My life and times in sports and baseball cards
I fell behind on the weekly postings at the end with the pressures of my day job and trying to stretch my paychecks during this trying economic time but it has been a fun ride. The original purpose of this project was to try and get a feel for what a young person might be [...]
I don’t know what happened to the original file for this post but this is the second time I have written it. Maybe I just thought I saved the original or maybe there is a gremlin eating my files for snacks. I was trolling the card section at one of the three Walmarts in my [...]
We are getting ever so close to the end of this series. Which may be a good thing or a bad thing. I am getting a bit bored with it as I still don’t have a card shop in my area. It is nice to have an excuse to go buy a few packs even [...]
This week I didn’t really have any plan or ideas for what to spend the $10 on other than going a little bit out of my way to visit Target instead of Wal Mart. My local Target has a better selection than Walmart most of the time. Plus they are not jammed into ever decreasing [...]
Most everyone has already opened some Bowman Baseball but I am behind with everything cards right now so I am just getting around to some. For Week 47 I picked up three blister packs of 2008 Bowman Baseball so Lets check out what lies in the cards for me.
Pack One
Lance Berkman
Asdrubal Cabrera
Carlos Pena
Jason Schmidt
Jacoby [...]
Continuing on catching up with my posts for the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge I find myself sitting over three packs of 2008 Press Pass SE Football. These are retail packs containg four cards per pack. I really like the packaging as each pack has a pair of incoming athletes in their college uniforms. I [...]
Belatedly I am getting back into posting the weekly updates for the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge. My work schedule has had me putting in ten to fourteen hour days for nearly a month now. This past Friday we finished bringing our final location up on the new software so I was expecting my schedule [...]
This weeks trip to the chain store was a very quick one. I was in a hurry so I didn’t really pay much attention to what all was on the shelf. I only looked at the pegs where the blister packs are. As I walked up to the shelf there was a woman standing there [...]
I am running behind getting this week’s Challenge posted but I think most of you know how our real jobs get in the way sometimes. For this week I wanted to get some Upper Deck Spectrum or maybe some Press Pass Football. I happened to be in Walmart picking up a few things so I [...]
We are nearing the one year mark for the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge so I have been contemplating possible changes to the format. The pulls and selection have definitely been stymied by the fact that I don’t have a local card shop to pick up hobby packs from. I would still like to have [...]
Coming back in the wee hours of the morning from Mexico we talked a little football somewhere on the trip down Interstate 20. I was anxious to get back to catch up on Baseball but it also had me in the mood to open some football cards. I have still have yet to pull a [...]
This is the second time in forty weeks that I have not purchased any wax for the Challenge or just because I wanted some either. I just never made it to Target and the one time I was at WalMart they didn’t have any wax to choose from except for Upper Deck First Edition. Plus [...]
This week saw the start of the regular season for Major League Baseball, even though it happened in the wee hours of the morning in Japan. Oh well enough complaining about that things are really about to get hopping. This week I went looking for some Topps Opening Day packs but the only ones I [...]
The day job just really gets in the way of my card collecting and blogging sometimes. I guess I shouldn’t complain too much though since the day job pays for the cards. This post should have been finished last Friday but I just haven’t had the time to sit down and write it. Last week [...]
In this week’s edition of the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge I went looking for some Topps Heritage Baseball retail packs at my local Walmart. In the retail version of Heritage from Walmart you can find a Dick Perez Painted Card. For my $10 this week I got three Heritage blister packs and one pack [...]
