2/14 on the Diamond

 Back to the 2/14 collection today, and I'm showing off all the new baseball additions to the collection.

Here's the most recent additions to the collection. This was a solo PWE order from sportlots. This is the first contender for next year's "2/14 calendar year" best of  post. It may only be 1/4 Mitch Farris, but that's still enough to count it form the collection. Although I do hope he'll have a less obnoxious candidate.

From the newest to the oldest, and all the way back to 1960 for this Leaf entry. With this 5th card of his, I'm now the top collector of Tom Borland at tcdb. Short of acquiring a buyback, this is probably where my acquiring of his cards is going to end.

TCDB is strange with how it counts variations, so this being listed separately there means that this naturally counts as a separate card from the other, more basic entry in this set. I'm keeping the slip of paper with the card in the binders, since how else will I remember which is which?

Sanchez's cards are among the stranger ones in the collection, since all his cards list his birthday at 2/26, but practically all online sources list it as 2/14. It's a reverse of former Atlanta Falcon Jessie Tuggle, whose cards list him as 2/14, but there are various results from online sources. Both of their cards count for the collection, though. Also, the Tacoma Tigers were not affiliated with Detroit at the time of his minor league entry, but as the colours would indicate, they were an Oakland affiliate. The actual Detroit card is a Tiffany entry.

Nick Pivetta's 2025 move to the Padres earned both a photoshop special in Series 2 of flagship, and a probably-not version in Update. This is the former, which should have rendered an Update base appearance unnecessary. But it does give me a lot more cards to potentially acquire.

Topps Now are always fun additions to the collection. A lot of people were intrigued by Yermin's 5 hit debut, to the tune of 6,571 cards. His early success and later faltering made me pick up this for about 60 cents. The Optic is a "Red Dragon" parallel, and is /110. 

Brooks Lee's content increases by three. That blue parallel works so perfectly with the City Connect jersey. While I do appreciate that they did use different photos on the Fortune 15 card, I wish they'd used an image with a less "D'UH" facial expression with the smaller one.

More parallels here with Nolan Schanuel. The middle is a Magenta parallel, and is the third and final of the serial numbered cards in this post. The third one is an Easter Tin Green Leaf Foil parallel. That's some verbosity!

Dave Dravecky is the king this time around with 5 new cards. Those Topps and Fleer ones were cards I was certain I had in the collection, but tcdb told me otherwise. The postage stamp was listed as an item at tcdb, so it does count. Size-wise, it is about the size of two Topps Micro cards. So, not the smallest, but probably the thinnest.  Maybe the Larry Seiple Sunoco stamp would rival it?

There you have it!