My life and times in sports and baseball cards
Week eighteen finds me shopping at Target for the packs this week since I didn’t make it to the card shop on Saturday. The only thing really new at Target was some 2007/08 Upper Deck NBA Artifacts so I picked up three packs. Each pack contains five cards. If you have seen the baseball offering [...]
The deal is done. I now have in my Etopps portfolio the Craig Biggio Allen & Ginter card I wanted. I submitted a trade on Etopps and didn’t really expect anyone to accept it, but someone did. I ended up giving a little more for it than my goal of getting it under the IPO [...]
In a previous post entitled, Etopps and Allen & Ginter – Strange Pairing I explored the eleven card issue from Etopps that was set to go on sale October 8th. The set that merged the retro look of Allen & Ginter with the futuristic production of Etopps would be issued only in set form at [...]
One of the ways I enjoy my sports card collection is to take a box out of the closet and just sit down and go through each card one by one. By doing this it allows me to spend some Quality time with my hobby and to be reminded of the greatness that is baseball [...]
This week brought me some surprising news when I arrived at my local card shop. I was there early and I noticed things were quite different as I walked through the door. The glass cases were moved and the team pennants were in a different place. Secondly, I noticed there were only about five boxes [...]
I had a stack of cards upside down last night reading the backs when I got to one that made me pause. The card in question was a 2007 Topps Aaron Rodgers #18. A few days ago when I opened this card from a pack I just put it in a stack of the rest [...]
Twenty-Two cards and One Stick of Gum
I had vowed not to buy another pack of the 2007 Topps base products this year as I am really tired of the design. I have seen way too many dot patterns for my taste. But, while checking out my local Toys R Us I noticed a couple of [...]
This past Saturday I made my weekly trip to the card shop only to discover that they had closed early. Dejected and empty handed I headed back home to ponder what to do for this weeks purchase. I ended up at Target looking for something new to open. The only packs they had out that [...]
I was disappointed when I heard that my Texas Rangers signed Kenny Lofton for the 2007 season. Its not that I didn’t like the guy or thought he couldn’t play it was the fact that the Rangers are notorious for bringing in guys in the latter years of their careers and then it doesn’t work [...]
2006 UD Special F/X Star Attractions
I recently found a new group of cards that I really liked and I decided to put the set together. I found four more of the cards I need for the thirty card insert set from one seller so I ordered them up and here they are. The cards are [...]
If you have been reading this blog very much then you know I am working on completing the base and short print variation cards of 2007 Topps Turkey Red Baseball. I have been buying hobby and retail packs and today we have a blaster box from Target. There are eight packs in the box with [...]
Most of us love to find bargains when we are shopping. We also love to win stuff even if it costs us money to participate. Those little brown “lunch sacks” you see at shows and card shops call out to the person inside of us that wants to win something or turn a dollar into [...]
Every so often I will throw some Basketball cards into the mix and today I have a twenty-two pack blaster box of 2007/08 Topps Basketball. This blaster from Target also includes the exclusive seven card NBA Rookie pack. The regular packs contain six cards each. Hopefully I will get a Kevin Durant Rookie to add [...]
We have arrived at the fifteenth week of the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge and I still look forward to this post. This week the pickings were again slim at the shop so I purchased another pack of 2007 Turkey Red Baseball and waited till the next day and picked up a retail pack of [...]
The first post for this blog was back on February 17th of this year. I didn’t really have any idea what the next few months would bring but, looking back I think that was one of the great things about blogging about the sports card hobby. The benefits I have reaped from this endeavor have [...]
