Late Grand Slam Arrival From Topps

When Topps offer this card from Topps Now series I knew I had to get it. I did, but waited for a month to arrive. It came in the mail few days ago and this what I received.

This card featured San Diego Padres hitting grand slams in four straight games, a first in MLB history. All of them were against Texas Rangers in a series as Fernando Tatis, Jr. first to tee'd of them in first game of the series. After Rangers perceived Tatis grand slam being disrespectful during a blowout made the Padres super motivated to hit grand slams in the remaining games of the series. At the end of the series Padres showed the Rangers on who's their Padre. I checked the print run of the card and its at 2133....and I owned one of them.

First Time Purchase

One product I never kept up is Topps Now. It's too gimmicky for having a card available to purchase for 24 hours and print run depending on amount of sales of the card. I been burned in the past by Topps when they introduced eTopps. I threw money in to it for years and didn't get much value in return. In fact I totally forgot I had eTopps account for over a decade til one of blogs I read mention about it. I dusted the account off and got half of the collection from eTopps portfolio on-card delivered costing me almost $50. With no trade/purchase demand in the hobby I'm stuck with "paperless" eTopps cards unless I get it on-card delivered. Last week I got Topps Now ad while browsing a website. One card they showed on the ad caught my eye I went to their site.

The one of Alex Bregman hitting a grand slam to lift Astros to 8-1 victory over Nationals in game 4. It's the pose and holding of his bat drew me to it along being a member of Astros. I end up making my first ever Topps Now purchase. I got the card from the mail today in a case with a foam inside to keep it protected. I hope Topps Now purchases become normal occurrence for me.