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A PC Blog of the greatest player ever to play the game plus other favorites from my collection.

I am a Ichiro Super collector. I also collect Cano & #1/1 baseball cards.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

The PC Rainbow Project

Once I started getting into the hobby again in full force about 4 years ago there were alot of things about collecting that changed. One of the biggest things I slowly but surely noticed collectors were doing was trying to obtain "rainbows" of their favorite players.  I soon realized the massive variations of base cards for every player in most sets these days. The amount of colors and varying degrees of rarity stamped with serial #'s became a very amusing and interesting thing to grasp that soon became a semi obsession to obtain. My favorite player of all time Ichiro was my mark and goal for my own rainbow. My favorite card by far is his 2012 topps chrome card. I think its an awesome action shot and I am a big fan of the design of that year as well as being his last official topps cards as he signed a deal with Leaf and therefore also being the last year him with official mlb gear thats not airbrushed out. I came to the realization attempting to obtain every single variation from the 2012 topps base,chrome,opening day,mini in addition to vault,plates& goldrush series is insanely impossible to obtain especially for a superstar player like Ichiro. I simply keep saved searches on ebay to notify if a supefractor,atomic or other extreme and moderate rarities pop up for sale. Until then I simply enjoy the collection I have and jump for joy everytime I grab another card for the collection. My most recent pick up to the rainbow was a Red Refractor #/25 with BGS grading on it. This is one of the coolest looking refractors in the bunch in my opinion.  I know I likely overpaid for such a card but definitely worth it for a PC card and add in the fact I've been tracking it down for over a year! On the shelf is my 2012 Topps Ichiro PC Rainbow collection including SSP's, SP's and Update Series PC Rainbow & on the wall some more 2012 Ichiro's in rows of color.