw copy of the original FF error card, where it was easier to afford for like $20 or something.

The only copy I had was bought graded, so I do have the error - but not where I can added it to a home brewed, all-time set like this.

99. 1992 Confex The Baseball Enquirer Billy Ripken #4 - at the very least, I was able to pair up the black box version of the 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken with a parody version.

98. 1991 SmithKline Beecham MDA They're All-Stars Harmon Killebrew #19 - I probably didn't like oddballs as much as other collectors, but they end up nice fillers like this one featuring a Hall of Famer.

97. 2014 Topps Justin Maxwell #594 - a postgame Gatorade shower [or shaving cream pie to the face] always makes for a unique card, where it turns a common into a keeper.

96. 2023 Topps Series 2 1988 Topps Baseball Julio Rodriguez #2T88-32 - I like the retro design used for this insert and image shown, where player is pointing to the sky, presumably after completion of a gaame.

95. 1993 Donruss McDonald's Toronto Blue Jays Great Moments Sudden Impact Pat Borders #95 - imagine being Borders and having a juiced up Mark McGwire looking to barrel you over during a playoff game.

94. 2020 Topps Stadium Club Xander Bogaerts #21 - maybe when I started putting together this set, this card was already an 'old team' card, but it's a unique horizontal shot of Bogaerts warming up before the game.

93. 2021 Panini Prizm Rookie Autographs Isaac Paredes #RA-IP - this was a cheap auto pull of a player who has had some decent years with the bat and is still his mid 20s.

92. 2002 Upper Deck Authentics Al Leiter #144 - post 9/11, this card shows Leiter wearing an NYPD cap as his tribute, where it's a unique thing to point out.

91. 1987 T&J Madison Muskies Ozzie Canseco #3 - maybe having an all-time set is being able to flesh out my mini-collection interests and in this case, my bloodlines collection, where I have this odd card of a big league brother who considerably made less impact than his twin.

90. 1986 Donn Jennings Southern League All-Stars Jose Canseco #14 - I want to make it a thing where I can pair up cards of subjects, like two brothers who played in the big leagues and have cards.

89. 2022 Topps Chrome Heart of the City Jose Ramirez #HOC-7 - Ramirez has turned into a franchise great for the Cleveland Guardians, so it doesn't hurt for me to add a shiny card that emphasize the idea that he is an all-timer.

Monday, March 09, 2026

2024 Bowman Draft set purchase

Bowman paper are the most basic cards out of Bowman products, but when 2025 Bowman Draft came out in January, maybe I got some FOMO and started browsing for hand collated set for a cheap - I don't know why it triggered me, but I probably heard or saw something online where smart breakers making extra profit by selling off the hand collated sets.

Being priced out to bust a hobby box, super jumbo, breakers delight and even mega boxes, I'll be one of those impulsively looking for a paper set - if just for the love of hoarding new cards [maybe some Angels cards, like of No. 2 overall pick Tyler Bremner], even though I haven’t really focused on prospects and prospect cards have have jumbled together over the past decade.

On eBay I thought I hit the BIN on a 2025 set, but after sending payment, I realized I had actually gotten a 2024 set - I wonder what I’m really doing here, where for all the build up to get some 2025 Bowman Draft cards in-hand, I ended up with the Bowman Draft from the year before.

Do I bother looking for a 2025 set as intended [?] - I didn't want to pay to get more than one set in-hand, so I still haven't come back to grabbing a 2025 set.

I didn't know who Nick Kurtz was when the 2025 MLB season started - I still don't have many of his cards, so this first year paper ends up a keeper for the 2025 American League Rookie of the Year.
I didn't know much about Travis Bazzana, except he was the No. 1 overall pick in 2024 and is also an Australian - maybe he has had a slower start to his pro career, but after playing in the WBC, will be looking to see if he can get to the big leagues sooner than never at 23.
Trey Yesavage had a taste of the big leagues in 2025 and even though the Blue Jays lost to the Dodgers in the World Series - he emerged as a postseason hero, especially in the World Series.
I didn't know who Konnor Griffin was, but apparently he is the second coming of either Mike Trout or Bobby Witt Jr. - where the current value of this card is equivalent to what I'd paid for the entire set.

