My life and times in sports and baseball cards
This one totally caught me by surprise but I am absolutely giddy with excitement. I was expecting the Yankees to get a current Rangers catcher not a former one. One of my All Time Favorite players is now wearing the Pinstripes. Besides being in the Playoff hunt and getting to wear Pinstripes and squat behind [...]
The checklist has been announced and the date is set for the Etopps Yankee Stadium Tribute set. The 10 card set plus one Patch card go on sale August 4th for $99. Basically it works the same as last years Milestones and Moments set. Once the sets are allocated they can then be broken up [...]
Its time to remove the curtains from my next regular series and fill you in on my plans. Over a year ago I started a series called the $10 Weekly Wax Pack Challenge where I spent a whopping $10 a week on packs and then blogged about the cards. One of the goals of that [...]
I had come to that point again when I have several stacks of cards going on my shelf in the computer room when my wife gently tells me it is time to put them where they belong. I know she needs to dust and I appreciate it but I wasn’t quite ready to box up [...]
It has been quite some time since the last time I logged into my Etopps account but last night I did. I almost missed the banner over on the lower right side announcing the Allen & Ginter Etopps Yankee Stadium Tribute cards. The banner just said details coming soon and was not clickable.
There were [...]
I fell behind on the weekly postings at the end with the pressures of my day job and trying to stretch my paychecks during this trying economic time but it has been a fun ride. The original purpose of this project was to try and get a feel for what a young person might be [...]
I was looking for some packing peanuts to ship out a camera I sold on Ebay and I rediscovered a box of cards I had tucked in a corner. If you are like me you just never know what you may come across when you are looking for something. The cards I found are maybe [...]
I didn’t plan on watching the whole Derby tonight but my daughter came home and was excited to see that Josh Hamilton was in it. After just getting to see him hit a homer that counted less than a week ago she was pretty pumped. We sat in the living room and marveled at the [...]
The game I attended this past Thursday was also the Topps Baseball Card night offering the first 8,000 fans age 13 and under a Rangers team set. I am a little over thirteen and neither of my daughters could pass for that age so I didn’t get a set. Thats okay though because I was [...]
It is a little later than normal but I am headed to the ole’ Ballpark today for the matchup between my Rangers and those dreaded Angels. Besides being stoked about the game I am still on a high from last nights game with the walk off homer by Josh Hamilton. It was electric in my [...]
I mentioned in my previous post about pulling a card that I had to sit aside and add to my binder of interesting or great photos….. Surprise, its Ryan Klesko. When I pulled this card I sat it down on the stack and as I went to put the next card on top of it [...]
I was sitting at my desk watching some baseball and looking through odd and end boxes of cards when I cam across nearly a full box of unopened 1994 Bowman Baseball. I was in the mood for some pack ripping so I decided to horde the packs no longer. The best rookies to look for [...]
Just when I am getting to feeling a little better about the NFL without Brett Favre there comes a host of stories about Brett getting the “itch” and I’m not talking about the kind that John Madden has an answer for. The rumors are flying again that Brett has the itch and wants to play [...]
I don’t know what happened to the original file for this post but this is the second time I have written it. Maybe I just thought I saved the original or maybe there is a gremlin eating my files for snacks. I was trolling the card section at one of the three Walmarts in my [...]
