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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Tim's Gauntlet: Day 2


For someone like me, who doesn't collect a lot of newer cards, today's challenge of finding a card from current release year with a unique photo, should've been a difficult one, but it actually ended up being the easiest!

I figured out the other day that I own exactly five cards from 2019-20 sets, with four of those five being from the Prizm basketball set (courtesy of Matt), all of which are very cool, but aren't exactly what I would call "unique". Thankfully though, my only other new card, which came from one of  Rod's daily giveaways, does have a unique photo (at least in this humble blogger's opinion it does), and was the first thing that came to mind when I saw Tim's list of daily challenges...

Other than reading a few blog posts after it's yearly releases, Gypsy Queen is not a set that I've ever paid much attention to, and it's not because I have anything against it, no, in fact I could say the exact same thing about the majority of newer sets, it's very hard for me to be interested in something when I don't know, or even care, who the majority of players are -- and often can't even tell the sets apart from year to year. That being said, there are exceptions to most rules, and this 2019-20 Ruth B. of Yankees was one of them!

The reflective nature of Babe's appearance is what drew me to the card, and even after having it for several weeks now, it's appeal still hasn't worn off. Of course now that I've gone and used it for this post, I'm sure that someone out there is going to tell me that this particular image of the Babe has been used in 14 other sets over the last couple of years, and therefor isn't "unique", but I had never seen it on a card before, so it's "unique" to me.

Looks like another challenge is in the books, and the good news is, even though they're not written yet, I've at least got the cards in mind for days 3-6, but have no idea what to do for day 7 -- I guess then it's a good thing that I have a couple of days to think about it :)


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12 comments:

  1. GTTJune 2, 2020 at 8:56 AM

    That's definitely a nice card. I personally have never seen that particular picture on a card before, and it's definitely a rare pose. Can't think of any other cards with a pose like that off the top of my head.

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    1. JonJune 3, 2020 at 9:23 AM

      I guess I did okay on my pick then? I did think that it was different, but I also know that Topps has the bad habit of reusing photos over and over (and over) again, and with me not being overly familiar with the newer stuff, it was entirely possible that this was one of those, and I just hadn't seen it before.

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  2. acrackedbatJune 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM

    This is definitely a Ruth photo I've never seen and one to add to my "quiet" card collection.

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    1. JonJune 3, 2020 at 9:20 AM

      Do I know of this "quiet" card collection?

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  3. Tim B.June 2, 2020 at 8:33 PM

    I've got a fair number of modern-day Ruth cards and I can't recall seeing that image before. I will definitely need to track a copy down.

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    1. JonJune 3, 2020 at 9:19 AM

      I fully expected to be corrected by someone in the comments, so it's nice to see that there's been some confirmation in regards to the photos uniqueness.

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  4. FujiJune 3, 2020 at 7:15 AM

    Awesome choice. I haven't been able to come up with anything for this particular challenge. Was hoping to write a 7 Day Challenge post each Thursday, but it's starting to look like I might need to skip this one challenge and come back to it later.

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    1. JonJune 3, 2020 at 9:18 AM

      Well, if I can bend some of the rules, than you should be able to rearrange the order of your posts. Thankfully I had this card, otherwise I probably would've had to skip this one altogether.

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  5. BoJune 3, 2020 at 8:53 AM

    Great card. Says a lot that the best photo from a 2020 card is from the 1930s.

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    1. JonJune 3, 2020 at 9:15 AM

      Good point, but not one that I find all that surprising.

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  6. MattJune 3, 2020 at 12:37 PM

    I didn’t get to do a Gypsy queen review and just like all other products locally the demand pulled them off the shelves. So this is a small sneak peek for me

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    1. JonJune 4, 2020 at 5:06 AM

      I think I already mentioned it to you on Twitter, but there is still a lot of stuff on the Walmart shelves here, in fact just yesterday I walked by the card aisle (without stopping) and noticed that it looked rather full, which included a big tops shelf display of GQ.

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