Hollywood42's perennial rolling pickups, brain dumps, & sharing other stuff thread - Page 2

Hollywood42 · 08-25-2025, 07:48 PM

Thanks guys!

Doze had a fairly short run, but man he was good at his peak. He made some pretty bad Twins teams worth watching every day and gave us a lot of amazing moments. I so wish his career would have been just slightly shifted so he was around and a part of the 2019 Bomba Squad. He deserved a better team around him than he got here. But, he wound up winning the World Series with the Nats in 2019, so things turned out alright for him

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Originally Posted by Slette

This is simply incredible. Well done!

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Originally Posted by MiamiMarlinsFan

Wow! Great pickups. As I think I’ve mentioned before, Dozier helped my fantasy team to the 2015 Championship, I have fond memories of him. Always cool seeing rare cards of his.

Hollywood42 · 11-22-2025, 10:04 AM

I have not kept up with this thread at all lately! I've been slowing down on purchases of my usual mid range cards lately, in part to focus on some other financial goals, and in part because there have continued to be a bunch of higher range cards that have popped up for me this year. And I'm still just not feeling too incentivized to collect the 2025 releases very hard with the continued explosion of parallels and print runs (and the Twins awful season certainly hasn't helped either). With that said, I've still been having a lot of fun. Here's what I've been up to lately!

The one 2025 project I decided to take on (at least, until Ginter releases soon!) is working on Harrison Bader's 2025 Topps Chrome products mega-rainbow. Bader was one of the lone bright spots on the Twins this year and I love his playstyle - fantastic defense, speedy, can get it done with the bat, and just exuding style in every way. I've been focusing on picking up as many lower numbered parallels as I can for now, figuring the more common ones should be easy to grab in the future whenever I want. Here's what I've accumulated so far:

Gold Geometric /50, Orange /25, Orange Geometric /25
Orange Wave /25, Orange Logofractor /25, Black Geometric /10
Black RayWave /10, Black Logofractor /10, Red /5

I mentioned Ginter above, I can't wait for the 2025 release in a few weeks! I will be chasing all of the Twins as usual and really looking forward to adding some new cards for the ultimate Twins mini rainbow chase of all mini versions from all years of A&G. But before we get to the 2025 release, I have a few accomplishments from A&G of years past to share.

First, I was able to track down a 2006 No Number Mini of Harmon Killebrew, which completes my Twins NNO Mini run from the inaugural Ginter release! Those scarce early year minis are *tough*, so it's super exciting to be down to just hard to find one left. Here's the Killebrew alone, and with all its friends from the 2006 mini rainbow

Beyond that, I had been down to just a handful of base minis and A&G Back minis until I had all of the Twins that have been produced to date, so I finally bit the bullet and hit a few BINs that were higher than I wanted to go, so I can say I had this completed before the 2025 set releases. Each of these runs has 181 cards in total, across 19 years of Allen & Ginter, and so much fun to look at side by side!

I still have a little work to do to complete the Black Mini run, without looking it up I think I am roughly 75% of the way there, which is very doable and will just take some more time. And then from there it'll be a continued lifetime project to try to knock out all of the No Numbers and Bazooka/Brooklyn Backs /25. But this is always one of my favorite things to work on and it's a blast to see them really start to come together!

Next up is just a mishmash of some things I pasted together. These types of cards are really what I build my collection around the most, with Topps Black rookies, printing plates, some more A&G fun, and cards that I just gravitate towards

Same with a couple of autographs, fun mix lately of a few Molitors as well as a Trevor Plouffe rookie, who I have really enjoyed listening to in his post playing days on the Baseball Today podcast:

Ok, pause.

All of this has been a blast, but the last bit of this are some big ones for me. It is funny how things seem to come in waves, with nothing really catching my eye for the longest time, and then all of a sudden, a bunch of cards near the top of my all-time want list all pop up around the same time. It's a whirlwind, but so much fun!

First, here is one of my bucket list Twins cards, and the single best rookie card of my all-time favorite player. A 2001 Bowman Chrome Gold Refractor of Justin Morneau /99

There have been a handful of these that have popped up that I have debated grabbing over the years, but I've learned this card is notoriously off center, and I had been holding out for a copy that hits my eye a little better than copies in the past. This one is not perfect, but it finally was one that was good enough for me, and it is just awesome to be able to finally add one of these to the collection! This also completes the Morneau rookie rainbow for me, but I will hold off on sharing a rainbow pic for now as I need to go back take a better scan of the X-Fractor

Next, if you have followed my collecting at all over the last few years, you know I have been lucky to add a bunch of huge Brian Dozier rookie cards. Doze is one of my top 5 favorite Twins, and it has been just incredible to build out so much of his rookie rainbows. Well, that project has continued on lately with some more great ones popping up!

