McCutchen Mailday #69, 70, & 71: A Trio of Museums

When I had made arrangements to purchase a few high end 2015 Topps Museum cards from a seller, he generously included these 3 parallels of Cutch's 2015 Topps Museum base card.

Museum has the best base cards year after year.  These new additions in the Quest for 100 bring me nearly three quarters complete as of typing this (April 29th).  Adding another 30 cards by December shouldn't be an issue at all.

Starting on Sunday I will be showing off some key items in my collection that I have recently acquired.  One of them will be a 1/1 bat barrel.

McCutchen Mailday #40 & 41: a pair of minis

I got very far behind in my posting and by the time this gets posted I will have likely added another dozen McCutchen cards to my collection in my Quest for 100 new Andrew McCutchen cards added to the PC.  At the rate I am currently on pace, I will have added 100 new Cutch cards to the collection by the MidSummer Classic.

My recent pair of ebay winnings came in on the same day and feature 2 mini colored parallels.

Up first from 2013 Gypsy Queen is a Sepia mini numbered 43/50.  It was won for less than $3.

I bought 10 tobacco sized pages last year and have already filled 2 pages of them with just Cutch tobacco minis.

Next up is a colored parallel that should be very familiar to anyone who has read my blog because I supported the entire month of October with nothing but pink parallels.  This 2014 Topps mini is numbered to only 25 copies and ran me $14 delivered.

The Hit Collector

Matt Hague was given the nickname, the Hit Collector during Spring Training 2012 when he collected 22 hits in 25 games including 7 homeruns.  During his Spring Training career he has a .386/.400/.659 slash line which equals a 1.059 OPS.  He's also collected 21 RBI over the course of 88 plate appearances.  If he were to keep up his Spring Training numbers over the course of an entire season he would be putting up MVP numbers.

2012 Topps Chrome Refractor 69/75

But that's why you can't trust small sample sizes.

When the Pirates traded for Gaby Sanchez in 2012, it was clear that they didn't view Hague as a consistent major leaguer.  He's decent with the glove at first, but isn't known for his defense.  In addition, he hasn't shown enough versatility to make the team as a utility corner infielder/outfielder so he's basically just a right handed bat off the bench.  The Pirates wouldn't consider carrying someone like this on their roster.  Hopefully Matt can see some playing time when the Pirates play interleague games in AL parks because his bat would make for a good DH for a few days.

I purchased the above 2012 Topps Chrome Sepia Refractor AUTO for $6 delivered.  The card looked nice enough to add to my collection for that price.

I'm somewhere on this baseball card

I recently came across the Russell Martin 2013 Topps Chrome image and said, holy $#@%! I was at that game and sitting just 4 rows behind the tarp.  I've tried zooming in to find myself, but the image gets fuzzier everytime I try.  Somewhere though, I am on this baseball card.

And it's because of that, that I'm going to track down as many of the parallels I can find.

Here's what I have so far.

2013 Topps Chrome Red Refractor 12/25

Red Refractor $9.99 delivered

2013 Topps Chrome Sepia Refractor 45/75

Sepia Refractor $4.66 delivered

I've got a few more coming, but now that many of the lower print runs are going to cost a lot of money.