Friday, March 06, 2026

My mini collections - updated storage setups

Despite being seemingly set with the storage options I had in the meantime - maybe I wanted a more orderly way to funnel my awesome action collection towards a 3,200 count box, rather than in separate boxes.

It's been something that has been in front of me and I finally took a 3,200 count box I had bought at a card shop three weeks ago - to add on top of my other 3,200 count boxes and rejigger how I stored certain awesome action classifications towards one catch-all storage option.

I was expecting to fit everything from my awesome action collections into the box and maybe even some other mini-collections - but while I left gaps to add more cards to the collections in the box, there might not have been the space to add a bigger collection of cards [my fun cards] and one smaller collection of cards [my personality shots].

I made a simplified list of how I store my awesome action cards - there are subsets for each classification / groupings that are not listed in detail.

Making the throws – 1B – Row 1
Making the throws – 2B – Row 1
Making the throws – Double play throws 2B – Row 1
Making the throws – 3B – Row 1
Making the throws – SS – Row 1
Making the throws – Double play throws SS – Row 2
Pitching – Row 2

My dirt fetish cards - took up parts of three rows.

Dirt fetish – A – B – Row 2
Dirt fetish – C – P – Row 3
Dirt fetish – R – Z – Row 4

I added my game face cards to the 3,200 count box - to finish of the cards from my awesome action collections that was going into this one catch-all space.

Game face cards – Row 4

A snapshot of my tower of 3,200 count boxes - to keep things relatively manageable, I don't want to end up being obligated to buy more storage boxes, where it feels overwhelming seeing other collections [people end up trying to sell collections or whatever], where it's just these monolithic boxes that end up a chore to dig through if you need to pull or add more cards.

On the other hand, a 3,200 count box ends up an appropriate storage option [still relatively cheap at under $10, but price might have ticked up] for bulk cards - where I do want to herd a good portion of cards into one sturdy place where I am not losing track where they are in multiple, loose boxes.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

My mini collections - current storage setups

My last post was about trying to herd my mini-collections together - after typing up an essay, I don't want to skip forwards towards an entirely different topic.

I want to share a snapshot of how cards are put away for my awesome action collections - which something I kind of made up to make me feel smarter as the main mini-collection themes I focus on.

In an ideal collecting world, maybe I can display my awesome action cards in plastic pages and binders to flip through on a whim - admittedly I tend to hoard more and collect less, where a priority is having a collection of themed bulk cards, without feeling like they are all over the place [at least for my mini-collections].

Awesome action – Actual on field action

Batting / Baserunning / Celebrations / Good job / Confrontations / Curtain Calls / Fielding – 3,200 count box

Batting – Row 1
Baserunning – Row 1 – A–G, Row 2 – H-Z
Celebrations – Row 3
Good job – Row 3
Confrontations – Row 3
Curtain calls – Row 3
Fielding 1B – Row 3
Fielding 2B – Row 4
Fielding 3B – Row 4
Fielding SS – Row 4

I had the following collections in loose boxes I've tried to make use of as card boxes - I am not above reusing shoeboxes, blaster boxes and other miscellaneous boxes, but it's probably the case where I want my themed cards in a catch-all storage setup.

I ended up buying another 3,200 count box - to see if I can jam everything together and still have space for more adds.

Making the throws – Target branded shoebox

Awesome action – Actual on field action – Pitching – Card Saver I box

Dirt fetish – a Costco / Kirkland ice cream bars box

Fun cards – a Costco / Kirkland ice cream bars box

Game face cards – a Costco / Kirkland ice cream bars box with my fun cards

Personality shots – Target branded shoebox

If all my themed cards don't fit into one 3,200 count box and the space ends up too tight - I may keep one or more collections as is, where anything goes as long as I have an idea where certain collections are.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Through 2026 - my mini collections

I've been bringing home card show piles over the past decade, after the world was opening up and card shows were up in full swing - I may have discovered a seller whose bulk boxes I might feed on about once a month to the tune 200-300 cards for a nickel each.

