My life and times in sports and baseball cards
I was shocked to say the least that Panini was able to seal the deal with the NBA and become the only licensed distributor of NBA Basketball cards beginning with the 2009/2010 season. Then I wondered does it really matter to me? I don’t really collect basketball cards much except for former Texas Longhorns so [...]
I have been itching to open some 2009 Baseball cards but of course they are not on the shelves yet. I went to Target yesterday and looked at the cards on the shelves and resisted the urge to buy something. I could only be satisfied with some 2009 Baseball so I left the 2008’s undisturbed [...]
I received an email a couple of weeks ago from blog reader Grant asking me if I wanted his 2008 TriStar Taylor Teagarden. I told him I did even though I usually didn’t buy unlicensed products so he sent it my way along with a few more cards. I didn’t realize the TriStar card was [...]
Have you ever just been trolling around Ebay and just decided you had to have something? That happened to me awhile back when I stumbled upon some 2008 Stadium Club Beam Team Autographs. The cathedral style backgrounds intrigued me I guess so I kept bidding on some trying to get a deal.
I was focusing [...]
I ran across a blog that I hadn’t seen before a few weeks ago called A Cardboard Problem. I subscribed to the feed and have enjoyed reading the exploits there of a couple of baseball fans that still collect baseball cards. I felt right at home. Anyway, Sooz had some of the horrendous 2008 Upper [...]
I got this package in the mail several days ago but I am just now getting around to sharing it with you. A big ‘ol chest bump goes out to Dayf of Cardboard Junkie for sending me a total of 40 Ivan Rodriguez cards and a Turkey Red Ian Kinsler card for my player collections. [...]
I imagine that most of us have been the beneficiary of or have been the briber in the time honored tradition of getting our kids something while we are at the store if they are good scenario. Well, I am not a kid anymore but I kind of used that old time tested method to [...]
Just a quick update on a little progress I made in my quest to acquire all 110 cards from the 2008 Topps 50th Anniversary All-Star Rookies insert set. I have slowly been working on this since they came out. I would have normally put a big dent in it by now but I didn’t really [...]
The first post on SqueezePlayCards went live on February 17th of 2007 so in a little over a month this blog will be two years old. It seems like I have been blogging much longer than that. I get questions from time to time about things like visits, page views, most viewed post and where [...]
Closing out the cards that I found in my Christmas stocking we have three packs of 2008 Topps Football. Each pack has twelve cards and of course feature the annoying Topps logo invading the player photos right where most of their heads are. Is it supposed to be one of those subliminal messages with the [...]
Tucked away in one of my Christmas gifts were a couple of packs of 2008 SP Rookie Edition Football. I hadn’t seen any of these in my local big box stores so finding these two were a surprise. I went over to the Upper Deck website to check out the possibilities in this issue. I [...]
Happy New Year to all of the Collectors out there in cyberspace. I hope you all complete more sets and pull just what you want from your packs in 2009. With the turning of another year I paused to reflect on my experience from the last twelve months of collecting.
2008 had a little of [...]
