My life and times in sports and baseball cards
On the heels of the Etopps Allen & Ginter Super Bowl Champions cards Etopps will be offering cards of four of the Presidential hopefuls. These cards will be produced with the Etopps technology but with the design and size of Allen & Ginter. The cards feature Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and John McCain. [...]
I was putting some cards away in a binder tonight and I came across this card I had stashed away. Its not everyday you get to see a baseball glove on Steroids but here it is. It is a 1986 Fleer Mickey Hatcher #396. Just because I feel like the glove looks doesn’t mean I [...]
We have now reached the Big 3 0 in the Weekly Challenge. It has been nice having an excuse to go out and buy a few packs every week. At times it has been a struggle because of selection or the fact that I don’t have a local card shop to shop at. This was [...]
Now that none of the teams I care about in the NFL are in the Super Bowl my thoughts turn even more to Baseball. Don’t get me wrong I will watch the Super Bowl but the football season is pretty much over for me. My Packers fell short, the Cowboys tanked, the Titans couldn’t get [...]
I did a little shopping online the other day and acquired a few more cards I needed for a couple of sets I am building. If you are a regular reader of my blog then you know I am collecting the 2006 UD Special F/X Star Attractions inserts and the 2007 Topps Turkey Red base [...]
This week I am back to trolling the aisle at Target as Toys R Us was really depleted. There was a little more to choose from this week compared to last week but nothing really caught my interest. I was in a mood for some football but the only packs were Topps and Upper Deck [...]
This weekend I came across a 1987 Fleer Revco Baseballs Hottest Stars set in a box at the bottom of my closet. I had previously sold several sets of these and quite a few Bonds singles over the last few years. This particular boxed set was one that I had set aside for myself. I [...]
Today is Saturday and I have not been very productive today. The focus of my day of course is the Packer game that is starting in less than an hour. My wife has been working hard getting the house back in order from all the Christmas decorations that she had to take down. I had [...]
This week I made a little progress as for as sales goes. I sold eight 2007 UD Masterpieces for a total of $2.51. The players included were Vladimir Guerrero, Albert Pujols two different, Delmon Young, Johan Santana, Alex Gordon, Ryan Howard and Andy Laroche. Also, selling this week was a 2007 Bowman Draft Picks Chrome [...]
Several things have come together for the inspiration behind this post. The first of which involves bustin wax of course. Then we had a card of a not yet famous ball player followed by being reminded that I am overdue for my yearly eye exam. So, whats up with this rambling diatribe?
Well it all started [...]
Joe over at Cincy Reds Cards offered me this 2001 Topps Reserve Ivan Rodriguez Jersey Card and I was pleased to accept it. I am loving this blogging stuff where I get cards in the mail just because another collector knows I collect somebody. Well, Joe collects Cincinnati Reds cards so I will be digging [...]
This box break comes to us courtesy of one of my vendors. Some vendors come bearing coffee cups and note pads, I have one that sends me a box of baseball cards for Christmas. The configuration of this hobby box is five packs per box with fifteen cards per pack. Each hobby box should yield [...]
Today we will take a break from the Christmas card posts and continue the weekly segment of the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge. I have had a lot of fun busting packs the last few days. Yesterday I spent my weekly $10 allotment for this series at Wal Mart on three packs of 2007/08 Stadium [...]
This is another post about the cards I received as gifts for Christmas this year. One of my vendors gave me this box along with a 2007 Fleer Ultra SE Baseball Hobby Box. Stay tuned for the Ultra SE box break. In the meantime lets take a look back at a few cards from 2006.
This [...]
My daughter bought me some random packs of football and baseball cards along with one of those repacked value boxes. I busted the Topps and Upper Deck football packs along with the two Upper Deck Masterpieces packs last night. The football packs didn’t produce anything to get excited about. The Masterpieces packs though are really [...]