In my own little world I wanted to look high and low for mini-collection cards - where I wanted them to be the focus of my day-to-day collecting.

As it happened however, maybe my filing system in a Google Sheets file got corrupted [columns and headers, as well as the cards I had dutifully entered the past 15 years were in wrong places] or bloated - where even as I was took in more cards, there wasn't the familiar files to list and tally up my new finds as part of an archive.

Maybe I got so ingrained to typing into the same files over and over - that it was going to take time to start over with all the old data.

Maybe even the backup file [on a program called Calc] I may have started listing cards into was lost - due to a memory card crash.

For the past four or five years, actual cards in-hand may or may not have been added towards piles that have just sat around loose in what I may call my morgue - where it was a sad state where I had all these cards that were supposed to be part of certain themes, but I wasn't ever doing anything to enjoy them further.

I really needed to do something about my mini-collection cards where I wanted to have some peace of mind again - maybe the work to get things together hasn't been perfect, but maybe I have finally tried to correct things through the early part of the year, where I want to tend to my cards as much as much possible, especially when the weather is a little more forgiving.

Maybe related to my Google Sheets file wonking out on me is having what I called my 'awesome action' collection as a mini-collection themes - I had to get cards in order and classify how I wanted them sorted.

Awesome action – Actual on field action - simplified outline

Batting / Baserunning / Celebrations / Good job / Confrontations / Curtain Calls / Fielding

Batting
Baserunning
Celebrations
Good job
Confrontations
Curtain calls
Fielding 1B
Fielding 2B
Fielding 3B
Fielding SS

Making the throws – Mirrors my fielding cards; 2B and SS have double play subsets

Awesome action – Actual on field action – Pitching

Dirt fetish

Fun cards

Game face cards

Personality shots

I have what I call my archived collections that I may leave as is - this was when most, if not all cards were listed out.

I have what I have I call my main feeder collections - these are the themed collections from the past four or five years that may not have been formally listed, but I might be looking to change things up, where I might rather have 100 or so cards at a time as part of a personal themed curated set, rather then cards as part of a monolithic archive in a 3,200 count box or some other storage arrangement.

If I have the cards part of a personal themed curated set - maybe I can get back to listing a number of cards in a file where I have something to look at as far as a collection goes and also to check if I already have cards in-hand as opposed to buying more that end up dupes.

As the case maybe I want to work closer with thumbing through and playing with my cards - part of what I do is trying to herd cards from purchases online and maybe in-person, through finds and pulls.

This means smaller piles respawn into what I call satellite piles, where they have to be sorted in bigger update piles - when things get impacted within my temporary satellite / update files, I feel like I am freeing things up by updating my main feeder piles.

I have tried to keep my main feeder piles as the last [nearly semi-permanent] outpost to add cards into - without pulling cards outright, I might need to occasionally move things around and explore new storage options.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

COMC order #9 - Another variety pack [FIN]

To stretch things out, one final post for the COMC cards I had gotten in-hand last December - where I've conscripted odds and ends to my collections.
2025 Topps Finest Drake Baldwin RC #21 - my interest in keeping up with aspects of Major League Baseball has probably waned through the past decade, where I might plead ignorance as far as knowing the top prospects coming up.

Entering the 2025 season, maybe Baldwin was a bit of an unknown commodity anyway - I wasn't paying any particular attention as he played well enough to displace Sean Murphy as the Atlanta Braves' starting catcher and won the 2025 National League Rookie of the Year.

As it goes, I probably needed any Baldwin card to fill a spot in my award winners collection - which ends up kind of being in mothballs, where the only time I might worry about the project is when I can add more cards of the year-to-year award winners [MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year].

