Hello from Portugal (Olá a todos in my language)

**Oshadogan** · 11-27-2019, 10:38 AM

Hi collectors and sports fans all over the world,

My name is Hugo, 35, and I'm a huge fan of sports (especially soccer and futsal by geography, Portugal) and since the Hanley Ramirez Rookie of the Year season (2006, he was one of the best players of a videogame I played in that year), I'm following MLB day in and day out. I learnt all by myself and became a huge consumer of all MLB highlights and MiLB by consequence.
Since I was soccer stickers collector since young age, I decided to restart to do it (by fun and sincerely by investment too) with baseball trading cards. After I bought a small box of Topps Inception 2018 (I got autos from German Marquez and Michael Fulmer) I did more research and I started to understand that my focus would have to be 1st Bowman Chrome Auto Refractors (because of import charges to Portugal and the value of cards) that would be my "market".
You can see that my collection is exclusively Orange Refractors (#/25) and already did 2 nice deals with Chris Paddack and Shed Long Orange Refractors cards before.
For must of you, pure collectors for the love of the sports and collections purposes (baseball or anything else) maybe you can look at this message as a greedy guy that are trying to earn money from pure collectors. I won't lie, I do this as a bit of my small investment, but in the end I do it because I like the sport, I understand it (at least for my standards) and maybe I will try to have some 1st Bowman Chrome Autos that I probably will have for most of my life (José Fernandez is one of that cards because I'm a fan of Marlins and his tragic death always be in my mind).
In the end, my goal here is to try to learn a bit more from someone that would like to share their knowledge about baseball trading cards market (and repay with my knowledge about it that is far less than most of you), and if the right deal comes, I wouldn't mind to discuss it at least.
Sorry for the long introduction but I guess I wanted to share my story because I'm sure that you don't have many introductions here from guys that born and raised in Portugal and likes baseball. :)

Obrigado a todos,
Hugo