Last week while I was working on a post about several packages I had recently received, I started having a conversation with Jason, the source of one of those packages. He'd gotten some more 2024 Genesis cards in and had picked up the one remaining player card I wanted from the set - Junichiro Kishi, who like six other players, was in Genesis but not BBM's 1st or 2nd Version set. Jason also had several jersey cards available and I decided to get one of them as well.
Now, I feel like it's too much effort for Jason to ship me just two cards so we started having a discussion about what else he had that I'd be interested. I started asking him about "Secret Versions" - BBM's short printed photo variants - from this year's 2nd Version set. It turned out he had a couple. Then he checked 1st Version and discovered he had a couple from that set as well. It kind of snowballed after a while and ultimately I ended up getting fourteen of these cards from the past four years. I received the package today and I thought I'd do a quick post showing off what all he sent me.
The first card isn't actually a "Secret Version" - it's an "Ultra Secret Version". As the name implies, these are even more short printed than the "Secret Versions" (although I don't know how rare either one is). Since I had not gotten any of the "Ultra Secret Versions", I was happy to get this one:
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| 2021 BBM 1st Version #066 (USV) |
I still do not have any of the even rarer "Super Ultra Secret Versions".
Here are the remaining "Secrets" he sent me:
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| 2021 BBM 1st Version #041 (SV) |
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| 2021 BBM 1st Version #014 (SV) |
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| 2021 BBM 1st Version #282 (SV) |
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| 2022 BBM 1st Version #230 (SV) |
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| 2022 BBM 1st Version #067 (SV) |
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| 2023 BBM 1st Version #309 (SV) |
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| 2023 BBM 2nd Version #429 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 1st Version #225 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 1st Version #299 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 2nd Version #491 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 2nd Version #472 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 2nd Version #367 (SV) |
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| 2024 BBM 2nd Version #347 (SV) |
Here's the two cards from the Genesis set I also bought from him:
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| 2024 BBM Genesis #099 |
It wouldn't be a package from Jason without a handful of surprises. He included a couple numbered parallels from the 2021 Epoch Swallows Stars & Legends set and the 2023 Topps 206 set:
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| 2021 Epoch Swallows Stars & Legends #40 |
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| 2023 Topps 206 #154 |
He also included a couple signature parallels from the 2020 BBM 2nd Version set:
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| 2020 BBM 2nd Version #366 |
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| 2020 BBM 2nd Version #539 |
Finally he included a couple "color variants" parallels from the 2023 BBM Swallows set. I've got the base on the left of each of these images for comparison:
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| 2023 BBM Swallows #S04 |
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| 2023 BBM Swallows #S28 |
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| 2023 BBM Swallows #S50 |
So thanks for the cards, Jason! As always, it's a pleasure doing business with you!
One last, non-baseball related comment. When I came up with the title to this post, I had an old song running through my head. There was a musician in Delaware in the mid-80's named Jones "Woody" Purcell who I'd seen a couple times - in fact it was his band playing at Gallucio's Downtown in Wilmington the night I turned 21 and could legally go to a bar to listen to music. I remember them being very loud and at one point we suddenly realized they were playing "Ode To Billy Joe". I saw him a couple more times over the years and picked up a tape of his stuff that I really liked. The tape included a song called "I've Got A Secret" which is just a fun little pop song. I've long ago gotten rid of the tape but I decided to do some searching on-line today and I discovered two important things. The first is that the song (along with the rest of the tape) is available on SoundCloud:
