Friday, February 21, 2014

Am I Crazy? Wait... Don't answer that.... - Adam LaRoche edition

I received an email from someone I've been trading with for a looooong time. He asked me since when did I collect Adam LaRoche cards?
Only since 2007 I replied. He had no idea. I suppose that's my fault. I don't go around trumpeting or renting out a skywriter.
 
But just in case anyone else who reads my drivel didn't know that.... Yes. I want ALL the Adam LaRoche cards.
 
Of course Topps found out and decided to have some fun with me.
 
I call it Parallel Hell.
 
Walk down the path with me, won't you?
 
2013 Base card. Nice. Simple.
 
 the Base Mini... okay. Sure...
 The ubiquitous Gold
 
and of course the gold mini...
 
and the Not found in packs, blue sparkle wrapper redemption....
 

Wal Mart demands they have an exclusive parallel...


and so does the U.S. Army apparently


the Aqua Man seaweed version...


 uh... Gay Pride Parade version?


Toys R Us wanted to get in on the act


and of course so did Target...


Topps also put out an African American parallel

 
the sad part is.... even with all of those, I still don't have them all!!! I know there is a Pink mini, a Grey/Graphite version, as well as an Orange factory set only parallel.... among others I'm sure.
 
Just when your head is spinning, Chrome comes out...
 
 
with their pretty Refractors...
 
 
and X-Fractors. (don't give them any ideas or they'll make the other 25 letters as well)
 

a 1800's Sepia parallel...


a Burgundy (NOT red!)


of course the NAACP is represented again...


a light blue that doesn't look blue version


one of my favourites... Orange!


and Grimace gets his own as well...


 along with Gold, Camo, Pink, yadda yadda yadda.....


my head hurts now... and I'm sure most of you are now asleep dreaming of rainbows. (except you, Mr Putin)

So if any of you didn't know, now you do. And if you have ANY Adam LaRoche cards, please drop me an email so we can swap.

Thanks.


5 comments:

bamlinden said...

Wow. I though some of the Pacific parallels from the 90's were overboard. That's just .......crazy!

Which one is the most expensive? How much does it go for?

CaptKirk42 said...

All these Parallels drive me nutty. Topps makes it impossible now for set collects to know what is in a set. Oh and don't get me started with some of them being serial numbered and some of them that should be numbered are not.

Michael said...

That's ridiculous! I knew there was a number of parallels, but never realized there was that many

dayf said...

great googely moogely

The Baseball Card Snob said...

H/T to you for trying. I'm trying with Mo Rivera. Needless to say, not having great luck