I was away from home this past week on a business trip to Alabama. I managed to do a couple fun things on the trip, like visiting Rickwood Field and having dinner with Jason. I got home late last night after a bit of an odyssey caused by scattered thunderstorms across the south to learn that I had received yet another envelope full of baseball cards from Kenny, aka Zippy Zappy.
There was a bit of a twist, though. The envelopes that I had gotten from Kenny over the past few months had contained baseball cards from this year but this envelope had some nine year old cards in it. What Kenny had sent me was the entire nine card "Enter The Dragon" insert set associated with the 2016 BBM Dragons set. Most of BBM's team sets have 18 non-premium insert cards split into a handful of sets and there's usually a nine card one featuring the main players of the team. This was that insert set for the Dragons set that year. Here's all nine cards:
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I've had the base set for the Dragons set since 2016 but, thanks to Kenny, I'm now just six insert cards from a master set. He'd previously given me the three "Fresh Stars" cards so all I need now are the three "Artful Reliever" cards and the three "Powerhouse" cards - although I'm not sure I'm going to pursue this. He's also given me six autographed cards from the set.
Once again, thanks for the cards, Kenny!
4 comments:
Glad you got the cards, hopefully they gave you some reprieve after work.
Aesthetically these were one of my favorite looking cards for a long time but after a while I realized that no matter how good these looked, the players on them just weren't that appealing to me anymore so I decided to send these off.
Also interesting that you still needed a few other inserts because I could've sworn I sent those to you too in the past but I guess I either never did or I sent them off to other people.
Visiting Rickwood. Super cool.
And I kind of like those Dragons inserts even though the actual Dragons logo seems to be from a completely different universe than the design.
Was great to catch up in person.
This is a really great looking set.
@Zippy Zappy - Thanks again for the cards. You must have sent them to someone else since all I have are the "Fresh Stars" cards. Not that I'm complaining - to confirm you'd sent me the "Fresh Stars" cards, I had to look through a bunch of posts about the dozen or so packages you've shipped me. You'll never hear me complain about your generosity.
@Nick - Rickwood was really interesting. I'd like to go back when I have more time and it's not 98 degrees with 100% humidity. BBM's used similar imagery on some of their other Dragons sets
@Jason - Great seeing you too. Despite being a shiny set, this one actually scans pretty well
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