First up, these trio fill a few huge holes in my rookie rainbows: 2012 Bowman Draft Chrome Red Refractor /5, 2012 Bowman Platinum Prospects Atomic Refractor /10, and a 2012 Topps Chrome Atomic Refractor /10. All of these are basically just impossible to find, so when they pop up, you have to go for them!

Adding these three bring me down to just 8 non-1/1s until I have a copy of every single Brian Dozier rookie card ever produced, some of which are more low numbered cards that will be tough to find, but a handful of them are more common and I just haven't grabbed yet. To be able to be this close still blows my mind!

But that's not all! In the past few weeks, a bunch of Dozier rookie printing plates popped up as well! I found these within 15ish minutes of them being listed, but sadly even that was not fast enough to nab them all. Someone else beat me to 4 of them, but I was able to pick up 4 for myself as well! If you or someone you know happened to be the buyer of any of the other plates, I would love to see if we can work out a deal to bring them into the massive rookie collection. But for now, I am ecstatic to be able to add these 4 to my PC! This gives me at least one printing plate from 5 of the 7 sets that Dozier has rookie plates in.

I am going to hold off on posting updated Dozier rookie rainbow pictures in this thread for now since this post is already pretty long, but I will get an update posted in my Dozier-specific thread sometime soon

And that's what I have for now! Thanks for following along!

MiamiMarlinsFan · 11-22-2025, 10:21 AM

Nice haul, man. Do you have all four plates for one card? I don’t go after printing plates, but would be tempted if I could get the set.

Hollywood42 · 11-22-2025, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MiamiMarlinsFan

Nice haul, man. Do you have all four plates for one card? I don’t go after printing plates, but would be tempted if I could get the set.

I don't have any 4 of 4 printing plate runs, but I do have a 6 of 4 run!

These come from 2008 Topps Moments & Milestones, and they kind of butchered the plates for these. It's well documented that many (all? I don't know) of the cards had more than 4 plates produced, but it's never been proven exactly how many exist. Some speculate that there are 4 of each color, one of each of the four parallels in the set (base, black, blue, red) for a total of 16 plates. But we don't really know for sure! Makes for a pretty unique display, though

Other than that one which is an exception, I have two different cards I'm at 3/4 plates for (2015 Topps Update Eddie Rosario RC, and 2009 Allen & Ginter Francisco Liriano). And 10 different cards at 2/4 plates for. Definitely hoping I can complete some of them someday!

MiamiMarlinsFan · 11-22-2025, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hollywood42

I don't have any 4 of 4 printing plate runs, but I do have a 6 of 4 run!

These come from 2008 Topps Moments & Milestones, and they kind of butchered the plates for these. It's well documented that many (all? I don't know) of the cards had more than 4 plates produced, but it's never been proven exactly how many exist. Some speculate that there are 4 of each color, one of each of the four parallels in the set (base, black, blue, red) for a total of 16 plates. But we don't really know for sure! Makes for a pretty unique display, though

Other than that one which is an exception, I have two different cards I'm at 3/4 plates for (2015 Topps Update Eddie Rosario RC, and 2009 Allen & Ginter Francisco Liriano). And 10 different cards at 2/4 plates for. Definitely hoping I can complete some of them someday!

That’s wild.

#ThanksTopps

boxbuster7 · 11-22-2025, 05:23 PM

nice collection! what ginter mini are you missing? I have some in my collection. Probably don't have it but figure I can check.

Hollywood42 · 11-22-2025, 08:32 PM

I have all of my Twins A&G Mini needs up to date in this thread - https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1585002

Thank you for giving it a look!

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

nice collection! what ginter mini are you missing? I have some in my collection. Probably don't have it but figure I can check.

boxbuster7 · 11-22-2025, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Hollywood42

I have all of my Twins A&G Mini needs up to date in this thread - https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1585002

Thank you for giving it a look!

I'll take a look when I have chance.

