I enjoy looking back at my favorite cards from the year. I'll highlight my favorite from each sport. These are cards I've shown on the blog this year. The tops for the year was tough this go around but I kept coming back to this John Elway beauty. I'm a big Elway fan. This unfortunately was from when he dismantled my Falcons in the Super Bowl. Still it is a great photo and I love the card. It was featured in this 2021 Score Football post from January.
Lauren Taylor is an artist I've liked from the get-go and was very happy when these cards were released. In the set were cards of herself and I loved this one and it's my top non-sports card of the year even if it is from a set of baseball cards. You can see this and the other cards I picked up from the set here.
Doesn't work out often that you pull an auto of your favorite player or wrestler but that's exactly what happened with this 2021 Topps Women's Division hobby box I opened in April. I really like Alexa Bliss and couldn't be happier with this green parallel auto numbered to 50. Easily my favorite wrestling card of the year.
I was very excited to add an autograph of Yaz. He is my favorite Red Sox player and was such a great player. I took my time finding an auto I liked and went with this one which heads the list of my 2022 baseball cards. The scan isn't that great and looks much better in hand. 1997 Donruss Significant Signatures Carl Yastrzemski
I really like this card. It stood out among many. Something about the colors, design and the photo. This one was from a Hoops NBA Super Stars Collection you could purchase as a set containing 10 stars from the league.
This 2021 Donruss I posted in June was just fun. Ty Gibbs as a youngster though I'm not sure he looks any older today. It was also somewhat prophetic as Ty Gibbs would go onto be a controversial driver in the NASCAR Xfinity series but won the championship while winning seven races.
I didn't do a great job of posting hockey this year but I really like this card. A hockey player spiking a football? That's a win.
Everyone have a safe and fun New Year!