A random card show pickup - Shohei Ohtani

At a random table off a card show I went to a couple of weeks ago, I leafed through a stack of Ohtani cards and relented to spend $15 for a 2018 Topps Shohei Ohtani Fire Flame variation [?] - I could be mistaken, but the card looks a little shinier than the base version, so I figured why not?

If nothing else, maybe a bit of FOMO reaction on the hype he has generated this season - there is something about seeing him being pushed through the fire, where he is competiting in the MLB Home Run Derby, penciled into the starting lineup as a DH for the American League All-Stars and also serving as the starting pitcher.

I'd be curious to see if there is any 'let up' just because of his schedule on the baseball field - but Ohtani has proven that he's been up to the challenge, where he is going to push himself to the limit.

1993 Topps Gold Derek Jeter #98

In addition to the Bowman rookie card I picked up a few weeks ago, I also grabbed this rookie-year parallel card - maybe I find myself a priced out of the modern card collecting game [with the focus on guys like Mike Trout and Kris Bryant], so maybe I'm 'going back' to looking for cards I've overlooked over the past 25 years.

The 1993 Topps Jeter rookie card is kind of boring with an image of a young Jeter superimposed into a generic outline of a baseball field - the card is sort of a post junk wax era 'junk wax card,' but the foil stamping makes the card looks just a little bit more attractive.