RONALD ACUNA 2017 Bowman's Best Green # / 99 Refractor 1st yr rookie BGS 9.5 MVP

Description: Winning buyer will receive the rookie card described in the item title, a rookie card of Atlanta Braves superstar outfielder, RONALD ACUNA. Acuna is the 2023 National League MVP in unanimous fashion, garnering all 30 first place votes!! This is a rare GREEN refractor insert rookie card from the 2017 Bowman's Best set, machined numbered out of 99 cards only!!Acuna, as a 25 year old in the 2023 MLB season, showed that he is fully back from his knee injury of 2021 (a season where he was on track for the NL MVP through 82 games before going down). Acuna is now in an exclusive statistical club all of his own, the 40/70 club as he slugged 41 hrs and stole 73 bases! In addition, he scored a MLB leading 149 runs and also led both leagues with 217 hits. He batted .337, 44 points higher than his previous best of .293 in his rookie season. The most amazing part of Acuna's season is that he reduced his strikeouts dramatically, striking out only 84 times in a full season. Acuna reduced his Ks to At Bats ratio down to 13% (in his 2022 season, that ratio was at 27%). Basically, Acuna became a better hitter, kept his awesome power intact and reduce his strikeouts by over 50% compared to 2022. Nobody in recent memory has ever had this tremendous improvement. A recent article by a projection specialist (ZiPS) projects that Acuna should reach the 500 homerun mark by his age 34 season...meaning he has an excellent chance to join the 600 hr club. Besides his amazing 2023 season, Acuna nearly pulled off the 40 hr / 40 stolen base feat in 2019 and he won the 2018 NL Rookie of the Year. In only his age 25 season in 2023, Acuna already has 161 homeruns and 180 stolen bases. 500 hr / 500 stolen bases seem very reachable, an exclusive club of one in MLB history...Barry Bonds!! Another good comparison for Acuna would be Willie Mays (who had 660 hrs / 338 stolen bases). Acuna's 2023 season (along with his 2018 rookie, 2019 breakout and 2021 first half seasons) shows that Acuna is ready to be the next "Mike Trout" in terms of being the best long term investment of baseball cards and collectibles. Note that the picture is the scan of the EXACT card winning buyer will be receiving!! This card is graded a BGS 9.5 (which is GEM MINT), by Beckett Grading Services, the top grading service in the sports card industry. Why buy a graded card by either Beckett Grading Services (BGS/BCCG) or PSA? Because Beckett and PSA are the top two 3rd party grading companies in the collectibles industry. Why buy a graded card in the first place? Because if you want your card to appreciate in value, the condition of the card is very important. Having the card sealed in the case & it's condition graded allows you to easily sell/trade the card online. CLICK HERE to get a look at our EBAY store which contains many other awesome sports cards! Shipping is $3.75 for the first card and $0.75 for each additional card. A portion of the proceeds from this listing will be sent to the world relief organization World Help. I am partnering with them to build a deep bore water well in a 3rd world country. This water well will provide clean/usable water for a community of up to 1000 people! Thanks in advance for your contribution towards this cause.Update 8/16/20 - as eBay has required me to switch over to "managed payment", I will need to adjust each of my listings one at a time for the charitable contribution part. Though my listings now do not say so specifically about the charity contribution, I will continue to deduct 10% off every sale and send those proceeds to TWO different charities I am fundraising for. One charity, World Help, drills and installs water wells that provide clean/usable water for villages of up to 1,000 people per location in Africa. Fundraising recently completed funds needed for water well #3 so thank you to everyone that has purchased from this store over the last 4 years...you played a part in that! The other 5% will go to an orphanage call Nueva Esperanza Children's Home in Tijuana, Mexico. This orphanage cares for 30+ children and is run completely from donations from people. I have visited the orphanage 4 times over the past 10 years and it's a joy to see the children each time. So rest assure that 10% of your purchase is going to these causes.

Price: 1250 USD

Location: Elk Grove, California

End Time: 2025-01-21T06:50:35.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.75 USD