My life and times in sports and baseball cards
Some time ago I was browsing through five thousand count boxes of singles at a card shop when I discovered a couple of cards I just had to have. The other day I ran across them again in my collection and I just had to share them with you. They are not valuable or super [...]
Continuing on catching up with my posts for the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge I find myself sitting over three packs of 2008 Press Pass SE Football. These are retail packs containg four cards per pack. I really like the packaging as each pack has a pair of incoming athletes in their college uniforms. I [...]
When the first McFarlane sports figures hit the market I was immediately attracted to them. The quality of the pieces were far more advanced than the Kenner SLU figures. But still with a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth from the demise of the Kenner SLU’s I never really actively collected the McFarlanes. [...]
Belatedly I am getting back into posting the weekly updates for the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge. My work schedule has had me putting in ten to fourteen hour days for nearly a month now. This past Friday we finished bringing our final location up on the new software so I was expecting my schedule [...]
As I have mentioned in numerous posts and comments on blogs one of the most rewarding things about this blogging enterprise is the generosity and interaction between collectors. I have received several packages of cards in the last year from fellow collectors and bloggers and they are always a welcome site in my mailbox. Tony [...]
I was sitting at my computer desk working on a project for work when I heard some strange commentary coming from Josh Lewin and Tom Grieve during the Rangers and Mariners broadcast tonight. I looked up to see players all over the mound pushing, shoving and mouthing at each other. Tom Grieve was talking about [...]
This weeks trip to the chain store was a very quick one. I was in a hurry so I didn’t really pay much attention to what all was on the shelf. I only looked at the pegs where the blister packs are. As I walked up to the shelf there was a woman standing there [...]
I was planning on getting to bed at a decent hour tonight but the Stars and Sharks had other plans. I am writing this at 11:30 central time during intermission between the first and second overtime periods. The Stars and Sharks are deadlocked at one in Game 6. A Dallas win sends them to the [...]
Continuing with my look at players that may not be household names or Hall of Famers but have managed to find their place in my collection we come to Tim Burke. Tim was drafted in the second round of the 1980 draft by the Pirates. He made his Major League debut on April 8th 1985 [...]
