Wednesday, April 16, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Red #/10
Friday, April 11, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Gold #/50
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Superfractor #/1
Card Review: 8.7
This is it, the 2024 Topps Archives one of one "Superfractor." And,...I guess it's okay. I paid nearly three as as much as I ever had for a single Wallach card to own it (2005 Topps Rookie Cup Relic being the previous owner of that title) and I guess I'm okay with that? When I saw this pop on eBay I immediately did a search to see what others were selling for. The results weren't encouraging. Guys I consider to be relatively anonymous players were coming in at around $400, which was a non-starter for me. Regardless I went had and set a bid at $102 and walked away. To my surprise, that was more than enough and the final auction price came in at just under $90. Do I feel that's an insane price to pay for a baseball card printed in 2024, yes absolutely. Had I known I was actually going to win the auction would I have bid that much? Probably not. My intention was to lose, post the pictures from the auction and blog about that. But here I am, with my first "superfractor" in hand.
So what do I think? I think it's okay. The base card with the white border is still the best looking of these by a wide margin. For purely display purposes, that's the one to go with. I like this variation better than the green but not as much as the blue. Though I don't have them in hand (and am not awaiting them in the mail either), I expect I'll like red better than than this and the gold looks about the same. But I'll hold off to judge until, or if, I ever pick up the other two variations. The ones currently for sale are asking nearly as much as I paid for this thing.
My primary complaint with this card is the sort of microchip pattern that the entire thing is covered in. It's lame. Worse yet, it's not limited to the border, it covers the enitire card. To use the name of great new punk band out of the bay area, "Who Asked for This?" (check them on out spotify).
Number of this card in my collection: 1
OFFICIALLY HAVE THEM ALL.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Arlington, TN
These 19 cards were sent by Mark of Arlington, Tennessee. This is at least the third time Mark has sent cards going back to 2020. It was a nice assortment of Wallachs that included the not often seen 1995 Leaf Limited and 1991 Classic. The 1991 Score Super Star is another Wallach that I don't see all that often but sort of flys under my radar.
Thanks for the cards Mark!
Updated Totals:
1989 Topps: 1,033
1990 Donruss: 629
1990 Donruss Baseball's Best: 21
1991 Classic: 8
1991 Fleer x2: 320
1991 Score: 413
1991 Score "The Franchise": 350
1991 Score Super Star: 29
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Green #/99
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Andover, MN
These five cards were sent by "Crocodile Cards" of Andover, Minnesota. This isn't the first time "Crocodile Cards" has sent cards, though he appears to have moved since last time. Or maybe I just dropped the ball on adding it to my map of where cards have been sent from. In either case, this city has been added. (Check out his blog by clicking this link)
Thanks for the cards Croc!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Washington, D.C.
These six cards were sent by Colin from Washington D.C. (with an assist from his brother in Kansas City). You may notice that the envelope does not appear to be in mint condition. That's not a result of over exuberance and excitement in opening it. My parents have a new puppy, and during a recent visit, she got hold of some mail on my counter. The cards escaped unharmed. In fact, they're in as good of shape as any cards I've ever received. Even the coloring on them is incredible. On all of them, truly some sort of anomaly, or Colin and his brother ripped tons of wax as kids and only kept the best. I don't know, but whatever the case, I'm happy to add them
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Blue #/25

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Currently I only have this and the basic one in hand, with a green on the way, but I've seen photos of all of them and the standard (regular?) version is the best looking by a wide margin. Which, makes these a little unnecessary and redundant, doesn't it? Then again, all of these are inserts and not part of the actual Archives checklist, so they're all sort of gimmick cards without a set to call home.
In any event, personal distaste for inserts and on card autographs aside, it is more or less still a baseball card made by Topps that says "Tim Wallach" on both sides and has his picture on it, so I'll try to collect them all, though there is no universe where I actually pay any sort of premium to add the red or "superfractor" variations.
Number of this card in my collection: 1
Friday, January 31, 2025
2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW
Card Review: 9.3 This is the first "new" Tim Wallach card Topps has put out since the 2019 Archives set, which included Wallach in the "Montreal Expos 50th" subset. This card is done in the style of a 1995 Topps, and I'd call it a significant improvement over the original, which wasn't bad to begin with. It's really a very nice looking card. The vintage Expos baby blues work really well with this design (but they look so good they work well with just about any design). By 1995 the Expos had stopped wearing these uniforms in favor of the bland grey script jerseys on the road, and Wallach was in his third year with the Dodgers regardless.
Number of this card in my collection: 2