My life and times in sports and baseball cards
Okay, I know that we have already had Opening Morning and Opening Night but today is Opening Day for the rest of us. I am so excited. It is my most favorite day of the year. One of these years I am going to plan ahead and take a vacation day and just sit in [...]
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 [...]
I finally sat down and filled out my ballot for the Topps Golden Anniversary All-Time All Rookie Team. I was a bit torn about how to cast my ballot or what criteria I should use to make my selections. It would be easy to just go through and pick my favorite player but that wouldn’t [...]
This evening when I walked through the back door I looked for the mail like I normally do fully expecting to find nothing but bills and junk mail. Right on top of the stack though was a bubble envelope and we all know what that means. Yep, more baseball cards. I recognized the name from [...]
This morning I awoke just like I do every weekday to the sound of my alarm clock at 6:00 am Texas time. But this day was different, it was Opening Day for Major League Baseball !!!! Boy was it different, instead of watching SportsCenter and getting ready for a great day of Baseball I turned [...]
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 [...]
Tobacco cards have always fascinated me but for some reason I have never really actively pursued them. I was interested in the different brands the cards came in with some of the brands having interesting names like Sweet Caporal, Polar Bear, Red Cross and Sovereign just to name a few. Back in the late 80’s [...]
The second trade between SqueezePlayCards and White Sox Cards was completed today as I received my cards from Steve today in the mail. As I pulled the top loaders from the bubble envelope I knew I had a card I did not have of Pudge Rodriguez. It kind of freaked me out a bit as [...]
I have been writing about some of the guys in my binders that are not necessarily the biggest names in baseball. Today, I thought I would take a different look at a player that the only reason he is in a binder or box is because he appears in a set I have built or [...]
Continuing my look at players that may not be in the majority of collectors want lists we come to one of the better known players that will be appearing in this series. His name is Jim Abbott and what most people remember him for is that he was born without a right hand and still [...]
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 [...]
Today I had to run a couple of errands at lunch which just so happened to include a stop at Target. The first place I went was the card aisle and much to my delight was a fresh box of 2008 Topps Heritage. With the cash I had in my pocket I could get three [...]
Some of you may remember the box of 2007 Fleer Ultra SE Hobby baseball that I opened back in January. In that box I received an autographed redemption card of John Danks. I just sat on the redemption card for awhile before I completed the online process to redeem it. The card came in around [...]
I have been watching a little hockey lately with the playoffs fast approaching so I was in kind of a hockey mood when I made it to Target this week. I would have bought some Heritage if they had it but they didn’t. Lucky for me they had a fresh box of 2007/08 Upper Deck [...]
I have been searching for blaster boxes of 2008 Topps Baseball without any luck until now. I was also having trouble coming across 2008 Upper Deck Blaster boxes also but I have been finding those for the last few days. I had decided though that I wouldn’t get a UD Blaster until I had gotten [...]
