I'm sure I missed more cards, but have dug back through my old boxes just looking to see what I may have missed since the last time. I have 3 stacks of cards that I may do a video on about what can be lost in the boxes when one doesn't keep up with the hobby. I decided to pull together all the duplicates of throwbacks I have so have been pulling those out of the old boxes I had. I was going through 2011 Topps, hoping maybe I missed a Trout, when I came upon this duplicate of Trevor Cahill in the throwback Oakland A's jersey. I was also checking back through all the teeny-tiny codes on the back when I noticed the Cahill was different. I flipped it over, looked it over and noticed the sparkle that I missed at least twice after going through these cards. I also found a Gold to go with it. So I have the base, sparkle and gold versions now.
I was looking at the throwback games from 1992 and trying to see if there were cards for all of them. I am noodling over a video about Throwback games, and would start with maybe 90-95, or maybe only the first 2-3 years. I didn't have anything on my sheet for the Cubs game in 1992 against the Phillies. The Phillies however have a few cards from that game. I got on comc.com and started going through every 1993 Cubs card listed. I finally found one single card. A Rey Sanchez from the 1993 Stadium Club Teams Sets. I knew my mother had gotten a bunch of different sets for Christmas, and thought for sure there had to be a Cubs team set in there. I found one box, nothing. Finally happened to run across one box on the bottom of multiple others, filled with different team sets. Thankfully there were a few Cubs Teams Sets in there, so I didn't have to resort to eBay/comc.com to get it. My final card showed up today via eBay. I am not a fan of the non-licensed stuff, so I normally don't pick them up. The one exception I have is when they included game-used Throwback jerseys. I think I was just doing a random scrolling through of "auto" search on eBay and ran across the Austin Jackson card. It instantly stuck out to me with the patch being single colored. Amazingly this 2016 National Treasures set had card with the actual game date listed on the card. I looked it up, and sure enough this was from a Throwback game between the Tigers and the Rays. Best I can tell this is part of the "C" and the "K" from the name on back (the swatch is flipped upside down). The other card stuck out to me as it was a grey jersey with pinstripe of Yelich. Brewers do not have a pinstriped grey jersey, unless you scroll through uniform-lineup.com Brewers page and see they wore the Negro League throwbacks in 2018. It was a road game at Pittsburgh. I am 99% sure this is a jersey swatch from that game.
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