2025 Topps Five Star Triple Autograph Card of the Best Booth in the Business- Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez & Ron Darling.

Serial numbered 1/5, I had seen two sell quickly on eBay, & I knew when a third one became available I couldn’t let it pass me by because I didn’t know if I’d ever see the last two show up in the marketplace.

20 years of calling Mets games is a long chunk of my life & happy to add this as one of the centerpieces of my pc.

Let’s Go Mets!

Another addition to the 2021 Francisco Lindor Topps Update Rainbow (update, chrome update, chrome sapphire update, holiday and uk)

I have the flagship one of one, but at current prices I’m bypassing the 1/1’s from the other 4 sets.

Topps UK has been the toughest for parallels of Lindor’s “Mets Rookie”

This completes the Sapphire run for me- base, red, orange, green and purple!

I’m gonna keep on keeping’ on and Let’s Go Mets!

Slow and steady… it’s coming along. Still need quite a few.

The Okada/Omega Angles card is my most wanted!

Hope you enjoy viewing this as much as I’m enjoying collecting it!

Still need just a handful of base cards to complete my non-auto set as well.

Not my first, and certainly not my last. I bought my first Triple Threads David Wright Captain America card in 2013. I continue to buy them to this day. Arguably the Mets greatest home grown player, he earned the nickname Captain America due to his stellar WBC play. This one is from 2024 and is my first Gold (serial numbered out of 9). To think what could have been if not for the spinal stenosis.

I was over the moon when the Mets traded for and extended Francisco Lindor in between the 2020 & 2021 baseball seasons.

He’s been everything advertised and more- a leader, a dynamic presence in the order, a marketable fan-favorite and a premium defender.

And I have no doubt when Cooperstown comes calling in about 10 years, his Hall of Fame plaque will have a Mets logo on it.

Here, from my PC, are the first 3 One-of-One Topps Francisco Lindor cards of him in a Mets uniform.

2021 Topps Update Card US1

2022 Topps Series 2 Card 450

2023 Topps Series 2 Card 450

To my knowledge, the 2024 has yet to surface publicly.

Regardless, my streak has ended effective 2025 as that card went up on eBay and was gobbled up within minutes of its listing for $900.

My favorite of these three is also my least favorite. Let me explain. The 2021 will never leave my collection. It’s his first One-of-One Topps Mets Card, I look at it as his One-of-One Mets Rookie Card. Yet it’s the least visibly appealing of the 3. The photo is quite generic and not nearly as exciting as the other two. And in 2021 Topps made their 1/1 Platinum with a foil finish, different than each of the other years, and that also does not look nearly as nice.

Very happy to have these cards in my PC, all 3 arguably fall in my top 25 PC Cards, and happy to share them with my friends here on the Mantel Community.