My life and times in sports and baseball cards
My wonderful wife (I mean Santa) dropped nine packs of 2007 Topps Turkey Red Baseball into my stocking for Christmas. It was a perfect choice as I am putting the base set together along with the AD Back Variations. It had been over a month since I had bought any Turkey Red so I am [...]
David over at Indians Baseball Cards was kind enough and creative enough to put together what he called, The Holiday Season and 78 Cards for his blog readers. All we had to do was send him an email with our favorite sport and teams and he would put together a group of cards and send [...]
This was a hectic week with the Christmas holidays and trying to prepare for my day job being closed for five days, so all that combined to make the pack pickings pretty slim. I was wanting to get some football but all that I found on the shelves were baseball and racing. So I picked [...]
Pictured above are the cards and new Christmas ornament I received this year. I have a little pack busting ahead of me when I get a free moment. One of my vendors gave me the box of 2007 Fleer Ultra SE Baseball and the Upper Deck Blaster box. My daughter gave me the repacked box [...]
I want to wish each and everyone of my readers a very Merry Christmas! You have helped make this a great year for me. I hope the coming year is filled with happiness and all the cards on your want list finding a way into your collection.
This is my sports tree that stands in [...]
I would guess that the most popular Christmas Tree Ornament on most Americans trees would be some kind of glass ball. For as long as I can remember every tree from my childhood till now has been adorned with a large number of glass balls. Well, except for some of my wife’s themed Christmas trees. [...]
I have really enjoyed this blogging gig from the beginning. The comments and emails have added positive things to my collecting habits. Several of my readers are bloggers themselves and I like to keep up with their posts too. They are a great source of knowledge and creativity. So, what rabbit am I chasing with [...]
It is getting pretty old trying to pick Retail wax off the shelf since I don’t have a local card shop nearby. There is one about 45 minutes away but I just don’t go anywhere near there. That store is East of me and I don’t even make it to the East side of the [...]
I took a vacation day on Monday as I have almost a weeks worth of vacation left and only a short time to use them before the end of the year. I figured it would be a good day to figure out what happened to the main part of my website. For the last few [...]
I am a subscriber to the RSS feed of Sports Collectors Daily and todays feed contained an interesting article mentioning some of Eisner’s plans for Topps. The post links to a story appearing in the Financial Times UK where the new leader of Topps, Michael Eisner discusses some of his plans for Topps. The article [...]
I was checking out my Christmas Tree last night after a Christmas Party trying to decide what ornament to share with you today while being reminded of events of yesterday with the Mitchell Report. I settled on my Hallmark ornament from 2004 with Willie Mays who was not mentioned in the Mitchell Report. Thank goodness. [...]
I can’t really decide how I feel about this report that is supposed to be released at 2:00 PM Eastern time today. I want the answers but I can’t decide if it will help make baseball better or not. Not to mention what the effect will be on the sports card hobby. I want to [...]
For this week I decided to pick out $10 worth of Basketball wax for the Challenge and Walmart had these blister packs of 2007/08 Bowman Draft Picks and Stars. I grabbed three off the rack for $2.97 each and headed home. Each pack contains five cards. The Basketball version of the Draft Picks brand looks [...]
Today we have a five pack blaster box of 2007 Leaf Rookies & Stars. I have opened two blasters, 2007 Bowman Football and 2007 Bowman Heritage Baseball and pulled a jersey or auto card from each. Will my luck hold? Stay tuned to find out. In the meantime lets take a little closer look at [...]
The next ornament to be revealed from my sports collectibles Christmas Tree is a great figurine I picked up on a very special road trip. I got the opportunity to visit the hallowed field known as Lambeau Field for a Packer game in October of 2005. The entire weekend was a an experience I will [...]
