Trading Card Adventures

 Um, so, does Hunter Dickinson have an abnormal hand or am I tripping?  2022/2023 Bowman Inception Dual Autograph 4/25 that I pulled. Hunter's arm looks like it got warped or some AI was involved, AI has such a hard time making human hands.  The card also features Ernest Udeh Jr. 

 I believe this is Aqua Foil version 1. I pulled this from a pack as a purchase from Blowout Cards Black November sale. 

EXPLOSIVE FART CARD!!! When I was a kid my favorite basketball player was Shawn Kemp and I collected his trading cards. He's been in the recent-ish news for trying to shoot people or something but that doesn't tarnish my memories of how cool those basketball cards were showing him slam dunking basketballs in the 90s. Yesterday I bought some modern basketball cards out of random boredom because they were there at the grocery store and so was I. I thought it amusing that this card was in there (and it sort of looks like the concept is a fart joke):

My favorite baseball card when I was a little kid was a 1987 Topps base card of Kent Hrbek of the Minnesota Twins. Why? I think it was one of the first baseball cards I ever got and the photo had a player in action. I don't know, lil me just thought it was super cool. Before Beckett informed us that baseball cards held value (I became a Frank Thomas and Cal Ripken Jr. collecting fan at that point) I played with my cards just like any other toys. I would make teams with my cards and line them up in a batting order on the floor and then use stuffed animals as bats and balls to have the players on the cards face off against each other. My Kent Hrbek card got lots of creases in it and was quite dog-eared. I found a new copy of the card, a fresh talisman strong with childhood superpowers, encased, serial numbered, autographed by Kent Herbek, all officially certified by Topps as a part of one their 2022 Archives Signature Series sets. Woo hoo!