admin, Author at Tan Man Baseball Fan

Easy come, easy go

My last blog spoke about how awesome my most recent haul from out of town was. Now, I am back writing about it all being gone. Yes, a dealer friend came over to take a look, and we did a deal shortly thereafter for not only them, but also for pretty much everything else I had that was good. We are talking a boat load of great stuff. When all is said and done, it probably ended up being about 40 boxes of good stuff - from jersey and autograph cards, to refractors, to serial number and inserts to base

Vacationing and Cardboard – Mammoth Purchase!

The wife and I took our son to Legoland this past weekend and stayed in a hotel. A good time was had by all! We were able to take lots of pictures, be together, and catch up with some good friends. If you are a subscriber here though, you don't want to hear about that - you want to hear about the score, so I'll get right down to it! First off, when getting lost on the way, we found a Dick's Sporting Goods. I read on the internet that they sometimes sell cards - I went in, and lo

Blogging from out of town

Sleeping in the bed behind me is a wife who is not happy I brought our laptop on vacation, and our son who is ecstatic to go to Legoland tomorrow. Yes, that's right - we are out of town! We are in the big D. For those of you non-Texans, that is Dallas. I get a kick out of the fact that I can work and blog from anywhere. The whole reason I am up right now is because I had to wrap up some updates for a client. While we are here though, I'm going to make the most

Mail Day – Lotsa Rooooookies

I'm a sucker at times, for some base rookies. Because of this, I had bought a boat load of rookies of Biggio (, Bagwell, Thomas, Jeter, Arod, Chipper and Maddux. Oh, and a Gwynn & Sandberg rookie as well. Feast your eyes on the below! 1983 Ryne Sandberg Topps1983 Tony Gwynn Topps1987 Greg Maddux Donruss x 61987 Greg Maddux Leaf x 21989 Craig Biggio Topps1989 Craig Biggio Fleer x 31989 Craig Biggio Upper Deck x 51989 Craig Biggio Donruss x 221990 Frank Thomas Score x 61990 Frank Thomas Topps x 61991 Chipper Jones Upper Deck x 141991 Jeff Bagwell Upper

How I’m spending my Friday Night …

My wife and son are out of town, so I decided to get a few boxes of baseball cards (2012 topps value boxes), rent a few redbox dvd's and order some pizza. Lo and behold, I've got a pretty fantastic Friday night going! I sat down and turned on the tv ... Yankees / Phillies. What? You mean I have cards to open, pizza, a baseball game on and movies for later???? Wow...this is turning out well, considering they are gone for the weekend. I just saw Pineda for the first time in pinstripes ... and he got pounced. I

Upper Deck … You are alright by me!

I spoke of this months ago, but I busted some SPA in November, and got an expired redemption for Matt Wieters :( After doing some research, turns out that Upper Deck had been rumored to fulfill expired cards if the redemption was less than several months old. I confirmed that on the phone with someone up there, but would need to call back after the new year. I did, and they said they do NOT do that. Frustrated / upset / etc. I kept calling, asking for the higher dude up ... to which I FINALLY got through. He said

30,000 Stars, Rookies & Inserts … FUN!!!

So, I basically have a stockpile of cards that are stars, rookies, inserts, refractors, parallels, minis, short prints, serial numbered, etc. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say maybe 25,000-30,000 or so. Up until recently, I hadn't done any sorting, as I sell them in bulk. I decided to have some fun, and dive in and sort out the following: All Peyton Manning - Filled a long box full of him All Favre / Brady / Romo - Another long box full Stafford / Sanchez / Bradford Rookies - about 100 of these Kobe / Lebron

Deal of the Year! If it weren’t for that dang lying thing…

"I have 60+ complete sets...many are from the 70's. I also have several thousand cards from the 50's and 60's." That is about all I needed to know in order to meet up with an older gentleman yesterday in regards to purchasing his collection. After speaking with him on the phone, I found out that his wife had died, and he was ready to sell everything, then live in an RV and get out of town. He said they were married for 40 years. He said he spent countless dollars on sports cards years and years ago at card shows

…and I thought I was having a bad year

Last night, as I was laying in bed, waiting for the wifey to finish brushing her teeth, I received a response from an ad I saw placed: 50 complete sets of baseball cards. Ok, I'll bite. I start asking what sets, how much, where located, etc. We end up texting, and he says the sets are complete, he lives 20 minutes away from me, and the sets are 1980 Topps, 1981 Topps, 1985 Donruss, etc. and he said he had lots of doubles. I was asking how much he wanted, and he said 3-5. I thought he was saying he wanted

First post in a while

The company I run has made life very busy for me over the past month, so I have not been able to post hardly anything at all! Here is an update of the show, as well as other dealings: - All the unopened boxes I had purchased are now gone. - I purchased many cool cards (for sale - hit me up!) namely: 4,000 baseball cards from the 1950's to the 1970's, namely, a binder full of 50's-60's cards, 58 mint graded mid/late 70's hall of famers (TCMA/SSPC), a binder of 66 Topps, a binder of 67 Topps, a binder

About admin

Categories

Recent Posts

Archives

Recent Comments