My life and times in sports and baseball cards
I first ran across Checkoutmycards.com back in October of 2007 and I made some initial inquiries to Tim Getsch the founder. Tim got back to me promptly with more information on the site and some of his plans as they moved forward with the site. I bookmarked the site and checked in with them on [...]
If you try to follow the closing auction prices for valuable sports collectibles sold by the major auction houses, Sports Collectors Digest has a new feature that may be of interest to you. The new section to their website is called Sports Auction Prices and combines auction results all in one searchable database.
Currently there [...]
My box of 2006 Upper Deck Special F/X Baseball finally arrived today. I was expecting it on Saturday but it got here on Monday. Its been a long day but I am going to open two packs before I go to bed and post them up tonight for all of my great readers to see [...]
Maybe a better question is, what do you get when you combine a Lizard, an Entrepreneur and the world wide web? The answer is SportsLizard.com. This isn’t your typical blog or sports website. It is a rather large home on the web covering the world of sports, memorabilia and sports card collecting. I first ran [...]
This month’s current edition of Tuff Stuff magazine has some great articles relating to the vintage aspect of the hobby. If you are a collector of vintage cards and memorabilia I think you will enjoy this issue of Tuff Stuff. My favorite article was entitled “The Ball Behind it All” by Scott Fragale. This article [...]
I finally opened the box of 2006 Bowman Heritage Baseball I got last week. This Heritage release is based on the 1949 Bowman issue. This was a Hobby Box I purchased from Blowoutcards.com for $39.95. There are 24 packs in the box with 8 cards per pack. Also included is a box loader pack with [...]
This was my first purchase of 2007 Upper Deck Series One Baseball. I bought two blaster boxes just before going on vacation a few days ago. I did not get the chance to open them before we left. I decided to open them while watching the Gamecast of the Rangers and Mariners on ESPN.Com tonight.
Anyway, [...]
