My life and times in sports and baseball cards
The Propane Tuna makes a big splash as he enters the pool at Topps Town. With his freshly minted Avatar he begins to check out the deep end of the pool. First off I check with the Coach and the list of frequently asked questions. The Coach tells me if I want to get a [...]
I was looking for my box of extra 1975 Topps Baseball for a trade partner this weekend when I stumbled upon this partially torn wax pack of 1980 Topps Football. Okay, there is nothing special about 1980 Topps Football so why did I hang on to this tattered little pack? I have no idea why [...]
Several days ago I received an email from a collector named Dennis, that had some Ivan Rodriguez cards he thought I might like. He had some I needed and said that he would send them to me right away. Plus, he said he would have some extras in there I might like as well. He [...]
Continuing with last weeks late night pack searching on Ebay I have the second lot in hand now. This lot was for three hobby packs of 2008 Topps Baseball Series 2. This will be the first packs of Series 2 in either Retail or Hobby for me. This lot came from Ebay seller Power Play [...]
I got two of my pack lots in yesterday that I won on Ebay last week. Lets start with the one I I was most interested in opening. I bought three packs of 2004 Topps Heritage from a great seller on Ebay for $6.74 delivered. I started not to bid on these as they weren’t [...]
If you are a longtime reader of my blog then you know I have been working on putting the insert set of 2006 Upper Deck Special F/X Star Attractions together. The other day I put a three card lot together that included the Albert Pujols card. The Pujols was one of the harder ones to [...]
We are getting ever so close to the end of this series. Which may be a good thing or a bad thing. I am getting a bit bored with it as I still don’t have a card shop in my area. It is nice to have an excuse to go buy a few packs even [...]
After Wednesday nights surfing trip through Ebay I had identified some lots I wanted to bid on. I placed bids on six different lots and all of them have closed except for one. I ended up winning three of the lots that closed today and I am the high bidder in another. The remaining two I [...]
Last night I spent about an hour on Ebay just browsing around in no particular fashion. The only direction I took was in Sports Cards though. I started out just browsing through about 20 pages in the main sports memorabilia, cards and fan shop category page that said there were over 620,000 listings. I then [...]
The other day my new copy of Tuff Stuff (I refuse to call it by its new name) arrived and I flipped through the first few pages. First there was the two page spread for 2007/08 Topps Letterman Basketball followed by the usual table of contents. Facing the table of contents was a full page [...]
This week I didn’t really have any plan or ideas for what to spend the $10 on other than going a little bit out of my way to visit Target instead of Wal Mart. My local Target has a better selection than Walmart most of the time. Plus they are not jammed into ever decreasing [...]
The Texas Rangers have a young player that I really like but he has one shortcoming that keeps me from going hog wild over his cards. The part of his game that just drives me nuts is his defense. I’m not asking him to be a gold glover or turn in web gems every night, [...]
Most everyone has already opened some Bowman Baseball but I am behind with everything cards right now so I am just getting around to some. For Week 47 I picked up three blister packs of 2008 Bowman Baseball so Lets check out what lies in the cards for me.
Pack One
Lance Berkman
Asdrubal Cabrera
Carlos Pena
Jason Schmidt
Jacoby [...]
