Getting Even Smaller

The post yesterday is titled Starting Out Small, and things in this post will get even smaller.  Literally.

First, a cool fact I discovered today: Mike Trout and I share a birthday.  That day is today.  No, this isn't some pathetic attempt for me to get you to wish me a happy birthday, but this whole "Mike Trout and I have the same birthday" thing poses a real problem for me.  The thing is, I want to add him to my player collections.  The only issue? I'd have to take out a second mortgage on my house in order to buy some of his cards.  I already chose Strasburg as one of the players in my player collections, and now Trout?  Expensive taste I have.

I can picture every post I would write about Trout cards having some sort of play on words with his last name.  Sure would be fishy, huh.

Anyway, I will think about it.  I imagine his cards will come down in value at some point, so maybe that would be the time to reel in some cards start collecting him.

As a birthday gift to myself, I save the box of 2012 Topps mini cards for today.

Here is the hit I got:

There is only one hit in each box, and I was happy with this.

Another cool feature of the box are the gold cards.  There are no gold border cards in Series 1 or 2, but in this set the gold border cards are numbered to just 61!

More on this box in future posts. The photography on the cards is really nice.