Ho hum another 1/1

My blogging energy today for posting new Cutch cards at Collecting Cutch is tapped out.  I can't think of anything worth posting except a few Topps Chrome cards I picked up in a group break.

It's been awhile since I have shown off any non Cutch cards in my collection so I thought I would show my other main PC, the Charlie Morton collection.

While he is no longer with the Pirates, I am still grabbing Morton cards whenever I come across them.

Here's two I have got in the past 6 months.

Let's start with the big one.

The Superfractor!!!!  This is my second Superfractor of the NJ born pitcher, but my first in a Pirates uniform.

This card hails from the 2016 Topps Chrome Sapphire Blue set.  There weren't many parallels to chase for this set, but I'm happy I was able to snag this new 1/1 for the collection.

I also grabbed this miscut double foil card of Ground Chuck.

Notice the foil in the top left corner with the Topps logo upside down

McCutchen Mailday #86: THE GRAIL SUPERFRACTOR

As sports cards collectors, we look for several things when seeking out that Holy Grail of cards.  It could be a rookie, a 1 of 1, an autograph, a "sick" patch.  These are all things that come to mind.

For me, the Grail McCutchen cards was adding a Superfractor from one of his first Bowman releases (2005 Draft, 2008 Futures Game, or 2009 Bowman Rookie Card).

I can check that last one off the list.

Behold it's most majestic form.
Official rookie card Superfractor.

A Superfractor Rookie Card of a player on the path for the Hall of Fame and my main player PC.  I don't know if 2016 will bring me much more success than adding this beauty to the collection, but even if the rest of the year fall's short, I'm ok with what  I have added thus far in my 2016 Cutch PC additions.

Let's just check out the backside of this beauty

Look at that sexy 1/1 in the bottom right corner.

McCutchen Mailday #59: Printing Plate #51 added to the collection

My 59th new Cutch added to the PC this year is actually my 51st printing plate of the perenial MVP candidate.

This 2014 Mini Ext #358 gives me half of the printing plate run for the super short print mini. I have previously shown off the black plate last year.

Football Sunday: Le'Veon Bell 1/1 Nike Swoosh

How crazy was the ending to that Steelers/Bengals last Saturday?  My emotions during that game went from high to really high to very low to very high.  Wow!!!!  The Bengals proved that they are their own worse enemies as they lost the game due to terrible penalties in the closing minute. 

I'll take the W!!!

I've been showing off some amazing Killer Bees cards in recent football days.
Unfortunately since showing them off, the players (Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown) have both gotten injured.

To not doom Martavis Bryant, I will show off my favorite current member of the Steelers who is already injured. 

Much like the MLB logoman for baseball cards, the Nike or (formerly) Reebok symbols are some of the most sought after football cards.  When I saw this pop up for sale, I knew that I must add it to my collection.  It's such a beauty!!!!

This is by far my favorite football card in my collection besides the Troy Polamalu Museum Frame I showed off earlier in the 2015 season.

McCutchen Mailday #380-387: Sick Sick Patches!!!

I got in 8 packages today loaded with some sick amazing patches of my main PC player. I also added 2 more 1/1 printing plates.

This concludes all the McCutchen cards I was expecting to receive by year's end. I set out with a goal to add 100 new Cutch cards, but in the end, it ended up being nearly 4 times that. 

Unfortunately, my scanner isn't working so I had to take a picture with my phone. I will provide actual scans next year once I can get the scanner working again.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year. My girlfriend and I are living above a pub now so we can save up for a house. It's a little noisy, but at least we should never get in trouble driving from a bar.

I will post a recap of how I did with my 2015 goals tomorrow, but it was a successful year for my cardboard collection.

McCutchen Mailday #228-237: Gettin Tek'd up!!!! (another 1/1!!!!!)

Last year, I wasn't a big fan of Topps Tek when it first came out mainly because the two guys I heavily PC (Andrew McCutchen and Charlie Morton) both were omitted from having base cards in the set.  This year, Cutch got Tekked the F out!!!!! 

And I bought as many of the parallels as I could get my hands on including the 1/1 black and white

 Here's what else I have so far from the rainbow (sorry for the cut scan, but the scanner was acting up and I didn't know how to fix it)

 purple diffractor, cubes, pyramid, tidal diffractor /75
grass, spiral, circuit board, blades

There's a few more 1/1s that have already gotten by me, but I am hopeful that I can add some of the less scarce ones to the collection.  The backs of these cards are extremely tough to read.  I wish that the stats could have been a little bigger so I wouldn't need a pair of reading glasses to see them.

