Back to the series posts! Here's part four of my Goodwin Champions collection! We're getting into the home stretch of... oh, let's call it "season one" of this series (I will have the stuff for at least three more episodes on down the line). This post is all about my hits from last year's set. Here we go.
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| Scooped! Suck it, Topps! |
This is the second most expensive card in Goodwin Champions collection, weighing in at a cool $9.49. That is the cheapest I've seen Bouchard sell for, so I admittedly got very lucky with her (heh). It's nice that I won't have to fret over never being able to afford her Allen & Ginter auto from this year's set.
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| Quincy returns.. |
The photo selection seems to have gotten better over the years, but sometimes the backgrounds are super distracting. They sorta remind me of driving scenes in old movies & cop shows with obvious fake footage scrolling in the background.
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| Xue Chen x2.. |
I got two of these when they at were way below what they typically are on the site. One was for me, and the other was for a certain volleyball collector I've been needing to send stuff since the Obama administration, which was, if my calculations are correct, 139 years ago. But anyway, it turned out they were likely so cheap because they both had dinged corners. They're still plenty presentable, but that was a bummer. There was no condition notification on them (I've mentioned on multiple occasions elsewhere about how wildly inconsistent they are about that on COMC).
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| Seeing double.. |
I mentioned in the previous Goodwin Champions post that pink swatches don't happen enough, and the same goes for purple. They are less important to me, but more solid orange and green swatches would be cool too. And for as many teams that wear it, I don't feel like I see enough solid blue swatches either. It's always pinstripes. Ugh...
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| Still seeing double.. |
Here is the other hilariously high-numbered, hand-numbered inscription auto. I am happy to have it. This is another one with a very distracting background.
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| Cookie Monster.. |
It's all MMA for the rest of this post. For the nice little collection of MMA ladies I've built up, you'd think I'd have watched more fights, but alas, you'd be very wrong.
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| Seeing double again.. |
Honestly, I've barely even watched any of the major team sports the past couple years. I haven't had a TV in years, I can't afford to pony up for a season pass to anything, and I've never found any sustainably reliable illegal streams, so I've mostly gone without. I feel occasionally feel a mighty need to get back into to it, but honestly, I don't often find myself missing it all that much. It's just... the best background noise you can get most of the time.
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| Okay I'm done.. |
It says model on Chrissy Blair's cards, which is true. But if you know her name at all, you'd likely know it due because she's an Octagon Girl with UFC.
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| Sick-ish patch, bro.. |
I'm not exactly sure what this "Premium Series" relic is from, but despite the card itself being super thicc, the swatch itself just feels like a regular swatch of average thickness. It's probably just a piece of shirt that happened to have lettering on it. Still a nice addition though.
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| Base auto.. |
Winding it down with this sweet trio of my girl Felice. The background on these are quite distracting too, but also kinda... relaxing? Odd...
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| And the inscription.. |
Seriously, I have picked up so many Felice Herrig's from this set, you guys! This ain't even all of them. Check back in October if I haven't flaked out by then, because there's still one more of note in my collection worth posting about.
That's all for now. Just one more post left in this series (though there could be more later)!
Until our next...
