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It is rare for a baseball fan to never purchase a pack of baseball cards. But the ones who really enjoy collecting it’s like it’s bring out the thrill of being a child at a ball game with there fathers and asking for there favorite players for autographs with the baseball cards you bought at a local card shop. Baseball cards are also sold at some general retailers, such as department stores, pharmacies and grocers. These retailers sell packs from retail boxes that are specially marketed through general retailers, and are sometimes less expensive than those available in card shops. But they often have fewer cards per pack and are less likely to have desirable inserts and other special cards. The thrill of opening a pack of baseball is like opening a present on christmas morning and wanting to know what your gonna get weither it could be a legend like Babe Ruth, Derek Jeter, etc or you get no legends or stars but get commons it doesn’t matter it’s like the luck of the draw in my opinion.

In most baseball cards there are Base Set cards which basically are the basic cards that make up the set. The number of base cards can range from 500 or more in regular and some premium sets to fewer than 100 in the more expensive sets. In some instances, the base set may contain certain cards that are short printed, making them more of a challenge to collect. Subsets: These are cards that are included as part of the base set, but which have a special characteristics. Examples of subsets would be the “Diamond Kings” in older Donruss sets, or the “League Leader” cards that Topps often includes in its basic set. Subsets are usually included in packs at the same rate as other cards in the basic set. Parallel cards which are Cards which have the same basic design as a base card, but have some variation in a design element that distinguishes it. For example, a company may issue a parallel set that features a different color border than the regular base card.

Inserts are smaller sets of cards that are seeded into packs at scarcer levels than the regular card sets. Insert sets have a distinct design and usually number between 10-20 cards. Both parallels and inserts are inserted into packs at a specified ratio. A 1:24 ratio, for example, means that on average one of every 24 packs will contain a card from that insert set. Another type of card you could find is Memorabilia cards which is A special type of insert card that is either autographed by the player or contains a piece of equipment used by the player in a Major League game, such as a piece of a bat, jersey or cap. These are usually the rarest cards, and are often highly prized by collectors. Serially numbered cards: Parallels, inserts, memorabilia cards, and even subsets may be serially numbered, meaning that only a limited number of the cards were produced and each card is numbered sequentially. The serial number of the card is stamped onto the card itself. For example, some sets have all the rookie cards serially numbered, so that the first card is 1 of 500, the second is 2 of 500, etc. In addition, cards sometimes have certain

characteristics that make them more or less valuable to collectors. The first time a player appears in a major set, the card is considered to be his rookie card, which is usually the most valuable regular-issue card for that player. Short prints have been mentioned before; these are also often more valuable than basic cards. Errors are cards that were printed with some error on them. These may or may not be more valuable than a regular card, depending on whether (and how soon) the error was corrected and collector interest in the particular mistake. Of course, cards of star players are more valuable than cards of average players. Cards that are not of star or semi-star players and which do not have some other characteristic that sets them apart are called commons. Commons are the lowest-priced cards in a given set, and are of interest mainly to collectors who are collecting that specific player or are trying to build a complete set.

It was Sunday September 18th, 2011 and it was Top Rope Promotions Fan Appreciation Day and it was located at 31 Franklin Street in Fall River, MA. The Building of the event is in the PAL Hall 3rd Floor. I wasn’t there to see the male wrestling action at that event but I was only there to see the female action at that event. The match was between Luscious Latasha and Lexxus. I knew of these two women wrestlers because I have seen them on internet pay per view for an all female wrestling promotion named Women Superstars Uncensored.

After the match was over it was and it was intermission and the fans would get something to drink or get autographs from there favorite wrestlers and I was one of them and I only wanted to get an autograph and pictures from both Luscious Latasha and Lexxus. When I was looking for Lexxus since I wanted to ask her how it felt to be in the 73 minute long match with Mercedes Martinez which is the longest women’s wrestling match in history. When I saw Luscious Latasha I thought maybe she knew where Lexxus was and she told me that she already left after the match and I was disappointed but not too disappointed because I just had enough money to get a picture, autographed picture of Latasha’s to sign for me, and her own t-shirt which was her name in bold black font and a couple of black hearts on each side of the shirt and a couple of lips on it as well.

When I met Luscious Latasha she was one of the nicest wrestlers I ever met and she was four feet and eleven inches tall and weighed at one hundred and twenty pounds. We had a short conversation and I told her really the only reason I went to this event was for the female wrestling and she responded back by saying it was sweet to hear that. While I was having that short conversation she was wearing her wrestling attire and after that meeting I left the event because I didn’t need to be there anymore.