McCutchen Mailday #224: The Letter C

ANOTHER 1/1 LETTER????

I just couldn't resist.

I'm getting dangerously close to spelling out McCutchen using letters from various releases.

McCutchen Mailday #209: Another 1/1 Bowman

My latest Andrew McCutchen added to the PC this year, is another 1/1 of the former MVP. 

This White Ice 1/1 ran me $50, but I bought it during one of eBay's triple ebay bucks rewards so it helped make the decision a little easier.

Cutch had a bit of a down year by his standards, but still finished with a triple slash line of nearly .300/.400/.500, which was good enough to earn him his 4th straight Silver Slugger award.

I know the Pirates don't tend to spend big during Free Agency, but I would love to see them get Cutch some support in the lineup and offer protection to just pitching around him.

McCutchen Mailday #202: Another 1/1 Letter Patch

Four McCutchen Maildays in a row have been 1/1s.  I think I am legit going insane with my collection this year for adding Cutch cards.  The goal was to just add 100 new Cutch cards by year's end and I have destroyed that goal. 

This is my 5th 1/1 Jersey Letter of Cutch I have acquired this year. 
I currently sit at 61 1/1s which includes a few that I haven't shown off yet. 

McCutchen Mailday #201: Another 1/1 Red Paper Bowman

Yesterday, I showed off my very first 1/1 Superfractor of Cutch.  It marked a string of recent 1/1 purchases I have been making of Cutch lately.  Today, I am going to show off my 31st 1/1 of Cutch I have added to the PC this year.  Overall, I sit at 61 1/1s of Cutch.  Yup 61!!!!

Way back in February I showed my 1/1 red paper parallel from 2012 Bowman that had been slightly damaged in the mail en route to my house.  In my recent Ash Kethum, gotta "catch em all" craze to grab any Andrew McCutchen cards, I came across the 2013 Bowman 1/1 red paper for $50. 

The paper parallels sell for a considerable amount less than the chrome parallels, but when putting together the rainbows, they are just as impressive.

Surprisingly I still need a handful of the 2013 Bowman paper cards to complete the rainbow.  Now that I have gotten the hardest one to acquire, the rest should be fairly easy to check off.

Join me tomorrow as I show off another 1/1 to the PC.

McCutchen Mailday #200: My first Superfractor of Cutch

This is it!!!! The big new addition to the Cutch PC this year as I have doubled my goal to add 100 new Cutch cards.

I've already shown off a few of the these Gallery of Greats chasing the rainbow parallels.

The rainbow is almost complete. I still need that darn base version though.

McCutchen Mailday #199: My Second 1/1 Logoman of Cutch

Not too long ago, I showed off my first 1/1 Logoman of Cutch.  Today, I have added a second. 

This one is a little nicer as it features Cutch's home white uniform and perfectly centered logoman. 

I am one card away from doubling my goal to add 100 new Cutch cards to the PC this year.

I have already received it and gotta say it's one of a kind and my 1st to be added to the Cutch PC.  

McCutchen Mailday #160-165: Logoman 1/1 MOJO!!!!! and a bunch of /25 cards

I've been adding some ridiculous 1/1 cards to my Cutch PC this year, but this is my very first 1/1 Logoman added to my collection. 

Some of the other cards I bought from the guy selling his collection include several /25 relics.  Not a bad haul, I'd say. 

McCutchen Mailday #156: 75% Complete 1/1 Rainbow!!!

It is incredibly difficult to put a complete set of printing plates together. Trust me, I've had a few that are 50% complete and I thought that was a pretty cool task of itself.
2015 Andrew McCutchen Topps Archives (Magenta and Yellow)
2015 Morneau, Cutch, Harrison League Leaders (Yellow and Cyan)
2013 Garret Jones Gypsy Queen (Cyan and Magenta)
2012 Luis Herredia Bowman (Black and Yellow)
2011 Tony Sanchez Bowman Top 100 Prospects (Cyan and Yellow)
2010 Andrew McCutchen Topps Triple Threads Unity AUTO/RELIC (Cyan and Black)

I also had grabbed the 2012 Andrew McCutchen Cloth Sticker Archives printing plates (magenta and cyan).  At the time, I grabbed both those plates for $46.  Now, it's costing me about the same to add the black plate to the collection.  This is the first time in 3 years that the black has surfaced so I wasn't going to get too worked over the price of the card.  I was winning it!!!!

