The Finale

Blue Jays content will wrap up my show-off of the content of the latest TMV mailer.

I'll start with a mascot card. BJ Birdy preceded Ace and Diamond taking over the role. I'm amazed it took the team as long as it did to realize the name could be viewed as slightly filthy. 20 years long, to be precise.

Just a single, solitary base card among the Jays stuff. But it was from a mid-range set, and Bo is rocking the powder blues. 

I guess these are technically base, but since they're stickers/stamps, I won't group them with the Bichette. My collection. My rules. That's Dave Stieb, Otto Velez and Damaso Garcia on the top, with John Mayberry and Alfredo Griffin on the bottom. There were also Mets versions of these, but since it wasn't a complete group, lacking Mookie Wilson. I added that to my COMC inventory, and will show it and the rest off when it shows up. Considering I haven't hit ship yet, that will likely be August.

There's a flashback to lockout years with the George Springer Prizm parallel. It does answer my question about unlicensed baseball entries having to Photoshop away any logos sported by the crowd. 

The sole numbered, non-hit parallel was this /250 of Adam Lind.

There's never a bad time to show off my newest Carlos Delgado acquisition. It doesn't really feel a plain white swatch for a card if it features a favorite player.

And some autographs! Trent Thornton is the only one of these that is new to my collection among this trio. I remember being way too excited for Nate Pearson's debut. At least he did get to pitch part of a no-hitter after leaving.

But wait! There's more!

Just like last time, there was an All-Star program from the 2001 that featured Mike Piazza as a cover boy (there were several versions), one was also included this time, featuring the only time Toronto hosted the game. It was fun to look back at the time where a retractable roof was considered to be innovative, and the program includes an article marveling at it.

The cover opens to a 4-page thread covering team histories. That's a little unwieldy to post here, but the summary inside is just right. There's also a baseball card article that I might scan and post on a day I'm not feeling too verbose.

So, thanks for all the goodies, Dennis. I'm reloading at this moment, but might have a package ready for you by mid-April.

There you have it!