I've been aiming to get to 10,000 Mets Cards for a while now. I finally achieved yesterday when I opened a package of cards I got from a trade I made on TCDB. It was a big trade, I got 175 or so cards, mostly junk wax era stuff, but that's fine. You aren't getting to 10,000 cards with just Topps Chrome Superfractors!
I was hoping the card would be something I had a deeper connection to, like one of my favorite players or something that stirred a specific Mets memory, but that was not the case.
It's still a Mets card though!
Anyway, my 10,000th Mets Card is a 1997 Circa #207 - Lance Johnson.
Johnson played with the Mets for 2 years (1996 and 1997). He was signed as a Free Agent in December 1995 and was traded in August 2007 to the Cubs, along with Mark Clark and Manny Alexander, for Brian McRae, Mel Rojas and Turk Wendell.
As a Met, Johnson was selected to the 1996 All-Star Squad and he compiled a .326/.369/.458/.827 line with 10 HR in 232 games.
Here is the card:
I am currently the #9 Mets Collector on TCDB and I am aiming for #1 eventually. On to 20,000 cards!