Now only the yellow remains.

McCutchen Mailday #150: Milestone Cutch Card!!!!

When I initially saw this card I thought that it might be a fake.  It was missing the jersey behind the letter.  Upon further research, I noticed that ALL 2012 In the Name All-Star Jersey Letters had the letters cut out from the actual jerseys. 

After verifying that this card was legit, I had to have it. 
Granted I already have a letter T from one of McCutchen's jerseys, but this is the letter T from his very first All-Star Game.

Check out how cool that card is!

I think I'm at almost 30 1/1s of Cutch I have added this year to the PC.  Crazy sauce, right?

McCutchen Mailday #126-137: 12 NEW PRINTING PLATES!!!!

Told you yesterday that today was going to be a big one.

I normally spend about $50 for a 1/1 printing plate of Cutch.  Sometimes depending on if I like the card a lot, I will try for more.  Recently a large lot of 1/1s of McCutchen became available and I pounced on the chance to own them for around $40 a pop.

Presenting to you...12 new Andrew McCutchen printing plates

Here they are individually.

2012 Gypsy Queen mini Black Printing Plate

2011 Bowman Chrome Yellow Printing Plate

2011 Topps Triple Threads Magenta Plate

2013 Topps Tribute Cyan Plate

2014 Allen & Ginter Black Printing Plate

2014 Bowman Platinum Magenta Plate

2014 Gypsy Queen Black Printing Plate

2014 Topps Finest Cyan Printing Plate

2014 Bowman Yellow Printing Plate

2013 Topps Triple Threads Cyan Plate

2012 Archives Yellow Printing Plate

2013 Archives Yellow Printing Plate

This brings me to 25 new 1/1s added to the Cutch PC this year.  That might seem a little insane, but I'm not even close to being done yet.

McCutchen Mailday 98, 99, and 100!!!!!: All 1/1s All Archives!!!!

Last week I showed off a near complete rainbow of 2015 Topps League Leaders.  That was cool and all, but now I am going to show off my nearly complete rainbow of 1/1s from 2015 Topps Archives.

I was lucky enough to acquire two of the 4 printing plates along with the extremely rare 1/1 black border last month.

Here's the cards seperately

Beautiful, right?

Well...I figured if you're going to show off a milestone 100th new Cutch of the year, why not do it in style.

To remember some of the 1/1s of Cutch I have added this year, here's a recap
#90-97 2015 Topps Printing Plates League Leaders

#85: Letter "C" from Cutch's Jersey in 2015 Five Star

#73: Laundry Tag from 2015 Museum

#52: Letter "E" from Cutch's All-Star jersey in 2014 Topps In the Name

#47: Letter "N" from Cutch's All-Star jersey in 2015 Topps In the Name

#46: Original Sketch by Chris Henderson from Leaf Legends of Baseball Artist Proof

#12: Red Paper 2012 Bowman  (damaged by post office)

McCutchen Mailday #90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 A NEAR RAINBOW!!!!!

In my Quest to add 100 new Andrew McCutchen cards to the PC, I knew I wanted to grab some parallels that I never had acquired before.  I never expected to be reaching the 100 card goal so early in the year and definitely didn't think that this would be my 7th and 8th 1/1s.

Did you see the 2 new 1/1s added to my collection in the scan above?
Need a better closeup?

I have already shown off 

#85: Letter "C" from Cutch's Jersey in 2015 Five Star

#73: Laundry Tag from 2015 Museum

#52: Letter "E" from Cutch's All-Star jersey in 2014 Topps In the Name

#47: Letter "N" from Cutch's All-Star jersey in 2015 Topps In the Name

#46: Original Sketch by Chris Henderson from Leaf Legends of Baseball Artist Proof

#12: Red Paper 2012 Bowman  (damaged by post office)

I am nearing my goal and actually have a bunch more cards due to arrive soon.  I can't wait to show them all off.  Some of these are absolutely sick!!!!

Like many of you I was a big fan of the silver frame parallels

Here's the rest of the near rainbow