11-22-2025, 10:04 AM	#27
Hollywood42 Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Minnesota Posts: 39,503 Hollywood42	I have not kept up with this thread at all lately! I've been slowing down on purchases of my usual mid range cards lately, in part to focus on some other financial goals, and in part because there have continued to be a bunch of higher range cards that have popped up for me this year. And I'm still just not feeling too incentivized to collect the 2025 releases very hard with the continued explosion of parallels and print runs (and the Twins awful season certainly hasn't helped either). With that said, I've still been having a lot of fun. Here's what I've been up to lately! The one 2025 project I decided to take on (at least, until Ginter releases soon!) is working on Harrison Bader's 2025 Topps Chrome products mega-rainbow. Bader was one of the lone bright spots on the Twins this year and I love his playstyle - fantastic defense, speedy, can get it done with the bat, and just exuding style in every way. I've been focusing on picking up as many lower numbered parallels as I can for now, figuring the more common ones should be easy to grab in the future whenever I want. Here's what I've accumulated so far: Gold Geometric /50, Orange /25, Orange Geometric /25 Orange Wave /25, Orange Logofractor /25, Black Geometric /10 Black RayWave /10, Black Logofractor /10, Red /5 I mentioned Ginter above, I can't wait for the 2025 release in a few weeks! I will be chasing all of the Twins as usual and really looking forward to adding some new cards for the ultimate Twins mini rainbow chase of all mini versions from all years of A&G. But before we get to the 2025 release, I have a few accomplishments from A&G of years past to share. First, I was able to track down a 2006 No Number Mini of Harmon Killebrew, which completes my Twins NNO Mini run from the inaugural Ginter release! Those scarce early year minis are tough, so it's super exciting to be down to just hard to find one left. Here's the Killebrew alone, and with all its friends from the 2006 mini rainbow Beyond that, I had been down to just a handful of base minis and A&G Back minis until I had all of the Twins that have been produced to date, so I finally bit the bullet and hit a few BINs that were higher than I wanted to go, so I can say I had this completed before the 2025 set releases. Each of these runs has 181 cards in total, across 19 years of Allen & Ginter, and so much fun to look at side by side! I still have a little work to do to complete the Black Mini run, without looking it up I think I am roughly 75% of the way there, which is very doable and will just take some more time. And then from there it'll be a continued lifetime project to try to knock out all of the No Numbers and Bazooka/Brooklyn Backs /25. But this is always one of my favorite things to work on and it's a blast to see them really start to come together! Next up is just a mishmash of some things I pasted together. These types of cards are really what I build my collection around the most, with Topps Black rookies, printing plates, some more A&G fun, and cards that I just gravitate towards Same with a couple of autographs, fun mix lately of a few Molitors as well as a Trevor Plouffe rookie, who I have really enjoyed listening to in his post playing days on the Baseball Today podcast: Ok, pause. All of this has been a blast, but the last bit of this are some big ones for me. It is funny how things seem to come in waves, with nothing really catching my eye for the longest time, and then all of a sudden, a bunch of cards near the top of my all-time want list all pop up around the same time. It's a whirlwind, but so much fun! First, here is one of my bucket list Twins cards, and the single best rookie card of my all-time favorite player. A 2001 Bowman Chrome Gold Refractor of Justin Morneau /99 There have been a handful of these that have popped up that I have debated grabbing over the years, but I've learned this card is notoriously off center, and I had been holding out for a copy that hits my eye a little better than copies in the past. This one is not perfect, but it finally was one that was good enough for me, and it is just awesome to be able to finally add one of these to the collection! This also completes the Morneau rookie rainbow for me, but I will hold off on sharing a rainbow pic for now as I need to go back take a better scan of the X-Fractor Next, if you have followed my collecting at all over the last few years, you know I have been lucky to add a bunch of huge Brian Dozier rookie cards. Doze is one of my top 5 favorite Twins, and it has been just incredible to build out so much of his rookie rainbows. Well, that project has continued on lately with some more great ones popping up! First up, these trio fill a few huge holes in my rookie rainbows: 2012 Bowman Draft Chrome Red Refractor /5, 2012 Bowman Platinum Prospects Atomic Refractor /10, and a 2012 Topps Chrome Atomic Refractor /10. All of these are basically just impossible to find, so when they pop up, you have to go for them! Adding these three bring me down to just 8 non-1/1s until I have a copy of every single Brian Dozier rookie card ever produced, some of which are more low numbered cards that will be tough to find, but a handful of them are more common and I just haven't grabbed yet. To be able to be this close still blows my mind! But that's not all! In the past few weeks, a bunch of Dozier rookie printing plates popped up as well! I found these within 15ish minutes of them being listed, but sadly even that was not fast enough to nab them all. Someone else beat me to 4 of them, but I was able to pick up 4 for myself as well! If you or someone you know happened to be the buyer of any of the other plates, I would love to see if we can work out a deal to bring them into the massive rookie collection. But for now, I am ecstatic to be able to add these 4 to my PC! This gives me at least one printing plate from 5 of the 7 sets that Dozier has rookie plates in. I am going to hold off on posting updated Dozier rookie rainbow pictures in this thread for now since this post is already pretty long, but I will get an update posted in my Dozier-specific thread sometime soon And that's what I have for now! Thanks for following along! __________________ Collecting the Twins All my PC wants/haves available at hollywood42cards.com

11-22-2025, 05:23 PM	#31
boxbuster7 Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 12,726 boxbuster777	nice collection! what ginter mini are you missing? I have some in my collection. Probably don't have it but figure I can check. __________________ Psa 9 > psa 10

11-22-2025, 10:21 AM	#28
MiamiMarlinsFan Member Join Date: Jun 2020 Location: Florida Posts: 13,706	Nice haul, man. Do you have all four plates for one card? I don’t go after printing plates, but would be tempted if I could get the set.