2012 Invisifractor Just Hit Ebay!

After not getting anything hugely awesome in my birthday baseball card box break, I decided to have some fun and post up my 2012 Bowman Prospects Bryce Harper, plus my 2012 invisifractor on ebay to see how well it would do.  I've gotta admit - the attention it has already gotten was well worth it, lol!  The Ebay Auction 2012 Invisifractor Discovered; More Rare than SuperfractorMay 11, 2012 from Card Mfr. Headquarters For Immediate Release After a number of excited collectors and investors have discovered in its 2012 retail product, it just doesn't hold a candle to its hobby and

Fun Mailday + Blaster Boxes!

It is a well known fact:  baseball cards can make any good day, great.  I figured I would let loose by cracking open a few blasters today.  With wife and 2 kids in tow, we went to a few wal-marts and targets in the area.  Since my birthday is coming up, and I moved virtually all the Astros find, I figured I could splurge a bit.  I picked up a blaster of 2012 Gypsy Queen, 2011 Allen & Ginter and 2012 Bowman.  I admit, I am not a fan of bowman, but this year, with its white borders and clean

HUGE Astros Collection Find

I decided to take a trip over an hour away to visit a guy with an Astros game used collection that was said to be one of the biggest in Texas.  While I doubt that, I must say, I am very pleased with the purchase.  The only bad thing that came of it was the possible malaria I contracted thanks to the thousands of mosquitos that made a buffet out of me while the seller and I were outside talking.  I am sitting here watching Bryce Harper at bat in his first major league game, and going through everything.  I

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