Card #1: The Chase For 3000 Is On

If you have joined me from my other blog, CollectingCutch, thank you for visiting and thank you for supporting that blog over the past year.

For the first card post of Chasing 3,000 I thought this card would help answer the question of Why3K?

I have had so much in my pursuit to collect Andrew McCutchen cards, but all the new releases and parallels and 5x7s and 10x14s are wearing thin on my desire to "Cutch em all". I can no longer try to go after every 1/1 I come across (and there's A LOT of them).  In fact after aquiring over 2,000 unique cards of the Superstar Centerfielder there are only 31 standard sized cards not numbered to less than 100 copies I need.  31!!!!  I feel that I have done an excellent job adding new cards at a quick rate, but the chase of searching for these /25 or less cards is killing my wallet.

Because of this...

I am going to begin focusing on the greatest Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder of all time.
The man who was so impactful to the city of Pittsburgh that you have to hit the ball 21 feet (his jersey number) of the right field wall (his primary position) to hit a HomeRun out of PNC Park.
The man who had a bridge named after him and all Pittsburgh Pirates game attendees knows is a tradition to walk across the bridge before game time.
The man who was chasing 3000 career hits to finally get it in his final at bat.
The man who was such a humanitarian that an award was named after him and given out before the World Series every year.

Yes of course I am talking about Roberto Clemente.

Now that I have over 2,000 unique cards of Cutch I am going to focus instead on my new collecting goal.

I want to chase down 3,000 unique cards of The Great One.

There was a movie called Chasing 3,000 and although it's not the greatest film of all time I LOVE to watch it at least a few times every year.  It's a compelling story despite the lack of baseball in it.  In case you missed it, it was on last night on the MLB Network.

3,000 unique cards is a lot of cardboard.
Like a lot of cardboard!!!

I figured this goal for 3K Clemente cards will be a fun life goal.

With current releases and 1/1s galore there are over 4,200 cards of Clemente on the market according to Beckett.  This doesn't include a few hundred oddballs not in the database.  This will make it very hard to accumulate massive quantities in short time.

This is going to be a fun decades long project.

I am looking for help tracking down Clemente cards.  Especially oddballs.  I am not going to reference Beckett when adding the cards to my collection.  If it's a regional release not registered with Beckett, I don't care.  3,000 pieces of cardboard is 3,000 pieces of cardboard.

If it's a puzzle piece from 1987 Donruss, send it my way.

To bridge the gap from my Collecting Cutch blog to this blog here are my Roberto Clemente cards I had already shown off at Collectingcutch.  I will show these off again as time goes on as we get further away from the original posts at Collectingcutch.