Hall of Famer Autos - Reggie Jackson and Ryne Sandberg

Yesterday I picked up #57 and 58 for my HOF Baseball auto collection.  I have had the first card on hold at my LCS for a couple of months.  The owner is nice enough to set cards aside for me until I have the funds to pay for them and this card was one I was drawn to the first time I saw it in the display case.

For some reason this card really stood out to me, I think there are several reasons:

1. Even though it is a sticker auto, Reggie signed a nice clear legible auto with his #44 in the "J" that fits well on the sticker
2. I am not a Yankees fan but the color scheme by Donruss on this card with the Yankee logo just seems to work
3. The cards is pretty limited, it is serial numbered 04/20
4. I have a semi collection of Reggie (I was much more active in collecting his a few years back, now I just pick up random cheap things here and there or set aside his cards that I pull) but never was able to get an Auto

The main reason I went to the shop yesterday was to pick up some pages.  I needed some pages for my new Gypsy Queen minis and for some old 50s cards I picked up.  Before I decided to splurge on the Reggie I was looking for some packs to buy and selected 3 packs of Heritage and 2 packs of Gypsy Queen.  I usually open the packs in the store but was in somewhat of a rush.  As I was leaving the shop, I told the owner that next time in I wanted to look at any Ryne Sandberg autos he had as Ryno was my next HOF target.

I was in my car and decided to open the packs before entering my next stop.  The Heritage packs resulted in nothing of note, I was hoping to get an SP or two and ended up with a Robinson Cano sticker, a Victor Martinez insert and a dreaded pack with no SP or insert.  My first pack of Gypsy Queen netted me this nice on card auto.

 I was pretty happy, I figured I got one of two autos in my two packs, pretty good success rate. I have a couple other Lind autos and they don't seem to be highly desirable but, hey at least it is an auto. I opened the second pack and noticed a similarly different colored card late in the pack, colored just like the Lind.  I quickly jumped ahead (I have no patience) and saw this beauty:

I couldn't believe it, less than half an hour after declaring Ryno as my next target, I had one of his autos in my possession.  What a great day at the LCS!