He's No. 1 on the Baseball America Hot Sheet, who's your No. 1?
San Francisco Giants pitching prospect Tim Alderson has been doing pretty well these days — so well he’s atop the current Baseball America Hot Sheet, the weekly reader of prospectors.
We found this Alderson 2007 Bowman Sterling Prospects autograph card of his (a $20 card) and want it to be yours.
We want to know who your No. 1 player is — who you collect — and how many cards you have of that player.
Give us a rundown of your player collection — and provide a photo or a link where we can find the evidence of your obsession — and we’ll award the card the most impressive comment left here or on the Beckett.com thread.
Get on it. We’re giving this card away before the next Hot Sheet arrives.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
I collect Josh Hamilton, and you can check out a bunch of my assembled pieces on my blog linked here.
The basic stats are:
# of cards: 240
# of autographs: 12
# of memorabilia cards: 17
# of serial numbered cards: 76
# of rookie cards: 6 (includes some duplicates)
# of 1/1s: 1 (Ripken/Hamilton dual autograph)
Total BV: $1552.50
My #1 player is and always will be Andre Dawson. I watched him growing up, and still collect him now. I’m approaching 1,000 cards, and you can view my auto/relic/serial #’d cards with the link.
http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r232/Chas321/Dawson%20Collection/?albumview=grid