2002 Donruss Originals On the Record /800 Jimmie Foxx #OR-2 - I thought up a random insert set to search for back in 2023 and this one came up in my memory banks, where it's something that came out 25 years ago and counting.

The card is jazzed up with a serial number on the back and looks almost inspired of a USA Today newspaper like design - Babe Ruth makes a cameo, so it ends up being a star on star card.

1975 NST Mr. Baseball Stamps Shigeo Nagashima #204 and 2001 BBM Shigeo Nagashima #530 - to broaden my collecting interests, I might have been looking to build up a micro-mini collection of his cards a couple of years ago.

It might not actually be a traditional card, but I like the candid street clothes moment captured - where Nagashima is signing autographs for a couple of boys.

2022 BBM Fusion Roki Sasaki #16 - maybe I wished I would have grabbed some Japanese era Sasaki cards while in Japan last November, but was worried I was overpaying for single cards that were not rookies anyway.

2022 BBM Roki Sasaki Perfect Game Roki Sasaki #11 - I think I made up for a little bit of regret, picking out a couple of Sasaki cards, where they at least showed some unique, cutesy images, even if they were no better than the other Japanese era Sasaki cards.

2022 Bowman NPB Nippon Professional Baseball Yoshinobu Yamamoto #9 - maybe I wanted to squirrel away a Japan era card of the Japanese import after his rookie year back in 2024, even if the card I ended up with here was a pretty basic card.

2023 Topps Now Off-Season Yoshinobu Yamamoto #/34,496 #OS-25 - this wasn't worth much at all, but maybe his earliest MLB era card, even if it's a oddball Topps Now thing as opposed to a card that would be inserted in packs.

1974-75 Calbee Bobby Marcano #836 - to fill out my purchase before having things shipped, I grabbed this old-school Japanese card of a Gaijin player who was from Venezuela and flourished in Japan as a second baseman.

Tuesday, February 03, 2026

COMC order #9 - Sportscasters

1977-79 Sportscasters Series 03 Lausanne Printed in Japan Hank Aaron #03-16 - I picked up this old-school Hank Aaron oddball item for around $6 three years ago and was part of what I had delivered from my COMC account late in December.

The larger format card ends up sort of a misfit, but a case where I didn't mind a more substantial card in-hand - rather than some ratty regular sized card.

1977-79 Sportscasters Series 27 Geneva A Dave Kingman #27-21 - I decided to pick this up for around $3, because it's been sitting somewhere in my memory banks as a scratch the itch card to take ownership of.

Rather than another regular size card I can file away like the others in my inking it up theme - this ends ends up being a bigger, oddball item, where the image of Kingman signing autographs pops a little bit more.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

COMC order #8 - Minor league cards

Maybe going down the COMC rabbit hole has just not been a thing for me - but maybe a few times I have done so with store credit added, I've end up with some odd cards I didn't realize I needed, but impulsively had to make keepers of.
1987 ProCards Minor League Jim Morris #261 - maybe it was the same night in 1999 [nearly 30 years ago] where I got Morris to sign an index card [?] after a Tampa Bay [Devil] Rays @ Anaheim Angels game and then also a bigger deal, was getting Jose Canseco to literally scribble on some things [for the first time ever] when he left the stadium.

That 1999 Tampa Bay team also had Julio Franco towards the end of the season, so that was at least three cult favorites types - though I didn't see Franco then and would not quite realize his 'greatness' until he popped back up in the major leagues in his mid 40s.

A couple of minor league cards of a Tom Nicholson - who went to my high school and played professionally, before ending up in the college coaching ranks.

Maybe the lingering sentiment of keeping up with a local guy has faded - but years ago, it was cool to find a college card of Nicholson posted [on another card blog], when he played college baseball at Texas, so it was nice to find two more cards.

Finally, a couple of early minor league cards picked up of Erik Kratz, a journeyman catcher who played in parts of 11 seasons in the big leagues - I occasionally see clips of Foul Territory Podcasts posted on social media, where Kratz gives his takes on current baseball happenings, along with fellow former big league catcher A.J. Pierzynski and sports broadcaster Scott Braun.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

New Hall of Famers for 2026

I have a loose card project for Hall of Famers and each year as a chance to add new cards to the mix - where I end up picking one random card per player / subject to induct into my collection.
With Jeff Kent being elected through a committee at the end of 2025, maybe it was a validation for a player who may not have been a well loved guy - but the slugging numbers as a second baseman couldn't be denied.

Kent has had a bunch of cards from the tail end of the junk wax era onward - I grabbed his 1999 Topps #330 as the card to add to my Hall of Fame collection, but the 1997 Bowman #65 sort of ends up a color match with the black borders.

Maybe Carlos Beltran was on shaky ground for a little bit as he got exposed as the supposed ringleader in the Houston Astros cheating scandal - but despite any sort of resistance from the peanut gallery now, his playing career has him a Hall of Fame legend.

Maybe I had the 1999 Upper Deck SP Top Prospects #15 in-hand as the card for my HOF project - but the 2006 Bazooka Blue Fortune #150 parallel kind of pops [even for a more basic, non-glossy, non-foil card] and has a one-time teammate [and Hall of Famer] Jeff Bagwell as a star-on-star bonus.

I did not think Andruw Jones would ever get enough support to be a Hall of Famer, where I was still looking at how his career fell off after leaving the Atlanta Braves - in my mind, he was destined to languish in the hall of very good at best

Maybe I still feel like he could have finished the last portion of his career better - but the momentum really built up where the numbers guys really did their work to shift the narrative, where Jones may have been one of the best all-around centerfielders of all time, rather just another guy who played the position and has some good years.

Maybe the Jones card on the left ends up my pick to click as far as being added to my HOF collection - though I wanted to show off a Japanese era card I dug up from a card shop bulk bin while I was in Japan last November, where he was someone I recognized as a foreign player and a one-time MLB star.

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

COMC order #7 - 1957 Topps Don Zimmer #284

Originally a card I read about in passing through a Dime Boxes post - I regret not making a keeper out of a copy I found thumbing through a vintage portion of a seller's binned single cards at a card show back in 2023.
I ended up with my own copy from COMC - where perhaps I was searching for random cards that I might be able to add to my account on a whim.

This was added to my COMC account in the middle of November 2023 and it took about two years to get it in-hand with the other cards I got - maybe the passage of time from then until now is a little peculiar to me, where I let all that time pass, but it's almost like I was good letting the card sit at COMC.

Thursday, January 15, 2026

COMC order #6 - A variety pack

2007 Upper Deck 1989 Reprints Casey Stengel #89UD-CS - I saw this card somewhere and had to have it, with the image of the legendary manager looking at a baseball that is supposed to a crystal ball of sorts.

I am not sure how many times the image has been reprinted on a card - I saw it on one of the base cards from an early 2000s Upper Deck retro themed set, but that did not deter me from keeping this card on a wantlist somewhere.

I wasn't sure if a copy of the card was worth paying a premium for - but finally grabbed one I saw on the COMC Web site for about $4.
2020 Topps Legend Variation SP Legend Variation Reggie Jackson #206 - I have never gotten a beat on the Topps legends variations and kind of feel like I'm missed out on a thing, but I've gotten a few over the past 5-10 years I guess.
This can end up as either a binder material centerpiece as a highlight for my inking it up collection - having had the pleasure of attempting to get Jackson's autograph after he was a player, I am sure he is telling these late 1970s era fans to keep their distance and to calm down, as he grabs a ball to sign.
2021 SkyBox Metal Universe Champions Fresh Foundation Paige Spiranac #FF36 - between the time I added a copy to my account, to when I had it shipped with my COMC order, it looks as if I picked up another copy.

