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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

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

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