2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Blue #/25

Card Review: 9.0 

I've seen this card labeled as "color match" instead of "blue," in fact, that's how the listing on eBay I purchased it from titled it.  The baseball card database however is calling it "blue," and that makes more sense to me, so I'm calling it "blue" as well.  These blue variations are numbered out of 25, making it scarcer than the green (#/99) and gold (#/50), but more abundant that the red (#/10) and the 1 of 1 "superfractor."  

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