Saturday, January 10, 2026

COMC order #5 - Ichiro

I passively end up making keepers out base cards / inserts and parallels of prominent players to reflect the fabric of a decade / era - this may not mean I actively collect everyone as if they were all my personal favorites, where being obligated to mindlessly hoard 'numbers' seems overwhelming.

On the other hand, besides my regional favorites, I've settled on a short list of 5-10 guys from a decade / era I've chosen to really focus on - from the 2000s through 2010s, Ichiro was an all-around national star to gravitate to, where there is lingering sentiment to this day.

Admittedly, Ichiro had gluts of MLB cards issued where I am content to leave most alone unless they fall into my lap - however, it becomes a mission to look for cards that end up a little different, notably his 1990s pre-MLB issues from Japan.

In my COMC order, I tried to build up a micro-mini run of random ones that caught my eye a couple of years ago - maybe there was a little bit of FOMO, where the cards would have been listed at higher prices once he got elected to the Hall of Fame and any one card would be harder to consider as impulse pick ups.
I tried to pick out some unique ones, even if they more basic cards - where it wasn't the just the usual hitting, fielding or standing around during a baseball game images.

Tuesday, January 06, 2026

COMC order #4 - Al Schacht

I had picked up a vintage card of Al Schacht in 2022, which I thought was a real neat, quaint odd card for a someone mostly trying to catch up with the here and now - maybe in 2023, I saw another different vintage card of Schacht during a card show rummage, but it didn't register as something I had to pick up and probably pair up with the other already in-hand.
Maybe I regretted not making a keeper out of the second Schacht card, so on a random search on COMC - I had the card in my memory banks and see if I could seek out a copy to add to my account / port.

Sunday, January 04, 2026

COMC order #3 - Michael Jordan

1992-93 Topps Archives Michael Jordan #52 - I picked a copy of this card up after regretting skipping past one during a card show rummage three years ago.

While the card sat in COMC account - I got another copy from a card show rummage, which was added to my first all-time Top 100 keepers collection.

Maybe it would have been nicer if Topps had tried to mimic an original back for the Topps Archives cards - where the front matches the back as far as mimicking the 1984 Topps [baseball] set design.
1994 Classic Minor League All Star Edition - Michael Jordan #1 - I have had at least three or four Jordan baseball cards in my collections, but may have seen this posted on another card blog [Dime Boxes?] one time, so I was inspired to hunt for a copy to make a keeper.
Jordan's dalliance in pro baseball in 1994 was peculiar where he hit .202, which was right at the Mendoza line. - but it's kind of an impressive feat to have the season he did, for a guy who never played baseball past high school and had to learn some basic things about being a pro ball player.

Friday, January 02, 2026

COMC order #2 - Todd Helton

I passively end up making keepers out base cards / inserts and parallels of prominent players to reflect the fabric of a decade / era - this may not mean I actively collect everyone as if they were all my personal favorites, where being obligated to mindlessly hoard 'numbers' seems overwhelming.

On the other hand, besides my regional favorites, I've settled on a short list of 5-10 guys from a decade / era I've chosen to really focus on - Helton is one of those former players who ends up a non-geographical guy for me whose cards I can look for, where it becomes a mission to claim or rummage for his cards I assume I don't have.

Go figure in my COMC order, I only ended up with a couple of Heltons - it could have been a trio of them, but the card that was missing in my order was actually a Helton card.

1998 Leaf Fractal Foundation Gold Leaf Rookie /3999 Todd Helton #184
Helton has his share of rookie era issues, but it's not as big of priority to chase and pay a premium for any one particular card - when his true rookie card [1993 Topps Traded #19T; Team USA] ends up pre-dating his professional career.
2001 Donruss Class Of 2001 Scrapbook /525 Todd Helton #SB-7
Maybe unique design jersey / relic cards might be fun to track down on the cheap - even when it's a type of card that other collectors don't value at all, they fill out my player collections.