Clubhouse APB: Unfinished Sets!

Sunday marked the first card show I had a chance to sneak off to in quite some time.  Well, maybe it wasn't that long of a layoff.  It may have only been a month or six weeks, but it seemed like a long time to me anyways.

One of my goals was to finish off some of my lingering 2013 set needs.  And while I was able to do okay for the most part, I'm still short on three specific fronts.

I found five of the 10 cards I need to polish off the 425-card base set from this year's Heritage offering.  That includes everyone's favorite baseball hero, Mr. Rodriguez.

I'm still shy these five:

41 -- Jeter/Trout "Friendly Foes"

54 -- Ron Gardenhire

135 -- Dominic Brown

157 -- Charlie Manuel

190 -- Derek Jeter

Two managers.  Two Phillies.  Two Jeters.  What the flippin' heck?!

Series 2 Topps was another set I had high hopes of putting a major dent in, or even putting to sleep.  

I figured it would be a snap finding all 13 of the cards I required for a completed Series 2, yet this Seth Smith was one of just three I could scrounge up in the oasis of dime boxes.  I probably could have snagged more, but that would have required me spending upwards of a quarter per card.  And I have a hang up about spending more than a nickel or dime on Topps base cards.

Here are the remaining 10 from Series 2 that I'm lacking:

504 -- Michael Bourn

513 -- Zach McAllister

542 -- Jeff Niemann

561 -- Josh Vitters

584 -- Alfonso Soriano

601 -- Brandon Moss

646 -- Phillippe Aumont

648 -- Dan Straily

649 -- Ryan Hannigan

658 -- David Freese

Nothing too exciting here, though the Hannigan card is one of the most pleasing of the "catcher in action" photographs from the entire set.

Finally, I figured to do some heavy lifting with 2013 Archives.  The collation is so shoddy with this product that I had resigned from buying any more packs and decided to attack the rest of the checklist via card shows and trades.

Twenty-seven cards at a dime apiece made me a pretty happy camper.  Despite this hefty effort, I'm left looking at 20 gaps in my checklist.

1 -- Babe Ruth

6 -- Adrian Gonzalez

13 -- Ryan Zimmerman

30 -- Yu Darvish

43 -- Starling Marte

48 -- Ryne Sandberg

49 -- Alcides Escobar

51 -- Carlos Gonzalez

55 -- CC Sabathia

69 -- Eddie Mathews

73 -- Aroldis Chapman

83 -- Jim Johnson

86 -- Jackie Robinson

87 -- AJ Burnett

108 -- Austin Jackson

122 -- RA Dickey

139 -- Matt Holiday

186 -- Brett Lawrie

198 -- Jason Heyward

200 -- Mike Trout

Was that Trout card short-printed or what?  Sheesh!  

Anyhow, any and all help would be appreciated.  If you've got a box of dupes and would like to lend a hand, shoot me an email or leave a comment.  I'm sure we can work out some sort of exchange.

Thanks for checking in!

MK