Trade with Potch

I sent Potch of “Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes” some cards, I don’t have a clue what, but I don’t think it was anything special.  Some Tiger refractors is what started it.  Here is his return package.

Mini’s and sort of Mini’s.  I only have a few of the 2011 stickers because I never could find them around here.  NFL stickers all over the place, but no MLB.  The 1987 mini is my first from that set.  The Sox sticker at the front looks pretty awesome scanned.

I have some of the Topps Ticket to Stardom, I think I bought a box awhile back, but I didn’t have any of these perforated type of cards.  I’m not even sure what they are called but I like them.  A minor league White Sox, always a plus.  And like the Ticket to Stardom, I have a bunch of 2009 O-Pee-Chee but didn’t have that card.  Nice action shot at that.

And Darren even managed to hit my player collection with the Paul Konerko Walmart parallel.  I don’t have hardly any of these and all the ones I have, I’ve gotten in trades.  I buy most of my packs at Walmart and apparently can’t ever hit these.

Thanks Darren, as always, great trading with you.  Be sure to check out “Potch Wheeler and the Cardboard Heroes”.

Randomness

Well, rumor has it that tomorrow the Colts are announcing that they are parting ways with Peyton Manning.  I guess we will find out who are Colts fans and who are Manning fans.  I am both, and I will probably root for Peyton wherever he ends up.  Probably Miami since that is where all my favorite team’s players seem to be running for.  But I am, and will remain, a Colts fan.  I’m not overly huge on the NFL like I am MLB or NCAA so it won’t hurt too much if we suck again.  The nice thing is there is only 1 game a week to watch.  That’s how I survived last season.  It sucks more when the White Sox suck because I try to watch as many games as I can and as we all know, there are a lot more games to be disappointed when watching MLB.

I got all my Sox cards reorganized on Sunday, I spent about 10 hours finishing them up.  I think my wife thinks I’m nuts spending all that time playing with baseball cards but that’s ok, she’s stuck with me now.  I got my Luis Aparicio cards set aside and as soon as I get them logged into my player collection pages and have lists, then I can get them put away as well.

I bought my son a 2012 Topps rack pack or hanger or whatever they are called for my son.  He opened them and started putting them in teams, then got his other cards and put them in with their teams.  My wife says he’s doing it because I bought them and doesn’t care what they are.   But I don’t care, I had fun.  I had him reading off the team names hoping he’ll pick them up.  Maybe he’ll even watch some games with me this year.  Yeah, I doubt that will happen.  But I can dream.  It would be nice if he would get as excited as I was when he pulled the Mickey Mantle or Bob Gibson inserts.  I still get excited about pulling Hall of Famers so I guess I can’t complain that they are all over the new sets.

Spring training is under way.  Now to get to some of the televised games so I can at least watch some baseball.  Right now I’d settle for being able to follow them on a stat tracker or my phone or something.  All I get right now is a few tweets here and there.

Since this is (was) an all word post.  I went over to My Sports Obsession Tumblr  and grabbed some pictures I’ve posted there and stuck them in here.  Just to show what you’ve been missing.  OK, it’s a shameless plug.  But I did need some pics to liven up the post so there you go.  At least the pics match something in the following paragraph.  Well, except for the Michigan baseball, although, it’s above the paragraph about my Tumblr, so technically, I could have posted anything from over there and it fits.

Trade with the Sandlot

Joe of “the Sandlot” fame contacted me about a trade.  He had some Sox cards to get rid of and wanted to know if I had anything to trade.  After about a month or so, I finally collected enough cards to send to him.  Here’s the highlights of what he sent me in our first trade.

I have some of the Topps Unique cards, but I had never seen the red ones.  Are these a parallel from Target?  I liked the photo of the Morel the first time I saw it, now I have 3 different ones with this Walmart parallel.  And you can’t go wrong with a 75’ mini from Lineage.  I only have a few of these, definitely need to get more.  Metal Universe of our new head coach, a Joe Crede rookie and a numbered Buehrle.  Joe knows how to do a trade right.

I don’t think I’ve see these Topps Gallery cards and I really like them.  I’m familiar with the Gallery brand, just hadn’t seen this set before.  I like these about as much as I do the Upper Deck Masterpieces.

A couple of refractor’s

A few vintage, including a ‘71.

Even a full team set.  Well it was, I didn’t have the Konerko so now I’m short that card for this set.  Joe is an awesome trader.  He sent a lot of different things.  But wait, there’s more.

All of these cards go to my Paul Konerko collection   I thought I had the Unique but apparently not.

And finally, Joe even sent these beauties.  Brandon McCarthy was supposed to be the next big thing and I was upset when they traded him but apparently KW knew what he was doing because Brandon hasn’t been the same since, lots of injuries hasn’t helped.  And you can never go wrong with a Frank Thomas relic.

Thanks Joe, amazing trade.  Check out “the Sandlot” and make a swap with the man, he knows what he’s doing.

Big Money in 1989 Fleer?

You all know my regular Ebay habits, so you know I tend to stick to lower priced cards.  I’m currently winning a 1989 Fleer Jack McDowell at $.25/shipped.  Which is my max for a base card but I didn’t have it so I put a bid on it.  Now notice I said winning, not won.  It doesn’t end till tomorrow.  But I got a message earlier today that asked me if I could purchase something else since my bid doesn’t even cover a stamp.  Seriously?  He placed the minimum bid, not me.  Now when the auction is over, and if I win it, I always check for other things listed that I might want in order to take advantage of shipping.  I went ahead and checked his listings and the only other thing he had that interested me was a reprint of an old cracker jack card but the minimum bid is $.65 which is more than I want to pay for it.

On one hand, I understand being frustrated at having to send a card for less than the price of a stamp.  But it’s an 1989 Fleer, did you really expect to get a bunch of money for it?  While Jack McDowell was a great pitcher, his cards aren’t worth much.

He also asked if I wanted any other cards he could throw up for me to bid on.  I’m debating on whether to even respond of just ignore it.  What say all of you?  Should I reply and tell him I’ll take any base card I don’t have for, I don’t know, $.10/piece or just ignore the message and see if he ships it?

Player Collection Spotlight–Dave Dravecky

In this series, I randomly select a card from my player collections and show it off here. Being that it’s random, it could be a base, insert, parallel, auto, relic or any other kind of card I have. It could be from Paul Konerko, Tom Seaver, Billy Williams, Dave Dravecky and even Mike Hart or Peyton Manning. I will put a mark next to it on my PC list so it doesn’t get repeated.

1985 O-pee-chee – Dave Dravecky