A few years ago, after a ~20 year hiatus from this hobby, I picked up a Topps Fire blaster on impulse. This was waiting for me inside, and it instantly rekindled my love for baseball cards, so this card's got hella emotional value.

If only he could figure out how to hit 🫤

So, this is an odd one. In 2022, I became somewhat obsessed with this one cars: the Jarred Kelenic from the Topps base set. It was a future star. A lot of promise. I’m a huge Mariners fan. So Istarted collecting the card.

Then I started working on the Ben Baller Chrome Rainbow. I got nearly all of them but there was this really hard one: the Purple Friends & Family /42. Apparently Ben actually had his own personal parallels made and just gave the sets to friends.

I found the purple Wander Franco on eBay. And found the guy selling it. He had the whole set. And after getting the ok from Ben (he said), he sold it to me. So here it is: